- When audience members refused to stand, Twisted Sister's Dee Snider yelled, put spotlights on them, and got the crowd chanting "F--- you, F--- you!" before storming off the stage. When he complained that "they wouldn't get up," his manager said, "They couldn't: it was the handicapped section!"
- During CNN's coverage of John Kerry's 2004 DNC acceptance speech, a technician was overheard: "Go balloons! Go balloons! Come on, guys! Let's move it. Jesus... Go confetti... Why the hell is nothing falling? What the #%@& are you guys doing up there?" CNN apologized1> for the "error."
- Ronald Faux met a couple who'd landed a balloon at a freshly fertilized 1>farm:1> "The basket tipped and became a large shovel. The balloon dragged us across the full length of the field like some hideous stinking chariot. The inside filled with fresh pig slurry and we were covered from head to foot by the time we stopped."
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