[BC] Just for fun - a little serious too.

Dana Puopolo dpuopolo at usa.net
Sun Mar 8 21:08:25 CDT 2009


In the movie FM, Martin Mull claimed that the minute of dead air was a song
from Marcel Marceau's greatest hits LP...

-D

From: Mike McCarthy <Towers at mre.com>
I heard the basis of that line on WMAQ in the late 70's after 30 seconds of 
nothing.  The talent came on and said, "That moment of silence was brought 
to you by the Chicago Public Library." I looked at the guy I was with and 
said only in a major market would someone come up with that on the fly.




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