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Quote from: 2styx on May 25, 2012, 11:31:29 AM
I have considered editing the audio, editing out Noory's input so that I can listen the fabulous guests without the Nooroyance.

I've learned a new word today. We should really upload Nooroyance onto Wikipedia and provide a detailed definition and explanation for the uninitiated.

Quote from: Lovely Bones on May 21, 2012, 09:52:32 AM
Johnnie B, gosh, I wish I weren't a day late and a dollar short with this news. 

I was flipping channels yesterday looking for my baseball game and discovered that "Eve's Bayou" was on--but it was the last 40 minutes of the film and no way to get a quick message to you (plus you can't miss the first 2/3 of the film . . .).

Do you get BET network on your cable?  I've found this is one of their "we recycle this movie regularly" movies.  If you don't have netflix or some other easy way to rent, you might want to keep an eye open.  I've probably watched it 3 times and found new things to question each viewing--just one of those "little" films that kind of grabs you and quite an accomplishment for a first-time film maker, IMO.

Thanks, Lovely Bones. I happened to procure a copy of this film on DVD, and I will most certainly be watching it this weekend. Thanks again for the heads-up on this film.

Quote from: 2styx on May 25, 2012, 11:31:29 AM
In the past week or two listening to Noory has become unbearable. The two major sources of irritation: he is unable to stop himself from telling illustrative stories taken from his own experience. He now repeats himself, telling some of the same stories. He is not a good story teller and I keeping thinking loudly: "I'm NOT listening so that I can hear your stories or your opinions your speculations." George gets in the way of his guests. Also irritating is the atrocious level of interviewing competency. Say a guest will explain nicely how she or he got into the field of X. When they finish explaining George will say, "What got you into the field of X?" Some on this thread have called him out as asking "cue card" questions but what it looks like ... and just this past two weeks I've wondered if he has a substance abuse problem... it looks to me as if he lacks imagination, or suffers diminished intellectual capacity, an inability to formulate questions that could get more deeply into the mind/subject of his guest.

I'm sure George Noory is a great guy. I remember his first session with Richard Hoagland. Hoagland (as I remember it) could barely hold back his impatience and annoyance with having to talk to someone so lacking Art's intelligence and skill. But over time Hoagland's attitude changed and now he, Hoagland, just goes with the flow.

I have considered editing the audio, editing out Noory's input so that I can listen the fabulous guests without the Nooroyance.

Consider this. I can't remember the sequence of Art's retirements, comeback, replacements etc. But I remember quite clearly that Noory came aboard about the same time as -what?- Gulf War One? 9/11? Afghanistan or Iraq? I remember Art on air strongly denying any validity to the idea that 9/11 was an inside job. If he truly believes that I can imagine that he would welcome a retirement and not having to deal with 9/11 conspiracy theories. Or did Art deny the inside job knowing what could happen to a very public person supporting the inside job theory? Right or wrong, I connected Art's disappearance to some important world event.

And enter George Noory who appears too stupid to pose a threat to any Power That Be. My apologies to George for sounding as if I have no compassion but the fact remains that George is a very poor interviewer. He'd probably be much better is he was playing his favorite hits and telling little stories about the music, when he first heard this song or when he once talked to this or that musician.

I used to look forward to downloading shows and listening to fantastic guests but now I can barely take 15 minutes of the inane statements and questions.

Welcome to the club, 2styx. You have pretty much captured the collective feeling and opinion that we here have of George Noory and what the show has become. I certainly cannot speak for everyone, nor is that my right, but I will say that I eventually came to look upon Coast to Coast, especially when hosted by Noory, as surreal radio comedy of the absurd. If you step back and then approach the show with your funny bone activated, you perhaps will see it in a whole new light, and get a laugh or twelve from the insanity of it all.

Mind you, that said, there are times when I too cannot take it (the instances where my funny bone is not in working order), and promptly switch him off.

Quote from: Frys Girl on May 25, 2012, 05:26:30 AM
Asia is a mess. I'm so glad to be American.

Our country, America, has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the Western world. Approximately 48 million Americans are on the food stamp program. Millions of Americans are not on any health care program, and face a living hell if they ever fall ill. Millions are out of work. Five out of ten American children (and their families) live well below the poverty line - many in squalor. Hundreds of thousands of Americans reside in tent cities. Our urban crime rate is appalling. Many of our inner cities resemble bombed out Beirut. Racism and hatred abounds in this country, thanks to the divisive organized religious cults that thrive here. Many Americans need to pull their heads out of the sand and take a good look around them at what this country of ours has become.

Our America is not the be-all and end-all of the world's nations. We have a hell of a long way to go.

Aside from Linda Moulton Howe's nails-down-a-chalkboard voice, for some reason she doesn't annoy me as much as most of the other guests do. I agree that she really doesn't at all like George. There have been several times when George has asked her yet another inane question, and you can hear her let out a sigh before responding. Cracks me up.

Oh where, oh where is the psychic of Cleveland, Mary Ann Winkowski? Perhaps she's collecting more recipes from the dead and taste testing them in her kitchen.

Mary Ann Winkowski is the doppelgänger of Hooterville's Doris Ziffel, mother of Arnold Ziffel.

Mary-Ann Winkowski



Doris Ziffel

Quote from: kf5iwe on May 24, 2012, 05:07:59 PM
Wait a minute now, I like wrestling and Love NASCAR and monster truck rallies. Why didn't you just insult my dog?

As an act of chivalry, allow me to step in and suggest that perhaps the dear lady's father meant that one can only imagine the broad and eclectic mind that can ingest and assimilate the wondrous display of courage, strength, and virility that is required for one to engage in and bear witness to these time honored masculine feats of stupendous American glory?


My dog simply adores the literary works of John Donne.

Quote from: Jasmine on May 24, 2012, 01:01:48 PM

Off topic for one second. I love this quote by Henry David Thoreau:

"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."

Delicious!

How wonderfully Edwardian of you, dear Lady Jasmine. How civilized. I picture Darjeeling tea and scones served, too.  I rather like Thoreau. Brilliant mind. George should have him on some night to discuss Zyptocruology.

Mmmmm....Blossum Dearie and Etta James. Great picks, guys.

How about some earthy Eartha Kitt?

Eartha Kitt- Ain't Misbehavin'

I must say, it's rather cozy in here. I very much like both the ambiance and the performers. A classy joint far from the madding crowd.

Quote from: Lovely Bones on May 18, 2012, 08:18:44 AM
Etta James, "Sunday Kind of Love"!!

First heard this while watching "Eve's Bayou," which I first checked out because Jurnee Smollett was in it as a child and I loved her in the last two seasons of Friday Night Lights.  "Eve's Bayou" turned out to be one of those weirdly haunting movies that stuck with me, in part because of the music. 

Lovely Bones, thank you for mentioning this film. I, an avid lover of good cinema, had never even heard of it. The title alone intrigued me, and I looked it up on imdb. Wow. I am most definitely going to hunt this one down. I don't know how "Eve's Bayou" never came onto my radar screen. It looks very compelling. Thanks again!

Jasmine, what's this I see? You ordering a double vodka martini? In YOUR condition? Make it a quadruple with six olives...you're drinking for two now.


Keep the great selections coming, WCG. I'll search for some suitable contributions.

My George Noory Friday thought...

Have you ever looked at or listened to someone, and just known that the wheel was turning, but the hamster was dead?

Quote from: Jasmine on May 17, 2012, 10:59:07 AM

One gem that I read that just popped into my mind is the superlative 84, Charing Cross Road, by the prolific and late Helene Hanff. This one is for book lovers everywhere, especially those who love to hunt around in used and antique book stores - the wonderful old fashioned ones - not the Barnes & Noble type. This book is the result of a true life relationship that spanned between 1949 and 1968 between Hanff, a struggling freelance New York City based writer, and Frank Doel, a London based antiquarian book buyer. Their entire relationship is initiated and sustained by written letters that fly both ways across the Atlantic (the book contains 99% of all their correspondence - it is the book). What begins as a simple rare book request in 1949 from Helene to the Marks & Co. bookshop in London morphs into a deeply profound, mutually rewarding, and heartfelt platonic nineteen year friendship between the ballsy, aggressive (yet sensitive) Helene and the quietly reserved, dignified and eloquent Frank.

One (of many) beautiful aspects of this book is how the people who inhabit Frank Doel's British post-war world (work colleagues, his wife, etc.) are wondrously drawn into Helene's life - again, via written letters...posted the old fashioned way.

A simply lovely and compelling story that can be read in one sitting...and read again should you require affirmation in human kindness and genuine friendship.

You know, you and my wife would get along famously. She too loves Alice Munro's books, and also this one by Hanff. Have you ever seen the 1987 film version of "84" with Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft? If not, you have to check it out.

Quote from: Jasmine on May 17, 2012, 10:59:07 AM(Helene Hanff quote from the book)
“I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.”

Beautiful. And so very true.

I'll come back with my own literary recommendations soon.

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on May 17, 2012, 03:21:05 PM

        Three books that I'm very fond of and recommend to any sorry soul who is like-minded.
     

            Al Kooper "Backstage Stage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards" is a very entertaining account of the great, but increasingly obscure musician, that played with many legends from Bob Dylan to the Stones to George Harrison. Funny, self-effacing and full of bile to those who he thinks screwed him.

         Maury Terry's "The Ultimate Evil" he takes a lot of leaps in this book, connecting Son Of Sam with Manson etc...but some of the evidence is pretty compelling. David Berkowitz was clearly not acting alone and was part of a larger(how much is at dispute) network of psychos operating in the mid 70's to mid 80's if this book is to be believed.

Thanks, Eddie. Both of these sound intriguing. I've jotted the titles down. Gracias.

Quote from: Wild Card Guy on May 17, 2012, 02:56:54 PM
Donna summer was a beautiful woman with an equally beautiful voice, a sensational voice.

I for one am very sad to hear of this remarkably talented woman's death. She had an absolutely phenomenal presence and puts many of today's so-called talents to shame. It's not about her genre, it's about her talent.

I too wasn't a huge disco fan, but dear God, just listen to her fantastic  1999 rendition of Con Te Partiro. I'm sorry she she is no longer on this earth.

Donna Summer I Will Go With You Con Te Partiro 1999

I think I discovered the source for George's nightly news content. Even though this stellar publication is now defunct, I'm sure there's a stack of these in the men's washroom at the C2C studio...sitting right beside the toilet.

Quote from: ziznak on May 15, 2012, 03:18:58 AM
Ian would actually be my choice for next host... that's not saying much looking through our options but as far as being a good host asking the right shit and STAYING ON TOPIC he's much better than snoory's constant biographical references.

I am no fan of Ian (for the myriad of well founded reasons which others have outlined on  forum) but I will say, ziznak, that if it came down to choosing between George and Ian...God...yeah, I'd take Ian. At least the man can articulate and formulate topic-related questions - a large percentage of the time.

Quote from: Sardondi on May 15, 2012, 10:08:04 AM
I want to like Ian, and in fact listened to a good bit of his Sunday Night show on Streamlink...at least until he started talking over his guest. Because it drives me crazy that he talks over his guests and interrupts them as much as he does. It's like he's doing his interviews as if he was playing Chicken on the highway; but instead of two people driving head on to see who's "chicken" and will swerve out of the way first to prevent an accident, Ian will steamroiller ahead with his constant talking and will not stop. It's always the guest who gives in as the "chicken" and let's Ian have the floor.

And when Ian does this he's usually just restating what the guest has just said. I mean, he's showing us he understands the guest and can synthesize his points well, but it doesn't help me enjoy the show more. It's just Ian showing off. Which is just ego...or being a pompous jackass.

Good analogy, and I completely agree with you. The sad thing is...he's still better than Noory! And damn if that isn't saying something.

LOL! The Canadians are just as great as the British when it comes to truly zany comedy. That shopping mall skit was so risque, I can't believe it was shown up there on TV? Anyway, I played these sketches for my wife. She thought they were absolutely hilarious. Thanks!

Quote from: stevesh on May 15, 2012, 02:38:58 AM

Not Noory. Every question Simple George asked was stupid, meaningless and/or repetitive. Twilight Zone, The Jetsons, even Noory's father's death made an appearance. It was obvious more than once that while the guest was speaking, Noory was frantically searching the Internet for his next non sequitur. Of course, they also had to blabber about the 'speerchul' and whether accepting evolution means we can't believe in god.

A complete clusterfuck of what could have been a great show, and if you can listen to it and still defend Simple George, I feel sorry for you.

George: "Tell me...could...could...Rosie the maid from The Jetsons be working in someone's house today, and we just don't know it yet? Somewhere in America? Do we have the technology for Rosie?".

I love it (but don't) when you can actually hear the sound of the keys being banged on George's computer (Let's not bring up the 100 monkeys banging away on keyboards for 100 years = Homer's The Odyssey analogy) as the guest is speaking. Just one of many Noory eye-rolls from me. I mean, how bloody RUDE!

Noory can take his fucking Twilight Zone references and SHOVE THEM UP HIS AMERICAN-LEBANESE ASS! Please pardon my language, but I'm so fucking sick and tired of this severely mentally challenged amoeba and the fucking Rod Serling/Billy Mumy chip that is implanted in his skull. And I'm sick of him interrupting interviews with his own fucking lame life anecdotes.

And yes, as many of us realize, Noory isn't even damn well listening to his guests a large percentage of the time.  I swear I can sense when this Dr. Seuss' Ass in the Hat is just sitting in his studio chair and staring off into space or "googling" around on the net, or conversing in Helen Keller sign language with Tommy through the studio glass window when a guest is speaking. Or, He probably just sits there while the guest is yapping, and stares at the wall.

Another thing that pisses me off to no end is Noory's unexplainable laughter during interviews - he chuckles or laughs at a guest's remark(s) - and the remark(s) were in no way funny at all. Someone could be speaking about cancer and chemotherapy, and George will actually laugh at the topic-related remark!

Quote from: Agent : Orange on May 14, 2012, 05:15:56 AM
Somewhere in time, Dan Aykroyd just blew a load

According to Steve *Four Quacks* Quayle and the ancient Hindu Sanskrit, Lady Krystal Methina Skullz is a time traveler. Her ancient Hindu name is Zul, which roughly translates into modern English as "dopamine". She wears many masks; in her current incarnation she performs lap and pole dances, yet her true identity is that of eternal guardian. Krystal/Zul's current earthbound mission is that of the secret Gatekeeper of the Coast to Coast Crypt of Very Intelligent Stuff. She has long sought the Keymaster, the one, the only one, who can open the crypt and subsequently send George Noory back...somewhere in time. The opening of the Coast to Coast crypt will then liberate the multitude of frustrated and angry listeners who seek salvation and a return of intelligent repartee on the airwaves.

Ghostbusters: Zul seeks the Keymaster

My dear Lady Macbeth,

I bow before thee and I shall rise to the challenge thou presents us with!

Coast to Coast is but a walking shadow,
A poor player named Noory
that struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more.
It is a tale of ghosts, witches, angels,  aliens,
and dark conspiracies
told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing!

Quote from: HAL 9000 on May 13, 2012, 04:54:06 PM
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Hey, Hal 9000! I can remote view your breasts up there in Alaska all the way from my backyard here on the east coast! I spy...with my remote viewing, perverted, sex maniac...uh...scientifically researching eye...something...wait..wait...focusing...something... 32C...wait...TWO 32Cs! And you're not wearing a bra! This is unbelievable!

And no jokes about my wife's potato salad...it was simply mouth-watering. Very creamy. I couldn't get enough of it.

And sorry, guys, no pics. I'm a refined, dignified gentleman with class.

Quote from: Sardondi on May 13, 2012, 01:45:26 PM

He always seems so surprised and helpless when something hasn't worked.

Poor George - continually caught off guard by life.

Indeed. And the thing is you don't know whether to laugh, get angry, or just feel abject pity for this exceptionally poor excuse for a radio program host.
It's just pathetic on so many levels...as we all know.

Abiotic lactation, Ed Dames zeroing in on global globes, tuna forks shoved up George's ass, Jasmine's impending pregnancy gas, Krystal Methina Skullz smoking Pall Malls down at the Pussy Palace, bewbs, cans, peeks, pork bellies, frontal lobes, etc. Yep, just another day her in Nooryworld! Hilarious posts, everyone!

Well, it being Sunday afternoon, my wife and I decided to play the C2C Alien Abduction Game in our bedroom. She extracted three ounces of semen from me, and I implanted a chip in her. She claims she was momentarily taken to another world. Then we both came back down to earth. I mowed the lawn while she made potato salad for dinner tonight.

Quote from: 11angeleyes11 on May 10, 2012, 04:29:24 PM
On December 21, 2012, something's gonna happin, and it will be big, I can feel it my groin.

What a coincidence...or perhaps it's not a coincidence, or maybe there's no coincidences, but I gotta tell ya, I'm right now, at this very moment feeling something big growing in my groin, too! Unbelievable!

Quote from: 11angeleyes11 on May 10, 2012, 04:29:24 PM

I know the Mayan truth, the calendar will end, and then the secret will be revealed. 

The Mayan's were smart, instead of making another calendar, the secret Mayan code word will be revealed by George.  It will be given out to the masses, "Repeato calendro."  In Mayan/mixed espanol it means "Repeat the calendar."  Go back to the beginning, go back to day one of the calendar and do it again.  The virgin will be put on for sacrifice, but George will rescue, and will not be heard from the rest of the night and on into 2013.

Klaatu barada nikto!
Klaata barada nikto!
Klaata barada nikto!

Quote from: Paper*Boy on May 10, 2012, 01:06:50 PM
So it turns out the Mayans had plans for the next calendar after the current one runs out this year.  Since the gloom and doom arriving with the upcoming end of the calendar was George's self stated raison d'être, I suggest he retire now.  Today would be good. 

It might be fun for someone to call in and catch him flat-footed on this.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/10/11639788-maya-calendar-workshop-documents-time-beyond-2012?lite/

Fascinating link, thanks, Paper Boy.  I enjoyed perusing that. Yet as for Snoory being called out by his back feet, you know damn well he's one the biggest flip-floppers and back peddler's out there.  He's the George Costanza of the airwaves. The man possesses no concrete ideas, beliefs, convictions, or thoughts, simply due to the fact he does not possess the required mental faculties or ethics. Snoory will simply announce on-air that...

"You know sumpthin'? I alwaysh had the mosht shneakiesht shuspishion that this whole Mayan calendar thing jusht didn't have any shubshtance to it at all! Even my dad, God resht his soul, always said, George, he said, ya just never know about what people say they know. You have to know the truth before you can believe! And ya know what? A lot of people didn't know...a lot of people who shudda known but they jusht couldn't. I always said what if there'sh another time dimenshion that exists after 2012? People said, George, you're crazy, but I knew....I just knew. I knew since I wush a small kid back in Detroit and looking up at  Neptune and Pluto on a dark night.  A dimenshion that Richard C. Hoagland, our science advisor, alwaysh speaks of and where Jim Marrs says the shadow people live. And what about Bigfoot? So it jusht goesh to show ya that it's always sumpthin. And remember, folks, you heard it hear firsht! Coming up, Major Ed Dames and his doomshday remote viewing propheshies! Get ready for that!"

Sitting in the chair at the barber shop and having an inner meltdown as  he spends more and more time each visit clipping inner ear hairs, and discovering new ones growing on my ear lobes. That, and the introduction to nostril hairs.

Being engaged in conversation with someone and sensing a wet or crusted booger (or a cluster of boogers) sitting at the edge of one or both nostrils, with a crazed desire to remove them whilst engaged in said conversation. Most dreadful, really.

As well, and at the risk of sheer vulgarity, finding myself in a public or professional setting and having the utmost and dire need to expel a large amount of methane gas....the buildup of pressure is most uncomfortable.

Hey! Congrats, Jasmine, you sinful, unmarried, barefoot and pregnant attention whore!!    Just kidding. That's wonderful, wonderful news. You'll love being a parent!

Although, at the risk of sounding gauche, are you absolutely positive that your fiance is the father of your child?

Quote from: Jasmine on May 09, 2012, 02:10:49 PM
Trust me,  b_dubb, my fiance and I are already ahead of you on this one. I denied it with all my will up to today, and tried to pass this all off as just weird food cravings...then reality set in. I think I could be preggerz!!! Nervous yet excited! I actually went out today and bought a home pregnancy test! YIKES! And my wedding is scheduled for this September! My dad is going to crack up laughing if this turns out to be the case...my mom...she's going to have to sit down in a nice comfortable armchair if I have to break it to her that her only daughter is going to be wearing a queen size white dress!

My dear woman, me also thinks you're with child. My wife had those intense food cravings too when she was in the first trimester of  her pregnancy with our son. She drove me nuts with the timings of them - between 2:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m.!

GOOD LUCK!

Quote from: ManiacMatt on February 21, 2012, 11:43:30 AM
Hoagland's BS really is insulting!  I was familiar with that Frasier episode and when Hoagie began overdramatizing I wanted to kick his hyper-delusional ass. It's a sitcom!  Does hoagie think that nobody has seen it or remembers it?  Ridiculous. What happened to that time capsule from ancient egypt that was called Elenin?  Oh, that's right, it was just a small comet and not some world changing artifact from an advanced, ancient civilization sending a message to warn us about 2012.  Sorry Richie, you have officially jumped the shark.

To me, Hoagland is the little old lady from Pasadena. I especially get a kick when he gets his knickers in a twist and his old lady temper flares on-air...his voice pitch raises and he actually screeches like...well, like...

Jan and Dean - Little Ol' Lady From Pasadena

George Noory's hatred of animals is quite appalling, to say the least. As Wild Card Guy stated, his sickening "take" on animals and their plights reveal a very disturbing character flaw. Quite frankly, it gives me the creeps.

Quote from: Jasmine on February 16, 2012, 03:41:50 PM
LOL! So true. I'm afraid, Mr. McPhallus, that the female species is a most complicated one (of our own doing), and at times most unbecoming to the male species...and to other members of the female tribe. Which explains why almost all of my closest friends are of the male persuasion. I have found that, with men, for the most part, you know where you stand on almost all issues. With women? Ah, now, there's the quintessential paradox!

Hey, Jasmine? Would you like to come out here and give a lecture on women's issues to my single male friends...and even some married ones? They're in desperate need of enlightenment. I'll provide coffee, soda, and sandwiches.


Here's my confusing word and its equally confusing definition of the day:

Rectilinear - "a tessellation of the Euclidean plane."

Now how on earth could someone use this word in a sentence that would include George Noory?

Quote from: Gassy Man on February 16, 2012, 07:30:24 AM
I'm tenured at a community college and taught part-time for years as well at the big university where I did my graduate work; I score for Advanced Placement tests and have friends who teach around the country and the world -- I can tell you immaturity is not just an issue with 17-year-olds.  I and friends get plenty of 30-, 40-, and 50-year-olds that are just as clueless these days and just as immature.  It's not age that's so much the problem but a misalignment about expectations, and we're increasingly -- especially at the two-year colleges -- getting students who are fundamentally unprepared for the rigors of college in both skill and attitude . . . at the same time that grade inflation, the-customer-is-always-right entitlements, and shifting demographics are making education less important than getting college degrees.  The college degree has gone "mainstream" in a very bad way.

Absolutely correct assessment and observation, Gassy Man, and I completely concur with your views. I completely and momentarily omitted the older demographics from this equation. Thank you for pointing that out. A good friend of mine is department head (journalism) at a college, and she has stated the same thing you have. She's also appalled by the extreme lack of reading and writing skills (basic grammar and sentence structure) that she observes across the age board - she claims many have the skills of junior high level students - if that. That, and the fact that many of the students can't seem to formulate an objective and coherent opinion about practically anything. Pretty frightening.

Just as frightening...if George Noory elected to open his own College of Radio Broadcasting! It would be like the Ted Baxter School of Broadcasting from HELL!

Quote from: thefamilyghost on February 16, 2012, 12:00:27 AM
Researcher and investigator Joe Pullard on tonight, answering Georges child-like questions as best he can, poor guy ("I hurd aliens crash landed thousands of years ago in china, Joe. Is that true?  "). Joe's got some notes prepared that he's rifling through, scrambling to find any bit of information on George's ridiculous question and they make a little bit of background noise, and George actually scolds him for having notes! "What is that you've got there? They are making an awful lot of noise...You are on LIVE RADIO Joe!" while Joe is apologizing profusely the whole time. It wasn't even loud!

How about YOU prepare some notes, George?!

I've never wished I could reach through my radio and strangle George more than right now. I haven't heard of this guy Pullard before, but he sounds like he is giving 100 percent of himself to this interview, and all George can do is try and make himself sound smart, and then yell at his guest for trying to be prepared. ANYONE would be better than Noory.

I heard this as well and was utterly appalled at George's blatant unprofessional behaviour (what else is new?) and how damn rude he was. I actually fired off an email to him and his useless producers about that.

Quote from: stevesh on February 16, 2012, 03:38:31 AM
The guy said that the average student loan recipient graduates with around $27K in debt. That doesn't seem like too much for a college education, and doesn't strike me as all that difficult for a responsible person to pay back. Lots of people, including recent college graduates, spend more than that on a car, and seem to find the money to make the payments.

I think the whole 'student loan crisis' is mostly about the immaturity of the borrowers.

Well, I'm certainly not going to paint all the students with the same proverbial brush that many are inclined to do, but I will say that in regards to immaturity, I find far, far too many students don't have the maturity and life experience in regards to selecting a suitable realm of studies or even the right college/university. In my humble opinion, 17 years old (average) is by far too young to invest the time and money into what these kids (yes, KIDS) believe in their minds is a life career choice - and in many cases not being mentally equipped to excel in the chosen field of study. And yes, responsibility for this gross premature entry into post-secondary studies must lie with the parent/parents, too, who are, in many cases, failing to properly counsel and guide their children to the right path, education-wise. These parents and their offspring must take responsibility for their decisions when they sign on the dotted line for the student loans and DO THE MATH in regards to interest rates. I have to concur with stevesh - I have little sympathy for a large percentage of these students who default on their student loans.

Quote from: fysisist on February 15, 2012, 12:42:36 PM
^^^^ I don't think a bottle of Ruffies could get a woman through a date with the Noordster.

How about a large bag of Ruffles potato chips? Just askin'.

Quote from: Vatar on February 15, 2012, 12:45:34 PM
I have a feeling this pickup line is how George gets women back to his place.
"Could you tell me ma'am does this handkerchief smell like chloroform?"

or, "Betty, could you tell me if these Cheetos smell exactly like these sweaty black dress socks I wore to work today? Here...smell these socks..breathe deeply...and tell me if they don't smell exactly like hot Cheetos cheese mixed with toe jam."  The woman promptly and mercifully passes out.