I work with someone who can only be described as a ‘colorful character’. She swears like a drunken sailor and speaks her mind without being hindered by social filters. If you really want to know how your hair looks, just ask her. 😉 She is a pure spirit, I wish more folks were as refreshingly open and honest as she.
She has a long history of working at radio stations, including a large group of stations based in Boston, that required her to travel to the other stations. She is a Boston girl, through and through, with an accent and manner to match. When she visited a station ‘down south’ they were so enamoured with her Yankee persona they just had to get her on tape. She offered to record a joke for them to play on the station. Unknown to her, they had a record delay in the headphone line so that what she heard was several seconds behind what she was saying.
That threw her off a bit. 😉
Good thing they had her on delay — all the ‘pfffssst’ sounds you hear on the recording are covers for what she really said.
This bit rapidly became the most popular track on the station. For months following the original broadcast the station received calls to play the ‘Yankee on Delay’ piece. I nearly wet myself the first time I heard it. This is without exception, the funniest thing I have ever heard on the radio. I’ve now heard it dozens of times and I still bust out laughing.
If you’d like a good belly laugh, call 617-861-6017.
Just be sure to keep your canister of O2 handy, you will have trouble breathing.
[BTW, I’m also using this to test some VoIP software — your mileage may vary]