NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Last spring, state workers put up a sign in East Tennessee identifying the Nolichucky River watershed. One problem: The site was the Watauga River watershed.
Not all the news from Tennessee was serious this year, and moments of the offbeat helped to lighten 2008.
Here are some of them.
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Tennessee House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh, commenting on grade requirements for students to keep their lottery scholarships:
"I got a 4.0 one time, but it took me two semesters."
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Bobo, who insults people and goads them to throw baseballs and soak him at a dunking machine at the Tennessee State Fair in Nashville, yelled this at a young guy and his date:
"Hey dude! Bring your cousin over here."
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In May, a Brownsville woman hoping to get her driver's license reinstated accidentally backed her car into a Jackson driver's license station. Sheree Covington tried to move her car before the driving test and plowed into the front entrance.
She did not get her driving privileges back.
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Dolly Parton told The New York Post in July that she has no interest in entering politics.
"We've got enough boobs in the White House," she said.
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Two robbery suspects picked the wrong place to flee to last January in Nashville.
They were taken into custody on the grounds of the Police Training Academy.
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In McMinnville, police in May said they arrested a man who misdialed and ordered marijuana from a sheriff's deputy.
Investigators said deputy Jason Rowland answered his cell phone and someone asked if he had any "smoke." Rowland played along and the caller ordered $40 worth of marijuana.
The buyer showed up and police charged him with solicitation of drug sales.
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ESPN's "GameDay" show originated Oct. 4 on the Vanderbilt campus in Nashville, where a sign in the crowd poked fun at the size of the head coach of Vandy rival Tennessee:
"Phil Fulmer ate my other sign."
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As the Vanderbilt football team got off to a 5-0 start, this banner was hung outside a dental office near campus:
"Go Vandy!!! We're pulling for ya!"
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Kim Shrigley, the recently divorced wife of Tennessee basketball coach Bruce Pearl, opened a hair and nail salon in late November.
She called it "Alimony's."
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On Nov. 18, shortly after the release of the James Bond movie "Quantum of Solace," the winning evening Cash 3 number in the Tennessee lottery was 007.
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