> My favorite columnists include Dave Barry, Sam Venable, and Jay Leno. Dave's column is everywhere. He resides in the Miami area, but his column is in papers all over the country. I think he coined the phrase "I am not making this up." If he doesn't say that, you can rest assured that he is making it up.
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> Sam (AKA "Venob") once appeared on the sports page of the Knoxville News-Sentenial where he made comical observations of the world of sports. But the powers noticed that he could be funny about things not even related to hunting and fishing, and moved his column to other parts of the paper. This gave him a world of other targets for his humor. I particularly enjoy his pot shots at Tennessee's govenor and legislature. Sam has also been known to say "I am not making this up."
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> Then there is Leno. He's on TV too late at night for me, but I enjoy his column in "Popular Mechanics." As far as I know, his column has never included the words. "I am not making this up." It's just a matter of time.
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> Leno has a big ego, but he may be telling the whole truth when he hints that he is a good mechanic. After all, he has a great collection of vintage cars and motorcycles and works on them himself. You might think a collection like that was just to say, "I'm rich and I can buy anything that I want," but with Leno, I think he just likes old machinery. If he was poor like me, he might collect motor scooters and Maytag washing machine motors.
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> I wish PM would show better pictures of Leno's stuff. The current issue has a picture with a couple of motorcycles in the foreground and a bunch more in the background. But it's so dark back there, you see little more than headlights. I know it's illogical, but I can't shake the notion that there is a Cushman way back in the back.
> Howard

I saw Jay Leno once at a four-way stop on Mulholland Drive. I don't remember exactly what he was driving, but it was a smallish, not-new, regular-kind-of-guy car. My passenger waved at him. He waved back.

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