another Meninoism

[Jason Roberts - WCTB/WHQO/WSKW]

We have one meteorologist from our service who simply cannot say the word.
He has different variations, but most often it would come out as,
"meteorahhhhhhhlogist." I finally had him record his tag for me five or six
times and from those created outs that hide his impediment which we paste on
in-house. If he has to go live, he drops the word completely.

-J.

Jason Roberts
VP / Station Manager
WCTB - WHQO - WSKW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
To: "Bill O'Neill" <billo@shoreham.net>; "'gic'" <gary@garysicecream.com>;
"'Boston radio e-mail list'" <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: another Meninoism


> One of the AccuWeather guys on WBZ always signs off with "This is
> meteorolist <so and so>." (Might be Gary Schwindenhammer--a guy with more
> letters in his surname (15) than I have in mine (10).) My assumption is
> that, like the President, who can't pronounce nuclear (but doubtless
> CAN say "new" and "clear" as separate words), this guy can't say
> meteorologist but could say meteor and ologist as two separate words. It's
> got to be some form of brain damage. In Bush's case, it's probably
> from too much alcohol, which he admits having consumed in his younger
days.
> But the AccuWeather guy? A small stroke, maybe? Of course, I suppose he
> could be a recovering alcoholic, just like W.
>
> --
> Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
> eFax 707-215-6367
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bill O'Neill <billo@shoreham.net>
> To: 'gic' <gary@garysicecream.com>; 'Boston radio e-mail list'
> <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 8:14 PM
> Subject: RE: another Meninoism
>
>
> > > today Boston Mayor Tom Menino was shown saying (on Channel 5).... "the
> > > perforation of guns across the state........"  I assume he meant the
> > > "proliferation"
> > >
> > > -g
> >
> > ...unless the mayor was speaking to holes in Homeland Security....nah.
> >
> > Bill O'Neill
> >
>