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From: djb@cbosgd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: Cosell petition
Message-ID: <542@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 6-Nov-83 22:58:36 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  6 22:58:36 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Nov-83 20:12:44 EST
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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I always liked the story about the bar (I don't recall where) that has
the "Monday Night Howard Cosell Brick Raffle."  Every week they buy an
old B&W TV and set it up in the bar.  People pay some paltry sum ($1.00)
for a chance to win a brick.  On Monday night, the winner is given the 
brick and a clear shot at the old TV.  At some point during the game when
Horrible Howard is on screen, the brick holder gets to wind up and
blast the brick right through Howard and the old TV (there is much cheering
and beer guzzling at this point).  A great release of pent-up Howard-phobia
for everyone, not just the brick-wielder.  The bar always made a sizable 
profit on the deal, although it got harder and harder to find cheap, 
large-screen, working B&W TV's.

	David Bryant   Bell Labs   Columbus, OH   (614) 860-4516
	(cbosg!djb)

ps: And then there was the time a bunch of us decided to build a sophisticated
    signal-processor that would remove Howard's voice from the TV audio, and
    pass through everything else.  It never quite worked. (Actually, it 
    mangled everything so that it sounded like someone murdering asthmatic
    pigs.) Boy would have we been rich if it had.