David sent me this news story from the BBC.
To quote David, “Hadron, Hardon, what’s the difference?”
Isn’t it great that the LSM has all those layers of fact checkers? This reminds me of the guy at the Masters a few years back when Martha Smith was protesting about no female members of Augusta National. He had a sign that said “Iron my Shirts”. He was from an Atlanta radio station and he told the news reporters that his name was Haywood Jablome and it was French and the “e” was silent. It made it on to the Sports Illustrated website and was on it for a few hours until an alert staffer figgered out it was a made up name.
Years ago, Tom Weiskopf was a color commentator/announcer for golf tournaments. Having played in the Nicklaus/Palmer/Trevino/Player era and won more than a dozen tournaments, he’d earned the right to speak his mind on various things related to the game.
Tom was a grad of Ohio State (as I recall) and became a course designer/architect in his latter playing days. He was often critical of other designers and tended to characterize certain holes, or even entire courses, as “unnecessarily penile,” blithely unaware of the difference between “penal,” as relates to severity or punishment, and “penile,” referring to the often semaphoric distinguishing feature of the human male anatomy.
And nobody called him on it for at least a year that I know of.
Well, Weiskopf was kind of a dick during his playing days.
For a moment, there, I thought that was a news report about a gay bar.
I seem to recall a commentator who could not state a certain race car drivers name & had to go to a quick station break ….”Dick Trickle”
Reminds me a little of Les Nessman reading the news story about Chi Chi Rodriguiz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_fq4RQgwuA
One of the funniest shows ever on TV. It was based on the doings at an Atlanta radio station the creators once worked at.
“As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
And that guy from the Atlanta radio station sounds suspiciously like Neal Boortz. And if it wasn’t, it shoulda been.
Naw it wasn’t Boorts and I think the station was WQXI which at one time was a big AM station whose motto was Quixie in Dixie.
How about the stupid news reader that reported that the flight crew of the 777 crash at San Francisco a couple of years ago was named Wee Too Lowe and Sum Ting Wong?
They were four obviously made up names and no one caught them. Great news team there.
I’ve been dickin’ around whackin’ my head tryin’ to come up with a good pun, but so far, no cigar.
Uh, Fromerlib, you’ll never find that cigar. Monica hid it.
Of course, if you do come across it, maybe you can send it to TRT to smoke durin’ her victory celebration.
I’m amazed nobody did this yet:
Where’s the hardon collider? Bangkok!
Mark D wins the internets today.