Studs Terkel dies
The author-radio host-actor-activist and Chicago symbol has died. "My
epitaph? My epitaph will be 'Curiosity did not kill this cat,'" he
once said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-studs-terkel-dead,0,2321576.story
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On Oct 31, 5:50 pm, "Thomas Allen Heald, Esquire"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Doug Elrod wrote:
> > If you missed it, WNN was more special than usual today. We got a
> > retrospective of WNN Halloweens past, and Jeremy and Vinita dressed up
> > (Vinita seems to have some latent ACTING skills t
Congrats on your upcoming nuptials, keeper of the NTI!
Mike
On Dec 30, 4:44 pm, "Kevin G. Barkes" wrote:
> > There's a sneakier way. The AARP sends out "membership cards"
> > as early as age 49 (that is, "almost" 50). And those young
> > whippersnappers don't know the differenc
Even WNN has abandoned the Yankees ...
damonb...@gmail.com wrote:
> http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=554144752510
>
> ==
> AIM/Gmail Chat: damonbeau :: :: Wealth without work. Pleasure without
> conscience. Science without humanity. Knowledge without character.
> Politics without
Happy to see a new WNN polka this morning on my (sadly) soon to be
obsolete B&W analog set ...
Also posted here:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=557997441690
which reminded me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uw03hS_EMY
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Cronkite, Hewitt ... Mike Wallace better watch out ...
On Aug 19, 12:15 pm, Steven Otte wrote:
> 45,600,000 Minutes.
>
> --
>
> Steven Otte
>
> steveno...@att.net
>
> --- On Wed, 8/19/09, kbrab...@aol.com wrote:
>
> From: kbrab...@aol.com
> Subject: [DEADPOOL] Time Runs Out...Again
> To: wnndl
Our own Kevin G. Barkes might disagree with #13 ...
On Aug 20, 10:09 pm, danny burstein wrote:
> http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2013.php
>
> (Their annual old fogies list)
>
> _
> Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
>
> Given how difficult it was for the anchors to "fashion walk" in them
> this morning, I would bet that a "Snuggie-Lympics" would be popular on
> YouTube (surely someone has done this already?) ;-)
Do Snuggie Pub Crawls count?
http://www.snuggiepubcrawls.com/baltimore/
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Well, whadya know, I came across the Barry Mitchell edition of Soupy's
life story:
"Come Pie with Me"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT5TKTt5BeA
On Oct 22, 11:27 pm, danny burstein wrote:
> >Newsgroups: alt.obituaries
> >Subject: Comedian Soupy Sales Dies
> >Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:19:00 -
Thanks for posting that - it was classic! Would have missed it
otherwise ...
xkcd is back to normal now, but here's a mirror:
http://sean.raptorswithhats.com/geoxkcd.html
On Oct 26, 7:18 pm, Joseph Nebus wrote:
> ... please visit xkcd if you haven't already today?
> http://xkcd.
Congrats! At least this time it didn't involve thermometers ...
Mike
On Nov 17, 8:13 am, "Kevin G. Barkes" wrote:
> Wow. It's already on YouTube:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P843G5pRzMw
>
> Regards,
>
> KGB
>
> -
> Kevin G. Barkes
> Email: kgbar...@yahoo.com
> KGB Repor
On Nov 21, 4:16 pm, "Doug Elrod \(d...@cornell.edu\)"
wrote:
> --- On Sat, 11/21/09, Glenda Collins wrote:
>
> > Just what
> > we thought, just where we live and just where most of the US
> > population lives and where most of the GDP comes from.
>
> Head for the non-hills! ;-)
>
> -Doug Elrod
Believe me, there are many of us who are painfully aware of the Eggo
shortage!
Mike
On Dec 4, 10:03 am, damonb...@gmail.com wrote:
> So is there an awareness of this -- of the nationwide Eggo shortage for which
> there is no end in sight?
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar
It just keeps getting weirder ...
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/culture/2010/01/13/is-conan-the-victim-of-harvards-crimsonlampoon-rivalry.html
"Since NBC announced that Conan O’Brien would be bumped to a midnight
slot, NBC C.E.O. Jeff Zucker looked like he was admitting the greatest
blunder in
You could subtitle this: WSJ Godwins Leno ...
On Jan 26, 10:25 am, "Kevin G. Barkes" wrote:
> The Wall Street Journal
>
> By JOE QUEENAN
>
> Cultural historians are desperately seeking a precedent to the Jay
> Leno-Conan O'Brien fiasco. They are looking in the wrong places. True, Pat
> Sajak,
I'd love to take credit for "Catcher in the Die" ... but I saw it
somewhere else.
On Jan 28, 1:02 pm, Jim O'Connell wrote:
> BC-US--APNewsAlert,0020
> CORNISH, N.H. (AP) - Son says J.D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher
> in the Rye,' has died at age 91.
>
> (Copyright 2010 by The Associat
For what it's worth, Buckminster Fuller was on the faculty of SIU for
a while, go Salukis!
On Mar 8, 5:53 pm, danny burstein wrote:
> [jalopnik]
>
> ABC News' report relied on a study by Prof. David Gilbert [1] of
> Southern Illinois University-Carbondale who not only manipulated
> the sensors w
A really nice send off ... fun to see so many former anchors ...
On Apr 30, 2:07 am, satrn...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> That explains Barry's mystery polka referenced on Facebook.
> No Aaron or Lisa? Sigh.
>
> Hoisting a beverage of choice mug to Peter.
>
> --Deb
>
> --- On Thu, 4/29/10, rych wrot
Added to the buyout list: Gerard McNiff, betrayer of the WNN
Temperature Index ...
On Apr 28, 5:58 pm, Donna Christiansen wrote:
> Why have they hired Ashleigh Banfield and Meg Oliver if they are
> downsizing?
>
> I can see hiring Meg but can't take Ashleigh. She hosted GMA a couple
> weeken
Lena Horne, Singer and Actress, Dies at 92
Lena Horne, who was the first black performer to be signed to a long-
term contract by a major Hollywood studio and who went on to achieve
international fame as a singer, died on Sunday night at New York-
Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New Y
Blogs / Bad Astronomy
Martin Gardner, 1914 – 2010
I am very sad to write that Martin Gardner, a skeptical giant and
genius by any standard, died today in Tulsa Norman, Oklahoma.
Wikipedia has a list of his remarkable achievements. He was a lifelong
friend of James Randi, who has written a brief
Must have heard the Voice of God calling him ...
The other voices of the Yankees, the voices on radio and then
television with whom we all grew up, they came and went. Always
though, in all the important ways, there was Bob Sheppard, above it
all at Yankee Stadium.
"The modern PA announcers like
She changed the intro to "In Memoriam" to more broadly include all
casualties of war ... but they still list names of US casualties
released by the Pentagon as before.
The "kidney bean" table is awful - it looks like the panel is sitting
at the teacher's desk. Also with one of the panelists off
Denise Crosby as Troi? Fascinating ...
On Aug 26, 5:59 pm, danny burstein wrote:
> A copy of one of the early potential cast list
> just hit sunlight.
>
> Trust me on this one.
>
> Imagine the possibilities with these options.
>
> http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/08/500x_startr
On Aug 26, 8:30 pm, Joseph Nebus wrote:
> On Aug 26, 2010, at 1:57 PM, James Stanley Barr
> > wrote:
> > This looks to me like ABC is caving in to those many affiliates who
> > are now starting 4:30AM local newscasts.
>
> 4:30am? Are there many people in AffiliateLand at that hour w
"Yonder lies the casket of my father"
On Sep 30, 10:09 am, Steven Otte wrote:
> ...who is still Activia in film and television.
>
> --
>
> Steven Otte
>
> steveno...@att.net
>
> --- On Thu, 9/30/10, Jim O'Connell wrote:
>
> He is survived by his son, actor Jamie Lee Curtis.
>
> -Original Mes
"Ron Santo, one of the greatest players in Chicago Cubs history and a
longtime WGN radio announcer whose devotion to the perennial losers
was made obvious night after night by his excited shouts or dejected
laments, has died. He was 70."
Too bad he didn't get into Cooperstown before he died ...
h
It's been a while, but still list worthy, since I don't think it's
been posted. I found out from Time magazine fer crisssakes!
13 Jul 2010
Harvey Pekar, who died on Monday aged 70, was an eloquent American
chronicler of the mundane and often dispiriting events that inevitably
mark most
I'm shocked that "Gvz Ubegbaf" is in West Virginia ...
On Dec 26, 1:49 pm, Mike Ward wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Joseph Nebus wrote:
> > ... Whoa. That's brilliant and weird.
>
> And very interesting. I just ran Danny's message through the
> appropriate filter...and I neve
Bewitched was great and all, but this is a bit over the top:
http://www.1164.com/quake/index.html
Also, the syndication sitcom writers trifecta is in play:
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-madelyn-pugh-davis-20110422,0,4154147.story
On Apr 21, 12:05 pm, James Stanley Barr
wrote:
>
Former WNN DC correspondent Nancy Cordes reported on the Anthony
Weiner story on CBS Sunday morning, I think she's glad to be going by
her married name ...
Dredged out of the archives, her take on being a Weiner:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2006/11/whats_in_a_name.html
or
http://tin
Clarence Clemons — the Big Man with the big horn — died today of
complications from a stroke he suffered last weekend, according to a
spokeswoman for Bruce Springsteen who requested anonymity because she
was not authorized by the Clemons family to issue a statement. He was
69 years old.
http://www
Certainly an Archie Bunker joke or two ... "Those were the days"
On Jul 21, 9:20 pm, "Donna C." wrote:
> I don't think they considered her a real replacement for Vinita, more just
> an interim based on previous press releases.
>
> http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/former-kdvr-morning-anchor-pe
Sad news, but she's in pretty amazing company:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club
On Jul 23, 1:56 pm, "Kevin G. Barkes" wrote:
> ---Original Message-
> From: NYTimes.com News Alert [mailto:nytdir...@nytimes.com]
> Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 1:03 PM
> To: kgbar...@yahoo.com
> Subject: Ne
Amazingly, in this story Christiane also has the byline:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/chistiane-amanpour-exits-week-hybrid-abc-cnn-international-job-article-1.991169
On Dec 13, 7:27 pm, danny burstein wrote:
> Finally, a glimmer of sanity at the Blue Network:
>
> http://
WNN alum Alison Stewart is reporting the SAT Mercenary story on 60
Minutes tonight, second segment ...
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for two decades!
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JSR $FFE7 - Close all channels and files - Nicely done!
Of course I had to look it up ...
http://www.commodore.ca/manuals/c64_programmers_reference/c64-programmers_reference_guide-05-basic_to_machine_language.pdf
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Frank Cady, a character actor best known as the general-store owner Sam
Drucker on the sitcom "Green Acres," has died. He was 96.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/11/frank-cady-dead-green-acres-actor-dies_n_1587103.html
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A fun documentary of Ernest Borgnine taking his bus around :
http://vimeo.com/3894936
On Sunday, July 8, 2012 5:22:20 PM UTC-4, dan...@panix.com wrote:
>
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/celebrities/oscar-winning-film-star-ernest-borgnine-dies-in-la-at-age-95/2012/07/08/gJQAU1CgW
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