Tuesday, December 21, 2004 07:52:36 PM
GREAT MOMENTS
Great Moments In Television News
October 25, 1962 -- Cuban Missile Crisis reaches its
height. Analysts suspect the tensions between the
US and the Soviets are the work of a lone, angry
white male in his thirties.
November 9, 1965 -- blackout strikes Northeast.
June 30, 1977 -- St. Louis anchorman weds
anchorwoman. Marriage consummated at five and eleven.
February 4, 1984 -- MIT scientists discover that
hair samples collected from a local Boston anchorman
are the most effective substance available for
removing ice from car windshields.
October 18, 1989 -- earthquake strikes San Francisco.
Seismologists interviewed on television say root causes can be traced to a
lone, angry white male in his thirties.
July 17, 1991 -- Miami station replaces news anchor
with cardboard likeness and tape recorder;
nobody notices difference.
September 27, 1997 -- sharp increase in
round-the-clock news channels creates glut on
international peroxide market.
April 29, 2002 -- Executives at ABC, NBC
and CBS admit that the practice of anchorman cloning
has existed since the 1950s.
October 7, 2002 -- Hurricane Lili bashes
Southeast coast. Television meteorologists
place blame squarely at the hands of a lone,
angry white male in his thirties.
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