Say hello to my state-certified official little friend: Arizona lawmakers have passed a bill that will make the Colt revolver the state’s official gun, noting its widespread use during Arizona’s territorial days.
Other states working on official state weapons include New York, Saturday Night Special; Wisconsin, pitch forks and torches; Idaho, spud gun; Alaska, helicopter-mounted wolf rifle; and Washington state, extremely hot Starbucks decaf latte thrown in attacker’s face.
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Beats swallowing them live: After taking complaints about animal cruelty, a Tacoma bar has canceled its goldfish races, in which goldfish were slid down a 8-foot trough, propelled by squirts of water from goldfish “jockeys.” The bar said it would replace the goldfish races with beer pong.
The bar then switched to karaoke nights after hearing complaints from the NSPCPPB, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ping-Pong Balls.
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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Connecticut at 74 years of age.
This time, reports of his death were not greatly exaggerated.
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