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What was that again?

Re: Fun with expletives, and drugs...

> At The Cat, while I did the traffic report, Rich Bro liked
> to make noises with an orifice (which shall remain
> nameless). Needless to say I didn't stay in the control
> room too long!

Its a male thang haha<P ID="signature">______________
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> My worst is one I cannot print in public, but suffice it to
> say I thought I had turned the transmitter OFF after I read
> the sign-off...I began to wonder how far away from the mics
> could I peg the meters. I chose a particular word and
> watched the meters move...repeatedly....until every line
> began to ring...

I actually have to go back to the 80s for my worst. I'm dating this one hot girl (okay, I'm 19, she's 17 or 18...). She and her two friends come visit me during my Saturday morning gig on this one AM station I worked at. Gotta remember, format at this place is a mix of AC and Big Band music. We get regular calls from the local nursing home, okay?

These girls convince me that it would be a very cool idea if I played Queen's "Don't Try suicide" and let them sing to it on the mic. So I did and at my mature age of 19 actually trusted them when I warned "don't say the bad word in that song".... so they don't. They sing just fine till the moment I warned them and they scream ..."don't give a F**k"! Funny, I wasn't drunk that morning, but hung over like a horse.

As I recall, the station owner was on a cruise with his new wife that weekend.

Mom called shortly thereafter, saying "you're gonna get fired!!!" haha... My one listener - mom. <P ID="signature">______________
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Oh,.. and same station. This place the jock did everything. Music, news.. all that. So, I'm reading the news and the jock coming after me decides to play around a bit. The boom on the mic squeaks and creaks when it's moved, so I'm just in the middle of a story, and he takes hold of the back of that mic and slowly pulls it back and you can hear all these wierd noises on the air. Meanwhile, I'm on tip toes trying to speak into this mic, which has no processing and you almost have to eat it to be heard.

So, here's John over there laughing his ass off as I climb on the chair to try to finish the news without cracking up, and all of a sudden he comes around to my side of the board and proceeds to light my news copy on fire. Bastard!

So, what comes out of people's speaker sounds something like this...

..."WCAT newstime is 12:03, Sports and weather are next.......(then as I hit the spot) G-d dammit!!!!!" Ooops was the mic open? haha. And, not fired. By some stroke of luck, owner was at lunch and apparently away from the radio.

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