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Philip Banks
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 4:59 am    Post subject: Ignore the content (as usual) and check the left eyebrow Reply with quote

https://vimeo.com/322593860

It looks perfectly normal in the mirror but ....
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 6:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

he makes a valid point.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 7:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I was in radio people marveled at how easy my job was. “You just sit there and play records”. Well, they got two parts of the job right.


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I'm not a Zoo, but over the years I've played one on radio/TV. .
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Bish
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 7:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Three rules...

1) Never underestimate the complexity of someone else's job.
2) Never underestimate how tediously boring it will become if they start to tell you about it.
3) Nobody cares.
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Philip Banks
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 8:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bish wrote:
3) Nobody cares.


I do. I look like I've been "Marked" by a Vietnamese Eyebrowist Gang!

"You come on our turf without permission, you pay the price! One of your brows will look like it was stolen from Ariana Grande!"
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2019 6:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i once tried to describe my radio job to a rather elderly priest. monsignor harry jerome (RIP) replied, "so, you play records and make pithy comments?"


yes. yes, that's about right.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2019 6:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

todd ellis wrote:
i once tried to describe my radio job to a rather elderly priest. monsignor harry jerome (RIP) replied, "so, you play records and make pithy comments?"

yes. yes, that's about right.

No disrespect to any recovering DJs out there (because you were only giving the public what they wanted)... but my take would have been, "so, you play records and make banal comments?"
cool
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2019 7:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The late Ray Sawyer from Dr Hook once attempted an impression of a US radio "jock"

"We're just waitin' for your cards and letters to start comin' in saying, just what in the hell are you guys tryin to pull?"
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2019 9:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

todd ellis wrote:
"so, you play records and make pithy comments?"


The Monsignor had a lisp.
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Kim Fuller
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2019 12:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lee - L.O.L...! Sarcastic

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2019 1:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Highlighting your eyebrows is very Hollywood.
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