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> So the first 3 minutes have to cover basketball...notably Dennis Rodman!
> ...just when I thought we'd had enough of Dennis (the new-improved menace!)
Well, I'm thankful for what I get, I guess. Last night, when ESPN was
about to broadcast the Euros coverage, I was just puttering with something
in the kitchen, about to go in and watch the TV, when I heard a
LOOOOOOOUD, COMPLETELY OBNOXIOUS ALARM sounding from the vicinity of my
living room, like nothing I had ever heard before in my life.
No smoke alarm in there. Didn't sound like a smoke alarm anyway. It
sounded like a burglar alarm, or some alarm that would sound if the
Russians had decided to attack us, Cold War or no.
I ran into the living room. What did I find but that my TV screen, which
had been about to show skating, was now blue and covered with a
computer-generated message announcing to me that my cable company had
chosen this very moment to conduct a test of the Emergency Broadcast
System!
The screen instructed me to tune in to Channel 6 for more information. I
passed. Fortunately, so did this episode, and the screen was clear again
in time for Krylova & Ovsiannikov to start their free dance.
If that hadn't been the case, there would have been hell to pay, let me
tell you.
--
Trudi
"If the Teletubby craze continues, it is inevitable that at some future date, there will be a Teletubby live show that will be scheduled to play at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena...probably on ice."
--Gene Gray, entertainment columnist, Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin