A contest

UPDATE: Alpheccalanche! Thanks for the link, Jeff!

No prize, just a bit of verbally creative fun.

Here’s the setup: I installed a new app on the computer and had to reboot. I got back into my email and there was an interesting (to me) headline on the news page. This was on the Comcast page so you probably can’t see the video there, but here’s the video on the Foxnews website. Here are a couple of screen caps:





The transcript onscreen missed the noises going on after the lady started talking, but I've inserted them below:

Jody Hoover: "He's got the chair in his hand! He's counting, oh my God, oh my God! He's getting ready to come in!"

[Bunch of noise and screaming]

911 Dispatcher: "Ma'am?"

Jody Hoover: "Yes!"

911 Dispatcher: "What happened?"

Jody Hoover: "He tried to come in and my husband shot him. And he's still moving!"

911 Dispatcher: "I want you to tell your husband to put the gun down."

Now, leaving aside the fact that the dispatcher's response to "still moving" should have been more along the lines of "then shoot him again", what should Ms. Hoover's response to the dispatcher's actual comment have been?

Get creative!

Righteous

So after a day of rasslin' with spreadsheets and SOPs, I took a short break and continued with my long-running movie. A brief onscreen note at the end of one part:

The story of the "Battle of the Bulge" as told today is one of Patton coming to the rescue of the encircled 101st Airborne.

No member of the 101st has ever agreed that the division needed to be rescued.

And none ever will, I'm sure.

Side note: The Sainted Bride's uncle was in the 101st, and he was at Bastogne. I don't know what company (but he's not represented in the movie). There was an old joke I once heard, can't remember the exact formulation, but it was along the lines of "The 101st was formed because the first 100 got torn up so bad." There's a kernel of true in that.