It has recently been brought to my attention that I once posted something negative about Hagerstown’s favorite TV weatherman Lou Scally. I don’t remember doing this, but the person who told me about this is very credible and is what you would call a reputable source.

It was Lou Scally himself told me of this.

He personally told me that he once read a negative post I wrote about him on my blog. The post told a story of seeing him in the Hagerstown Lowes home improvement store. It read that I approached him to say hello and he was rude to me. Though I remember once seeing Lou Scally in Lowes, I don’t remember approaching him. I also don’t remember writing about him on my blog. If anyone other then Lou Scally told me this story, I would have immediately dismissed it as being simply not true.

If Lou Scally tells me it is going rain, I grab an umbrella. If Lou Scally tells me it’s going to snow, I grab a heavy coat and a warm hat. It wouldn’t matter if it was the middle of July and it was over 90 degrees outside. I’m simply not in the practice of questioning the word of Lou Scally.

When Lou Scally tells you something, you take it for fact and you don’t argue. You don’t question it. It doesn’t matter if it’s about the weather or where to go to get a good steak dinner.

Lou Scally went on to tell me that in my post I compared his level of celebrity with that of newspaper columnist Tim Rowland. Evidently I wrote that Tim Rowland was a bigger local celebrity then Lou Scally. Though I am a fan of Tim Rowland and his columns, I do not condone pitting one man against the other.

Nobody wins in such a contest. Instead everyone loses.

It’s like that old Star Trek episode where Captain Kirk and Mister Spock are forced to fight each another in a battle to the death on the planet Vulcan. I think it was over some Vulcan girl Spock was going to marry. If Spock wins, Kirk is dead. If Kirk wins, it means Spock is dead. Luckily Doctor McCoy was on hand to secretly give Kirk some kind of drug with his hypospray. The thing that looked like a pepper shaker. This special drug made the Vulcans think Kirk was dead.

Stupid Vulcans.

Can I state with complete certainty that I never wrote anything negative about Lou Scally on my blog? I would certainly like to say this, but I have been known to do dumb things from time to time. Just ask my wife. She will tell you about the time I accidentally paid the car payment twice in the same week.

So let the record show that I don’t think Tim Rowland is a bigger celebrity then Lou Scally. Tim Rowland writes a column in the newspaper. He has written several books. He even has a podcast. Lou Scally is on TV providing the weather forecast. He has a radio show. He has an alley named after him. He is featured in many local TV commercials.

Both men are local celebrities.