Circle game

Remedial driver’s education: How roundabouts work are explained for something like the 148th time in Street Smarts history, but The Buzz can spell things out in a single sentence: Approaching vehicles always yield to traffic on the left already in the circle.

And now, a single sentence on a somewhat related matter: If you’re doing 70 in the left lane on I-5 north of Smokey Point, move the #!%# over.

Surfing the vast cultural wasteland: Season 14 of “The Celebrity Apprentice” airs tonight on NBC.

The winning D-list celebrity will be named, but The Buzz will watch only if PETA activists are scheming to release the woodland creature forced to live on Donald Trump’s head.

Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1968, the nation’s first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated way down south in Haleyville, Alabama.

Here is a transcript of the very first 911 call placed in Haleyville, also on this day in 1968: “Roscoe, arrest them Duke boys!”

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff

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