Comments on: Radio Tasty http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/01/radio-tasty/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:14:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/01/radio-tasty/comment-page-1/#comment-192368 David Thu, 05 Apr 2007 04:10:31 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/01/radio-tasty/#comment-192368 this is pretty funny too, but no audio/video: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/04/the-sheep-albedo-feedbacki/#more-429 A companion song for the "On the Media" bit could be "How do you solve a problem like Sharia?" this is pretty funny too, but no audio/video:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/04/the-sheep-albedo-feedbacki/#more-429

A companion song for the “On the Media” bit could be “How do you solve a problem like Sharia?”

]]> By: Jon H http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/01/radio-tasty/comment-page-1/#comment-192128 Jon H Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:47:23 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/01/radio-tasty/#comment-192128 "On The Media" had an April Fools' piece about a new sitcom called "Jihad To Be There", about a bunch of incompetent terrorists in a training camp. “On The Media” had an April Fools’ piece about a new sitcom called “Jihad To Be There”, about a bunch of incompetent terrorists in a training camp.

]]> By: willie mink http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/01/radio-tasty/comment-page-1/#comment-192105 willie mink Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:36:59 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/01/radio-tasty/#comment-192105 Thanks, I laughed too, pretty clever of someone at NPR. Too bad the rest of their content is so milquetoast and toady. Lap-doggish. They used to be more independent, but now their news reporting just goes along with the crowd, so that the jovial-but-smug pretense to superiority is just that, a pretense. If you're interested in this sort of high-toned malfeasance, there's a blog, NPR Check, that does a great job of covering the network's more egregious missteps: http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/ Thanks, I laughed too, pretty clever of someone at NPR. Too bad the rest of their content is so milquetoast and toady. Lap-doggish.

They used to be more independent, but now their news reporting just goes along with the crowd, so that the jovial-but-smug pretense to superiority is just that, a pretense. If you’re interested in this sort of high-toned malfeasance, there’s a blog, NPR Check, that does a great job of covering the network’s more egregious missteps:

http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/

]]> By: jackd http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/01/radio-tasty/comment-page-1/#comment-192097 jackd Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:06:38 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/01/radio-tasty/#comment-192097 [hangs head] I never twigged to the ringtone story. But I was listening to the Indigenous Sculpture Society story with my 9yo daughter, and we got a big kick out of it. The giveaway (for me) was the three bushels of monkey fur. She, of course, found the misunderstanding of Elephant Butte to be hilarious. [hangs head]
I never twigged to the ringtone story.

But I was listening to the Indigenous Sculpture Society story with my 9yo daughter, and we got a big kick out of it. The giveaway (for me) was the three bushels of monkey fur. She, of course, found the misunderstanding of Elephant Butte to be hilarious.

]]> By: Dave MB http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/01/radio-tasty/comment-page-1/#comment-192059 Dave MB Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:34:05 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/01/radio-tasty/#comment-192059 The ring-tone thing was my favorite AF of the day, closely followed by an announcement on the "News From Ireland" on WFUV about a 700M euro bridge to connect Dublin and Liverpool, to be named after Bertie Ahearn. <i>All Things Considered</i> had something totally lame about statues to commemorate towns with stupid names in Kentucky. Unless it somehow got better at the end, but I couldn't imagine how. They're usually much better -- I particularly liked the one a few years ago about maple sugar producers being outcompeted by people in the Marianas Islands melting down maple furniture. That one fooled me a lot longer than it should have, given that I <i>live</i> in maple country. Any chance that the stupid Jane Austen piece in the Sunday <i>Times</i> was actually an AF? The ring-tone thing was my favorite AF of the day, closely followed by an announcement on the “News From Ireland” on WFUV about a 700M euro bridge to connect Dublin and Liverpool, to be named after Bertie Ahearn. All Things Considered had something totally lame about statues to commemorate towns with stupid names in Kentucky. Unless it somehow got better at the end, but I couldn’t imagine how. They’re usually much better—I particularly liked the one a few years ago about maple sugar producers being outcompeted by people in the Marianas Islands melting down maple furniture. That one fooled me a lot longer than it should have, given that I live in maple country.

Any chance that the stupid Jane Austen piece in the Sunday Times was actually an AF?

]]> By: Jacob T. Levy http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/01/radio-tasty/comment-page-1/#comment-192028 Jacob T. Levy Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:34:32 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/01/radio-tasty/#comment-192028 Getting to it after the URL change, I'll just say: yep, that's damn funny. Getting to it after the URL change, I’ll just say: yep, that’s damn funny.

]]> By: Kieran Healy http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/01/radio-tasty/comment-page-1/#comment-192013 Kieran Healy Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:11:48 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/01/radio-tasty/#comment-192013 OK, OK, I changed it to take the punchline out of the filename. OK, OK, I changed it to take the punchline out of the filename.

]]> By: Orin Kerr http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/01/radio-tasty/comment-page-1/#comment-192011 Orin Kerr Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:02:00 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/01/radio-tasty/#comment-192011 I agree with MikeJ. Still, seriously funny. I agree with MikeJ. Still, seriously funny.

]]> By: MikeJ http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/01/radio-tasty/comment-page-1/#comment-192005 MikeJ Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:00:53 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/01/radio-tasty/#comment-192005 Funnier without the punchline in the URL. Funnier without the punchline in the URL.

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