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December 03, 2014
SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Buffalo Bills pull the plug on Toronto NFL series
posted by tommybiden at 02:18 PM on December 03, 2014
When did Deadspin start posting "news" like "Take vacuuming off your to-do list with this discounted Roomba" on the front page?
It's a Gawker-wide thing where they want me to look at some discounted crap I don't need on Amazon daily. The other one I like are the very subtly Promoted Posts where there's this long homespun tale about fond memories of tailgating and then it turns out the whole thing is actually an ad for Knob Creek. Emphasis on "Knob" I suppose.
posted by yerfatma at 03:05 PM on December 03, 2014
The other one I like are the very subtly Promoted Posts where there's this long homespun tale about fond memories of tailgating and then it turns out the whole thing is actually an ad for Knob Creek.
Nice to see that while Paul Harvey didn't make it to the 2010's, his spirit has.
posted by Ufez Jones at 03:37 PM on December 03, 2014
posted by tommybiden at 03:53 PM on December 03, 2014
Nice to see that while Paul Harvey didn't make it to the 2010's, his spirit has.
You missed 4 pauses in that sentence . . . by my count.
"Hello Americans. Stand by for . . . news."
posted by yerfatma at 07:25 PM on December 03, 2014
Unforgettable moment in radio history: Paul Harvey live on air being handed a bulletin saying that the Pope had been shot.
Instant journey to the distant planet Adlib 12, inhabited by unintelligible beings. Even with all the smoke-filled radio I listened to in the 60's and 70's, I had never heard anything quite like it.
posted by beaverboard at 08:57 PM on December 03, 2014
There's nothing I enjoyed more together on the radio than Paul Harvey and dead air.
posted by rcade at 09:02 PM on December 03, 2014
And now you know...the rest of the story.
Good (with rising inflection) day.
posted by Howard_T at 09:16 PM on December 03, 2014
Unforgettable moment in radio history: my wife used to work at a very small radio station here in NH. I'd drive up each Friday to visit and leave on Monday mornings. One Monday as I was driving out of town she started reading the news but stopped abruptly in the middle of the story about an old woman being run over. On the golf course by a cart backing up. She hit the cough button in time, but I could hear the laughing in my head all the way down Route 16.
posted by yerfatma at 08:24 AM on December 04, 2014
This business of visiting the wife on Friday and leaving on Monday morning - where can I learn more about how to structure an arrangement like that?
posted by beaverboard at 09:56 AM on December 04, 2014
We weren't quite Man & Wife back then. It was like the '90s man. Things were different.
posted by yerfatma at 12:15 PM on December 04, 2014
When did Deadspin start posting "news" like "Take vacuuming off your to-do list with this discounted Roomba" on the front page?