What's Up With That? #28: David Letterman, cryptographic Casanova?

A woman in Santa Fe, New Mexico filed for a temporary restraining order against David Letterman, claiming that the host of Late Night has been directing secret code words toward her on his show for the past dozen years, in an attempt to seduce her over the airwaves.

As stupid as that sounds, this is even more ridiculous — a district court judge named Daniel Sanchez actually granted the restraining order.

Yo, Judge Sanchez: When someone tells you that a television talk show host whom she's never met is trying to hook up with her using secret code words... she's nuts, okay?

And yo, Colleen Nestler: It's called a remote control. Change the channel, psycho loser.

Fortunately, another judge with a lick of sense shredded the restraining order at the request of Letterman's lawyers.

As I've mentioned before, I met Letterman a couple of times 25 years ago, when I was broadcasting baseball games on the Pepperdine University campus radio station. To the best of my knowledge, Dave is not sending me any secret messages.

Jay Leno, on the other hand...