News from The Smoking Gun

Dear Friends:


Never one to miss a crass marketing opportunity, reality TV star Donald Trump has filed to trademark "You’re  Fired," the phrase he uses to dispatch lackluster contestants on NBC’s “The Apprentice.” However, a check of government records indicates that “You’re Outsourced” remains available for the taking. Details at:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0318041trump1.html


The Federal Communications Commission has fined Howard Stern’s radio company $27,500 for an allegedly indecent broadcast from July 2001. Seems that the King of All Media’s blumpkin discussion went a bit too far. What’s a blumpkin? Answer here:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0319041stern1.html


A Georgia couple has been charged with beating on each other after viewing “The Passion of the Christ.” A debate about the Mel Gibson film somehow escalated into an argument about the “mentality of each other’s parents.” Before long, the fists flew and a scissor began stabbing:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0318042passion1.html


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