Today’s Daily Examiner quip features the quote of the year, in our humble opinion. This one comes courtesy of NBC 10’s Lori Wilson, who in a moment of endearingly sheltered cluelessness uttered this amazing gem on the 10 morning show during a segment about misheard song lyrics. The song under discussion was “Saving All My Love for You.” Wilson’s on-air quote?

Well, the woman who wrote in saying she misheard the song thought it said “‘Cause I’m Shaving Off My Muff for You …” I don’t know if muff is a bad word … is it?

Anchor muffs it [YouTube]

For the first half of 2007, there was no Daily Examiner. It was a dark time at phillymag.com. However, light began to seep in around the edges when we launched in early August, and it’s been getting brighter ever since. In 2008, we’ll unveil improvements to make our space a must-visit daily destination for Philadelphia residents and web-crawling curiosity-seekers. Thanks for your eyeballs. Here’s a look at some of the stories that made this job much easier in the past almost-half-year.

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It will only attack if you don’t pay for the end table: A wildlife specialist was called to a Woodlyn furniture store to remove a small hawk. The hawk stayed for two days, living in the rafters of the store, until finally being lured out by the trapper with a caged quail. Nobody was harmed. Not even the quail. [6 ABC]

Yeah, it was probably just T.O.: The always insightful and Italian-friendly 700Level points out that the Eagles may have given T.O. a line of crap when they said they don’t recognize individual achievements after his 100th touchdown. Yesterday, they were pretty happy to point out Westbrook’s record-breaking day. [The700Level]

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Yesterday, the Philadelphia Eagles capped off their season finale with an inglorious 17-9 victory over the Buffalo Bills, leaving them at 8-8 and out of the playoffs for the 2007 season. However, there are high notes and hope for this team for the next couple seasons — something that had seemingly been lost about Week 10 — and it’d be surprising if the Iggles weren’t back into the mix of the NFC’s elite in 2008.

This year, even though there was nary a cantankerous, franchise-killing receiver in sight, there was still the inevitable mix of controversy and intrigue that follows any unsuccessful Eagles season. Let’s look back at the season that began with so much hope, but imploded early on and never fully recovered.

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Atlantic City gulls, those dirty flying rats prone to snatching pick-and-peel shrimp away from unsuspecting diners and blanketing the boardwalk with cascades of black-and white-poop, have gone too far.

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GOOD LIFE DAILY: Find tons of local, handmade treasures here

HEALTH: Make New Year’s resolutions you’ll actually keep

IN THIS ISSUE: Read Steve Volk’s compelling story of South Philadelphian mob princess Jean Bruno in The Godfather’s Daughter

The streets of Killadelphia: Daily News writer Dave Davies breaks down the origins of the unfortunate (but apt) nickname and observes that even though the murder rate did in fact decrease from last year (391, down from 407 in ‘06), there’s still a disconcerting problem that nobody’s addressing: fewer cops. Whether that’s been the catalyst for the disturbing spike or not, it certainly hasn’t helped. [DN]

More waterboarding fun: Mark Bowden offers a followup to his somewhat controversial, somewhat bizarre “here’s why we need to torture some people” column that ran last week. In it, Bowden carefully explains that the technique should be used in extreme cases and that the torturer should prepared to face the consequences of his water-dumping activities. [Inquirer]

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Today’s Daily Examiner quote comes courtesy of a male Texas A&M “yell leader” who shouted these kind words to a crowd full of Penn State fans during a joint pep rally yesterday to prepare for Saturday’s Alamo Bowl matchup:

“Joe Paterno’s on his death bed! And someone needs to find him a casket!”

Texas A&M red-faced over Yell Leader’s comments [Dallas Morning News]

Larry Kane spoke the gospel about local news

Fagone says Bowden’s waterboarding column is loony

Pit bulls love chicks with tats

Will Smith: Gettin’ Hitler With It

Nachman goes YouTubing

Old-ass singing piano player with horrible driving record to play with Philly Orchestra: Billy Joel will play a show with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Academy of Music next month. He’ll play some of his classical compositions, which many people won’t be able to sing along with. [CBS 3]

Philly is the new Detroit: Based on a story posted on The Next Mayor yesterday, a reader writes in to substantiate his claim: “You asked if any parts of Philly are in as bad shape as sections of Detroit. The answer is definitely yes …” [The Next Mayor]

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