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Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

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Re: Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

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Post by dreamcompiler »

QuesnayJr wrote: post #48
ghaff wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Turkeys are one of the animals in that general category that, knowing what we know now, you look at them and you're like "How could smart scientists not look at them and not see that they are obviously a form of dinosaur?"

The idea that birds are descended from dinosaurs is nearly as old as evolution itself, first being proposed by Thomas Huxley in 1868 (Origin of the Species dates from 1859). The only reason there was a competing evolutionary theory is because it was erroneously thought that birds have a clavicle and dinosaurs don't, so instead it was proposed that birds and dinosaurs have a common ancestor, and that dinosaurs lost th…

But now we know birds didn't descend from dinosaurs. They are dinosaurs. The ones that lived.

Re: Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

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Post by SilentM68 »

PyWoody wrote: post #4
vibrio wrote: post #3

I can’t wait until Thanksgiving.

As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

Loved WKRP in Cincinnati. Always looked forward to the hog report. Not only can turkeys fly they bounce, too. A lot of unknowns, at the time, made appearances on that show before becoming famous themselves.

Re: Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

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Post by jamiek88 »

bombcar wrote: post #45
WalterBright wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The most horrible example is the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Early commercial VHS tapes of it have the original music. Later tapes, and the DVDs, have all the music replaced with just awful generic music. That bad music just makes it unwatchable. Music is an enormous factor in movies, I wonder why nobody mentions it. For example, the Lord of the Rings soundtrack is spectacular and adds greatly to the pleasure in watch…

I don’t know if perfect soundtracks would save your examples; I’d argue that the malaise infects everything: you can’t make a great soundtrack for a mediocre movie.

Yes you can! For example, The Bodyguard. Shite movie, second best soundtrack of all time and possibly the buggiest selling, I know it was at one point.

Re: Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

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Post by b112 »

wishfish wrote: post #32

Radio Retrofit took all the station breaks and song announcements from the show, combined them with the full length songs to create around 6 hours of WKRP radio. 3 hours of Johnny Fever and 3 hours of Venus Flytrap. MP3 downloads available. Really a brilliant idea. Johnny: https://www.awphooey.com/wkrp Venus: https://www.awphooey.com/venus

Huh.

I heard that they didn't license the original music for DVD, etc when the show ran, only for reruns, so that the DVDs and so on only have snippets of replacement music.

I wonder, is this replacement music, or the original tracks?

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Post by mason55 »

Auracle wrote: post #25
mauvehaus wrote: post #12

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They can, but they don't gain altitude so good. I had one fly across the road at top-of-windshield level. Since I figured it would just clear or just glance off, I did nothing to avoid it. Unfortunately, I had a roof rack on. Fortunately, I was able to find replacement parts for the rack on eBay. The turkey didn't appear to be harmed. After tumbling ass over teakettle to the ground, it walked into the field on the si…

The absolute favorite activity of my dog is to chase groups of turkeys that are in our yard. She’s only 15 pounds (and 15 years old now) and has never caught one, but I think being in the middle of a group of 20 turkeys all desperately trying to fly up to trees quickly is quite the experience for her. She’s never caught one, even the younger ones. It seems like they can actually fly easier than the adults.

I walked out one morning and had a whole flock of them on the pergola on our second story deck. I was pretty surprised that they managed to get up there, three stories off the ground.

At the same time, they dont seem to be able to fly well when they panic. I let my dogs out one morning not knowing there was a turkey in their fenced area. The turkey freaked out and flew straight into the fence. Never seen a dog move as fast as my 70lb chow/cattle dog mix moved that morning.

And, yes, he destroyed that turkey.

Re: Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

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Post by linsomniac »

esafak wrote: post #67

What did you love about this show?

It wasn't JUST the music, but the music was an incredible part of the show which has made the re-issues that replaced the music with other selections (because of the licensing) just not hit right.

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Post by brudgers »

Auracle wrote: post #25
mauvehaus wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They can, but they don't gain altitude so good. I had one fly across the road at top-of-windshield level. Since I figured it would just clear or just glance off, I did nothing to avoid it. Unfortunately, I had a roof rack on. Fortunately, I was able to find replacement parts for the rack on eBay. The turkey didn't appear to be harmed. After tumbling ass over teakettle to the ground, it walked into the field on the si…

The absolute favorite activity of my dog is to chase groups of turkeys that are in our yard. She’s only 15 pounds (and 15 years old now) and has never caught one, but I think being in the middle of a group of 20 turkeys all desperately trying to fly up to trees quickly is quite the experience for her. She’s never caught one, even the younger ones. It seems like they can actually fly easier than the adults.

I am guessing you live in a place where turkeys were introduced as game birds (such as California). Because in their native range turkeys are wary of humans and other preditors. That’s why turkey hunting involves calls and camouflage and patience…

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Post by QuesnayJr »

dreamcompiler wrote: post #61
QuesnayJr wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The idea that birds are descended from dinosaurs is nearly as old as evolution itself, first being proposed by Thomas Huxley in 1868 (Origin of the Species dates from 1859). The only reason there was a competing evolutionary theory is because it was erroneously thought that birds have a clavicle and dinosaurs don't, so instead it was proposed that birds and dinosaurs have a common ancestor, and that dinosaurs lost th…

But now we know birds didn't descend from dinosaurs. They are dinosaurs. The ones that lived.

We don't "know" that, because that's not a category of thing we can know or not know. It's a matter of semantics of whether we consider birds dinosaurs, just like it's a matter of semantics of whether we consider people a kind of fish.
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