JEOPARDY: We thank Joyce Cline for bringing this to our attention — the Allegheny National Forest was an answer on “Jeopardy!”
“The Allegheny National Forest in this state is a prized source of black cherry wood used in furniture making.”
Since this isn’t “Saturday Night Live’s” Celebrity Jeopardy with an actor imitating French Stewart to answer $Texas, we know the right question here is “What is Pennsylvania?”
We know there have been other mentions of the area on the game show before, and we’re pretty sure Zippo has made the board, too.
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LOCALS: We have some local updates to share today.
A gentleman stopped in to tell us he had been trying to remember the words to the Alma Mater to Bradford High, and was thinking he’d have to dig out a yearbook to see if he could find them. The very next day, the Alma Mater was featured in RTS!
We love that kind of coincidence.
We’ve had a few calls of note lately, too.
Judy Pierotti in Aiken saw a robin on Thursday. We hope that means this was one year that Punxsutawney Phil got his prognosticating perfect!
Speaking of that rascally rodent of note, on Feb. 1, we had a caller tell us about a preview of a Friend of Phil’s.
A caller saw a live woodchuck at the rest stop in Allegany, N.Y., the day before Groundhog Day. He couldn’t tell us if Reststop Roscoe (as we’ve decided to call him) was seeing his shadow, because the caller was “buzzing by at about 65.” Bummer.
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QUOTE: “February is for curmudgeons, whinge-bags, and misanthropes. You can’t begrudge us one month of the year or blame us for being even crabbier, it’s so short. There is nothing good about it, which is why it’s so great.” — author Lionel Shriver
