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"What's this here sauce" was what this guy called Worcestershire Sauce.
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The scary part is that someone actually did it at least one time to get that lable put on there. Ya really have to wonder these days.
I used to listen to Justin Wilson on WNOE out of New Orleans at night before going to sleep when I was a kid. WNOE and WLS (Chicago) couldn't be received during the day, but the FCC let 'em crank up their output at night so I could get them. I still remember knowing that if I heard static from lightning, there was rain on the way. I think my favorite story of his is the one about him taking a frog away from a snake for fish bait and giving the snake a sip of beer because he felt bad for taking the frog. The snake brought another frog. WNOE also had a weekly installment of Jerry Clower. "HAAAWW now. Just shoot up here amongst us, one of us got ta have some relief!". I think my favorite Jerry Clower tale is that of Sunday dinner and Uncle Versey (re)learning table manners about taking the last piece of chicken off the plate when the candle blew out. When the candle was re-lit, there was poor Uncle Versey with 12 forks in the back of his hand. Another of my favorites is Willie P. Richardson's phone pranks. I nearly wrecked when I heard the one about the "Seein' Eye Monkey"."What's this here sauce" was what this guy called Worcestershire Sauce.
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Where do I sign up? I got double dose. My mother loved the show and so did my grandparents. Didn't matter where I was, I got Lawrence Welk on Sunday nights.
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Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, just about everyone older than me as a kid. Guess you've got to hand it to the guy, he was a popular entertainer in his time.
I cannot remember a single thing he did that I really enjoyed.
.Our TV had that and gems like Perry Como, Sing Along With Mitch, etc. Now I remember why we liked to play outside
I guess he did entertain SOME people. Just not those of us wanting to watch something different. Another show that really got on my nerves was HeeHaw. Gloom, Despair, and Agony on me. But, I was the youngest in the house, and still had ZERO input as to what was on TV until I left for college. More correctly, was sent somewhere else from whence I went to college. I spent the summer with my grandparents after I graduated high school. My grandfather and I used to find something wrong with the mower or a project that my grandmother needed done when LW was on so she could watch it in peace and we didn't have to suffer through it. He wasn't much into LW either. We had done just that one time, and I heard her calling him. He wore a hearing aid, and I didn't think he heard her, because he just kept right on doing whatever it was we'd started. I finally told him "Bigdaddy, Bigmama's calling for you." His reply: "Yeah, I know." And he didn't miss a beat on our little project. She made him change his hearing aid battery when we had dinner, and we both had to choke back laughing about it the rest of the evening.Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, just about everyone older than me as a kid. Guess you've got to hand it to the guy, he was a popular entertainer in his time.
I cannot remember a single thing he did that I really enjoyed.
A oneah and a twoah ...... I much preferred Ed Sullivan. A really really BIG show.
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That reminded me of the last time interviewed for a job. It was for an internal promotion to my first management position. Had a lengthy interview with a regional manager, second moderately long interview with the department VP, and finally a half day interview jointly with both of them. I’d worked with the regional manager for about 8 years and with the VP in various capacities for about 15 years. The only other candidates had similar time with them. A couple rounds of interviews made sense but by the joint interview it seemed pretty ridiculous being everyone involved knew everyone else’s work product, personality, and pretty much everything else about each other, both relevant stuff and irrelevant.
Toward the end of the joint interview, the VP asked, barring upper management, what the most difficult job in the department is. Told him even not barring upper management what the most difficult job was. He asked why. Told him why and why it wasn’t a close call. He said he disagreed and did I want to know his thoughts. I was done with this dog and pony show, so I told him the truth: No, I didn’t want to hear his thoughts because if he disagreed all that showed was he had been insulated from the front lines so long he’d lost touch with reality in the trenches and he was wrong.
He then asked the last question of the interview, why was I better than the other candidates. Told him I might could answer if he listed them off. He said he wouldn't name them. Told him then that’s not a question that can be answered due to insufficient information, but these are your three candidates you have left, one you’re not seriously considering for reasons I don’t know, but any of the three of us would do a good job in my opinion and I’m not going to say anything bad about either of the other candidates. There’s no “bad” decision on that list and you knew all of us almost as well as your family before the 14 hours of interviews so just make a damn decision. That was the end of the interview and I was quite confident I would not be offered the promotion but might get encouragement to find other employment.
Years later I was at an out of town meeting, sitting at a bar with the VP. He asked if I wanted to know why they offered me the promotion instead of the other two short listers. Told him no, but being he was half drunk I was pretty sure he was going to tell me anyway. He said the other two at least acted like they wanted his opinion on the hardest job and after hearing his explanation they changed their minds and agreed with him even though my answer was obviously correct. He had a couple similar questions he asked them to see if they’d consistently change their position to match his and they did. He and the regional manager didn’t want a yes man who would agree with them even if they were clearly wrong. First thing they realized I was right about was they interviewed way too long and just needed to make a decision after the second round of interviews.
They were both good managers that had the confidence to not always be right. Not many like that.
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