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To: Two Thirds Vote Aye; Miss Marple
Just biden my time... so to speak..

I have always felt that Joe Biden could improve his lot in life by serving as the T in T ball. Biden's head would not hurt the kids bats and there is always the chance they might knock some sense into him.

I think the FR searching routine uses aliases.

Thus Common Tator and CommonTator resolve to the same person.. me.. It is not case sensitive. common tator and commontator will all resolve to me as well.

Commentator does not resolve to me.

My good friend Lloyd White also sings on the Paint Valley Jamboree. Lloyd spent 40 years in radio. About the last 20 as station owner. We have been friends and buddies for the better part of 50 years.

We turn in the titles and keys for our songs about an hour before the show starts. In some cases the band leader will ask for a short rehearsal on a song if we have not done it before. I always print my titles and keys on my computer. Lloyd always prints his with a sharpie pen. We discovered that neither of us can spell very well. We think it comes from all the phonetic spelling of radio copy. For example, the Pontiac Grand Prix would be spelled Pon-tea-ack Grand Pree... for radio. It apparently has caused both of us to be unable to spell with out a spell checker. Once in Ames, Iowa on KASI the copy writer spelled the Pontiac Grand Prix .. the Announcer was used to phonetic spelling so PRIX came out phonetically.

I was glad when the days of live commercials ended. But one of the guys at KASI screwed that up. Al Mitchell would erase about 5 tapes and start cutting a spot. If he blew it he just put in another tape and started over. He was doing a recorded spot for the High V Food Store. I was always kidding calling it the High Voo Feed Store. On his first three takes he managed to say High voo Feed store. ..then on the third take spent 15 seconds cursing me on the tape... Then did a good take on another tape but turned in the third tape by mistake. It got on the air. It included the G D words F word and S word all describing yours truly.

They made me to the High V Food Store commercials after that.

106 posted on 12/29/2005 11:52:40 AM PST by Common Tator
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To: Common Tator
Sheesh! I GOTTA watch my spelling of the screen names!

LOL! The 'T' in 'T ball'!

108 posted on 12/29/2005 12:01:19 PM PST by Two Thirds Vote Aye (9/11/2001 - The most VISIBLE clxxxon LEGACY to date.)
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