JUNE IS TOAST

The last week of June started out like a
wild bull in a very small
Tupperware shop and ended
with everyone packing for
their summer vacation.


ONE ending salvo was
fired from a blog that the staff
had never heard of. Not a shock considering
the staff just found out that
girls no longer play half court
basketball and Channel 26 has dropped Romper Room.

The blog in question, Ktowndownlow
was discovered while sprinkling clandestine
posts on knoxviews.com and is asking for
a new logo or catchy saying that will represent
Knoxville, Tennessee.

Granted it was a very good blog idea
and granted staff was half way into
a case of Rolling Rock with no ideas
and granted staff would steal the dimes
off a dead whistle pigs eyes to hit a
deadline so it just figures both the idea
and a nice plug for the blog would end up
in the Friday MR.

After you jet over and check
out the logos/sayings on the above
mentioned blog we KNOW you will have
much better ones and we would love to
have them posted on MR.

Staff came up with these...NEW LOGOS
for KNOXVILLE!

1....Think Maryville with really crooked leaders!
2....Knoxville, flavoring the Tenneessee River for decades!

The rest were really kinda over the line,
but these will get you started. Post early and often!

Few fast notes came in this week,
here they be along with the Ed. thoughts.


Anonymous said...

Here are some more Carlinisms I have copied and pasted. Feel free to edit out any duplicates.


Only in America..do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

Only in America..do banks leave both doors open and then chain the
pens to the counters.

Only in America..do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

Only in America..do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

Only in America..do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.

Only in America..do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille
lettering.


EVER WONDER ...


Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?

Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?

Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?

Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"?

Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?

You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?!

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?


Can you cry under water?

How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

If money doesn't grow on trees then why do banks have branches?

Since bread is square, then why is sandwich meat round?

Why do you have to "put your two cents in"... but it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going to?

Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?

Why does a round pizza come in a square box?

What disease did cured ham actually have?

How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?

Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?

If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?

If you drink Pepsi at work in the Coke factory, will they fire you?

Why are you IN a movie, but you're ON TV?

Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?

How come we choose from just two people for President and fifty for Miss America?

Why do doctors leave the room while you change? They're going to see you naked anyway.

If a 911 operator has a heart attack, whom does he/she call?

Why is "bra" singular and "panties" plural?

Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet soup?

Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out!"

Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?

Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?

When your photo is taken for your driver's license, why do they tell you to smile? If you are stopped by the police and asked for your license, are you going to be smiling?

If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a stupid song about him?

Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane?

If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?

Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don't point to their crotch when they ask where the bathroom is?

Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs!

What do you call male ballerinas?

Can blind people see their dreams? Do they dream?

If Wyle E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME :!:, why didn't he just buy dinner?

If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?

If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

Is Disney World the only people trap operated by a mouse?

Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?

Why did you just try singing the two songs above?

Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid when it's in your butt?

Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?

Anybody slower than you is an idiot, but anybody faster is a maniac.
The caterpillar does all the work, and the butterfly gets all the glory.
What was the best thing before sliced bread?
I think I am, therefore, I am. I think.
Meow means woof in cat
Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself.
What year did Jesus think it was?
Mostly, language is a tool for hiding the truth.
Nobody knows what's next, but everybody does it.
Their stuff is :!: and your :!: is stuff.
If you dont think your life is filled with worthless :!:, try selling it.
If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
Just because the monkey is off your back dont mean the circus left town.
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
If god had intended us not to masturbate he would have made our arms shorter.
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things
It's disturbing that doctors call their work, practice.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:08:00 PM EST



ED....We can never get enough of
GC! Reported as the TRUTH, one cable news
network said the man had requested this to
be on his tombstone
"Weird, he was here a minute ago?"



Anonymous Anonymous said...

I got a kick out of watching Imus make fun of the media Tuesday morning. Outside their studio at Madison Square Garden were several tv trucks camped out on the street looking for the big story. The trouble with that was the fact that Imus was two thousand miles away at his ranch studio in New Mexico, where he was conducting another of his Kids with Cancer summer camps. He laughed heartily at the media for being so stupid.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:16:00 PM EST



Ed....Did any of you notice
how the media backed away this time? Not
a clue why, but they just let this IMUS story
slide. Also AL Sharpy didn't say another
word after his first little burp. Don
made FUN Of it all week. As always
NEVER trust the media they could still
MAKE UP a story about the besmirching
of Pack Man, but time sure is running out.
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mike Witcher is a pleasure to see on the Channel 10 weather, rather than the two backwoods gals who sound as if they're terrified to be on tv.

And Chris Budden (?) is starting to have the look of the Channel 8 women. Yummy! She needs to come out and cover my backyard softball games. I'll even let he score if she wants to play!

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:23:00 PM EST



Ed.....Well I guess that answers the question
concerning Witcher still being at 10 or not? As
for your thoughts on getting a BIR staffer
over to cover the game in the yard, hey GREAT IDEA!
Get back to us after you call them and we will
send staff photog Larry The Lizard out to
shoot some snaps for the blog!


Anonymous Anonymous said...

Imus and Carlin are commies and hate mongers. The local weather girls are harlots and smell of moonshine and illicit drugs.
Knoxville is the devil's play
ground and only Jim Baker and Jessica Hawn can save the city.
Gather at the river for a baptism
sunday, HASMAT suits will be provided.



Ed....AND THE CHURCH SAID
A THE HELL MEN! Jessica's body lift of
a few decades back is still working for
the old girl. Baker is bald as a cue ball
and staff said to tell you we love the smell of
moonshine in the morning!

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:08:00 PM EST
Delete
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I dated a weather girl in Nashville and she did not drink or smoke! She is now in Chattanooga
on TV and married

Ed....Well bless your heart!
Staff, staff wants to know if
you held her hand at prayer meeting?

HE IS BACK!

DON of the IMUS is
back (we think we
added a link yesterday to
this BREAKING story but
we can't remember and
are toooo lazy to look)
with what AL Sharpton
calls "DISTURBING" remarks.

Excuse me but the staff
was wondering if you kids
felt the same as they about
Al? Their solution was a sock
(athletic, dirty, very old) placed
just past his teeth and held in place
with Super Glue? Whata think?

Anyway this morning poor OLD
and we are talking biblical OLD

Imus was using the MISUNDERSTOOD
me line again. Bless his heart listen AL and
others who are so on edge, the guy is
just trying to do a RADIO SHOW!
Oh and even on RFD TV he has more viewers
than HARD BALL and COUNTDOWN combined!

It is about time for the LEAVE THE OLD MAN
ALONE T shirts and bumper stickers. Oh and
while we are at it lets get the feds to
investigate all of Al's non profits and
all of his tax returns...JUST FOR FUN!



Ya know the staff
had another meeting and
for the life of them
they couldn't figure out
how a story about the passing
of GC could generate SO MANY
letters about local TV weather folks?

You people really DO need to get out more!
As for weather...here is some BREAKING NEWS
if you are reading this blog you can
click over to a wash bucket full of sites
and get the same misinformation as the kids use
on TV! No really and you can get radar that
will show you where that big old wind is
right dang now and give you a time
line of when you will see the bird bath
and the rusted out washing machine lift off
the back deck and land on top of one another
in your neighbors exposed drain field! Hey
you can even click on certain Google earth
things (they are in these weather sites) and
see what your house looked like BEFORE the
Big Wind From Paduka blew it to Townsend!

Anyway here be the letters, after you
check them out there is one last
list of Carlin thoughts and they are just
wonderful.






Anonymous said...

First in this current round of home-goings:
Jim McKay, who was one of the finest
sportscasters ever.
He actually won two emmys for
his reporting during the '72
Olympics (the terrorism Olympics);
one for sports, and one for news.

Ed....Thanks we remember NOW.



Monday, June 23, 2008 10:19:00 AM EST
Anonymous said...

I saw that weather girl
this weekend.
She was scared to death.

Ed....Heck with folks like us
picking at her can you blame the kid?

Monday, June 23, 2008 10:19:00 AM EST
Anonymous said...

If you are talking about sports guys
it was McCay who died first.
I am sure some old film actor
died but they are doing that all the time now.

Ed....Got it, as for the actors are
Jimmy Stewart, Joey Bishop, Dale Evans,
or John Wayne still dead?

Monday, June 23, 2008 10:21:00 AM EST
Anonymous said...

There is a 4th now!

According to WIMZ they are saying
Jimmy Buffett is dead!

Ed....NOW for the car and what is
behind curtain number 2 tell us
the NAME of the former WIMZ
DJ that reported Jimmy B. dirt
napping!

Monday, June 23, 2008 10:21:00 AM EST
Anonymous said...

I like the old days when the
weather girl was dead drunk
and falling into the map!

Best time to watch was on
weekends and LATE, she must have
been busting a few shots before
the 11 because by the time
they went to her she was knee walking!

It was right up there with Johnny Mountain in drag!

The ones today are just
not fun and in a few years
will make fine hello people at WalMart.

Ed....Memories, like the corners of my mind.....

Monday, June 23, 2008 1:22:00 PM EST
Anonymous said...

re: TV Weather Guessers

rambling in circles bout weather,
what happened to Craig on 8?
Todd on 10 has always been good,
but is rarely on, or at least at my house.
Scott on 8 is good ole local boy, and good
weather guy too.
Witcher on 10 at noon,
was not present today,
but some little teeny bopper
was a flailing her hand over
this big green blob on the
weather map wall.
Witcher seemed to be having
a good day when he could find
the weather porch without a map leading outside.

Rupert, Tallassee, Tennersee

Ed....Craig was one of the best at 8 and
is very much missed. Rumor was he was headed to
Nashville. It is a much bigger market than Knoxville
and he would sure do great there.

As for Witcher, is he still there?
Not sure who the child was with the hand on
the big green ball? Staff wanted a HULK joke
here but due to our G rating we opted out.


Monday, June 23, 2008 1:48:00 PM EST
Anonymous said...

Todd is the very best at the weather.
The only time he bothers us is when
he has an orgasm over a big storm coming.

I like any of the women doing
weather on WVLT and I hate the
weather man on 6. He never gets excited
and it makes it hard to watch him.


He should take a lesson from Todd!
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:50:00 AM EST

Ed....Say if you are the dude or dudette
who wrote about Hammers, the staff is
blinded by your brilliance. No kidding
you are GOOD!

Here are a few things from the great mind of
George Carlin...

George Carlin SAID:

When cheese gets it's picture taken, what does it say?


When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?


If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?


When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?


I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?


If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?


Is a vegetarian permitted to eat animal crackers?


What if there were no hypothetical questions?


Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.


Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.


Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.


Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?


Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.


Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.


I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.


May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.


Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?


If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?


I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.


Electricity is really just organized lightning.


Women like silent men, they think they're listening.


"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?


Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.


If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?


Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?


Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.


I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.


Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker?


I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.


There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.


At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.


As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.


The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.


Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.


Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.


I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.


The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.

They DO die in 3s

Ya know that old crud about
the famous die in threes
just might be right?

For the last few months, OK weeks
we have seen NBC work the death of
their Eat The Press guy like a
Magnolia Ave. Soiled Dove watching
a limo slow down near the bus station.
The resounding question was how long will
it take to lay Timmy to rest? The answer
is who knows, Sunday they were still
"remembering" the guy.

THE LATEST and we are talking MONDAY June 23rd is
NBC got some kid fired for
POSTING on their (other guys not NBC)
web site that Timmy was room temp BEFORE
NBC did! Naturally the National Biscuit Company
said they were "holding" the info until
the family was notified and
naturally they (NBC) are now saying the
person who posted the death of Tim has
been CANNED! Hey there is more,
IF you are lucky enough to have one of
YOUR employees check out at YOUR network
then the other three "honor" said employees
walk to the light by letting HIS or HER network
be the first to release the STORY!
Ya know you just can't make stuff like this up!

OK, bless his heart I am sure he
was a nice man, loved his kid or kids,
wife, dog, college, country, god, life,
and being on TV. That said, NBC needs
to get the memo about how viewers really
do not feel the sun rises and sets on
THEIR news readers or paid political experts.
Hey Timmy even was quoted as saying he tried
every Sunday to get something on his show
that would make a headline in the NYT on
Monday! Again, and please bless his heart,
we don't read that paper and the fact is
most of America no longer reads ANY paper.
That quote was just one more hint of how
the national media wants to be the story
rather than report it. Again, viewers
don't care one way or another. Today
they flat think of the big three as
opinions and agendas platforms rather than
news covering operations. UP side
is Timmy is officially in the ground
and NBC is back to getting Obama elected.


DOWN SIDE is we lose one funny guy
this weekend.

The Hippy Dippy Weather Man
made his last forecast.


If you wanta buy a
yacht load of his stuff
head over here and remember to bring
a C note.

Heck if you wanta buy a ticket to his show
(bet he won't be there) here you go!
George Carlin Tickets,
The Orleans Showroom, August 07, 2008
George Carlin
The Orleans Showroom
8/7/2008
8:00 PM
Section: FLOOR
Row: N
$250.00 per person

Or if you just wanta
talk and remember the guy
dash over here.


GC did the 7 dirty words

that finally the FCC is
cutting back to 5. Problem
is they took the F word up
to a new level by attaching
a big a** (see the list)
fine to it.

He also had a heart
condition most of his life and it looks
like that is what nailed him this weekend.
Seventy one is WAY TOOO YOUNG for anyone to go
toes up! With a gal. of gas costing more than a
six pack and the two we have running for President
now, this country really didn't need to
lose a guy who made us laugh.


Mail is down due to
the boring crap on
Summer TV along with the
dump truck loads of
depressing news on the
three networks.


Monday, June 16, 2008 3:47:00 PM EST
Anonymous said...

Well, looks like George Carlin is the latest to go...he was indeed a funny guy.

Ed....They go in threes but
for the life of me I can't remember
the first in this round. Course half the time I can't
remember the dog's names either.





Editor wrote:
"Big show over the weekend
was the OPEN! Playoff today
on ESPN and if TIGER'S leg works
he should wipe the earth with Rock!"

Well, Mister Editer, terrible Tiger had to wipe his own butt, to finish in sudden death. wouldn't it have been fun if Tiger had to put his own putter handle where the sun don't shine. Wouldya have pulled for Rocco if he were from Rockford. Tiger ain't gonna be declared a Saint by da Pope. Smoky Mountain people are common people, not hyped by the written press, the radio talkers, and the bumbling tv talking heads.

Cleatus, Knobly Knob

Ed....Couple of fast thoughts on T.Woods.
First, his announcement that he was not going to play
again this year immediately cost the TV networks
who carry PGA golf 25% of their viewing audience.
Those companies that fight to sponsor Tiger are
openly saying millions of dollars are now flushed
and it could have an impact on their stock prices.

As for his actions in the Open he was at his
best when the fool doing the last interview
tried his best gin up a tearful moment by talking about
it being Fathers Day and then working like a field hand to
get Tiger to moan about his knee and leg. When asked how
his young daughter will remember this hard, trying, up hill,
emotion filled day.. Tiger smiled and said..."She will saw Daddy
got a W!"

Mr. Woods is not just a golfer he is a classy
industry. Today the word class and industry
are seldom seen together.



Anonymous said...

Hey I used to listen to CP and Walker on RJZ. Later, on the big U.

I say, bring 'em back!

Ed....We love it when
kin folk post thoughts, especially
when they are this SMART!

Monday, June 23, 2008 5:08:00 AM EST
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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can Channel 10 find a weekend
weather woman that will not crack
my TV?

First the giggler who dressed
like she found the back door of
Hammers unlocked at two in the morning
and now another one this morning looked
like Grand Ma Walton had run up
a dress for her while sampling the Sisters recipe.

Both are irritating, both try their
best to dress for either a square
dance or a camp meeting and both
would never have been
hired by the station ten years ago.

WVLT knows how to hire smart, good
looking women, Channel 6 is finally
starting to bring on board
younger and much smarter
women but 10 is backing up?

I still watch 10 because
they get the news before the other two
and unlike the others they get it right,
but next to the guy on 6 WBIR
has the worst weather women on
television.

And NO I am not some guy in a boxer
shorts a wife-beater shirt and rocked back in a recliner!


CLEAN IT UP!


Ed....Well if you were a guy in your shorts and wife-beater
shirt and IF CP and Walker ever got back on the
radio we sure would like to talk to you about
writing our ad libs! Loved the Hammers thing!
PS. I have been to Hammers and they have great
prices but I never did see that goat?


As for the weekend weather women,
I would have to guess that WBIR
is taking what they can get at this
point. Remember, most if not all the
local stations are trying to maintain
a profit margin and when your ad dollars
start to drop often staff has to learn
multiple jobs and weekends budgets
start to come out of the vending machines.
Not sure at all if that is what is going on
at 10 but it might be?

FRIDAY AGAIN!

Nice KICK BACK WEEK with
the local media mice doing just
about NOTHING to get excited
about.

OUR fav. MEDIA HISTORY BLOG
Did have some OLD audio of Dave Young and
a former WKGN afternoon, award winning,
fine looking, well groomed, always bathed,
deep voiced, generous, kind, thoughtful,
obedient, trustworthy, honest, loyal, rehabbed
guy on his first day at the old WETE!

Naturally it caused the
memory jog that often hits
elderly radio kids.

So to bore you a bit, lets
take a look at WETE shall we?

In the beginning the earth cooled and
the dinosaurs died, but that isn't important,
what is important is WETE used to be
WATE. Yep, good old channel 6 had
a radio station and before they had it
it was WROL. Bored yet? No? Hang on
we can take care of that!

WATE was the station your parents had
on in the Packard when they picked us up
up from school. At noon it had a
really cool talk show host (national not
local) called Joe Pine. Joe was a wild man and
he only had ONE leg. I always thought his last
name was a lame joke about his peg but who knows?
Joe was just fun, not like Rush is fun but well
like a Baptist Preacher on meth is fun.

He would have on the highest ranking official
of the NAACP and right across from them
the highest ranking NATIONAL member of the
KKK! On yea, Joe Pine was a MUST HEAR show!

In the morning Hop Edwards played the crap
your parents liked and toward the end of WATE
had a feature called WATE ON THE LAKE.
I think he was out in a houseboat near the
sewage treatment plant about lunch time but
I never really got a good fix on his location.

ANYWAY..WATE was sold to Hall Communication
and they changed it to WETE. WETE's big claim
to fame was Iron Man Jim Humphrey..who set a world
record for a continuous broadcast. I think he was
in an RV (near the Fresh Market) but
I never got over to see for sure. Like all of Knoxville
I sure did tune in though. Those who were his designated
handlers said after a few hundred hours he started to
hallucinate and if they didn't keep an eye on him he
would wonder off. Upside was it happened very early in the
morning, downside was several times he made it the middle of
Kingston Pike. In dem days the folks driving the Pike at
2 AM had the Ford wide open and often the blood alcohol level
pushed the meter passed drunk all the way to HEY WATCH THIS!

Jim lived, the record stood and WETE moved on. It also
was the FLAGSHIP STATION of the Vol network and that
so urinated off Robert Denton. Causing anyone at Dick Broadcasting
to even NOTICE another station let along irritate them was
about as big as setting that giant continuous broadcast
record!

Anyway to make a long story even longer...WETE became WRJZ in 1976,
everyone was fired except the two worms who worked
mornings and afternoons. Reportedly they went on
to achieve some fame in the morning on the new
62 but the grandchildren of the bodies they
left behind never went to college and many of them
are growing old in a Westinghouse box under
the Gay Street Bridge.


Have a good weekend
and if you are bored be
sure to come out tomorrow (Saturday)
to hear the old man band in
Murvle! details right here!

THE DIE IN?

First it was the old sports dude who did TIMEX commercials
and always covered the Olympics.

Next it was the guy on Meet The Press, so
WHO is the THIRD? Post and tell us your thoughts!

Again, TIGER WINS. Lot to
be said for being the best in the world.

THIS
hosted the TONY Awards last night!
Fast and Furious Part 88 was on
so I missed the show. After
catching her act on The View
I guess she is a refreshing
change from Da Rose, but boy
howdy she sure does need something?




Sunday the big paper
ran (as if it were a new story) the
joke out of New Zealand concerning
FARTING sheep and their contribution
to AL GORE'S global warming.
So funny to see that story in print
locally! It is being rumored next Sunday
they will cover the tragedy of
farting elephants and give the
hot line number where you can
BUY your carbon credits
direct from Al!


Some new faces on WATE over the
weekend (OK new to the staff, they mostly
watch TV Land) including Hana Kim
.
Although she signed on in back in March of
07, this weekend was the first time
staff saw her anchor. She did a very good job!

Also further up Broadway
e mails came in reporting that
Beth filled at the weekend anchor desk.
Filling in is the new watchword for television news. Most local stations
are requiring their talent to multi-task two and at times three jobs.
Upside is you get some very good folks doing news on
the weekend rather than a part timer who can't read, down
side for those working at the station is extra work for
the same pay.


Great big SOLD OUT show
last Saturday! The old man
band, better known as
THE MOUNTAIN FOLK REUNION,
will in Murvle this Saturday.
The show starts at 6:30
with tunes that include:
MTA
King Of The Road
Twist and Shout
Fox On The Run
Tom Dooley
Ring Of Fire
When The Saints Go Marching In
Do Wa Diddy
Midnight Hour
Where Have All The Flowers Gone
Day Dream Believer
and tons more!
NO COVER CHARGE Saturday!!
Here be the link for the info!

THE WEEKEND IS CLOSE

The weekend is so close you can SMELL IT!

BIG PLANS? GOOD FOR YOU! Get out there
and DRIVE someplace before gas hits that
5 dollar mark!


LOCALLY
that rumor/idea about a
OLD DJ reunion is causing
some of the folks who didn't
work for WNOX to rise up
out of their wheelchairs
and brandish their
I.V. poles in protest!

Here is the note one
OLD radio alumni got
from the chairman of
the planning committee:


"After hearing from various "radio people",
there appears to be an issue over
WHICH Knoxville radio station should
host a "W??? Rewind" weekend.
My suggestion was WNOX based on
the current News Format which
usually takes a day or two off
for Memorial Day. Also, sportstalk
990 AM could take a day off & HOPEFULLY
allow the program to air on 990,
the original WNOX frequency.
It was nothing more than a
paper napkin doodle session. A spark, if you will..."



"However, some "radio people"
whom worked for OTHER stations
like WKGN, WRJZ, 15Q and WOKI
have negative feelings &
wish to continue to downgrade
WNOX from back in the day.
Sure, the BIG 99 drastically
changed in 1968 & the end result
was it would never make a comeback
until 1979 when WRJZ took backseat
to the renewly revived 99WNOX
programmed by Bob Savage &
Johnny E Douglas."

"Besides...Excuse me!
Isn't this 2008? It's time
to put the bickering and
hard feelings aside for
the benefit of reuniting
Knoxville's former Disc Jockeys.
Personally, I do not care
where or what station
will carry a "Rewind Weekend"!
Just do it...NOW! It's been
22 years since U-102 had a
"Total Knoxville radio" reunion.
And we aren't getting any younger!"

"Hell, lets have a WJBE REWIND...
Maybe a WETE REWIND...
even better, a WROL
REWIND & morph it into a
W149 REWIND into a 15Q REWIND
into a WITA REWIND!
How about a 1922 WNAV reunion?
If you remember those
call letters
you've studied Knoxville radio!!!"

"By the way, I want to
personally thank
everyone who emailed me
with their approval over
the original idea! At least,
I have opened the door for a very
much needed discussion on the issue!
Just do not move too slowly!
The AM Top 40 boomers won't be around forever!"



YA KNOW, as long as old radio
kids are still sucking air they
will be fighting over stuff just like
this! Staff took a vote and
the result was WNOX from about 1969
until the day Dick Broadcasting bought
them was nothing more than a steaming pile
of road apples.

That said, we all agree,Old DJs
are at the tipping point...you know
between letting the grand kids have
the beloved stack of Playboys and moving
into the home or getting married to ONE MORE
25 year old just to see if it was as good
as it was the first four times.


So IF there is going to be a reunion
then it best be now! Hey
here is a thought...YOU GUYS
always have great ideas!
SEND US A COMMENT and suggest
where this thing should be and if
it should even be on the radio?


HECK a good BAR would work bout as
well, remember in olden times these
DJs used to spend as much if not MORE
time at a BAR than they ever did on
the air!

SEND your thoughts...also if you
have the power to put something like
this on a station
we will see that it gets to the
mastermind!

REMEMBER the MR is NOT
behind this thing but
as we do with just about anything
connected to local media we LOVE TO
pick at it from cyber space.


The local far left blog
knoxviews.com is rather upset
over yet ANOTHER DEMOCRAT
being involved in some rather
salacious news!


http://www.knoxviews.com/
"Ugly situation involving local candidate"


Hey, DEMOCRATS have a long
history of making both print and
broadcast crime news, nothing really new here.

If you want to post a thought on knoxviews.com
be sure when you sign up to
make up everything and
really let them know you are
a light pink leaning far left
loving poster! THEN when you get
into the site keep your posts in
lock step with their opinions..THEN
when you are a real member of the tribe
drop a few truths on them to scare them!
It is great fun. On and always use
your lap top and post from
Starbucks! SO EASY and fun.


SPEAKING OF POLITICS!!!
The Networks have firmed up their
convention coverage!

OH GLORY BE PRAISED!!!
Yep looks like the big three will
give us at least four hours of
WE LOVE HUSSEIN from Denver LIVE,
while the cable kids will be
on the story like flies on the
above mentioned steaming road apples.
Check the link for full details of their
unbiased coverage of the Democrat
Convention.

OH and later don't miss the
riot coverage on COPS...LIVE
FROM DENVER!


The big MOUNTAIN FOLK REUNION SHOW set
for Friday night has sold out.
CHECK the blog for more shows next
month and a big old THANKS for
everyone who will be there this Friday
evening!
is sold out

JUST IN
BOY HOWDY THIS
IS FUN CLICK HERE!

WHY DID THAT CHICK...

Subject: Fwd: Why did the chicken cross the road?

Why did the chicken cross the road?


BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a change! The chicken wanted change!

JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure – right from Day One! – that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.

GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?

COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.

BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken. What is your definition of chicken?

AL GORE: I invented the chicken.

JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.

DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his current problems before adding new problems.

OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's guilty! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.

DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.

JERRY FALWELL: Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the plain truth? That's why they call it the 'other side.' Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay, too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like 'the other side.' That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as that.

GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its lifelong dream of crossing the road.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.

BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2008, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken2008. This new platform is much more stable and will never cra…#@&&^(C%..........reboot.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?

COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?



Gannett to take $2.5B to $3B write-down




Over the weekend management
had our crack engineering
department install XM

radio in our

company car.

Because our engineering
team is the best and because
often when they do work involving
AC or even DC there are fires
and injuries they turned the job
over to the experts a BIG BOX STORE.
While there WITH the company credit
card they also tricked out the ride
with a new radio complete with docking
station for an MP3 and a remote
to be used by the driver while talking
on the cell and driving over 75 MPH.


Few things about XM, it does have
some great shows and most if not all
the oldies channels go a very LONG
time before they repeat.

Also to activate XM it is required
that you call them (it is free but
the guy we talked with was in Panama)
and give them your super secret XM number.
That part is easy, the hard part is
leaving your car facing SOUTH and running
for 20 minutes while it downloads all the stations.
TIP, if you live on any street named after
a dead president stay IN THE CAR while it is
running!

How good is XM, not sure yet
but there are a ton of things
yet to be discovered. A NEWBEE
info packet is in the mail
mapping out all the great things we
can find here. By chance we did find
a weather report from Canada! More
on this new adventure as it unfolds.


Big week so keep your eyes and
ears open for happenings and
report to us the second they do or don't.


The old man band played a
HOT show Sunday and is
headed to Catinos THIS Friday,
for the latest pictures of these
fine looking boys and info on how
to get reservations click right HERE!

WEEKEND THOUGHTS

HOW HOT IS IT!

Summer is here and so is ALBORE so
brace yourself for another demand
by AL for you to buy CARBON CREDITS!
Gotta love the guy, or not!




Sitting in a cool bar/beanery I noticed the
flat screen was on about the time
Hillary tossed in the towel.
Damn it is over so soon! Why it
feels like it has only been 17
months since she started calling the
candidate everything but a Whi..HOLD ON
I DIDN'T SAY THAT! Wow, talk about a
racists bullet, glad we dodged that one!

ANYWAY found a wonderful site about
the former first cuckolded Lady called
HILLARY THE BITCH.

Good thing is it is more than just
her social and moral flaws
and bad fitting pant suits. It is
chocked FULL of things you right wing
fanatics will love to read! Here be the
link!



Stay inside today and sleep with the
AC on 66. I KNOW Bare Back wants us to
keep it on 80 but kids he ain't KING
YET!



Few letters from the reunion idea
still floating in, here they be.

Anonymous Anonymous said...

youtube has a great clip about the big 89 rewind...really good seeing and hearing Tom Kane, Larry Lujack, and of course, the great one himself, John Records Landecker.

actually you don't get to see Lujack, but he's on there.

how many wannabe radio stars were there who listened to WLS at night to ripoff bits from Landecker and the late great Yvonne Daniels.

Friday, June 6, 2008 5:03:00 AM EST

Ed....I remember Dick Biantie (bet I spelled it wrong)
who said HELL on WLS and was fired! I also remeber Landecker
who wrote in his book.."DJs are beer cans on the road of life."
Pure talent on WLS!

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I forgot Yvone! Adel was good but she (Yvone) was the gold standard!

Where did all the good women DJs go? The one on in Knoxville sounds like she might be into other women? Not that that is all bad, could be fun to watch but still what happened to the Yvones of the world.

Friday, June 6, 2008 2:41:00 PM EST
Ed....Most women on the air today
are doing news or kinda hanging around to
side kick on talk shows. Becky Lynn
was great on WIMZ...WIVK...WMDR and
we all know how good Adel was. There
was one gal on the progressive station (Citadel)
can't remember her name but she was good and when
she got mad she would call and lay some
outstanding curse words on the answering machine at
the bunker. She had ONE name like...Libby or Perry or
something like that? Help us out here..who was she?
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I only have an AM in my old truck and can find some good shows if I look around! Can't remember the letters because they don't say them but 1470 is really a good station. The shows are about the end of the world and how the Mexicans are going to build a road from their country to Canada and as they drive on it take over America.

990 is good for sports but not in the morning. It is mostly lady vols even when they are not playing.

1180 is good for sports when they are live but most of the time their shows are out of town.

850 and 1400 are the same but 1400 is always off the air. A show in the afternoon is two local married people talking about politics. It can get boring because the man is very much into himself and never gets to the point. The woman is good and their guests are fine.

At night I still get WSM and WLS.

I don't need that XM thing at all!

Ed....Ya know AM now is such a shell of what it was
it is kinda fun to dash over there
and look around. WSM is the best OLDIES COUNTRY
STATION in the world but WLS is all talk and a bore.
WOWO Ft Wayne was a good rock station at night in the
60s, not a clue what they are now?

Reunion and FARTING Sheep

GOOD posts about the
radio reunion rumor. The
list grows and grows, check them out
and feel free to add more!

As we get ready to skid
sideways into the weekend
we will all remember this week
as the time Hillary Clinton
almost got out of the election
process, Tornadoes hit D.C.
AND the dreaded SHEEP FART "may"
have been curtailed.

Here is the deal on the
SHEEP!

Like most animals sheep
often blow one
now and then.
Shepherds will tell you to be
down wind from a flock can
knock your staff off!


In yet another effort to
save MeeMAW Earth
those who care have found
a possible solution to
the odoriferous problem!


ANOTHER positive note to carry
you into the long hot weekend is
the GLOBAL WARMING BILL stalled in
the senate!

Guess they didn't get the word on
the farting sheep cure in time?
Reports are with the temps climbing into
the 90s ALGORE will be surfacing
and as we all know if he sees his
shadow he will announce a half off
sale of his carbon credits!



Here are the thoughts on the
radio reunion from YOU KIDS!
Remember this idea did not come
from staff or management but because
we live to hear what you think we
love a rumor like this! Read and add..
we are standing by to publish YOU!


Anonymous said...
Bring back Frank Irwin,
Jack Diamond, Gary Drake,
Jim Deerman, Johnny Walker, Smoky Burns,
Jefferson K, Johnny Mountain, The Brothers, Shotgun, Kay Manley,
Sherry on WIMZ, Eddy Roy,
Paul Oskar Anderson, and Your Dave Young

Ed.....WOW that was a good list. Sorry
but a few of those named are toes up but
most could be sucking air as far as we know!

Tuesday, June 3, 2008 5:25:00 PM EST


Anonymous said...
Sonny Knight (Carlos Kivett)
has passed on, as has POA (Paul Brown).

Since Dr. Al Adams (Alan Johnson)
was a competitor with WNOX while
he was on WKGN, he should be a guest also.

Ed.....KGN (by the time we got there
in the early 70s) didn't pay much
attention to WNOX. It was a very good
if not the best local station of the time
and it worked more on what IT DID
rather than worry about the other guys.
Dr. Al was way better than anything on
WNOX and certainly would be great on
a reunion show!

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 4:57:00 AM EST


Anonymous said...
Well hell if you are
going to have the dead
make sure JJ Scott and Joe Anderson get invited.

Ed.....JJ had the largest collection of
station T shirts in the entire world! Not
a clue what happened to them after he
walked toward the light, but I keep watching
E BAY to see!

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 11:26:00 AM EST


Anonymous said...
As far as I know the WLS
89 Rewind only included
former air staff of that station, not competitors.

Ed.....WELL Laa T FU***N DA!

(or dead people)

Thursday, June 5, 2008 9:13:00 AM EST


Anonymous said...
When I was a kid the only
time we turned on WNOX as
at night because when the
sun set you could not hear WKGN.

I remember the DJs at night
on WNOX were really bad, but
I can't remember any of their names.

My parents used to listen to
POA and then turn it over the
WKGN the second his news was over.
They loved him and when
I told them you said he
was dead they both were sorry to hear he was gone.

Is WKGN going to do a
reunion? Now that would be fun!
My brother has a GOOD GUY Cowboy hat
from WKGN and I have a Chicken Man T shirt!

Ed.....Jack Diamond once said in
a staff meeting his hair dryer had more
power than KGN at night and STILL
he wiped the floor with NOX.

Thursday, June 5, 2008 1:14:00 PM EST


Anonymous said...
The only real radio people
I would want to see or hear
from the past would be Adel,
John Boy, CP and Walker, and
Bob Baron. Dr. Al was before
my time but my Dad really did like him.

I didn't know most of the names
on the first list? Did they work in Knoxville?

Ed.....Yep all da names on
the very first list passed this way
at one time or another. Get this
when WKGN was hot it was THE station in
the South East to work for...reason was
the big kids (large markets) used it to
pick talent and move them in to
the big money. More than a few passed
through the WKGN door just to get
to the big time!







The old man band had a
heck of a good show last FRIDAY!

Next stop is Catinos...for pictures
of Friday's show and info on the next
be sure to dash over HERE!

RADIO REUNION?

A former radio type sent the staff a
very tentative plan for a WNOX
reunion. Tentative in the fact
that it is in the scribbling on
a cocktail napkin stage.

It (according to the old radio type)
would be called WNOX REWIND and it would
features jingles from WNOX from way
back when, former DJs and guests.

I remember a Knoxville radio
reunion a few hundred years ago
at the old Hyatt that invited
everyone who had been on the air
to return and tell lies. It was
broadcast on the old WMYU and
lasted for hours in the lobby.
Folk came from all around holding
up old T shirts and mugs and gazed in
horror at the now old fellows on the
rotating panel.

Not a clue how this one would work or where
it would be done BUT we did get the
list of those being considered to appear.

Question, would you give a rat's behind?
Also, who is not on the list that needs to be?

Read it and let us know, again this is
NOT our project (WNOX was one of the few
stations in this town we never had the
privilege of being fired from) but the
idea might be good IF anyone still cares?

HERE BE DA LIST




6 am - 9 am John Long w/Johnny Pirkle (Dave Jeffers News/Dave Foulk traffic)(CP & Walker guests)

9 am - 12 pm Dave Dunaway (Colvin Idol news/D Foulk traffic)(Eddie Roy, Dr. Don West & Bobby Denton guests)

12 pm - 3 pm Phil Williams (Bob Baron, Keith Lambert & Wayne Bernard guests)(? news)

3 pm - 6 pm Mike Beach (David Henley news/? traffic)(Dr. Al Adams, Adele & John Boy Isley guests)

6 pm - 9 pm Dave Young (Fleetwood Gover, Bob Thomas, Eddie Rogers guests)

9 pm - 12 am Eddie Beacon (Sunny Knight, Jimmy Vineyard & other guests)

12 am - 3 am Bill Beason (with former Ktown DJs from other Top 40 stations as guests)

3 am - 6 amLarry Steele (guests)

Guest list;

CP & Walker (WRJZ)

Adele (WRJZ)

John Boy (WRJZ)

Jeff Jarnigan (WRJZ)

Sir Bernard (WNOX)

Fleetwood Gover (WNOX)

Eddie Rogers (WNOX)

Scott McLeod WNOX)

Larry Steele (WNOX)

Bob Baron (WKGN)

Sunny Knight (WKGN)

Dr. Al Adams (WKGN)

Dr. Steve (Don) West (15Q/WRJZ)

Martin Baker (WRJZ)

George "The Greek" Vavalitis (WIVK/WRJZ)

Jimmy Vineyard (WIVK/WNOX)

Bobby Denton (WIVK)

Bob Thomas (WIVK)

Don Crisp (WIVK)

Tom Miller (WIVK)

Wayne Bernard (WKGN)

HEY I just noticed there is
only O N E girl on the list!
Is that right? Heck Becky Lynn (WIMZ, WIVK, WMDR)
should be on there for sure..any others you can
think of???


Are you politically correct?
Yea I know it is a hard question because
there is really NO definition of the
term. WHAT is POLITICALLY CORRECT?

YOU really wanta know????


HERE IS THE ANSWER:



Political Correctness

The following is the winning entry from an annual contest at Texas A&M University calling for the
most appropriate definition of a contemporary term.


This year's term was Political Correctness.
The winner wrote:

“Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly
promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely
possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”