Three Things

Dave Allen · Post by **Dave Allen** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:45 pm

For those of us that are actually on air daily or have been in the past I present the following thread.

Name three things you could not get through a board shift without. Mine would be

1. Coffee (I am Dave in the MORNING after all)

2. Three writing instruments ( One pen, one Sharpie, one highlighter..don't ask)

3. Post-It Notes

David Paleg · Post by **David Paleg** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:54 pm

Since I was just a board operator, the three things would be:

1. Two-liter of Big K soft drink (that's where I got my caffeine instead of the cans in the vending machine.)

2. Sunday Gazette-Mail for the larger crossword puzzle.

3. Small can of Whiskas cat food for the stray that hung around the outside of the station (Bill the cat, named after the Bloom County character). He just got the dry food from the office staff the rest of the week.

Lee · Post by **Lee** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:19 pm

1. A computer so I could surf the net while the VT plays away...

2. A close-by bathroom to use to remove the excess Taco Bell...

3. Some sort of portable video game system to waste time...

Lester · Post by **Lester** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:27 pm

1. 2 liter bottle of Pepsi.

2. A pizza bread from Gino's.

3. Condoms.

Arp2 · Post by **Arp2** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:42 pm

Sorry to interrupt, but I'd like to point out that caffeine is a diuretic and, thus, can easily send your voice in the raspy direction. If you're going to be consuming caffeine before and/or during voice work, you might want to be downing fairly significant amounts of plain water at the same time to try to avoid a dry mouth and/or throat.

As an added benefit, you will find, over time, that you are able to go farther and farther without stopping while making roadtrips.

Real conversation:

Longtime female friend -- "You must have a huge bladder."

Me -- "I think I probably do now, yeah. But, unfortunately, the 'huge' stops right there."

(It was on a multi-car, group roadtrip, and I never wanted to stop...stupid females and their tiny, little bladders, though.....stop every couple of hours! Killed my "making incredible time" average speed, those females did!

)

Okay, back to reality..............

Big Dawg · Post by **Big Dawg** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 4:29 am

For that laryngealisation, or, glottal fry:
1. Zig Zag
2. The "kind bud"
3. Bic lighter

Bob Campbell · Post by **Bob Campbell** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 4:55 am

1. 2 cups of coffee between 4:15 and 4:45
2. Water bottle
3.Lucky pen ( must be used till it runs out of ink, when it passes its luck on to the next pen).

Arp has a good point about water. I try to drink a couple quarts during the show, pretty much drinking before each break.

herdgirl72 · Post by **herdgirl72** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:57 am

Let's see...

1. Computer with internet(must see what's happening in the world)

2. My 7am Diet Pepsi/Coke & salty snack followed by chocolate

3. A friggin pen that friggin works that hasn't been friggin stolen from my friggin desk...

Dave Harman · Post by **Dave Harman** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:16 am

Lester wrote:1. 2 liter bottle of Pepsi.

2. A pizza bread from Gino's.

3. Condoms.

Wow. Did you and Lacy share when you were in Morgantown?

SPIKE NESMITH! · Post by **SPIKE NESMITH!** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:48 am

1 - Coffee.
2 - the weather.
3 - Coffee.

genlock · Post by **genlock** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:04 am

Little green screwdriver.
Can of WD-40
Cup of coffee.

Big Media · Post by **Big Media** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:22 am

1. A .35 cent RC (used to be a freakin quarter) from the vendomatic.
2. A pen, pencil, or other writing instrument typically brought in from the car because these were nowhere to be found.
3. Someone's headphones. I could never seem to remember mine. Don't bother with Big John's, though. He would coyly leave them available to the free world in his production box but they never worked.

Also, a working DCS was beneficial. This was often more difficult to come across than a working, usable writing instrument.

Lester · Post by **Lester** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:40 am

Big Dawg wrote:For that laryngealisation, or, glottal fry:
1. Zig Zag
2. The "kind bud"
3. Bic lighter

I tried that once... I ended up playing the Dick Clark countdown records out of order.

Hoosier Daddy · Post by **Hoosier Daddy** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:48 am

1. Diet Coke. Cold. Preferably a 12 pack.
2. Monty's Pizza.
3. My own personal headphones. None of the studio 'phones would ever do ...

Dave Allen · Post by **Dave Allen** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:30 am

I can't believe anyone would consider wearing Big John's headphones. They always smelled like a combination of feet and cheese.

genlock · Post by **genlock** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:34 am

I dont need a pen cause I get one from someones desk.
I have quite a collection at home.

Dave Allen · Post by **Dave Allen** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:36 am

So you're the one, you evil bastard!

I don't care what anyone says getting up at 3:30 six days a week earns me the right to drink as much coffee as I feel I need.

Bob Campbell · Post by **Bob Campbell** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:48 am

Three Other Things.

1. Never leave your headphones where someone else can get them. I lock mine in my office.
2. Same with your lucky pen.
3. Never wash your coffee cup. It keeps people from using/stealing it.
I wash mine twice a year. Sure, I know you're saying, "but the germs",
but they're MY germs.

Scott Reppert · Post by **Scott Reppert** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:14 pm

1. Coffee
2. A bag of "Wallace's Wash Pot Pork Skins"
3. "Giorgio Moroder: The Best Of The Early Years" CD

Please keep in mind that the ingestion of three Yann's Hot Dogs must FOLLOW your airshift and not occur prior to or during. George Turley always used to say that "the worst thing to ever happen to radio announcers in Fairmont was to put THAT hot dog stand within 200 feet of a radio station (WMMN)"...

AARON SCOTT · Post by **AARON SCOTT** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:31 pm

1. DR. PEPPER ON ICE
2. BOX OF PORN
3. HUNTING RIFLE