THE PONCHATOULA TIMES, SEPTEMBER 9, 2010, PAGE 2
Dave Berwick
Roger, Roger
By DAVE BERWICK
Times Columnist
"Roger, Roger that good bud-
dy" says the truck driver. "Rog-
er that," says the airplane pilot
Roger Rabbit
of olden days. But that's not the
Roger we're after.
One of the Rogers we want is
Roger Rabbit, an animated or
known in the old day as a car-
toon character who, if you have
not seen, is drawn like a rabbit.
Roger Rabbit is the lead charter
in the movie "who framed Roger
Rabbit?" which is one of the fun-
niest movies I have ever seen.
I watched it hundred of times,
I have the script memorized.
Now, the thing about Roger
Rabbit is that he can only do one
The Final Chapter,..
By JOHN DUDEK
Times Columnist
The beginning of the college football season is finally here, and
it may be the last season that Les Miles coaches Louisiana State
University's Fighting Tigers.
Even though the Tigers beat
North Carolina team 30-24, it
should have never come down
to the last play of the game. The
Bayou Bengals were ahead and
cruising with the score 30-10
heading into halftime.
Ball security issues and sus-
pect play calling almost doomed
LSU. Les Miles once again
proved he can't seem to manage
the clock, whether his team is
ahead by three touchdowns, or
down by just three points.
North Carolina was with-
out seven of 11 defensive start-
ers, yet the Tigers still couldn't
manage to put away an under-
manned team that at one point
had more fumbles than first
downs.
I hate to see what the game's
outcome would have been if
John Dudek
the Tar Heels had their full
compliment of players. It's go-
ing to be a long season in
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thing, that's entertain people,
make people laugh.
In the middle of the movie
Roger is vilified by a crooked
politician known as "Judge
Doom. Now I'm not saying all
politicians are money hungry,
thieving, self serving, lying
scoundrels but Judge Doom
certainly was. At the end of the
movie Roger Rabbit emerges vic-
torious over the forces of evil.
The second Roger we want is
Roger Clemens, a famous base-
ball player. Like Roger'Rabbit
he, Roger Clements, can only do
one thing, that's throw a base-
ball, entertain people. In return
the people paid Clemens a great
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Roger Clemens
deal of money.
Roger and Roger are likeable
characters, both are good fam-
ily men but both can only do
one thing which :I have all ready
mentioned. When either tries to
do something else disaster fol-
lows.
Now both Rogers run afoul of
the law. I understand that one is
a cartoon character that exists
only in a movie and the other is
a real live human being whose
life has come unglued.
Roger Clemens is facing
slammer time for lying to a
bunch of politicians. Wait. Let's
think about this a minute. A
hard working man who has paid
huge amounts of taxes is going
Clemens before Congress
7-time Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Roger Clemens
(left), listens to the testimony of his former personal train-
er Brian McNamee (right) during a congressional hearing.
to jail because he lied to a bunch
of politicians.
What happens when the
politicians lie to the people?
Shouldn't the politicians be 'the
ones going to jail for lying to the
public? This is backwards! Here
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