An apology was issued. Marc Galanter visited Vanderbilt University Law School in Nashville last February to promote his book that charts lawyer jokes over the past couple of decades. He even offered a joke about lawyer jokes: "A colleague asked me how many lawyer jokes there are.
I told him just three - the rest are documented case histories." At the Nashville Flea Market in March, this kitchen plaque was selling swiftly: "Your husband called and said you can buy anything you want." On Dec.
12, Lake County was named as the unhealthiest county in the state. When The Associated Press called the director of the county's public health department for comment, she was unavailable. Out sick.
She replied, "I have two words for you - champagne." An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing at Nashville International Airport on Dec. 4.
It was nothing mechanical or terrorist-related, but several passengers reported smelling burning sulfur from matches. Evelyn Johnson, 68, married the Rev. James Rual Chalk, 100, in January near Jackson.
"They don't make them like that anymore at this age," she replied. R. Winston Morris, founder of the tuba ensemble at Tennessee Tech University, came up with a special name for the November concert celebrating the group's 40th anniversary: "Tubas of Mass Destruction.
" In January, a warrant for indecent exposure was taken out against Daniel Whitaker of Piney Flats. In March, a married mother was arrested on charges of prostitution in the Nashville-Murfreesboro area. Investigators say her husband provided some of the evidence used to bust her Internet escort service.
He said he found suspicious e-mails on her computer and reported them to authorities. T. Allen Morgan tried to have the final say when he wrote his check for a speeding ticket received in Coopertown in Robertson County last February.
A note Morgan added to the check stated "for speed trap." In April, Clarksville police said they answered a complaint call about a man holding a Bible and firing a 9 mm pistol. Officers quoted him as saying he didn't intend to hurt anyone, but he believed shooting the pistol was the only way to get people to listen to his preaching.
Jackson was charged with illegally carrying a deadly weapon and reckless endangerment. University of Tennessee students are studying Scotch whisky. By using small samples of the Scotch for analysis, calculations and computer modeling, chemical engineering students in the special program learn about how the spirit was made and matured.
"It is real research," emphasized chemical engineering department head John Collier. President Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited Elvis Presley's Graceland in June, attracting some protesters who demonstrated against the war in Iraq. One of them had a sign showing the president behind bars with the caption: "Jailhouse Iraq.
" In July, the Sweetwater Flea Market was included on a national database as a possible terrorist target. Somehow, the Mule Day parade in Columbia also made the list. The flea market operators kept their sense of humor about it, posting a sign on the office door reading, "Terrorists must sign in.
" After the NHL's Nashville Predators gave up an embarrassing eight goals in a season-opening 8-7 loss to Chicago, radio announcer Jim McKenzie was unfazed.
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