I, my friends, am sick unto death of cute, perky, young women reading the **NEWS** on the TV these days, who can't change the tone in their voice or the expression on their vapid faces , whether the subject is the local garden show, or the horrible deaths of 200 peole in an airplane crash!

"Hi, I'm Cindy Smithers (rising inflection), and tonight there was this terrible crash on U.S. Eighty0Onnneee,(rising inflection). We are on the line with Sgt. Jones of the highway patrool (rising inflection)...and..."

you get the idea...they'd be 'perky' if Armageddon had just been announced.