Word: bloopers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Less could he said for B.C's sub stellar reliever. Mike Pramuck The junior sported a speeded up blooper ball and a very nearly underhand patch And, to better his footing on the mound he dug an unusually large trench in front of the rubber I ate in the second game he barely escaped being tagged with what would have been a well-deserved three run homer...
...since most of his zingers are not as funny as the writer thinks they are and distinctly not worth the body English the players put on them. They're always winding up as if they were about to deliver a high, hard one, only to send a blooper ball vaguely plate ward...
Your Essay brings to mind a "blooper" by a Providence radio newscaster. In talking about a man missing in Narragansett Bay, the announcer said, "He is presumed drowned by the Coast Guard...
...most prodigious collector of modern slips was Kermit Schafer, whose "blooper" records of mistakes made on radio and television consisted largely of toilet jokes, but were nonetheless a great hit in the 1950s. Schafer was an avid self-promoter and something of a blooper himself, but he did have an ear for such things as the introduction by Radio Announcer Harry Von Zell of President "Hoobert Heever," as well as the interesting message: "This portion of Woman on the Run is brought to you by Phillips' Milk of Magnesia." Bloopers are the lowlife of verbal error, but spoonerisms...