I had a long drive, about 16 hours total, to get back to school. I spread it out over two days. When I get sick of CD’s on long drives, I’ll set the radio on scan. Sometimes I space out and forget to take it off of scan, and listen to ten-second snippets for long stretches of time.
Sometime yesterday afternoon, I heard something odd enough to break me out of my reverie, and I just had to share.
skip
“Nothing says lunchtime like a metal box with the head of your favorite teen dream sensation…”
skip
:eek:
Oh, right, lunchbox. :smack: Maybe I’m a little too interested in crime stories, but for a moment there I had a pretty spooky mental image.
Anybody else have a similar funny thing from the radio scan setting? Funny things that happen as a result of channel-surfing count too. I had a funny one years back that combined a cooking show with an infomercial for “natural” breast enhancement, but I can’t quite remember it now.
Not quite a scan incident, but many moons ago, I was going to college at UT in Austin, TX. I would drive back to Houston every once in a while and I would usually make the drive during the early evening. All I had was an AM radio in my little VW bug and after 6:00 p.m., most of the stations turned down their broadcast power or shut down completely.
One night, the skip was working real good and as I was roaming across the dial, I happened to catch a signal from a station that nearly caused me to have a wreck. There was a Biblethumper running his gums loud and long (shows you how bored I was that I even listened to him) and during his fire and brimstone routine, he was soliciting contributions.
The one that got to me was “tonight and tonight only, you can make a $5.00 for only $3.98”. I started laughing so hard I ran off onto the shoulder of the road. Fortunately, there wasn’t a bridge abutment or anything near, so I made it back onto the road and chortled all the way into Houston.
Oops - that should have read: “tonight and tonight only, you can make a $5.00 contribution for only $3.98”.
Oh, man! Does anyone remember MAD Magazine’s “Channel Roulette”?
Click – “…written by William Shakespeare…”
Click – “…with a PaperMate pen…”
Click – “…on this protective shield! Just as this shield protected me, so Colgate with Gardol will protect you from…”
Click – “…the Mature Female…”
and so on.