Thanks Bobo. I’m still chuckleing at this.
One of the worst sports reporter interviews I’ve ever seen occurred in 2003. Aaron Boone of the New York Yankees hit a game-ending, pennant-winning home run to defeat the Boston Red Sox.
After the game, a reporter asked Red Sox player Kevin Millar what his feeling was when the last out was recorded. Millar said he didn’t understand what he meant. The reporter asked again what it was like when he saw the last out recorded. Millar then had to inform him that there was no last out recorded, because a guy hit a home run to end the game.
sorry, duplicate post. Can a mod delete?
Years ago, after Desert Storm was over, a local National Guard unit came home, and it’s arrival at the airport was covered by local news.
One soldier was in a clinch with his wife, oblivious to the world, and the chirpy young reporter stuck out a mike and said “do you have any plans for this evening?”
It would have been great if he had described his plans in detail.
There’s a joke about a Finnish soldier coming home from the Winter War. (Your ethnic group may tell this joke about a different ethnic group, but I’m telling it right now.) A local radio station sent out a sweet, naive young female reporter to interview him. The interview went about like this:
She: “So what was the first thing you did when you got home?”
He: “I took my wife to bed and fucked her.”
She: “Um, and afterwards…?”
He: “After that I fucked her again.”
She: “No, I mean after that…”
He: “Then we did it again. I’d been away from home for months, you know.”
She: "But after you and your wife were finished in bed! What did you do then?!?"
He: “Well, I took off my rifle and my backpack and my skis, and…”
I feel stabby when a reporter (or anyone else) refers to something being in close proximity.
Once, when I was a newly minted engineer, I was in my manager’s office when another engineer poked his head in and asked, “how many grams in a ounce?” The boss and I immediately and simultaneously said, “twenty-eight” without missing a beat. Then we both looked at each other and busted up laughing.
Answer: Anywhere it wants to.
You don’t think this redundant pleonasm is a necessary requirement ?
In a situation like this, the correct answer is, “Well, I can tell ya, but I’d much rather show ya”.