The sports editor of the Roswell Daily Record has been fired for fabricating part of a news story about a golf tournament in which he quoted a fictional character from the movie Caddyshack.
It's hardly the NY Times scandal is it?
Bush said the story contained three fictitious paragraphs referring to a "Carl Spangler" who claimed to work at the course. In "Caddyshack," Bill Murray played a golf course worker named Carl Spackler.
Jones quoted "Spangler" as saying he invented a new kind of grass for the tournament. The quotation in Jones' story is taken directly from "Caddyshack."
" 'This is a hybrid ... of bluegrass, Kentucky bluegrass, featherbed bent and northern California sensemilia (sic),' " Spangler said. " 'The amazing stuff about this, is that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on the stuff.' "
Pure genius. Although I would have preferred if he had quoted Al Czervik and worked the words "Hey everybody, we're all gonna get laid!" into the article somewhere.
At the least he could have gone for this Spackler quote -
I smell varmint poontang, and the only good varmint poontang is dead varmint poontang, I think.
What a movie. The less said about the sequel the better though.
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