Monday, August 27

Pete – Repeat – Delete
By Alex Carrier

Pete and Repeat are sitting on a wall. Pete falls off. Who is left?

Pete and Repeat are sitting on a wall. Pete falls off. Who is left?

When you’re kid some jokes are just funnier than others. When you are an adult, those same jokes may not be as much amusing as they are annoying.

Kind of like boomerang email. The Pete and Repeat space squatters, Internet invaders of Inboxes.

They are the emails you receive and delete (and then delete the deleted emails) and; then, some not-distant-enough time in the not-far-enough-in-the-future, they reappear in your Inbox – again.

Same email but usually trapped in the endless folds of a forward of a forward of a forward from some well-meaning friend of a friend of a friend who just wanted to share this interesting, important, must-see information.

I have seen it! I saw it the first time and the second time and I checked it out and it is no longer true or never was true or “okay it’s true but I know it already.” Enough is enough.

Speaking of childhood, when I was a kid I loved the television show Mission: Impossible. I loved the drama, the deception, the devious disguises and the fact the good guys always won. Not to mention the awesome music and that burning fuse.

I also loved the part where the mission orders said, “This tape will self-destruct in five seconds.”

Don’t you just love a happy ending?

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Sunday, August 12

Three-letter weather
By Alex Carrier


It’s Virginia. It’s summer. It’s the weather you wear. Or, in meteorological terms: hazy, hot and humid.

I am not a great fan of summer weather. The heat, the humidity, the oppressive warmth really toast me.

Summer weather is no surprise even if the season seems abnormally hotter and longer. Every August in Virginia, you can count on the heat and humidity and the ever present possibility of sudden showers.

Local meteorologists repeat themselves with every forecast. “Hazy, hot and humid with a chance of late afternoon and evening thunderstorms.”

Do you suppose the weather reporters get tired of saying the same thing day after day after day? I say, this year; we give the forecasters a break from redundancy.

I think every able-voiced man, woman and child (anyone who can say these words and keep a semi-serious countenance on video, and if your dog can do why not?) should make a short tape.

All the would-be weather prognosticators need to do is look straight at the lens and say, “Hazy, hot and humid with a chance of late afternoon and evening thunderstorms.”

The news department could put all of these weather want-to-be recordings on a continuous loop of video. Each day, as time rolls around for the repetitive prediction; a new unknown face would voice the familiar words and then fade to commercial.

Send your videos today.

Who knows? We might find the next best weatherman or woman. At the least, we would give all their current counterparts a reprieve from repetition.

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