quotable Hala

As I no longer have the time to watch Your World Today as much as I want to (sleep does get in the way), it's always special for me to watch Hala. Even if it's with Jim.

And last night was special because Jim Clancy had a funny quip: After telling us all about the couple in Verona in a 5000-year embrace, Jim said:

"We don't even know if it's a male and a female..."

Jim! Are you developing a personality before me?

Not to be outdone, Hala had this to say about the same news item:

"If you can stand each other for that long they deserve to be celebrated."

Oh, Hala. I sense cynicism. The (cynical) force is strong with this one.


Then there are these two bits on "news" items:
1. On the bright light sighting in the US and the possibility it's a UFO, after a reporter states that until an alien lands in front of waiting cameras and does an interview with CNN, you will never know:
"I'd like to interview that person and call that person It."
- as I was not really paying attention, if anyone can correct this quote, please do. I love it to pieces.

2. And on the wallaby chase in the US (again):
"You mess with a kangaroo and put boxing gloves on him, you're kind of asking for it."

I loves me some Hala witticisms. :)

it was a good day for offbeat news

When Hala Gorani sings a line from The Police, you're glad you stayed up long enough to watch/hear her do it.
And to note that Andy Summers Stewart Copeland (thanks for the correction, Spitfire!) "had to watch footage from 20 years ago to realize they got along."

When Hala has to watch a report on the Kitty Washing Machine, you're glad she broke the talking head persona.

"Roger Fede-roach? That's even better than the report on the cat washing machine."
- Hala, incredulous on the report of a cockroach race champion named after Roger Federer.



I still don't know how to react to Liz George's hair.

Inside the Middle East this weekend.