Posted on 06/19/2003 4:17:17 AM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society
The best thing about this shift was last night's pow-wow (group discussion about "issues" around a campfire). My guys gave me a farewell pow-wow so each of them had a chance to say whatever they wanted to me and it was all positive.
Gotta tell you one story. Last weekend we had one of the worst, most incorrigible kids moved to our group. We already had one just about like him so now we have a match set of overweight, under-functioning, foul-mouthed twits and it didn't take long for them to get into a fight and have to be restrained. Monday and Tuesday I wasn't working with my group, but finally yesterday afternoon I was back in charge of them and I could see that their animosity towards each other was at fever pitch. My solution was to put them on "rope buddy" which meant they had a 4' rope connecting them at the belt.
I was a little unsure how it would work and had to keep an eye out to make sure they didn't pummel each other. But after one kid broke 3 belt loops trying to get away and I kept tying him back up, things began to work better. Within an hour, they were like best friends and pretty soon sat down to talk to each other.
Last night at bedtime I took the rope off and was going to let one of them go to bed (they always want an early bedtime as they don't get enough sleep usually), but he wanted to stay up and talk to his new friend. I told them the only way they could talk to each other is if they were rope buddies again. So they looked at each other and agreed to tie the rope up again so they could chat a while. It was one of the funniest things I've seen out there.
Certainly. I heard the only way to get really good Reality is with the aid of a Realtor.
However I have never met a Realtor who would do those no money down deals advertised on TV. They always say that is not Reality.
If memory serves me correctly, you are no Yao Ming yourself, my friend.
In fact, you are more like a Yo-Yao Ming.
No, that's not right either.....I GOT IT!
YOU ARE LOW YAO MING.
Well, you could have fooled me!! Being the analytical type that you are, I would have taken you for a 'Brains Guy', rather than one of those who could become befuddled by beauty.
:-), CT, Is Reality Optional? is the name of one of Tom Sowell's essay collections, and its touch of whimsy regarding the liberals willingness to avoid the facts has always appealed to me.
Regis Philbin:"Hi,is this John? Well, John, this is Regis Philbin from "Who Wants to Be a Millionare", and Sugar's going for $500,000 but she needs some help from you. Are you ready? Okay, you've got 30 seconds."
"Sugar: John, remember when that 727 took off from Angola carrying fuel tanks?............."
sighs.....It's not funny, but it's like this story fell into a big black hole. It popped up out of nowhere and it's gone like yesterday's garbage.
Well, if anyone does see Kehoe, tell him I'm outside working on the Ark. It's been raining so hard here I'm growing webbed feet.
Years ago Doris Day ( who even favors saving the dead fish .. I think she likes the smell) was at WLW Radio in Cincinnati as a regular singer on the Midwestern Hayride Show.This was way back in the 40's. It had a live studio audience and was broadcast on the NBC network. Bill (the Studio Engineer) used to make Doris stand on a wooden Pepsi carton in order to sing into the mike. A tall guy preceded her and Bill refused to lower the mike for her. He made her carry the Pepsi carton on stage and them climb upon it to sing her song. Bill later became a station owner and I worked for him in the 60s.
Bill played some transcriptions of this show for me in which the audience was snickering as Doris was being introduced. She was climbing upon the Pepsi carton.
Bill did not like Doris. He said she was an airhead snob who thought she was better than lowly engineers. She complained to Powell Crosley (WLW's owner) about Bill. Powell told her good engineers were hard to find but air head singers were a dime adozen... He told her to do what Bill wanted her to do or go some where else.
Bill had created enough Doris Day jokes to get me banned for life if I told them. He used to tell me one just before he opened my mike for me to read the obituaries. I rarely broke up. One day I did read a fake obituary... his. He did not think it was funny at all. I had him dying from heart failure while receiving his first full body massage from the stations new resident masseuse, Miss Wigglebottem. I had Miss Wigglebottem giving Bill REAL Respiration in an attempt to save him. I noted that there was nothing about Miss Wigglebottem that could in fairness be termed artificial . The rest of the staff really liked it. But it was time for me to get a new dial position anyway.
In my twenties I was a Rocking Country Singer and Disk Jockey with a Souped up Chevie, Cool Clothes, a Sexy Fender Guitar, a drive time radio show, and an on stage presence that made Elvis look like a choir boy.
Samora's mother broke us up early on and forced her into a disastrous marriage because I was way too wild a child to marry her sweet young daughter. I turned kind a wild in response to that loss. It took Samora and I years and years to finally get together as man and wife.
Most people would not have associated me with brains... certainly not me at that time in my life.
I don;t know for sure but I think it takes a 5,000 foot runway to take off. It don't think it is legal to use a 5,000 foot strip in the usa. I think a skilled pilot could set it down on a 3,000 foot strip, but I don't think you could take it off using 3,000 foot runway. I am pretty sure they can't land on a dirt strip. They weigh a lot of tons.... is it 100 tons?
Also the runway must be clean. Just picking up a few small stones in the engine intakes could blow an engine.
Powell Crosley founded WLW and for a while made Crosley brand Radio's and later TV's. He built WLW so he could sell the radios he made. For a while Crosley made very small cars. WLW was in the thirties and the 40s the only half million watt radio station in the world. It could be heard from coast to coast. I had an opportunity to work with two men who were at LW in its prime. WLW was with NBC(Red and Blue), CBS, and Mutual networks. WLW originated all of the network soap operas. They were called soap operas because most of them were sponsored by Cincinnati's Proctor and Gamble. WLW originated a lot of network programming including Midwestern Hayride which was on just prior to the Grand Ole Opry.
By the way the help referred to WLW as standing for Worlds Lowest Wages. A lot of greats got their big time start at WLW if not the wages to match. I worked for Bill who taught me a lot about the early days of radio. He had engineered shows featuring a huge number of famous stars. Don was an announcer at LW with a great voice. He left LW to go to CBS doing news. I got to do the Kennedy assassination broadcasts with Don.
Bill spent WWII in Britain engineering lots of national coverage including Edward R. Murrow and his Hello from London broadcasts. I got a lot of WWII info from people who were there and lived it at the command headquarters in London. Did you know that all media people that covered the war were drafted into the military. Everything went through Military censors before airing. Any one who aired unauthorized material had committed a military crime. It could be punished by courts marshal and the punishment could be death by firing squad. The media does not tell you how the media was handled during WWII.
I did once upon a time get to do my David Brinkley imitation for David Brinkley. When asked what he thought of it, Brinkley replied in his best deadpan and in an exaggerated Brinkley style that "While I might someday ... make a newscaster, ... my style... was that of.... an ordinary newsman ... delivering news ... in a quite.... ordinary way."
I had to admit he did a better David Brinkley than I did.
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