EASE TT ELECTORAL ANGST!!

It is time to help ease TT's electoral angst.

Make sure you are registered to vote and then DO IT - and DO IT EARLY!! *


* If, by chance, you plan to vote for Moose Lady and The Hobbit - remember to vote on November 5!!

BLACKWELL GOES TO CATWALK IN THE SKY

TT notes, with sadness, the passing of Mr. Blackwell at age 86.

We aren't exactly sure who he is (or was) but he was the force behind one of our favourite creations - The Worst Dressed List.

Mr Blackwell was apparently a fashion designer, although we have no recollection of ever having seen or heard about anyone actually wearing a Blackwell. Nor are we sure who deisignated him the ultimate judge of the Worst of the Worst (so much too choose from so not an easy task). But, we will miss Mr Blackwell's annual skewering of the great and the good but stylistically challenged.

The list always gave us great pics of the skewered and we loved those pithy editorial assessments (as if the pictures were not eloquent enough). Madonna was the 'bare-bottomed bore of Babylon', Mariah, 'the fashion pariah', Bjork, 'dances in the dark and dresses there too'. and who can forget the year that Britney and Lindsay tied for worst best(or is it best -worst?) - 'two peas in an over-exposed pod'.

Mr Blackwell may have moved on to the Great Catwalk in the Sky but we still have Victoria Beckham in her 'skinny-mini monstrosities' to remind us that while he may have left us - Bad Taste lives on.

SCRABBLE WORLD THREATENED BY LEXOGRAPHERS DECISION TO EXUVIATE

Put aside the Presidential election (for now).

Ignore the financial meltdown (you're screwed and there isn't anything you can do about it).

The world of Scrabble is under seige from the lexicographers behind Britain's Collins English Dictionary. They have decided to exuviate rarely used and archaic words from the dictionary. They say this is part of an abstergent process to free up room for up to 2,000 new entries (what, like 'yo'?).

What an outrage. And this is the country which gave birth to the English language!!

Who are these anonymous people and who gave them the right to decide what words get cut? Wordsmiths of various sorts villipend this execution without at least a fair trial and the mysterious lexographers have responded - sort of - to their/our cries. They have released 24 (of the 2000) words that will face the fate of the dinosaurs unless, by February 2009, they can document at least six 'high quality' citations in their database.

The release of the words has spurred 'word champions' to spring forward to demonstrate that specific words are compossible with everyday language and should be preserved. Even Britain's poet laureat has come forward to defend, skirrr (rattling, scratchy noise that a bird's wings make during flight). And, a Labour MP plans to advocate on behalf of 'caliginosity'(dimness,darkness) in Parliament. 'Amid the global fiscal turmoil, we sought illumination but found only caliginosity'.

The Times of London asked its readers to vote for the word they most want to be spared from execution and 11.000 people voted (embrangle won and fubsy placed second).

Scrabble lovers unite in this dire moment. If you care about niddering, oppugnant, caducity, mansuetude and olid then rise up, make your voices heard - or just mutter a malison.

McCAIN-MOOSEWOMAN COURT ANGRY MOB VOTE

It had to happen.

Trailing (or so the polls seem to indicate) in the polls, John McCain and MooseWoman have made a daring bid to attract the previously ignored Angry Mob segment of the voting population.

All indications are, they are having some success.

PALLIN LINKS OBAMA TO SUBVERSIvE CABLE CHANNEL

Less than a month to go and things are getting ugly(er).

Now, Moose Lady (the stilletto-heeled lipsticked face of the McCain attack machine) has hurled accusations linking Barak Obama to The Weather Channel. We always thought those 'severe weather' alerts covered up something much more sinister.