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Fantastic word game

"Born Free" was the title of a 1966 movie about a couple who raised an orphaned lion cub and it was also the title of the theme song, which became a big hit for both Matt Monro and Roger Williams, but being born free is not very likely for anyone whose father is not a doctor.
 
A doctor is on-call here at TFWG (as I prefer) because we feel that sometimes LARR might start writing a sentence and never stop and he'll forget to breathe and then we'll have to try to save him so that's why we have the doctor nearby.
 
Nearby there is beer nigh.

See what I did there? And I doubt that I will ever again be able to make such a short sentence, but when I saw the word "nearby" I immediately thought of the Spoonerism "beer nigh" and I just had to find a way to use it in my post and the easiest simplest way was to make the sentence as short as possible in order to highlight the "nearby"-"beer nigh" similarities, and of course there was no way to do separate boldfacing because I want the four words after "nearby" to be in boldface but those words follow the first word, which is already in boldface, and I just have to trust that everyone can figure out that the next sentence should start with "There is beer nigh." Whew! *Gasp!*
 
That's ok too was the 2010 sequel to That's ok, the Travel Channel's 2008 documentary which profiled all the tourist attractions in Oklahoma.

Mister WMC, feel free to make a few horrible puns for the next ten days. Mrs. LARR and I will be at Walt Disney World in Florida. It will be our fifth trip and we still haven't seen it all.
 
Oklahoma the movie is where Shirley Jones got her start in show business, long before she was Mrs. Partridge.
 
Mrs. Partridge last Christmas decorated not just one but a pair of trees.

Despite best intentions, the holiday season is sometimes marred by bigotry...everybody wants a "bigga tree" than the guy next door...
 
A pair of trees has more bark than bite.

LARR, what will Jeff do without you for 10 days? Have you not heard of Wi-Fi and laptops and smartphones and such? If I can post while on vacation, so can you. And, by the way, PowerWorld would appreciate more than 1 day notice that you are going on vacation. You might want to take the employee handbook with you and study it while chumming with Mickey.
 
Bite off only what you can chew if you want don't want to be overwhelmed by a project and, of course,to avoid having that chipmunk look.
 
To avoid having that chipmunk look at you, just ignore Alvin no matter what he's doing.

Watch for LARR as a special guest host on "Beer Nigh, the Science Guy."
 
He's doing what he needs to do to be away for 10 days.

Jeff, with LARR away, you'll have to pick up his slack and provide us with Fun Factoids. Once every two or three days will be fine. Starting tomorrow. And they have to be factoids we've not seen from LARR already. PowerWorld thanks you and appreciates your support.
 
10 Days are more than sufficient for the little cooking experiment Sweetie Pie and I have been conducting in the library, here at the FWG.
 
Here at the FWG (or TFWG as Miss Silkie and Sweetie Pie know I prefer), we've been doing this a long time so if you want a great cultural and educational experience for your kids, we're the people to do it.
 
We're the people to do it but we can do it only if people participate.

Holy cow, LARR goes on vacation and everyone else disappears??? Did you all go with him?? Am I the only one here...here...here?????
 
Participate is just what I've been waiting to do, until someone left a good point to jump in.

And because YOU asked for it, here's my first fill-in fun factoid...The largest thing to be sent through the mail was a building. In 1916, a young businessman by the name of William H. Coltharp decided to construct a new bank on the corner of a street in Vernal, Utah. Of course, Coltharp couldn’t send a completed building through the mail, wall by wall. But Coltharp wanted the best bricks in the area and decided to have those bricks sent from the Salt Lake Pressed Brick Company—all 80,000 of them. He reasoned that parcel post was the most inexpensive way to ship the bricks for construction, and he carefully packaged the bricks in separate crates weighing less than the 50-pound weight limit. Somewhere around 40 crates were shipped each time, and each shipment weighed roughly one ton collectively. It was Coltharp’s infamous scheme that prompted the U.S. Postal Service to change their rules so that a customer could only send 200 pounds of goods per day. Their reasoning? “It is not the intent of the U.S. Postal Service that buildings be shipped through the mail.” (From mentalfloss.com)

(Reminds me of the time back in the 70's when I tried to start a student riot in a correspondence school by mailing them a brick...)
 
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Nice job on the very random factoid, Jeff. LARR usually goes with something related to his contribution but yours seems out from left field. That's ok, though. Very good job.
 
A good idea is for Yezi to come by more often, since we have all kinds of goodies in the lounge and a way updated library.
 
The lounge and a way updated library are good places to spend a lazy afternoon especially if the lovely young library interns are working on that particular day.

Miss Silkie, please forward their work schedules to me. ;oD

Wow, a blast from the past with that visit from Yeziknoradio. Nice to see you, Yez, drop by again real soon!
 


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