For those who enjoy mangling their native vernacular with pop cultural one-liners, TV Land has released the top 100 television catchphrases. Too bad that Ricky Gervais’s “Are you ‘aving a laugh?” didn’t make the cut.

Variety: “Now Fox News Channel, a primary source of material for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, is teaming with the exec producer of ’24’ to try its hand at a news satire show for conservatives to love. Joel Surnow, co-creator of ’24,’ is shooting two half-hour pilots of a skein he described as ”The Daily Show’ for conservatives,’ due to air in primetime on Saturdays in January.”

Independent: “In an article for Prospect magazine, Sir Jeremy Isaacs cites programmes such as Designer Vaginas, The World’s Biggest Penis and the forthcoming Wank Week, as evidence of the channel’s decline.”

In September, I cited 1980s KRON commentator Wayne Shannon as an example of how the Web fails to catalog certain pieces of information. This morning, to my great surprise, Wayne Shannon, who is still alive, left the following comment:

Hi Edward:

Wayne Shannon here. About once a year I get on the web and type in my name and see what I do/do not get.

And there you were. Thanks for remembering me at all, web failure or not.

My privacy continues to be paramount in my life, so, unfortunately, the email address above no longer exists. Sorry about that, but I’m not inclined to divulge the one I use these days.

Actually, Herb Dudnick did NOT try and cut a new deal with me vis a vis KRON. I was out, and that was all there was to it. Luckily, I sensed it the instant he showed up and had the CNBC gig in the works when the hammer fell.

I’m told “Shannon: What’s It All Mean?” is available on E-Bay and/or Amazon.com — but only as a trinket for the curious, and has no connection with me anymore.

If you’re genuinely curious about me though, I would eventually go on and get a Masters and teach Journalism, writing, mostly, but would retire from that, too.

I’m up in the Pacific Northwest now, and much enjoy being unknown.

Have written a new book called “The Golden Toe of the Appaloosa,” inspired by events that happened when I was in high school in Washington State in the mid 60s, which an agent in SF (Elizabeth Pomada) is looking at now, but it will probably amount to nothing more than I did.

The attitude one has after a lifetime of fantastic low self-esteem. Some people are surprised to know that, but not anyone who knows/knew me.

Again, thank you for recalling me with relative kindness.

W-Bo

Thank you, Mr. Shannon, for taking the time to respond. And if your book happens, the folks at The Bat Segundo Show would be happy to talk with you.

Leave it to the Russians to up the ante.