You're a mean one, Mrs. Grinch

[Mytical]

"Welcome to our live broadcast of the Town City Christmas parade. First up are some horseback police officers. Uh-oh! One of the horses just did number two on the street. This is something we'll have to watch out for, as well as the rest of the entrants.

Next we have a marching band. Let's listen in....(8 seconds of music)

<snip>.

Zzzzzzz peanutbutter zzzzzz huh what.. where.. dang it fell asleep there. Yeah.. that would be just PACKED with excitement.

[Mondestrucken]

Irv, your parade sounds SO exciting! Granted, I am on the street where the parade is, and I could just look out my window, but radio parade coverage is da bomb.

[seigus]

When I was a DJ at a rock station many years ago I got a call on Christmas Eve from a guy who was complaining we were playing rock music on that particular night (Egad! Rock music from a rock station?).
"Not everyone likes Christmas music, sir. (Me included, although I didn't say that) This is a rock station, we play rock. People who want Christmas music can listen to ANY OTHER STATION IN TOWN and hear it. We're offering a choice for the other folks."
Long pause...
Man: "Well, I still think it's disgaceful, and wanted you to know."

I wonder if he was the same guy who complained to management the night I signed of with the National Anthem. Sure, it was Hendrix's version, but still...

[Raveni]

Actually, she may not have a converter box. I certainly could never manage to get one.

So instead, I had my cable turned back on. But then again, I'm a reasonable person.

I've never heard of a shut-in that didn't have some kind of TV service, even the ones with agoraphobia who needed someone to hook up an antenna outside or go get a converter box for them.

[MoonCat]

If the radio play-by-play sounded the way Irv writes it, I'd listen in!

Speaking of Christmas music, we have a station here that ran ads saying they were playing it 24/7. Another station ran an ad saying "Christmas music? Before Thanksgiving?! Not here!"

[Geek King]

I wonder if he was the same guy who complained to management the night I signed of with the National Anthem. Sure, it was Hendrix's version, but still...

Heh. That was our senior prank. Our school would play the U.S. national anthem every morning over the intercom. One of our office spies helpers snuck a doctored tape into the player one morning, and we got Hendrix's version. This happened "mysteriously" several times over the year. Oddly enough, the office staff let it play all the way through every time.

Yeah...our senior pranks were never really mean when I was there. We all liked the school and most of the teachers, so nobody really wanted to do anything that would be too much of a pain to them at that point.

[BaristaTrav]

Next year, solve the whole problem: Play "War of the worlds" instead.

*thumbs up*