7:55 AM Mon, Mar 31, 2008 | Permalink
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13 News Anchor Lasalle Blanks is enjoying a little vacation time, so I've been anchoring 13 News Daybreak in his absence.
This morning, Janet Roach and I were telling you about a car that had broken down near the runway tunnel, and one lane of the interstate was now blocked.
Well when we look a live picture from the scene you could see where someone had placed flares signaling that the lane was closed, at least that's what I thought as I looked at the video coming in to the station
The person who placed the flares did an amazing job, they were equidistant, and perfectly lined up. Off camera Janet and Meteorologist Julie Wilcox both remarked they they were so perfectly straight they thought they were lights going down the middle of the road.
I teased, why would their be red lights embedded in the interstate? I said I know it's near the runway tunnel, but it's not an actual runway.
Well, Julie started giggling at that. Then our producer pops in our ear to say we lost control of the cameras we use to provide views of the interstate.
I said, oh no, no control on the runway and there are all those planes out there. I started reminding everyone of the 1982 movie Airplane 2, The Sequel. In the movie, a space shuttle/airline flight is computer locked to land at an airport, and a kid on a tour of the tower takes control of the computer like it's a video game and crashes the shuttle. It's in complete humor though. We all start laughing and quoting our favorite lines from the movie, as well as the original, "Airplane"
Well that was it, my impersonations of the men who speak "Jive" and the crew on the flight deck sent the ladies into laughter. Next thing I knew Julie was in tears and uncontrollable laughter as we were coming back from break.
Janet and I made it through news, but then there was another check of traffic, and we all knew if we popped up the runway tunnel on camera again we would all lose it.
We made it through however, with a few tears in our eyes and smiles on our faces, promising we were ok but just laughing at a joke.
At the end of the show, I promised I'd clue you in on what was so funny if you logged on to wvec.com and checked out or blogs.
I hope you're enjoying the section.
"Surely, you can't be serious?"
"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley!"
-Airplane 1980
Thanks for sharing the joke with us!
It was really funny!