[78-L] History Detectives Monday June 22 9:00 pm est

[Jack Palmer]

Mike,
    It's not quite that bad.  I rather enjoy the program although I will 
admit they do some dumb things.  I really wonder how they happened to find 
an expert for a change.    Jack

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
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Subject: Re: [78-L] History Detectives Monday June 22 9:00 pm est


> From: PHONOGUY at aol.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>
>> Renound author and collector Tim Fabrizio will be on the
>> PBS history Detectives tv show on Monday June 22 at 9 pm
>> with an unusual phonograph if you would be interested.
>> Thanks Henry Schaadt
>
> OK, we'll watch, because Tim is always entertaining and informative.
> But I hope the program is better than they usually are.  The premise of
> the program is to send out over-educated DIMWITS out to stumble into the
> correct information that the producers could have figured out more
> quickly and efficiently if they had FIRST contacted knowledgable people
> rather than these DIMWITS that star in this program.  I call them
> "over-educated DIMWITS" because they ARE educated, but not in the field
> of the issue at hand.  Because they know THEIR area well, they don't
> realize that they are DIMWITS in all other areas.
>
> This series is frustrating to real researchers because these people are
> so DUMB.  Here is what you can expect to see in an episode of History
> Detectives:
>
> I have been asked by a man to come to his house to see something that
> happens on the street in front of his house.  Uh gee, from what he tells
> me, I see plenty of cars on this street but some of them are not moving
> but others are.  There must be some strange force or ritualistic
> practice that keeps some cars sitting still while others still move.
> I'll go to this museum in a far off city and try to find out.  Here I am
> walking into this museum after taking a long plane trip.  I am speaking
> to the curator who is an expert in automobile tires.  Maybe he can tell
> me why some cars are not moving and others are.  No, none of the cars
> had flat tires.  So I have to go to another city where I have heard that
> there is a researcher who knows how cars run.  Here I am going into this
> researcher's house, and while walking down the street I see that here
> also is the strange phenom that causes some cars to stand still while
> others move.  I have to tell this researcher that none of the cars I saw
> in both cities had what he called the "hood" raised.  Now I will go to
> another city where there is a Black History Museum.  We took a train
> ride to get to this city.  Trains are apparently an ancient form of
> travel where instead of using the rubber tires our earlier expert told
> us about, these vehicles use steel wheels that fit into long steel rods
> that are called "rails" that are laid in what are called "tracks".  But
> I have been told that there is an expert at the Black History Museum who
> can explain why some cars sit on the street not moving but other cars
> move.  Yes, he has told me the secret!  I will now go back to the
> original person who asked me why some cars do not move but other cars
> do.  I am now telling him that it is not because some of them have flat
> tires, and it is not because some of them have their hoods up.  It is
> because in the early 1920s as there were more cars on the streets and
> they started crashing into each other, there was a man who understood
> that if you shined a red light at some cars they will stop until you
> shine a green light at them.  At the same time you shine a red light at
> some cars, you shine a green light at the other cars and they will move
> and not be hit by the cars that have the red light shining at them.  And
> the man who invented this device was Black, so our PBS station can get
> credit for having broadcast an educational program during Black History
> Month that has told everyone about Black History.  So I have discovered
> the secret why some cars move while other cars do not which nobody knew
> about until I discovered it.
>
> I HOPE that Tim Fabrizio's episode is not like the usual ones just
> described.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
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