gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (greatful dead)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2002-09-24 10:26 am

Fame at last

This morning the KFOG morning show admitted they had made a screw-up. They started a contest a week early. They then started asking Fogheads to call in with their work-related screw ups. I called in about the time I was in a track that we managed to sink in a swamp.

They played it, and I have now received three emails and one IM asking if that was, in fact me. It was, and no, I didn't win anything.

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2002-09-25 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
There is an entire family of "Green Machines Stuck in the Mud" stories. Hell, Graf alone could fill several volumes.

Then again, I won't mention the Howitzer crew that beat a live 155 round out of the tube with a flat-faced ramming staff...

That story got blown all out of proporation.

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[identity profile] todkaninchen.livejournal.com 2002-09-25 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
That story got blown all out of proporation.

Almost...

When they finally got the round out of the bore and realized it wasn't the Bell-Rammer and the fuze was practically mashed flat...

...The pucker factor was incredible.

Someday, whoever does the de-militarization of the NTC's gonna' find a mashed flat M732 PD Fuze in one place...

...and a fired, live 155mm HE round fitted with the shipping plug (AKA "Point-Detonating Ring Fuze...") in the fuze well buried 50-150 feet below the Mojave's surface somewhere else.

*smirk*