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Seattle Space Needle fireworks SNAFU...(okay...you have one button to push one night a year....)
1/1/08
| Moi
Posted on 01/01/2008 12:47:54 AM PST by paulat
The Space Needle fireworks are traditional.
It was hysterical...three...two...one...nothing happened. They finally got it running...but there are so many comedy routines running through my head right now....
I had been watching a Bob Newhart special on PBS just before midnight...and I could just hear Bob say..."...now, did you try the green button...."
You should have seen the anchors on TV....
TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: vapid
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posted on
01/01/2008 12:47:56 AM PST
by
paulat
To: paulat
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posted on
01/01/2008 12:49:17 AM PST
by
cmsgop
( MURTHA: 'I think the 'surge' is working'...)
To: paulat
(okay...you have one button to push one night a year....)I bet that's a union job.
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posted on
01/01/2008 12:51:10 AM PST
by
GOP_Raider
(Don't panic, folks. Rush Babies Will Save America.)
To: cmsgop
Wasn't this the funniest thing ever?? I could just see some Seinfeld-like show...or some Homer Simpson bit...
"Look...you have one job to do and one job only...push this button...."
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posted on
01/01/2008 12:51:51 AM PST
by
paulat
(I'd rather spend my vote on someone who CAN ACTUALLY BE ELECTED)
To: cmsgop
Video of entire mishap.........
To: hole_n_one
I was crying I was laughing so hard....
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posted on
01/01/2008 12:58:09 AM PST
by
paulat
(I'd rather spend my vote on someone who CAN ACTUALLY BE ELECTED)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Thought you and the troops might get a chuckle over this.
Happy New Year!
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posted on
01/01/2008 1:04:04 AM PST
by
paulat
(I'd rather spend my vote on someone who CAN ACTUALLY BE ELECTED)
To: paulat
I would be willing to bet some poor soul has a badly bruised fist from repeatedly banging on a button in a full blown panic.
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posted on
01/01/2008 1:04:41 AM PST
by
The Cajun
To: paulat
On the cell phone, I’ll bet.
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posted on
01/01/2008 1:05:48 AM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren't having." -Mark Steyn)
To: The Cajun
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posted on
01/01/2008 1:10:24 AM PST
by
paulat
(I'd rather spend my vote on someone who CAN ACTUALLY BE ELECTED)
To: paulat
Happy New Year, paulat!!
Must have been some interesting moments in the control room.
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posted on
01/01/2008 1:11:22 AM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
To: paulat
Not enough coffee for the operator?
-PJ
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posted on
01/01/2008 1:13:04 AM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(Repeal the 17th amendment -- it's the "Fairness Doctrine" for Congress!)
To: Political Junkie Too
Not enough coffee for the operator? ...yep...not enough coffee in Seattle....
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posted on
01/01/2008 1:20:55 AM PST
by
paulat
(I'd rather spend my vote on someone who CAN ACTUALLY BE ELECTED)
To: paulat
Seinfeld-like show...or some Homer Simpson bit... The first thing that popped into my mind was a typical John Cleese moment on Fawlty Towers where he completely looses it in shear panic.
To: paulat
Too funny! Looks like they needed this:
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posted on
01/01/2008 1:28:24 AM PST
by
Theresawithanh
(This is my tagline. FRED!!!!!!)
To: hole_n_one
LOL!!, It Was History , LOL!
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posted on
01/01/2008 1:39:17 AM PST
by
cmsgop
( MURTHA: 'I think the 'surge' is working'...)
To: hole_n_one
LOL I wondered why our local PNW channels did not cover the Seattle New Year ping.
Nothing to cover LOL.
I could just see all the befuddled looks on the crowds faces...
Nothing like going from excited smiling faces to pure disappointment in a nano second.
I tuned into NWCN and so far no report on the flop.
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posted on
01/01/2008 1:46:33 AM PST
by
Global2010
( Happy New Year Ya'll)
To: The Cajun
The first thing that popped into my mind was a typical John Cleese moment on Fawlty Towers where he completely looses it in shear panic.Darn....you're killing me!
It's LOSES. And it's SHEER!
Hononyms are a b*tch, aren't they? Happy New Year!
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posted on
01/01/2008 2:12:13 AM PST
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
To: Global2010
I tuned into NWCN and so far no report on the flop. ...it was like a Viagra commercial gone bad....
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posted on
01/01/2008 2:17:28 AM PST
by
paulat
(I'd rather spend my vote on someone who CAN ACTUALLY BE ELECTED)
To: paulat
Protesters probably cut the wires.
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posted on
01/01/2008 3:38:48 AM PST
by
60Gunner
(This is an Emergency Room. You want the family package? Take your six kids to Disneyland.)
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