Re: generational markers (was "Disney's Man In Space")

From: Doug... (dvandorn_at_NOSPAM.mn.rr.com)
Date: 06/03/04 

Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 14:01:27 GMT

In article <t39ub09m0jfl59o8rrjlf85ndlfpcmj3v4@4ax.com>,
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_research_facility.org says...
> On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 00:43:09 -0400, peter@adelphia.net (Peter Stickney)
> wrote:
>
> >(North Country readers will recall Marty Engstrom's weather reports from the summit -
> >Marty was one of the engineers - you always could tell when he was
> >reaching the end of his shift - things would get a bit loopy.)
>
> ...Actually, we'd heard stories about Marty from some of our crusty
> old engineers, who'd heard the same stories from NAB conventions
> where, reportedly, there'd be at least one conversation about him and
> his WX reports. Apparently on really cold shifts he'd dip a bit deep
> in the antifreeze, and one time did a syllable twist to his report
> that would have made Archie Campbell's "Pee Little Trigs" stories look
> amateur by comparison.
>
> Hadn't thought about those Marty stories in a LONG time, tho...

Ah, but the *best* weather reporter story I ever heard (apparently true)
came from an East Coast station a couple of years ago.

Setup: Female anchor, male weatherman. The weatherman had predicted a
foot of snow the night before, and the snow never developed.

When the anchor introduced the weather segment, she turned to the
weatherman and said, "So, what happened to the 12 inches you promised me
last night?!"

They couldn't even cut to commercial for more than 30 seconds, the
entire crew was laughing so hard...

Doug
dvandorn@NOSPAM.mn.rr.com

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