I hate Mort Crim, world's dullest humanoid

There’s this dweeb named Mort Crim who’s a Paul Harvey wannabe. Harvey has a certain weird, not charm exactly…unannoyingness that makes him tolerable, this Crim wanker doesn’t.

He has these happy little two minute radio segments where he tells rambling, pointless stories that have the world’s most banal morals. I can’t think of a specific story, but some of his morals have been things like:

*Planning projects before doing them is good!
*It’s nice to be good to other people!
*People like people who like themselves, but not too much!
*If you don’t get your first choice, you should try for your second choice.

He’s like this horrible combination of “Life’s Little Instruction Book” and “Chicken Soup for the Soul” (but without any of the hard-hitting edgy nature in either book) as told by Grandpa Simpson and Ann Landers.

And he keeps talking about K-Mart as “Big K” (yes, I know this is K-Mart’s idea but he doesn’t even have the decency to sound embarrassed about it.)

And he’s got a book out called…
brace yourself…
Diabetics, beware…
“How To Be As Terrific as Your Dog Thinks You Are”

Please tell me I’m not the only one who can’t stand this talentless hack.

Fenris

Am I the only person who thinks “Mort Crim” sounds like a Mad magazine character?

You know, if you spell it backwards, it’s Trom Mirc, which for some reason sounds better, don’t you think? Kind of a Star Trek thing going there…

Trom Mirc, the official Federation radio Amway representative.

“Good day.”

Mort was a newscaster for WDIV in Detroit for a really, really long time. IIRC, he worked with Jessica Savitch before that.

He had that nice old anchorman thing going on. Made you really, really trust him. I liked him.

Haven’t read his books, though. They just look too darn dull.

He used to have these mini-features (I wanna call them
“Deep Thoughts” tho I know that’s not right) and they were the WORST. Stupid, stupid homilies and “life lessons” that weren’t in the least bit insightful. They screamed “I think I’m famous so anything I say is deeply meaningful.” He had this look on his face like he expected us to write every word down to put on our tombstones.

shudder I can’t thank you for reminding me of this waste of air.