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Noodling Around……

MRambler — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:17:44 +0000

Hollywood comes to Oklahoma, again….. There’s been lots of parts of movies, and, even complete movies like “Twister” made in Oklahoma, but, I don’t know if they’re on the right track with this one or not…… They’re already here and filming in Pauls Valley, a small town on I-35 south of Oklahoma City….. The movie is supposed to have a plot based on a young girl trying to get out of a small country town, but, it is based around the Oklahoma cult sport of “Noodling” or more commonly known as “Okie Noodling”….. Anon knows what I’m talking about….. It’s not the smartest sport in the World, believe me…..

Here’s all you got to do: Find a creek, stream, or river, usually muddy and with lots of nooks and crannies along it’s banks, usually covered with tree growth and underbrush…… These are basically small underwater caves cut in the banks just under the surface by the water flow….. Huge Catfish (40 to 70 lbs. or more) love to hang out in them, along with who knows what….. Then, just JUMP IN! – stick your arm in the hole, locate the catfish, STICK YOUR HAND AND ARM DOWN IT’S THROAT, wrestle it out of the water, and throw it in a boat – That’s it – Nothing to it….. No fishing poles, lines, bait or gear of any kind required! (including brains)…..

PBS has already done a special on “Okie Noodling” a few years back….. Just can’t wait for this one to make the theaters….. I’m sure Oklahoma will be honored with at least a few pages in “The Great Redneck History of the U. S. of A.”…… Yee-Ha!……

SEEN JEK?……

MRambler — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:28:05 +0000

Anyone out there been lucky enough to have seen our Super-Tech Jek lately?…… I can’t catch-up with him……

First, he’s in Seattle, then I hear he’s in Ft. Worth – Then Houston – Then Seattle!….. Now I hear that he’s in Venice, Italy – Soon to be headed for Munich, Germany….. Has our Super-Tech turned into an International Playboy or what?……

Must be nice – How do you get a job like that?….. Send me an application – PLEASE……

Where’s Your Towel?…..

MRambler — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:53:27 +0000

According to the News this morning, today is “National Towel Day” in honor of Douglas Adams…… I’m hoping everyone in the MR Community knows who he is and the importance of your own personal towel….. If not, I hope you don’t get picked up by the Vorlons, and if you do, hopefully Ford Prefect will be there to give you a loaner towel….. ….And, “Thanks for all the Fish” you “Hitchhikers”, AND, Above All – DON’T PANIC…..

Goodbye to the Air God Of Morning Radio

J.J. — Tue, 11 May 2010 03:25:47 +0000

About 1986/7 I tuned into a new station here in OKC, And since 96X had earlier gone to a country format it bacame the only station with a Classic Rock/Album Format. Shortly after their sign on they launched their own morning show. The comic side kick was a guy named Greg Moore otherwise known as “The Eggman” I had met Greg on several occasions before his debut. But the star/Host of the show was a guy I had never heard of before a Guy Named Mark Shannon.
I was a fan from the 1st moment I heard this team. And I was a frequent caller to the Shannon and the Eggman Show. In fact one of my clips was used on Mark’s show until he was no longer on that station.
A few years later The Eggman moved on to another town But Mark Shannon remained in his role as the #1 morning show host in the OKC area thru several cohosts. In fact our fearless leader MR wrote a little jingle for Mark.
Ultimately he was betrayed by one of these cohosts, and fired from 107.7.
Mark has gone thru some tough times for several years. and finally landed the afternoon drive spot on 1000 KTOK AM.
Well It sorrows me that Mark Lost his battle with Leukemia on Saturday the 8th. He was at home surrounded by family and died peacefully.
The last time I spoke with Mark about 1.5 years ago the cancer was in remission and he was looking forward to building up the afternoon show to the level where the old morning show was.
The Memorial service will be Thursday 5/13
So from one of the origional fans a heartberaking good bye my old friend
and as I said back in 1989 “Shannon You Are A God” Vaya con dios me amigo.

The Stones aka Pirates…..

MRambler — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:29:58 +0000

Yep, The Glimmer Twins – Mick Jagger and Keith Richards – have been approached by Johnny Depp to appear as Pirates in the 4th installment of “Pirates of the Caribbean”….. That should be interesting to say the least….

Maybe they’ll write a new song called, “Sympathy for the Pirate”……

Quiz-a-Matic is back…..

MRambler — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:36:17 +0000

Since it looks like everybody wants the return of Quiz-a-matic, the first new QUIZ will be up at 2:00 pm CDT this Friday – 09APR10….. That’s noon for you West Coasters…….

I will review and post the rules as comments to this post prior to Posting the first quiz….. “The game’s afoot, Watson” ….. (who really said that?)……

Bud

lsdrobo — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:05:50 +0000

A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in California When suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.

The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit,Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the
cowboy, “If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you Give me a calf?”

Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, “Sure, why not?”

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Singular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.

The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe photo shop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg,
Germany.

Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an
MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.

Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP Laser Jet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, “You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.”

“That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,” says Bud.

He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then Bud says to the young man, “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?”

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, “Okay, why not?”

“You’re a Congressman for the U.S. Government”, says Bud.

“Wow! That’s correct,” says the yuppie, “but how did you guess that?”

“No guessing required.” answered the cowboy. “You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how
much smarter than me you are; and You don’t know a thing about how working people make a living -or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep.
….

Now give me back my dog.

National “Bubble Wrap” Day…..

MRambler — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:37:09 +0000

Yep, the last Monday in January has been named “Bubble Wrap Day”…… Originally designed to be used as wallpaper, yes, wallpaper!….. Some of that late ’50′s futuristic look of the future due to the intense interest in space travel mixed the fear of nuclear Holocaust with the Cold War going on with Russia….. As we all know, it made a much better packing material than wallpaper, so, here we are, some 50 odd years later with a holiday for packing material….. Who would’ve thought….. Is our IQ’s going down that fast?… Anyways, it’s fun to play with…..

The Red Dwarf fans out there will remember bubble wrap as the famous “Tension Sheet” invented by a schoolmate of Arnold Rimmer’s which is now super rich…. Rimmer goes back in time with the intention of convincing his grade school self to take a piece of bubble wrap to the patent office before his school mate….. You also get to see Dave’s younger self as leader of a rock band, and, hear his famous “Um” song…. I laugh just thinking about it – Time to get out the DVD and watch it….. If you’re not a Red Dwarf fan, you should be…. The new movie is great!……

It’s Cold Outside…..

MRambler — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:54:08 +0000

There’s no kind of atmosphere – I’m all alone, more or less – Let me fly far away from here – Fun, fun, fun – In the Sun, sun, sun – I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose – Drinking fresh mango juice – Goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes – Fun, fun, fun – In the Sun, sun, sun – Fun, fun, fun – In the Sun, sun, sun……..

RED DWARF IS BACK!!!!!!…… “Back to Earth” to be exact….. If you’re not a Red Dwarf Fan, there’s something seriously wrong with you…… BBC British humor at its best!…… Jek introduced it to me and I’ve been hooked ever since…. I have all eight (8) seasons PLUS the new one “Back to Earth”…… If you’re not familiar with Red Dwarf – Wake Up you SmegHead!!…….

MRRC

Sunn — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:43:48 +0000

These tune sure bring back some memories.

Ellie Greenwich, one of the most prolific song writers of the 60′s & 70′s, died Aug. 26
of a heart attack & pneumonia. She was 68. Here’s a list of only some of the songs she wrote:

“Leader of the Pack”
“Why Do Lovers Break Each Others Hearts?”
“Hanky Panky”
“Da Doo Ron Ron”
“Today I Met The Boy I’m Gonna Marry”
“River Deep, Mountain High”
“Christmas Baby (Please Come Home)”
“I Can Hear Music”
“Do Wah Diddy Diddy”
“Chapel of Love”
“Be My Baby”
“And Then He Kissed Me”

Also produced some of Neil Diamond’s early hits, like “Cherry Cherry”