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guess it was just me?

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Back when I worked Master Control, one of the niftiest things was the Emergancy Broadcast System envelope hanging off the wall. In theory, in the event of a nuclear war or asteroid strike, we'd get a message over the weather wire with a two word code ("Whiskey Delta".. that sort of thing) which we'd then have to match to the appropriate month of the EBS envelope and finally open it to see what the instructions were inside. I never got to open it, but it lended a certain cloak-and-dagger mystique to the room.

Yeah, that's after my time. We still had the "flatline heart monitor" tone when I was doing it. And a cheery red button to press to start the tone playing.

My favorite was when the weather wire would go insane, beeping at you about impending doom and, when you went to check it, it'd say "The National Weather Service has issued a frost warning for Boulder, Colorado until 4am."

I always wanted to send out a crawl reading as such to our central Illinois viewing area.

Edited, Mon Jun 27 14:26:34 2005 by Jophiel

Ceiling-Cam view of Kelv getting ready to watch an episode of Designing Women.

I thought it looked like a man in dire need of a cigarette