Re: Some WBUR history

["Tony Abruzzese" <abruzzese@biochem.bumc.bu.edu>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Nelson" <bobonradio@yahoo.com>
To: "Daniel Murphy" <danmurph@worldnet.att.net>; <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: Some WBUR history
> 
> OK, Harry's portraying a DJ who roams from town to
> town, job to job, and now he's back home in Boise,
> Idaho. While he's there he looks up his ex-wife
> hoping to woo her again, but he winds up disappointed.
> ("OK honey I see, I guess he's better than me...")
> 
> The blooper? If he's in Boise, Idaho, why are the
> call letters _W_ OLD? 
> 
Not a blooper, just artistic license. WOLD was a sort of  a pun. The world-weary and aging DJ looking to settle down now that he has "grown up" (read as "become too old for his target audience") but finds it hard to acknowledge the fact. As the song says, "feelin' all of 45, goin' on 15". 

Besides KOLD just wouldn't work. He may be old, but he still qualifies as a "warm body". :-)

Tony
(someone who is mid-40s and told, on occasion, to GROW UP!) :-b


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