When a malfunctioning weather map turned up the heat, this hilarious weatherman kept his cool | Rare

Posted by $ AJAshinoff 10 years, 3 months ago to Video
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Pleased to say that I met this man at a coffee house when I was writing a while back. Great person, Genuinely friendly and quite funny.


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  • Posted by $ Susanne 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Everything on the menu was 95 cents or less... Front end of the place was indescribably filthy, mostly populated by the down and out, homeless, etc... but the food was *surprisingly* good... think of everything being a'la carte...

    I would think they're long gone by now, but it was one of those "you have to experience it to believe it" kinds of places... My reminiscences of it were back in the early-to-mid 1980's...
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't...maybe AJ does..although I think we both moved out here about the same time from back east.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Couldn't be worse than Chuck's 95er... If you remember that "Phoenix landmark", then I am truly sorry for you...
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  • Posted by freedomforall 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When I lived in Houston area I had an after-market sunroof added to the car. Park car outside office in morning, then rain shower, then sun again. When I went to lunch I backed the car out of its space and had a surprise 'hot shower' inside the car.
    (Couldn't it have waited til after lunch to wash the spots off my tie?)
    (Fixed the leak that evening ;^)

    Sorry I missed the 128. Left in '91 and didn't return to Phoenix til '99.
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  • Posted by $ 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I experienced 128 in 1994...I was driving around looking for work. My post-factory installed sunroof liner shrunk from the heat and fell on my head. It was hideous.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 10 years, 3 months ago
    I recall flying into Phoenix Sky Harbor one summer in the 80's (I think) and the guy next to me asked about the heat in Phoenix and I said the highest on record had been 115F so nothing to worry about.
    A few minutes later the pilot announced we were beiing delayed due to high temperatures earlier that day of 121F. The airport was closed for a while because the aircraft manufacturers had only certified most planes for below 120F and the engineers were apparently required to estimate how much difference a few degrees mattered.
    I loved Phoenix in the 80s and early 90s. Still a haven of conservative individualism then.

    That meteorologist should be anchoring the news based on his ability to ad lib under pressure.
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  • Posted by NealS 10 years, 3 months ago
    I wonder what SPF Sun Screen is recommended for Arizona. I especially liked the, "I think steel boils at" comment. If only Romney could have reacted similarly during that last debate. President put on his best mean and nasty face, tells a total lie, confirmed by stupid reported, and Romney all but chokes. Oh well, I just heard he's dropped out for the next cycle.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 3 months ago
    What utter aplomb. This weatherman deserves a bonus. I've visited Arizona on several occasions and while it felt hot it did manage to stay below the figures on that weather map..
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  • Posted by PURB 10 years, 3 months ago
    Very well handled. "I'm not your Dad, but I'd get out."
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 10 years, 3 months ago
    Great job. It is much better when people don't take themselves too seriously.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 years, 3 months ago
    There is a rational explanation for those temperature spikes.
    Brain-eaters from Venus like meals with a toasted taste.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah...the music was obnoxious... I don't recall the inattentive waitress, but I'm one of those I'd rather you not be too attentive kind of customers. And didn't you write a review of the place right then too? lol Hey, maybe the waitress saw your bumber sticker.
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  • Posted by CTYankee 10 years, 3 months ago
    "Don't even bother looting." -- Best line ever in a weather forecast.
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  • Posted by $ 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    it was less the quality of coffee (which wasn't very good) as much as it was piss poor inattentive customer service and obnoxious music. Yeah, I'm picky.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm not the coffee guru that you are but I liked the coffee. I think someone should open a coffee shop and name it that... The Crappy Coffee House.
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  • Posted by $ 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hey now.no freaky role-play. I'm not the debol and you're not Barbara. :) But that was a really crappy coffee house.
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