On the Noon News Hour today here in Vancouver, the sports guy, Squire Barnes, was talking about the Vancouver Giants junior A hockey team and how, historically when any junior hockey team from Portland comes up against any junior team from the Greater Vancouver Area, there's always a fight, and evidently, he said, doves cried last night, because yet again, fights broke out between the two teams. His colleague gave him a look and wondered if he was on cough medicine, because she didn't get the allusion. (Maybe the noon news is like the late night news in that nobody's watching, so why not have some fun with it?)

This is from the same episode that Bart learned Roman numerals the hard way. Bart is trapped inside the cage and is talking to his friend Milhouse who is elsewhere in Shelbyville, when the latter runs into his namesake.

Bart: [on walkie talkie] Milhouse! What's seven in roman numerals?
Milhouse: I'll tell you, Bart, but you really should end each transmission with the word "over". Over!
Shelbyville Milhouse: [snatching Milhouse's walkie talkie] Correction: the only thing that's over is this transmission.
Milhouse: Is this the untimely end of Milhouse?
Shelbyville Milhouse: [pause] But Milhouse is my name!
Milhouse: But I thought I was the only one!
Shelbyville Milhouse: [shakes head] A pain I know all too well.
Milhouse: So this is what it feels like...when doves cry.