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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check
February 1, 2010
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Fast Food:
This year's Super Bowl commercial from Denny's reportedly will set up another free breakfast deal. Last year, the fast food outlet served two million Grand Slam breakfasts during a similar promotion. This year, Nation's Restaurant News says the Super Bowl ad will reportedly say that customers can come to participating restaurants on Feb 09, from 6 am to 2 pm for free Grand Slam breakfasts.
Miss America:
We have a brand-new MISS AMERICA. She's Miss VIrginia, CARESSA CAMERON, who's a 22-year-old journalism student from Fredericksburg, VA, and picks up a $50,000 scholarship and a year running around the country celebrating her reign. Her talent performance was a pitchy version of BEYONCE's "Listen" from the "Dreamgirls" movie. The top five:
5. Miss Kentucky Mallory Ervin
4. Miss Louisiana Katherine Putnam
3. Miss Tennessee Stefanie Wittler (second runner-up)
2. Miss California Kristy Cavinder (first runner-up)
1. Miss VIrginia, Caressa Cameron
Also making the top-10 round: Miss New Mexico, Miss Hawaii, Miss District of Columbia, Miss Nebraska and Miss Texas.Reality Round-Up:
MTV's "Jersey Shore" is coming back for a second season with the original cast. The network said Friday that PAULY D, THE SITUATION, SNOOKI, J-WOWW and the rest will be relocated from the cold Northeast and find themselves in a brand-new location. They also declined to comment on how much the cast will be paid for a second edition of the hit show, which is scheduled to air this summer.
Concert Info:
WILLIE NELSON had to cancel his concert in North Carolina on Friday because of severe pain in his left hand. It also didn't help that six of Willie's band members were busted just before the concert for allegedly possessing moonshine and marijuana.
Quotable: "This is one time when you have to believe them when they said they were just holding it for a friend." (Bobby Rich, KMXZ)Look what I found:
A shipment of cookies going from Columbia to Spain Saturday turned out to have a secret ingredient.
Agence France-Presse says sniffer dogs detected cocaine in the cookies. In fact, a total of 11-pounds of the narcotic had been used as cookie-filling. A police statement said, "The cream was taken out of the cookies and replaced with compressed, bleached cocaine to avoid suspicion from counternarcotics units."
Columbia is the world's top cocaine producer. And, Spain is the main port of entry for illegal drugs bound for Europe.
No word on whether any arrests have been made.
Editor's note: But the Keebler Elves are wanted for questioning. (Still)Super Bowl Flapdoodle:
The popular war cry among New Orleans Saints fans is "Who Dat," as in "Who Dat Say Dey Gonna Beat Dem Saints?" Fans have been using it for years.
The NFL is now claiming it as their intellectual property.
The NFL registered a trademark for the phrase "who dat" with the Florida Department of State and has sent out seize-and-desist orders against mom-and-pop shops in New Orleans that use the popular saying on Saints memorabilia.
Locals are outraged and quickly point out that the phrase didn't even originate with the Saints.
Lawmakers are jumping into the fray to express their displeasure. Sen DAVID VITTER, a Republican from Louisiana, wrote to the NFL commissioner asking him to "drop this obnoxious" effort, adding that the phrase "has become part of New Orleans and Louisiana popular culture." Vitter signed his letter, "Junior Senator of Who Dat Nation." (Maiman)