Yet another thing to be thankful for

I've never been assigned by my television station to go videotape the explosion of a dead whale. (The full story is described, untoppably, by Dave Barry here -- I'd love to provide a link to an authorized Dave Barry site but there doesn't seem to be one, as he didn't write this particular article for the Miami Herald. I know it's an old story, 1970 being almost forty years ago, but it's still just as funny.)