Tube City Almanac

March 05, 2007

News You Can't Use

Category: default || By jt3y



No, not those Cougars:

There have been more than 1,400 sightings in Pennsylvania, more than in any other Eastern state, according to the Eastern Puma Research Network in Maysville, W.Va., which investigates mountain lion reports east of the Rocky Mountains, where populations are known to exist.

But the Pennsylvania Game Commission, which announced last fall it would start a formal system for tracking mountain lion reports, maintains the last known Pennsylvania native mountain lion was killed in Berks County in 1874, and says it has been unable to confirm any of the reported sightings as wild natives. (Don Hopey, Post-Gazette)


A Game Commission spokesman says that many of the cougar sightings turn out to be "feral cats."

Y'know, if you can't tell the difference between a house cat and a mountain lion, you might want to get help crossing the street, lest you mistake a Greyhound for a greyhound.

. . .

Meanwhile, ignoring the will of Picksberg's blogging community, county Democrats endorsed Mayor Opie "Luke" Ravenstahl for election in May. Challenger Bill "Don't Call Me Eeyore" Peduto did, however, pick up the crucial endorsements of the Carnegie Mellon Proust Readers' Club and the Forbes-Murray Hacky-Sack League.

In other surprising news, the sun rose in the east this morning and the Youghiogheny River continues to flow north.

Meanwhile, Tube City Almanac has learned that Ravenstahl is taking a page from the late Pete Flaherty's playbook.

Flaherty, who bucked the Democratic machine, styled himself "Nobody's Boy."

Ravenstahl will acknowledge his own youth and the reform spirit of his trusted associates like Dennis Regan and Dick Skrinjar by running as "Everybody's Boy."

Thank you! You're a great crowd, please tip your waitress.

. . .

Former Gateway Gator Bob Braughler, well-known as Shaler Township's leading "Mary Worth" expert, penned a thoughtful and insightful (or is that "incite full"?) op-ed for A Local Newspaper on Sunday.

The Almanac is proud to recommend Braughler's Bronstein Award-winning blog, Subdivided We Stand Meets Marathon Man Plus The Best of The Pittsburgh Press.

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Finally, students at Washington & Jefferson College, a fine, private, liberal-arts college, think that Poland is a Communist country located in Australia and can't afford popcorn, according to my former boss, writing in the Observer-Reporter.

Now, guess which interim mayor of Picksberg is a Washington & Jefferson graduate? No fair peekin'.

There is some good news, however. Polish people are now free to tell "Washington & Jefferson" jokes.






Your Comments are Welcome!

Hah. I CAN’T be the Best of The Pittsburgh Press — if I’m not mistaken, Press Weatherbird Donald Dingbat has made Tube City Almanac his new permanent residence, albeit under an alias.

And Donald was The Best of The Best of The Pittsburgh Press. Well, that and “Dondi.”
Bob (URL) - March 05, 2007



I wanted former Tribune-Review weatherman “Major Wes Moreland,” but legal action was threatened.
Webmaster (URL) - March 05, 2007



Here I was about to comment on the cougars some of my in-laws have seen and you go ahead and start talking about Donald Dingbat and Major Wes Moreland. My better half saw one as we were walking on the Kiski Trail in Apollo. A cougar, that is, not Donald or the Major.
does it matter? - March 06, 2007



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