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Post by dgriffin on Oct 8, 2008 18:22:45 GMT -5
Norbert becomes Category 4 hurricane in Pacificap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gEhzSsWOgWU_7qqk0Pi86kLVtWiwD93MIC480Norbert? Where the hell do they get these names? Will we have Brucie next year? Or Dashawn? And since hurricanes drift toward the US, still the melting pot of the world, won't we ever have Wadi'ah or Twalumba? The latter is a beautiful name from the Bemba tribe in Zambia. It means "I rejoice." And probably they're rejoicing that the hurricane isn't heading their way. Say, "Hurricane Twalumba's coming, Hurricane Twalumba's coming!" fast, three times. It was tough to even type it. 
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Post by stoney on Oct 9, 2008 12:10:56 GMT -5
I once knew a guy named Norbert. Everyone called him, "Nobby".
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Post by Clipper on Oct 9, 2008 22:08:31 GMT -5
There was a Norbert Seavey that was from Whitesboro School years ago. He also ran the convenience store and gas station at the intersection of 291 and 365 above Stittville.
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Post by dgriffin on Oct 9, 2008 23:01:43 GMT -5
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Post by dgriffin on Oct 10, 2008 7:30:11 GMT -5
Had I known Norbert was a friend of Blessed Godfrey of Cappenberg, I would have been more reverent. Blessed Godfrey played the ukelele and had a radio show in the 1940's. |
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Post by Clipper on Oct 10, 2008 7:40:31 GMT -5
My grandmother listened to Arthur Godfrey faithfully and daily for years on a little plastic radio that sat above the kitchen table on a little shelf. (while my grandpa listened to sports on the floor model radio in the living room (they called it the "parlor")
I can remember what Arthur Godfrey looked like from the early days of TV also.
I used to lay on a pillow in front of the floor model radio, and listen to the yankee games with my gramp, and loved the quality of the sound from the huge 12 or 14 inch speaker in the front of that old radio.
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Post by dgriffin on Oct 10, 2008 14:39:44 GMT -5
I can remember what Arthur Godfrey looked like from the early days of TV also. Me too. Before I started school, I'd lay up on the cupboard and watch my mother do her chores in the kitchen, which seemed to never end. She would always have the radio on. It began with WIBX news early in the morning, then Don McNeil and his Breakfast Hour, then Arthur Godfrey. After lunch were the soaps. Then Mr. Sunshine with western music from WRUN. |
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Post by dan on Oct 11, 2008 17:36:24 GMT -5
Just as a historical note, Frankfort Center FD made Arthur Godfrey an honorary member back in the 60's or 70's. I was little but I remember there was an article in the OD at the time about it. I have no idea why it happened, but somebody knew somebody and it was good PR. I'll be that Jon could find a copy of the article online if we asked nicely.
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Post by jon hynes on Oct 11, 2008 19:57:25 GMT -5
Arthur Godfrey - I'll be that Jon could find I thought hurricanes just had one 'first name'. |
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Post by jon hynes on Oct 11, 2008 20:05:52 GMT -5
I knew Norbert Winestein that owned Winston Auto Parts on Barnes Ave. Hardly a hurricane though.
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Post by jon hynes on Oct 11, 2008 20:06:50 GMT -5
Arthur WHO???
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Post by jon hynes on Oct 11, 2008 20:11:32 GMT -5
Fire Department Adds Arthur Godfrey
A childhood dream of radio and television personality Arthur Godfrey has been realized. He is now a full fledged fireman and he owes it all to the Frankfort Center Volunteer Fire Department which elected him last Friday.
Godfrey mentioned membership on WIBX (CBS) radio program Saturday just before going off the air at 11:00 a.m.
The idea of extending official membership started when Vincent Dudeck, Frankfort assistant fire chief of route 5S, Frankfort, was listening to Godfrey one morning last February as reminisced about his childhood dream of becoming a fireman when he grew up.
Dudeck decided to nominate him when Godfrey recalled how he used to go to fires and help firemen unwind the hose and perform other related duties. Godfrey made a point of the fact that although he helped, he was disappointed because the firemen would not permit him to ride on the truck. He was not a member of the company.
This statement moved Dudeck to arrange for Godfrey to become an official member of the Frankfort Center Volunteer Fire Department. He was elected unanimously at the next company meeting. Dudeck then wrote him a letter and included a membership card, a fireman's badge, a key and a booklet on the company's by-laws.
"We did not want to confer honorary membership." Dudeck said, "because we wanted it to be the real thing. His membership entitles him to all privileges shared by the other members of our fire department. This includes the right to drive the trucks as well as man them, and ownership of part of the company's equipment."
In the letter Dudeck said that" . . . if there was ever one man who should be able to fill his childhood dream, it is Arthur Godfrey, a man who has done so much for so many through his radio program."
Godfrey seemed moved by the gesture when he mentioned it on his half hour show.
According to Dudeck, the whole fire company is hoping that Godfrey will stop in one of these days to try out his new job.
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Post by jon hynes on Oct 11, 2008 20:13:34 GMT -5
GO TETERBORO !
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Post by dgriffin on Oct 11, 2008 20:15:49 GMT -5
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Post by jon hynes on Oct 11, 2008 20:29:14 GMT -5
That's the problem. Reading the Top 30 without the aid of Dyslexia.
You read the Punch First!
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