Ah, newsreaders.

[active_apathy]

There's a newsreader on the radio here who's, well, not very good. In the past there's been such wondrous news items as a football team ravished by injuries. This morning:

"...the strike from the stagehands union has ended, allowing carpenters, electricians, and sound and lightning technicians to return to work."

Sound and lightning technicians. Lightning. As in stagehand!Thor? Did I maybe miss the part of the Prose Edda that details the Æsir's production of The Pirates of Penzance at Bilskirnir?

I'd start making a list of every time she says something like that, but I need those last few shreds of my faith in humanity.

Comments

[crackedwraith.livejournal.com]

Dude. I wanna be a lightning technician now. Do I get hazard pay?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Well, you would get hazard pay, but they offset that against the sheer awesomeness of being a lightning tech.

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's like the triangle player in the orchestra - there's not much call for them, but when they *do* get a part they work it, man.

*ting*

*tingtingtingtingting*

*krakoom!*

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Mm, yes. The triangle.

"Oh, hi. You're in the orchestra?"
"Yep! I play... um, thetriangle."
"I... didn't quite catch that."
"Thetriangle."
"Pardon?"
"THE TRIANGLE, OK! HAPPY NOW?"
"Um, crazy. So, what is it you do."
"Sit there, mostly, but sometimes I get a bit to play, and then I go off."
"With the triangle?"
"STOP PERSECUTING MEEEEE!"

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Lightning techs must have a sound and fury box.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Mm, probably. And it's the kind of effect that'd make the audience's hair stand on end.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

ravished by injuries

Kinky!

[epiphany-gun.livejournal.com]

I'd start making a list of every time she says something like that, but I need those last few shreds of my faith in humanity.

No, you don't. Make the list. It'll be awesome.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

...fine.