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Aloha, it’s just barely Sept. 11, 2008, in Hawaii, and welcome to episode 124 of therefore.am., the morning talk show that treats you like you’re already awake … on today’s show … criminals abscond with an entire radio tower in Winber, Pa., setting a new … wait for it … “gold standard” for precious metal thieves.
http://www.wjactv.com/news/17432092/detail.html
(CURT) Then, times are tough, but at least one British science team is ready to hire a plumber … to fix pipes in the Antarctic where the average tempterature is -20 C. Why don’t they just call Roto Rooter? Those guys will go anywhere anytime for the right price.
http://newslite.tv/2008/09/08/plumber-wanted-for-antarctic-c.html
Plus, Esquire’s 75th-anniversary issue takes a leap forward in publication design, with a 10-inch square screen flashing “The 21st Century Begins Now” on the cover. Nice try, but not quite. More like “the Early 21st Century Gimmick Begins Now.”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/08/BUR012OVMO.DTL
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EWb1zHIx38&eurl=http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=esquire&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=
And finally, a Sacramento State grad has decided to try to pay for her post-graduate studies by selling her virginity. I thought nowadays virgins are such a dying breed they all got “free ride” scholarships, anyway? I won’t tell her if you don’t.
http://cbs13.com/watercooler/selling.virginity.tuition.2.814271.html
All this, plus SURFING THE WEBSTER’S and today’s PRESSURIZATION QUOTATION, all coming up, on the only podcast where night persons and day persons can actually understand each other
And here are those last two items:
SURFING THE WEBSTER’S
parsec: really really really really really far (a unit of measure for interstellar space that is equal to 3.26 light-years and is the distance to an object having a parallax of one second as seen from points separated by one astronomical unit)
PRESSURIZATION QUOTATION
“Anything that happens outside the locker room will be outside the realm of football, that’s something that’s between him and his family and whoever’s handling that with him.” – NFL center Kevin Mawae on his quarterback, Vince Young of the Tennessee Titans
