RIP Ray Charles

zxcvbob said:

jmcquown said:

Bob (this one) said:

[censored] 'n Span. Shake 'n Bake.

Oh, the humanity...

Pastorio

Okay, Bob - gotta test your knowledge. Do you remember
where that phrase "Oh, the humanity" originated? And
please don't tell me it was on an episode of WKRP in
Cinncinnati!

Jill

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." --
Mr Carlson

Best regards, Bob (no relation)

I really was a hiliarious episode! Gotta love older TV
shows.

Jill

jmcquown said:

They used this phrase when television character Les
Nessman reported as staff from 'WKRP in Cinncinnati'
tossed live turkeys out of helicopters over a supermarket,
not realizing turkeys are flightless birds.

Farm bred turkeys are flightless - wild turkey's *can* fly.

--

-Jeff B. yeff at erols dot com

jmcquown said:

Julia Altshuler said:

jmcquown said:

Okay, Bob - gotta test your knowledge. Do you remember
where that phrase "Oh, the humanity" originated? And
please don't tell me it was on an episode of WKRP in
Cinncinnati!

Alex, for 400 points, what is Melville's "Bartleby the
Scrivener?"

--Lia

BZZZZT! No, sorry, wrong answer! The phrase actually came
from the reporter standing outside what was my house
(gawd!) at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, NJ.

I actually knew that, growing up in NJ as I did. I visited
Lakehurst on a class trip in high school. We saw the old
newsreel footage before we went on the trip. It was chilling
to stand there on the ground where it happened.

In Bartleby, I believe it's "Ah humanity," IIRC.

Pastorio

Quoted message said:

Herb Morrison reporting. You can hear him here:

otr.comhindenburg.htmlOpen ↗

Our house was the former waiting station for the arriving
passengers of the Hindenburg dirigible coming in from
Germany on May 7, 1937. She burned and fell at the
airfield just across the way. I've got some military
paperwork from that day you wouldn't believe.

They used this phrase when television character Les
Nessman reported as staff from 'WKRP in Cinncinnati'
tossed live turkeys out of helicopters over a supermarket,
not realizing turkeys are flightless birds. "Oh, the
humanity!"

jmcquown said:

BZZZZT! No, sorry, wrong answer! The phrase actually came
from the reporter standing outside what was my house
(gawd!) at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, NJ. Herb Morrison
reporting.

Rats. Well, at least I played it straight and didn't google
first. --Lia

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:40:36 GMT, Default User
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Quoted message said:

Julia Altshuler said:

jmcquown said:

Okay, Bob - gotta test your knowledge. Do you remember
where that phrase "Oh, the humanity" originated? And
please don't tell me it was on an episode of WKRP in
Cinncinnati!

Alex, for 400 points, what is Melville's "Bartleby the
Scrivener?"

I think the quote there was " Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!"

"Oh the humanity" came from the explosion of the
Hindenburg. The WKRP episode was parodying the on-site
report of that disaster.

I remember that episode of WKRP. The station owner was
staging a promo of some sort that involved turkeys, which he
launched out of a helicopter, IIRC. The station reporter
(Les Nessman?) used the line when everyone realized that
turkeys can't fly.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"Regime Change Begins At Home."

To reply, remove replace "spaminator" with "cox"

Bob (this one) said:

jmcquown said:

Julia Altshuler said:

jmcquown wrote:

> Okay, Bob - gotta test your knowledge. Do you remember
> where that phrase "Oh, the humanity" originated? And
> please don't tell me it was on an episode of WKRP in
> Cinncinnati!

Alex, for 400 points, what is Melville's "Bartleby the
Scrivener?"

--Lia

BZZZZT! No, sorry, wrong answer! The phrase actually came
from the reporter standing outside what was my house
(gawd!) at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, NJ.

I actually knew that, growing up in NJ as I did. I visited
Lakehurst on a class trip in high school. We saw the old
newsreel footage before we went on the trip. It was
chilling to stand there on the ground where it happened.

Think about what it was like to LIVE in that place! It was a
very weird feeling. Every time I saw the newsreels I was
like, "They are standing in my front yard!" The place was
converted to base housing in the 1950's with a kitchen added
onto the back. The large waiting area was our living room
with the dining area added. I recall having my 6th birthday
party there; my folks gave me a green and yellow parakeet 🙂

Mom was the consummate officer's wife; she hosted lovely
cocktail parties and I remember peeking in on them when I
was a kid. Everyone all dressed up, martini glasses in hand.

My bedroom was one of the small "offices" off the long
hallway along the front and my two brothers shared a bedroom
on the sunporch at the left end. There was a garage out back
where dad had a funny car - a Metropolitan, old black &
whitething; it was funny. From there the yard sloped down to
a golf course. Across the way, of course, the airfields. My
oldest brother tells me he and his friends used to find
scraps of metal and pieces of things they thought were from
the Hindenburg crash. Talk about creepy.

Jill

Quoted message said:

In Bartleby, I believe it's "Ah humanity," IIRC.

Pastorio

Quoted message said:

Herb Morrison reporting. You can hear him here:

otr.comhindenburg.htmlOpen ↗

Our house was the former waiting station for the arriving
passengers of the Hindenburg dirigible coming in from
Germany on May 7, 1937. She burned and fell at the
airfield just across the way. I've got some military
paperwork from that day you wouldn't believe.

They used this phrase when television character Les
Nessman reported as staff from 'WKRP in Cinncinnati'
tossed live turkeys out of helicopters over a
supermarket, not realizing turkeys are flightless birds.
"Oh, the humanity!"

In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

Bob (this one) said:

jmcquown said:

Julia Altshuler wrote:

> jmcquown wrote:
>
>> Okay, Bob - gotta test your knowledge. Do you
>> remember where that phrase "Oh, the humanity"
>> originated? And please don't tell me it was on an
>> episode of WKRP in Cinncinnati!
>
> Alex, for 400 points, what is Melville's "Bartleby the
> Scrivener?"
>
> --Lia

BZZZZT! No, sorry, wrong answer! The phrase actually
came from the reporter standing outside what was my
house (gawd!) at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, NJ.

I actually knew that, growing up in NJ as I did. I
visited Lakehurst on a class trip in high school. We saw
the old newsreel footage before we went on the trip. It
was chilling to stand there on the ground where it
happened.

Think about what it was like to LIVE in that place! It was
a very weird feeling. Every time I saw the newsreels I was
like, "They are standing in my front yard!" The place was
converted to base housing in the 1950's with a kitchen
added onto the back. The large waiting area was our living
room with the dining area added. I recall having my 6th
birthday party there; my folks gave me a green and yellow
parakeet 🙂

When speaking of disasters both natural and man made it is
sometimes odd to live in areas where bad things have
happened. I walk the very streets that were under close to
ten feet of water during the hurricanes of 1938 and 1954. On
some of the buildings are little brass plaques that indicate
the water level in 1938 and 1954.

Luckily we've been saved that fate by the Providence
Hurricane Barrier since the 60's. The barrier is interesting
- it basically gates off the Providence river and then uses
five ejection pumps to shoot water back out into the bay at
a rate of a million gallons a minute. This means communities
that have since been built on the shores of the bay get
decimated. Oh well.

I live on a hill - it'd take about ninety feet of water to
do anything - a tsunami would definitely do it but the
northeast isn't exactly geologically active.