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You might be a DJ ... IF...

Sorry if this has been posted before -- a good buddy of mine OLDMANRIVER, sent me an email with these, and it's scary how many I said yes to.

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You can name at least three of The Weather Channel's on air personalities.


80% of your wardrobe has a station logo on it.


You haven't bought Q-tips in over 3 years.


You still refer to CD's as "records"


You look at your paycheck and say, "That's it! I'm getting a real job!"


An extra hour and a half of sleep is considered a day off!


The only interaction between you and someone else at dinner time is, "Thank you, please pull to the second window!"


You call a weekend off a "VACATION."


You can smoke a cigarette in three minutes or less.


You answer your home phone with the station call letters.


A salesperson has ever taken credit for your paycheck.


You know what a "bullet" is.


You've ever sliced your finger with a razor blade, and cleaned out the cut with Isopropyl Alcohol and an extra long cotton swab (only applies to those of us who remember reels and carts)...


You measure your amount of production in "shitloads."


You can post the song...run down the hall...do a full blown "number 2" and be back in 2:40 for the segue.


Dinner? Let's see what the receptionist has left in the fridge.


You have ever dreamt of a record running out and not being able to find the control room door.


You've ever muttered the words, "Yeah, I'll try to get that on for ya!"


You have more stereo and computer equipment than everyone else you know...combined.


People who ride in your car exclaim, "How in the hell do you listen to the radio that loud!'


You consider wearing a shirt you have to iron "dressing up".


When listening to music at your home, you only listen to the first 30 seconds of the song, then you switch to something else.


Going to a club and not getting paid seems like a useless waste of time.


Everyone you know calls you to play their wedding or birthday party.


People you don't even know start calling you when a good band is coming to town.


Cheerleading coaches call you wondering how to get that "special mix" of that song they heard on the radio.


You turn the radio up excitedly at the sound of dead air on the competitor's station.


You have at least three un-opened CD's, two T-shirts, 22 stickers, and 5 cups in your car.


You have about 500 un-labeled cassettes, in a cardboard box in your closet.


Cueing, segueing, walking on, loose, back-timing, raise, lower, EAS, and dumb-ass program director are everyday parts of your vocabulary.


You have at least 19 pictures of you with "famous" people that no one has seen since.


You know the names and artist to every song your boyfriend or girlfriend can think of.

You know the words to every song they can think of.

You know the re-mixes to every song they can think of.


You've slept quite comfortably on the promotions director's easy chair or the couch in the lobby.


You were a half hour late for an appearance and blamed it on the directions you got from the sales person.


You've had 5, #8 callers in a row.


Your favorite past-time is conferencing three un-knowing listeners on the same line.
 
I've seen this several times...LOVE it everytime!
I think I had it saved before...but a copy/paste will make it a certainty.
Fun. (and remarkably true)
 
...if

You've ever told your wife and kids, "Those no-good SOB's turned down my request for a raise, or Saturdays off...and they're not even giving us a party or bonuses this year. By the way, y'all head on down to your folks tonight if you want. I'll come down after I work for one of the other guys tomoro morning so he can be with his family to open Christmas presents."

That one can also be cut and pasted to "You might be divorced for the third or fourth time if...."

((Allegedly. ::)))
 
I could go on forever, but just a few I came up with:

You may be a DJ if…

You know John Landecker’s middle name.

You know ten or more recipes for Rahman Noodles.

You think 5-day weeks are just for rich people.

You think being in a “Right to Work State” means your non-compete isn’t enforceable.

You can hit the post on a song you have never heard before.

You still sit around tables opining on WHBQ’s former greatness, although it was over 30 years ago.

You have kept razor blades around the house, never expecting to use them for shaving or even cutting cocaine.

You keep a set of headphones in your car.

That car has bumper stickers from your last 3 employers.

You know what a grease pencil is.

You are asked before your execution if you have any last requests. You reply, “Dude. 'How bout some Ozzy?”

You know what “cue burn” is.

Holidays to you simply mean time-and-a-half. (Actually, FM100 used to pay double)

You have been to CRS, but drank so much you only remember bits-and-pieces. (Maybe that’s just me)

You think Dr. Johnny Fever seems normal and that “The Big Guy” is more competent than your GM.

The last time you took your wife out for a nice dinner, it was on trade.

You met the aforementioned wife on the request line.

And, so it goes...

DE
 
If you've ever wavy-lined a bad track with that grease pencil.

Or worse, used that grease pencil to "fix" a scratch in a record.

If you've ever had to run out to the official white-slatted weatherbox.

Mowed the grass in huge field for no extra pay.

Broken a car part on "road" to previous mentioned huge field.

If you enjoy the "chunk sound" of the carriage shift in a tele-type.

Recognize the difference between a carriage return teletype bell and a continuous <cntrl G>.
If you can read a teletype printout from totally dry ribbon printed on paper that still had hunks of wood in it.
Ever ripped teletype copy into sheets of all different sizes.
Had to put the teletype carriage return belt back on.

Hooked up the EBS or WWV receiver to the feedline after a daytimer went off just to see what you could hear.

Drawn straws with other DJs to see who would change the top tower bulb.

If you knew how to waggle a noisy mechanical phone-toggle switch a bit with the fader down so it would be quiet when you were going to need use it live with the fader up.

Remember how to use the balanced-plug patch board.

Know where to slap, wiggle and rig equipment effectively.

If the a door only squeaks when you open it, no one else.

If you can zero-out an out of round 45 while spinning, using your finger inside the big hole.

If you've ever played a record "wet".

Prayed for cold "cold gas" rectifiers to fire up in cold transmitter in a daytimer.

If you've ever appreciated watching the blue glow in them rectifiers dance to your favorite jam.

If you're still looking for a "certain aircheck", or irreplaceable old tape recording you know you have somewhere.
 
I appreciate your reference to the noisy old teletype machine Tom. It gave me flashbacks of a rather steamy encounter during a 'top of the hour ABC News break with a thirty-something year old lady (amazingly not bad looking and nice figure) who came up to visit the young DJ one Saturday afternoon many years ago. Needless to say, it was quite difficult to read the local news headlines and weather while trying to catch my breath.

.....thanks for the memories.....
 
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