After watching High School Musical 2, a commercial came on the Disney channel for something called The Jonas Brothers. "Ug, I hate the Jonas brothers!" said K.

"That's not very nice," I said. "Why don't you like them?"

"They're like a yogurt poster."

"That might be the most unusual simile I've ever heard. Why are the Jonas Brothers like a yogurt poster? I feel like the Riddler from the old Batman shows. Riddle me this, Caped Crusader! Why are the Jonas Brothers like a yogurt poster? Answer! Because there is a B in both, and an N in neither!"

I never did get a straight answer about the yogurt comment, something about a commercial they were in and how her friend Emma does not like them either. I just couldn't resist the Frank Gorshin reference, how often do you get to make one of those?

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Remember Sara Evans, the country singer who quit Dancing With The Stars because she was in the middle of a messy divorce?  Well, it's getting messier.  The ex-husband has filed a document in court asking her to testify, under oath that she was not romantically involved with a number of men in her life. 

In general this would be no big deal, just a typical piece of legal fluff equivalent to trolling  — ask her to say it under oath, therefore if she refuses, she must have done it, right?

However, it gets more juicy when you read the list of names:  Kenny Chesney (isn't he the one that got divorced from Renee Zellweger because he's gay?), Richard Marx (wait…the guy from the 1980's??), Tony Dovolani (her dancing instructor on the show), and what appears to be the entire band "3 Doors Down."

Tony?  I thought Maksim got all the babes.

Over the weekend I was at a local seafood place picking up dinner, when I noticed on their very large menu board behind the counter that all the meals did, in fact, come with "Freedom Fries." As in, instead of French fries. Remember? Because the French aren't nice to us, or something. I hadn't heard that expression since, what, the day it was suggested and then laughed out of existence?

I figure that the owners of the place had to be pretty zealous in their patriotism to get the sign changed in the first place. It wasn't whited out or hand written, it was a legitimate part of the sign. That's fair.

But the real question is now, six years later when it's little more than a joke too old for even David Letterman to tell, would you keep it up there? Too expensive to change back? Have they forgotten that it's there? Or are they still just that zealous about their patriotism that they refuse to say the word French?