The Faces of NPR

Posted by Miss Cellania in Everything Else on September 1, 2009 at 11:37 am


You would probably recognize the voices of the announcers on National Public Radio, but how well do you know their faces? Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss might be an exercise in futility, but you’ll soon find out what face goes with which name. I only got one right out of the 12, which just shows that I didn’t go to the NPR website and cheat! Link

 
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The Cookie Monster Interview

Posted by Alex in Cartoon & Comic on May 21, 2009 at 1:41 am

Elizabeth Blair of NPR has interviewed many people, but she may have just met her match in Cookie Monster. From a February 2009 All Things Considered interview:

Years before Sesame Street, Muppet creator Jim Henson made a very similar monster who ate snack foods and computers in television commercials. The basic look and spirit were there, but the character we know today was still a ways off.

Enter puppeteer Frank Oz. For nearly 30 years, Henson and Oz were an extraordinary team. Cheryl Henson, Jim’s daughter and the president of the Jim Henson Foundation, says the two men shared a subversive sense of humor. Their Muppets were regulars on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show.

It was later, on a Muppet game show, that the cookie-fixated creature we know emerged, Oz says. The winning contestant was offered the chance to choose a prize: a vacation, a new house, $10,000 cash, or a cookie. He chose the cookie — and the Cookie Monster was born.

Om nom nom nom … COOKIEEE!!! … Link | The Cookie Monster Interview [embedded YouTube clip]

 
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Make Yourself an NPR Name

Posted by Queuebot in Blog & Internet, Funny on April 16, 2009 at 11:53 pm

Liana Maeby [pictured at left] is a blogger who’s fascinated by the complex and memorable names of the correspondents on National Public Radio: Renee Montagne, Korva Coleman, Lakshmi Singh, Sylvia Poggioli, Corey Flintoff.  How cool would it be to have a name like that?

Liana and her boyfriend Eric decided to try it out by devising a formula for creating their own custom-designed NPR names.  The rules are simple; here’s how it works:

"You take your middle initial and insert it somewhere into your first name.  Then you add on the smallest foreign town you’ve ever visited."

So Liana is now Liarna Kassel, and Eric is Jeric Bath. 

Lots of folks on Twitter devised funny NPR names for themselves, like Pamelda Fondo, Stefsan Swakopmund and Marmilyn Zug.

NPR’s Monkey See blog caught wind of the game and invited readers to leave their NPR names in the comments. 164 people did, but a lot of them just aren’t that good.

I’m convinced that Neatorama readers can come up with better NPR names.  Wanna try?

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Marilyn Terrell.

 
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John Henry Faulk's Christmas Story

Posted by Miss Cellania in Christmas on December 24, 2008 at 9:49 pm

John Henry Faulk told this Christmas story on NPR in 1974. They published it on the web in 2005. It’s still a wonderful story.

The day after Christmas a number of years ago, I was driving down a country road in Texas. And it was a bitter cold, cold morning. And walking ahead of me on the gravel road was a little bare-footed boy with non-descript ragged overalls and a makeshift sleeved sweater tied around his little ears. I stopped and picked him up. Looked like he was about 12 years old and his little feet were blue with the cold. He was carrying an orange.

Read the rest at NPR. Link (via Metafilter)

 
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