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

Craig Healy bubba at dukes-of-hazzard.com
Sun Mar 8 22:00:38 CDT 2009


> 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.

I worked at WSAR in Fall River, MA in 1970.  There was dead air.  The jock
named Skip said: "This moment of silence brought to you by your local public
library".  That joke's been around a while...

Craig Healy
Providence, RI




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