BS, BS, BS, BS

[DickMcMahon 0]

It wasn’t long ago that British and American radio announcers were expected to exemplify proper use of the King’s English thereby maintaining integrity for the language. And, as far as advertising was concerned, any claims for a product were expected to be credibly SOURCED!

Today it’s different. The language is now corrupted. “I died laughing at that TV show”, doesn’t really mean that of course. Death from laughing too much is very unusual and a corpse doesn’t speak. “It literally scared me to death” is another example. Is there now a replacement word for “literally” that we can use to say something really & truly happened?

Is NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” (and other programs announced as live) really LIVE? When Ashley Simpson appeared on the show her voice certainly wasn’t live as the lip-synching got messed-up. Just last night on the eve of President Ford’s funeral, I watched Larry King interviewing the former President while at the bottom of the screen the graphic said “Larry King LIVE”.

This misuse of the term “LIVE” causes problems for the TV networks themselves. To inform affiliates when a broadcast will REALLY & TRULY be live (a Presidential address etc.) it is now described as a “live-live” event. I guess if you say it twice it brings back the true meaning of the word. And, about those music CD’s that say, “recorded live”. What the hell does that mean? Isn’t all music recorded live?

As for identifying sources there’s:

“More people get their news from ABC than from any other source.” Who says?
“CBS, America’s most watched network.” Who says?
“CNN, the most trusted name in news.” Who says?
“FOX, fair & balanced news.” Ha-ha … that’s a laugh.
“NBC’s HEROES, the TV series everybody’s talking about”. Have you heard anyone talk about it yet?

The “800-number” TV commercials are the ultimate in television BS. They all seem to follow a standard formula.
a): First have the announcer talk about how difficult it is to slice tomatoes
b): Then, show how your product easily slices them
c): State a value of, say $160 (you can makeup anything here)
d): And finally, announce that it’s available for only $19.95 by calling now.

And to really close the deal, a time limit should be included. “Call in the next 10-minutes and we’ll send TWO tomato slicers! Operators are standing by!” (This is another example of misuse of the language. The operators are probably
sitting down, not standing)

Just for the hell of it, last week I called one of those 800 numbers and asked the operator how she knows when the commercial runs so she can start counting-down the 10-minutes. She didn’t know what I was talking about of course.

Dick McMahon, Coos Bay
www.dickmcmahon.com

[quade 4]

This from a man on who's web site writes, "There were times I worried about getting my ass kicked at school."

Really? You worried about somebody kicking your buttocks?

Dick, admit it, you copied and pasted this entire post didn't you?

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[Zipp0 1]

If you look carefully at the ABC News slogan, it is actually 2 seperate statements. The trademarked part is only "Than from any other source." The other, non TM part is "More people get their news from ABC News......"

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Chuck Norris doesn't do push-ups, he pushes the Earth down.

[BIGUN 1,486]

And, for your 100th jump, you just slip on a pair of shorts over your legstraps, walk to the plane, then take them off before you exit.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[crwtom 0]

me thinks yo spend too much time in front of the tube.
Go skydiving or somethiing

Cheers, T

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Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

[DickMcMahon 0]

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Really? You worried about somebody kicking your buttocks?

OK, you got me man. Actually I was worried about getting my
FACE kicked ... after they knocked me down.