# No, WLOL, I have no sense of humor in the morning **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 31, 2001, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wlol-i-have-no-sense-of-humor-in-the-morning/60273 "2001-03-31T17:31:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wlol-i-have-no-sense-of-humor-in-the-morning/60273/21 "2001-04-02T14:07:31Z")
If it makes you feel any better, **dublos** , and the others in here disgusted with Twin Cities radio, I just got done with an Arbitron radio survey for our area. It was for the week of March 22-28. And it couldn’t have come at a better time, let me tell you. Our choice in radio stations here is truly pathetic. It ranges from the pointless and idiotic John Hines and his ilk, all the way down to the truly offensive and childish KQ morning crew. And thank you, THANK YOU! for that comment about the “Chucker”. Whenever that bile they call a bit comes on, I have to turn off the sound. It’s painful to listen to. Is there something funny about mocking and making a fool out of person all under the guise of a confused radio DJ? What? I don’t see it. And while I’m at it, do the mocking yourself, you pussy-ass fuck. Don’t hide behind this “Chucker” persona. God it’s bad. I can’t listen to any of it now. But what really irks me is that they’d think that since I sometimes listen to their show, I’d assume this shit was funny. Well I don’t, and you sure as hell didn’t make it into my book last week. In fact, most of the stations that people are complaining about here didn’t either. They suck. And even if I can make it through the morning with the radio still on, it’s off by noon. These formats stink. Hello, alternative rock!?! You used to be here in force, now your gone? ALL gone? O.K., I need to settle down. I’m about to go off on this when I didn’t mean to. I just wanted to pop in here and tell you that I feel your pain. For the first time in this area I feel I don’t have a ‘home’ radio station to turn to. All of them are crap. But at least I’m not alone- others are as put off by shit as I am. I made my opinions known in the “book”. And KQ, WLOL, The ZONE, etc. didn’t even get so much as a mention in it. ---
**Author:** ![that\_darn\_cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/59ef9b/32.png) [@that\_darn\_cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/that_darn_cat)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wlol-i-have-no-sense-of-humor-in-the-morning/60273/22 "2001-04-02T14:40:52Z")
My mini-rant. OK, I live in Bumblef\*\*\* PA, in the car Ic an 6-7 stations, mostly Pittsburgh, with a couple of local and the college radio station, somtimes WVPR. In the house I get ONE station. It’s about two blocks away and takes up 88-95 fm (it’s supposed to be 92) No college station, nothing. Doesn’t matter what kind of anttena I use, even out the window. And they recently changed from a tepid “classic rock” format to “today’s best music” which is apparantly 'N’SYNC and leftover 80’s pop. GRRRRRR ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wlol-i-have-no-sense-of-humor-in-the-morning/60273/23 "2001-04-02T19:01:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dublos \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Doc Moss \* > > \*\*You “knew” it was only a joke, but you rang anyway, then got pissed off when what you knew all along showed itself to be true. > > > > Did I miss something? \*\* > > Well, Jayjay got the gist of it, my furry kids are just that, my kids. This “joke” was to threaten them in the most mean spirited manner possible. > > What continued to steam me as an after reaction was the final step in the habbitrail… when I called the number given, it didn’t just immediately say “April Fools!”, instead it gave an offical sounding intro and please wait for the next available agent. > > Now how many people might have made it that far, and then hung up in a panic because it just struck them that this might be real, and they might have caller ID? > > How many people might have then taken rash action to protect their furry kids from this? > > As I said in my header… for some things I have absolutely no sense of humor. > \*\* “Rash action”? I’m not sure what you mean by this. I certainly wouldn’t take any “rash action” until I got more details (which would mean calling the phone number and listening to the agent, right?) I mean, in most municipalities, pets (of the dog and cat variety, at least) are already taxed (that’s what a “license” is, after all.) Do people take “rash action” to avoid this tax? (Many do neglect to pay, but I would not call that “rash” or an “action”.) This wasn’t a funny prank by any means, but I doubt that any real harm came of it. The worst I could see happening is that people would miss the phone number on the radio and, instead of calling the radio station, they would look up the Minnesota Department of Revenue’s phone number in the phone book, and said department would get a few very strange calls. [aside]I wonder if there has been a sudden upsurge in MPR memberships lately? Perhaps I should get off my freeloading ass…[/aside] ---
**Author:** ![dublos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f08c70/32.png) [@dublos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dublos)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wlol-i-have-no-sense-of-humor-in-the-morning/60273/24 "2001-04-02T19:30:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tamex \* > \*\*“Rash action”? I’m not sure what you mean by this. I certainly wouldn’t take any “rash action” until I got more details (which would mean calling the phone number and listening to the agent, right?) I mean, in most municipalities, pets (of the dog and cat variety, at least) are already taxed (that’s what a “license” is, after all.) Do people take “rash action” to avoid this tax? (Many do neglect to pay, but I would not call that “rash” or an “action”.) > > This wasn’t a funny prank by any means, but I doubt that any real harm came of it. The worst I could see happening is that people would miss the phone number on the radio and, instead of calling the radio station, they would look up the Minnesota Department of Revenue’s phone number in the phone book, and said department would get a few very strange calls. > \*\* Tamex, Now you’re getting altogether too rational and too logical. Please recall this rant was written by a still sleep fogged brain, powered only by half a can of mountain dew and the adrenaline from this annoying bit of radio drek attempting humor. What rash action? As there is no licensing requirement in my area (at least not for felines, and especially not for indoor only felines) this would be the first attempt by a government agency to document how many pets and of what type you own. I don’t want to guess how many residents of the listening area are living outside of this regulation limiting the number of pets they have. These are the people who would likely really be paniced by thinking this was real. I can’t guess what, if anything any of them did, I’ve been watching the paper and hoping the answer is nothing. Even if it didn’t cause someone to actually do something rash, the anxiety in and of itself was unnecessarily cruel, and exemplifies the type of April Fools humor I truly detest. -Doug ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wlol-i-have-no-sense-of-humor-in-the-morning/60273/25 "2001-04-02T20:14:50Z")
Just wanted to chime in with a “me too!” on not finding pranks funny. I have a great sense of humour, thank you very much, but I have never found fooling people, lying to people, or making people think that bad things are happening to be funny. “C’mon, cantcha take a joke?” I can take a joke, but these aren’t jokes. As other people have said, they are mean-spirited and malicious. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wlol-i-have-no-sense-of-humor-in-the-morning/60273/26 "2001-04-12T13:22:15Z")
> [@](#): > > One of our local stations does pranks, some of which are quite malicious. They called this guy up and asked to speak to his girlfriend, he asked who it was and was told it was the guy she went out with the night before. They kept making the guy madder and madder, talking about how he gave her a ‘special ride’ in his cab, etc. The guy they called said to stay away from his girlfriend, that he was going to kick his ass, etc. The pranksters said fine, he’s coming over right now to pick up his girlfriend and he doubted he was man enough to do anything to stop him. > > After hanging up, they called a local taxi company and had them send a cab out to this guy’s house, and told them to have the driver knock on the front door when he got there. > > Found out the next day that the cab driver got beat up. They actually did this? That cab driver has legal grounds to OWN that radio station and make that moron DJ his personal slave. (Just a little wishful thinking. Especially if the driver owns a big dog that poops a lot and needs cleaning up after.) ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wlol-i-have-no-sense-of-humor-in-the-morning/60273/27 "2001-04-12T15:22:40Z")
This _exact same_ pet tax “joke” was inflicted upon the radio listeners of the area I used to live in about 4-5 years ago. It’s not even an original “joke”! Morons, morons, morons … I moved about six months ago and our radio stations here suck even worse. Since April 1 was on a Sunday this year, one particular set of morning morons here did their April Fool’s “joke” on Friday, March 30. We don’t have a lottery in this state, and a lot of people want one. So they were telling folks that the state was running a test that day, and that they could play the lottery for this one day by sticking their driver’s licenses into ATM machines! Supposedly the machine would give them a receipt with a number on it that would be their lottery ticket number, and the following day all the newspapers would list the winning numbers. Well, guess what, a lot of folks really believed this BS - it wasn’t even freakin’ April 1, after all! and messed up a lot of ATM machines. I hope the banks send the bozos the repair bills. I have started using the tape deck in my car a LOT more. I even get books on tape from the library. ---
**Author:** ![Wartime\_Consigliori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@Wartime\_Consigliori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wartime_Consigliori)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wlol-i-have-no-sense-of-humor-in-the-morning/60273/28 "2001-04-12T19:08:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dublos \* > **I’ve never been happy with April Fools Day as a holiday, too often people take it as an excuse for mean spirited humor intended to hurt.** {Ranting Hat ON} AMEN! I am in 100% agreement. I know people who _live_ for this day, and they go around doing their best to humiliate and hurt others, usually older or slower people who make easy targets. I have personally beat up people for April Fools jokes on two occassions. One guy got it for harassing me at work with phony complaint calls (God, how I hate that shit). Another dude got it for putting a “kick me” sign (P.S. real f\*\*\*ing creative, asshole) on the back of a little old lady walking down the street. I confronted him on it, he decided he was some kind of bad-ass and said the magic word (rhymes with “brothertrucker”). POW!!! I hold “wacky radio personalties” in about as much esteem as I do April Fools Day. By and large, these idiots are unfunny, uncreative, washed-up fat-ass hacks who initiate cruel pranks on others when they emptied their bag of recycled and/or plagerized routines. You can be mean to people who aren’t bothering you or anyone else if you want too, but you better not do it around me. I am not, by nature, violent, and I don’t like to fight, unless some asshole is so richly deserving of an ass-whipping for being a bully. Bullies, “wacky” radio morons, and April Fools Day all suck! {Ranting Hat OFF} ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wlol-i-have-no-sense-of-humor-in-the-morning/60273/29 "2001-04-13T03:01:22Z")
I listen to Mancow’s Morning Madhouse in the morning. (It’s a national show, I’m pretty sure.) I can put up with the constant yelling and insults and all about George W.'s “latest conspiracy” or whatever. But one time, this guy called in. He had been dating his girlfriend for about 3-4 years and he wanted to break up with her. (What kind of yellowbellied pussy can’t break up with his girlfriend in person??? He has to do it over the phone, and with the aid of the most moronic crew of people ever put into one room?) The DJ calls the girlfriend, and they say, “Your boyfriend is on the other line. He has something very important to say to you.” They don’t tell her what, though. They ask her about how much she loves him, and about all the fun things they do together, and the kinkiest thing they’ve ever done, etc. Then, in the middle of all of these questions, they start playing the Wedding March. By this time, the girl is ecstatic (as anyone should be!). This goes on for several minutes. Finally, the DJ says, “Here’s your boyfriend. He needs to tell you something important.” And then they leave it to the boyfriend to break up with her. Not funny at all! I sure as hell wouldn’t want those hints dropped and then have my happiness shattered. What an asshole. I’m so mad now that I can’t even express my feelings in a coherent fashion. UGH! ---
**Author:** ![OneChance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/74df32/32.png) [@OneChance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneChance)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wlol-i-have-no-sense-of-humor-in-the-morning/60273/30 "2001-04-13T07:05:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wartime Consigliori \* > **I hold “wacky radio personalties” in about as much esteem as I do April Fools Day. By and large, these idiots are unfunny, uncreative, washed-up fat-ass hacks…** But it was one of those “idiots” who nearly fooled dublos. Actually, fooled dublos so much that he/she actually made the phone call. On April Fools’ Day, no less. Now AFD fell on a Sunday this year. I don’t think the Minnesota DOR would be releasing an announcement on a Sunday, do you? I think the DJ did a pretty good job since he was able to fool dublos so much that he/she ended up writing them a freakin’ letter. I hope the DJ reads the letter on the air, along with dublos’ name. Now that will be even funnier than the joke itself. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wlol-i-have-no-sense-of-humor-in-the-morning/60273/31 "2001-04-13T17:44:50Z")
Off topic, but I would just like to say that “furry kids” has to be one of the stupidest phrases I’ve seen in a long time. ---
**Author:** ![dublos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f08c70/32.png) [@dublos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dublos)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wlol-i-have-no-sense-of-humor-in-the-morning/60273/32 "2001-04-13T18:17:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OneChance \* > \*\*But it was one of those “idiots” who nearly fooled dublos. Actually, fooled dublos so much that he/she actually made the phone call. On April Fools’ Day, no less. Now AFD fell on a Sunday this year. I don’t think the Minnesota DOR would be releasing an announcement on a Sunday, do you? I think the DJ did a pretty good job since he was able to fool dublos so much that he/she ended up writing them a freakin’ letter. I hope the DJ reads the letter on the air, along with dublos’ name. Now that will be even funnier than the joke itself. \*\* OneChance, You might want to have your eyesight checked… you missed a couple of extra points that might have made your petty biting comments more accurate. 1. the message I posted, was posted on the 31st, not the first. i.e. the radio station wanted to add just a smidgen more doubt that it was a trick by starting a day early. 2. I tend to sign off with my real name “Doug” and I can’t say I have ever met a woman with my name. I hope they did read it, chuckling all the while. They certainly haven’t had the courtsy to write back, so I have a feeling my message was just ignored. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by obfusciatrist \* > \*\*Off topic, but I would just like to say that “furry kids” has to be one of the stupidest phrases I’ve seen in a long time. \*\* **obfusciatrist** If that’s the case, you gotta get out more. I have cats. I don’t have kids. I am one of those exessively lovey pet owners who considers his cats to hold the same place in his heart that his children would. Hence, I think of them as my kids, and to claify for people who don’t know I do not have children, I add the word furry in front so they don’t get a mistaken impression. Well, hopefully you got a good laugh out of my “stupid phrase”. -Doug -Doug [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wlol-i-have-no-sense-of-humor-in-the-morning/60273.md?page=1)