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   yyyguy said, 5 months ago

   roland may be smarter than he looks

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   Margueritem said, 5 months ago

   yyyguy: I agree, he’s not so clueless here.

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   4deerinmyyard said, 5 months ago

   THEDRIVER said, a while back: just like Ted baxter on the old mtm show. or that news reporter on wkrp in cincinnati.

   Les Nessman! “Chai-Chai Rodrigueeze.” “Oh the humanity!” “Godless communist tornadoes!”

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   rmleon said, 5 months ago

   oh, man! everybody’s so litigious.

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   turoc15 said, 5 months ago

   speculate…speculum.

   roland’s no shmoe when it comes to self interest.

   news reportage is an innocent by-stander.

   not for nothing has the ghost of geraldo been conjured

   through this thread.

6. 

   jaiel said, 5 months ago

   Go for it Roland. Young punks taking over the news.

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   pearlandpeach said, 5 months ago

   Les was a great character on WKRP….still like the reruns.

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   turoc15 said, 5 months ago

   bleeep straight

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   turoc15 said, 5 months ago

   o.k.

   i give up.

   dern straight

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    okeedoekee said, 5 months ago

    Remember the WKRP Thanksgiving episode when Les and one of his coworkers dropped live turkeys from a helicopter onto the parking lot at a shopping plaza? Turkey’s don’t fly. That was a good one.
    Oh yes, Roland. Since he is a cartoon character I really like him.

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    TheWildSow said, 5 months ago

    Wild turkeys CAN fly – but the fat farm-bred variety can’t!

    “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could FLY!”

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    okeedoekee said, 5 months ago

    So how much do wild turkeys fly? Don’t remember seeing them overhead migrating. They must hang around all year. Still, don’t remember them in the air.
    Look! It’s a bird! It’ s a plane! It’s a turkey!

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    plus4 said, 5 months ago

    Did the headset incident actually happen in the strip? I’ve read DBury faithfully for a long time but I don’t remember.

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    JonD17 said, 5 months ago

    I can report factually that wild turkeys fly high enough to take out a car windshield.

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    Orgelspieler said, 5 months ago

    They’re sort of like pheasants… they live on the ground, but they roost in trees and don’t migrate. They can fly short distances… short, but long enough to make it real hard to find the flock again after your first shot spooks the bunch!

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    Orgelspieler said, 5 months ago

    And yeah, that’s the most intelligent thing I’ve heard Roland say in literally years! Didn’t know he had it in him.

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    okeedoekee said, 5 months ago

    Great!
    I want to know about the firey headset too. When did that happen?

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    silverscream said, 5 months ago

    One of my favorite lines off the old WKRP was: “What this station needs is less Nessman.” I wish they’d re-run the strip of Roland on fire…talk about burn-out!

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    Potrzebie said, 5 months ago

    I think it was during Desert Storm.

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    NicodemusLegend said, 5 months ago

    Don’t fall for the bait! Axe him now!

21. 

    Supercool said, 5 months ago

    worked for Abercrombie and Fitch. Learned that the ugly are not a protected class. Fire away!

22. 

    Dypak said, 5 months ago

    Consider the cost of the settlement a small price to pay to get rid of him!

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    turoc15 said, 5 months ago

    i don’t remember roland’s engulfed war wounds either.

    insofar as the turkeys flying debate,

    i picture a lawyer standing next to an ostrich

    intoning’your honour,my client is not a flight risk.”

    hahahaha.ha?

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    longtimecomicsfan said, 5 months ago

    The WKRP turkey drop stands out in my mind as the funniest scene on a TV series, ever.

    The best part is they did it the old fashioned way, without a bunch of CGI special effects turkeys - it was just voices over the radio, if I recall

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    tcambeul said, 5 months ago

    The coworker was Mr. Carlson, the station manager, whose mother was the station owner.

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    Greatdane said, 5 months ago

    I thought the dropped turkeys were frozen.

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    yyyguy said, 5 months ago

    no, they were live turkeys. Herb Tarlek and Arthur Carlson did the drop and Les Nessman did the remote report from whatever mall it was. The voice over mentioned above was the other characters back at the station listening to his remote describing the carnage and, yes, i agree that it’s the funniest sequence i’ve ever seen on a tv show. what i miss about it is how they had to strip out most of the music because of licensing issues, ruining a large part of a lot of the episodes

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    MurphyHerself said, 5 months ago

    Turkeys do indeed fly short distances, but not out of helicopters from any sort of height. Don’t even think of interrupting my reruns of WKRP, the Honeymooners or Sgt. Bilko.

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    DirtyDragon said, 5 months ago

    SilverScream: As I remember it, the line was “Good morning fellow babies.. this is Dr. Johnny Fever coming to you with more music, and Les Nessman” And then two beats before the light bulb goes on, and Les frowns at Johnny.

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    ReFlex-76 said, 5 months ago

    I’m about to date myself: I actually remember the comic where Roland’s headset caught fire (at one of the national political conventions), even the aftermath:

    “I’m afraid you’ll never do network news again.”
    “How about local?”
    “Maybe.”