Another Record Is Set

 

I was born more than 80 years ago. Television was born not long after I was born. We got our first TV in the early 50’s. It was not long before the TV Weatherman was invented. The first day he was inside our TV, the Weatherman told us it was hot outside, and to prove it, he told us the outside temperature. We wondered why he was bothering telling us it was hot outside and what the temperature was outside because we knew it was hot outside because it was July and we were in New Orleans and it was always hot outside in New Orleans in July.

The TV Weatherman seemed pleased with his newfound ability to alarm us by telling us the outside temperature and alarming us. It was not long before the TV Weatherman was heard to say, “This is a new Record High Temperature”. The first time he said this was the second day he gave us the temperature (he was comparing the second day’s temperature to the first day’s temperature).

Do you get my drift? My drift is all these years later does it not seem like the TV Weatherman is all too often telling us that today’s temperature is a new high temperature (in summer) and a new low temperature (in winter)? Is it possible that we can set new high/low temperatures every year?

Shazam! I just figured it out. The TV Weatherman is leaving out a few words from his Dire Temperature Alarm Warning. His computer tells him about the places in the Good Ole USofA where the temperature has set a record and he leaves off where the record was set.

Here are 3 examples of his striking through trickery to arrive at another record...

• This is a Record High Temperature for today in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
• This is a Record Low Temperature for today in Palookaville, Montana.
• This is a Record High Temperature for today in Social Circle, Georgia.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: Did you take notice of Palookaville in the second bullet above? Palookaville is actually a town in Montana. It is named after Joe Palooka. You don’t know (remember) who Joe Palooka was? Joe Palooka was an American comic strip about a heavyweight boxing champion, created by cartoonist Ham Fisher. The strip debuted on April 19, 1930, and was carried at its peak by 900 newspapers. It was cancelled in 1984. The strip was adapted to a 15-minute CBS radio series, 12 feature-length films, nine Vitaphone film shorts, a 1954 syndicated television series, comic books and merchandise, including a 1940s board game, a 1947 New Haven Clock & Watch Company wristwatch, a 1948 metal lunchbox featuring depictions of Joe, Humphrey and Little Max, and a 1946 Wheaties cereal box cut-out mask.