Poor excuse for a pun

Not even with 11-foot tongs.

July 23, 2009 at 3:32PM

Salacious as this is, it's on the Star Tribune website, so don't accuse me of cheapening up the joint. Headline:

South Fla. town manager who married porn star gets pink slip; says couple's done nothing wrong

I'm going to put down the ten-foot-tongs with which I would not touch the headline, just in case I'm tempted, and scroll down to the names.

"Adult Industry News recently reported that Janke's wife, Anabela Mota Janke, goes by the stage name Jazella Moore."

Pause for a moment to consider the alternate world of journalism that must be the AIN, where people are probably dragged down to HR for insufficient sexual harassment, then wonder why someone named Anabela Mota Janke would need to change her name. I mean, it stands out. Who fired her husband? Mayor Larry Kiker. If she'd married him, she would be Mota-Kiker, which sounds like a toddler's word for a Harley.


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