Two morning radio hosts at a Renda broadcasting station were suspended for alarming their audience by discussing their discovery that when they opened the faucet at their station, dihydrogen monoxide started coming out.
Renda operates 18 stations, mainly in the Pittsburgh area
http://www.rendabroadcasting.com/?page_id=50
I grew up in Pittsburgh – WJAS was a moderately important radio station in the 1960s back when Pittsburgh was moderately important as a city
Among Mr Renda’s business advice to others: “Run your business like it’s a hot dog stand”
http://www.sbnonline.com/2007/06/tony-renda-sr-president-renda-broadcasting-corp/
Now there are words to live by
Recently I went to a bar in New Hope, Pennsylvania and found they had way too much Dihydrogen Monoxide in their drinks. Coincidence or conspiracy?
You decide:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lJTGDwASmQ
Is that closer to Intercourse or Mount Joy?
It’s just down (south southeast) from Frenchtown, and but a long way from Intercourse, Bird-in-Hand, Mount Joy and Hershey which are progressively farther in that order. 😉
Well if hosts can be suspended for alarming their audience’s for discussing Dihydrogen Monoxide then what would happen if something really important came down the pike and the ‘local’ host talked about that?
BTW what is Dihydrogen Monoxide? Is it dangerous stuff? I’m too lazy to search that out, forgive me.
It’s H2O 0r water.
My guess is that it was someone’s idea for a lame April Fool’s joke.
Thanks for da info, what a hoot!!!
Yeah, sounds like good joke. So who would get bent outta shape over that? Oh yeah I forgot, unsuspecting folks can get hurt when some people who are wound so tightly ‘go-off’ their meds.
Apparently a few people called 911 or poison control or something.
I have the general impression Mr Renda is terrified of lawyers and not all tuned in with 2013. In 2009, he turned off streaming of all his stations because he refused to pay royalties to stream music. I don’t think he’s that clever, but I could be wrong – maybe running a radio station is the same as operating a hot dog cart in New York City.
I prefer to call it oxygen dihydrate
It seems like a work. The station had a poll on its site earlier today to see when the DJs would be allowed back on the air (immediately, Monday, or never). In a true suspension, there would be no evidence of them to be found. No one has been actually harmed in any way. Publicity stunt.
Turns out, its a deadly killer…. and a thief too! 😉
“Think I’ll spend eternity in the city
Let the dihydrogen monoxide flood my thoughts away, yeah
And pretty bodies help dissolve the memories
They can never be what she was (was) to me
She’s gone, she’s gone
Oh I, oh I
I better learn how to face it
She’s gone, she’s gone
Oh I, oh I
I’d pay the devil to replace her
She’s gone, and she’s gone
Oh I, what went wrong?”
Inspired by and Fair use of song written by two other Pennsylvanians.
Well you know that stuff can be deadly. You can drown in less than a gallon of it, it can cause disfiguring , even deadly burns if heated to only 100 degrees centigrade, as a matter of fact, at that temperature it has been known to cause explosions if it ruptures the container it is being held in, and if exposed to as little as a couple of volts it turns into a high explosive powerful enough to launch a man to the moon!
I can promise you that if the EPA or BATF gets wind of this stuff you will never have access to any more than you can collect in a hard rain. To make ME feel secure, owning it should require a 10 day waiting period, a background check, and maybe $200 tax stamp.
Here it is:
http://nj1015.com/nj-senator-wants-to-hike-your-water-tax-audio/
Anyone have an air tax yet? Tax those frickin’ breathers more and more until either global warming stops, or they stop exhaling their CO2….. shhhhh don’t tell them who pockets their money- other breathers!
I heard an airline is going to price your ticket by the pound
Most of BOAC’s tickets were sold by the pound.
If the hosts had simply stated that dihydrogen monoxide was reportedly coming out of faucets, they might have been OK. Unfortunately, as I understand it, they told listeners not to drink it or bathe in it.