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Mentifex, Wow that was you? I always heard Dan Rather use the word hiatus
and I thought he was referring to me! Personally, Dan Rather was always my hero because he was the only guy standing up with VietNam Vets and war protesters, and anit-corprate types ( I was neither). But the minute he came inside the studio, he was starched and in the middle of every sentence there was a ..well...hiatus. (Was that you sending the powder too, snail mail?) Thanks for the stop-n-chat, Mentifex. Now go back to your regular programming of incomprehensible super-data about ex-corporal intelligence.
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kingmi
on November 27, 2004 at 12:04 PM
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Dan Rather is *not* Mentifex -- he only "channels" Mentifex.
Umpteen years ago, when Dan Rather took over the CBS News anchor chair from Walter Cronkite (once wittily described as having "a face that only a nation could love" :-) -- I decided to give Dan Rather a try as my evening newscaster. His halting speech patterns so annoyed me back then that I snailmailed to him a note complaining that, although his news delivery was generally quite good, he would often have a very distracting
hiatus in the middle of a sentence. Soon thereafter, as I continued to watch Dan Rather, I noticed him using the word "hiatus" in telling some news story. And over the years it seemed that Dan Rather lost the "hiatus" problem in his speech patterns. Now, back to regular "kingmi" programming....
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Mentifex
on November 27, 2004 at 2:52 AM
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