Thursday, March 10, 2005
MICHAEL POWELL BIDS FAREWELL TO FCC; SAYS HE WILL MISS PENALIZING PEOPLE, THEN FINES HIMSELF $3MIL FOR SAYING "PENALIZING"
With tears in his eyes, outgoing FCC chief Michael Powell said goodbye to his co-workers today, but did not laugh at all at the farewell party cake, which read "FCC ya later, Alligator!". Powell, son of Colin Powell, said his obsession with dirty words and Janet Jackson's breasts has nothing to do with his father's "funny first name", teasing he got as a kid, and a rebuffing by Ms. J at a swank Hillary Swank party a few years ago. Powell said he will most miss "all the penalizing that goes on around here", then he immediately slapped himself with a three million dollar fine for saying a word with the Latin dirty root "penal".
