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| Staring back from the abyss  |
Is it just me? My God, it seems that either networks are turning up their speed to 1.5 or 2.0, or most younger people (95% of them are women, and most of them have those screeching voices or practicing vocal fry) are speaking so fast nowadays that I just hit "mute". (Newsmax? I'm looking at you!) I don't see it in the people that I interact with daily, just on the boob tube. Maybe I need to have my melon examined.  Sheesh. Take a breath. Slow down. Enunciate clearly. Please. ________________________________________________________ It is long past time for a Convention of States. The Founding Fathers gave us this tool to fix an out of control government and we need to use it. | ||
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Gotta get in their quota of commercial time, ya know! | |||
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| No, not like Bill Clinton  |
One of the reasons I don't watch or listen to any news except Varney & Co. But only for the first ten minutes and then I turn the channel | |||
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Want to hear a fast talker? Tune your VHF radio to an Air Traffic Control frequency, Approach Control, at a busy airport. These guys can put a tobacco auctioneer to shame. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Get Off My Lawn |
I have noticed this years ago with the reruns I watch on various channels- they do speed up the playback to squeeze in more commercial time. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/f...ws-to-play-more-ads/ "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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is circumspective |
Emily Compagno is a fast talker on Fox, but she is smart...and cute. "We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." | |||
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Baroque Bloke |
I think of the FedEx TV commercial fast talker. 20 or 30 years ago. Maybe it’s on YouTube. Serious about crackers. | |||
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| On the wrong side of the Mobius strip  |
Here you go. This was from the early 80s. Coincidently, I was a gas station mechanic at the time in Uniondale NY and John Moschitta's father was one of our customers at the shop. | |||
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| Like a party in your pants  |
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Thanks for posting that. A good reminder of what a entertaining and effective commercial was like. Most of the resent commercials make me turn away from the TV in disgust. | |||
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