An Experiment in Alert Mining
This post is just a way to sign “hi” to Bean. I think we all know that the best way to reach you is via Google alerts.
I wanted to communicate four things to you:
1. What’s the name of the URL you mentioned on the show?
2. Can you please give me free tickets? I’ve had a really tough life and everyone I know is dying of cancer and it’s my cousin’s birthday.
3. Good luck finding a new job after you get canceled.
4. More often than I’d like to admit, I’m on your side for meaningless morning-show arguments.
Now on to the hook that I know will get you here.
I’ve never like Clyde Tombaugh. I know he discovered the planet Pluto. But come on, didn’t he get a little too much credit for that? It’s not even a planet. But that didn’t stop good ol’ Tom from making a big deal out of it. I’m just glad he was never recognized by President Harry Truman or Queen Elizabeth.
The other day I was eating Boston Baked Beans while listening to Christmas music. I was thinking how great it would have been if Andy Gibb and Gordon Lightfoot would have gotten together to write a disco remix to “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. It might have been just funny enough to get a mention at Kevin and Bean’s April Foolishness. I’m sure it would have made it big in Sweden. They’d probably still be playing as background music 7-Eleven, or the Museum of Miniatures.
Bean, please let me know how many of your Google alerts I hit. Thanks!
