Radio Caller Gifts

"I love it when you use your 'All Things Considered' voice."

Could you send a plumber out? I think the washers have gone!

Dog FM. (Man blowing dog whistle into radio microphone).

Non Thought For The Day.

"This just in — I no longer have a job."

"Joe's cereal. NPR co-approved."

Sports Radio in Crisis

Wally flunks the test: The Emergency Broadcast System.

She kept Dracula at bay with an episode of the Archers.

'Howard can't come to the phone now. He's standing by for a major concert announcement.'

"Hi..just ringing to see if you got my e-mail?"

Office worker on desert island on cell phone: 'No, I haven't seen the minutes.'

'I'm Bored'

"See! Thousands of new listeners."

"Boss, can you check the address again? I have a bad feeling about this one."

'I think I've found what's causing the radio's funny buzzing sound.'

'Hold on, there might be someone more interesting on the other line...'

Feelings towards radios #2 Picket signs with pictures of radios on them

'Thank you for waiting. Please continue to hold and your call will bee answered as soon as we can.'

Randi Rhodes

"What's your question for 'Ask Sadie'?" "My mom's in a nursing home. I think someone's stealing her jewelry." "What's the matter, you're afraid someone is stealing your inheritance?" "Simple solution: Send your mother to Japan, where their entire culture reveres the elderly." "Sayonara, grandma!!!" "Are you sure that's not just a stereotype?" "Who cares?!"

"How nice of you to call me out of the blue, young man. It so happens I have forty-five million just sitting in my piggy bank, and maybe having a broker wouldn't be such a bad idea."

'Congratulations. You're our 15th caller. The grant is yours!'

"I think I've found your transistor radio."

'Michelle, this is your brother, Paul, do you copy? Over...Paul to Michelle, do you read me?...'

'That's Karl with a 'K' -- My parents named me after a radio station.'

Pallbearers sitting around radio: 'This just in! Tributes are pouring in for the legendary tenor Pavarotti, who passed away earlier today....'

"I suppose in your day, you would have called these, 'radio dinners'."