And it had already been printed in cities all across the United States of America -- it was printed in Monterey, I checked. And the story began, "Former Vice President Al Gore announced in Nigeria yesterday, 'My wife Tipper and I have opened a low-cost family restaurant, named Shoney's, and we are running it ourselves.'" Before I could get back to U.S. soil, David Letterman and Jay Leno had already started in on -- one of them had me in a big white chef's hat, Tipper was saying, "One more burger, with fries!"