gonzo914 wrote:Don't you remember the WKRP free Thanksgiving turkey promotional, in which the station manager tossed turkeys out of a helicopter over a mall?
Les Nessman, WKRP News wrote:“It's a helicopter, and it's coming this way. It's flying something behind it, I can't quite make it out, it's a large banner and it says, uh - Happy... Thaaaaanksss... giving! ... From ... W ... K ... R... P!! No parachutes yet. Can't be skydivers... I can't tell just yet what they are, but - Oh my God, Johnny, they're turkeys!! Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they're plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Not since the Hindenberg tragedy has there been anything like this!”
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djm wrote:Yes, I got that bit. It was the "Light, Smoldering, etc." stuff that didn't mean anything to me. I guess it just didn't strike me as being as funny as FC thought. Missy's post, on the other hand, was great.
djm
Well I tried. I used to have the manatee image as a screen saver.
One of my co-workers had no idea what it meant.
really, someone thought it was the funniest thing ever? Then again i can be in a room when the funniest video show is on and not laugh once-well maybe once. The funniest thing I've heard here , and possibly period, is the one Dubhlinn told last week about Bono at the concert in Glasgow.
You need a little background in terms of the crew at WKRP, and you need to understand just how dense Arthur Carlson was, and you need to understand just what an eccentric little fussbudget Les Nesman was . . . and once you have all that in place, you're watching along innocently and . . . Les Nesman's delivery hits (along with those first turkeys) . . . that scene is exquisitely funny.
It's the closest I've ever come to peeing in my pants.
They were supposed to toss out gift certificates for a frozen turkey, but Arthur decided to do one better and toss out real turkey-farm turkeys. "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."
Hey! Now you're picking on Carlson. I always liked him. I thought he was a lovable character. Only someone like Carlson would have a heart big enough to have hired a neurotic little twerp like Nesman, or any of the other strange inhabitants at WKRP, for that matter. And anyone smart enough to hire Loni Anderson as his personal secretary is okay in my books.
djm
I'd rather be atop the foothills than beneath them.
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Tell us something.: "Tell us something" hits me a bit like someone asking me to tell a joke. I can always think of a hundred of them until someone asks me for one. You know how it is. Right now, I can't think of "something" to tell you. But I have to use at least 100 characters to inform you of that.
Tell us something.: "Tell us something" hits me a bit like someone asking me to tell a joke. I can always think of a hundred of them until someone asks me for one. You know how it is. Right now, I can't think of "something" to tell you. But I have to use at least 100 characters to inform you of that.
Point taken, Jim. I guess I can laugh about the Hindinburg because it was so long ago, the people who suffered from it are (mostly) no longer with us, and the horror has passed from the experience. I simply see these as very clever bits of satire, that's all.
