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Old 09-26-2017, 01:57 AM
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Default Armageddon Fun!

Hello All,

With nuclear weapons being much in the news lately, the following is strangely timely:

Today at my clinic, the SmartPhone of a man in the waiting room went off as a call came through, and the ringtone was eerily reminiscent of the old EBS (Emergency Broadcast System, see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOVwgKmzROw ) tones. (Even with today’s EAS—Emergency Alert System—that uses a fax-like digital “handshake signal” to trigger radio and TV station’s equipment, they still sound the old EBS tones, either to activate older station equipment or because its jarring sound grabs everyone’s attention.) Well:

This got me interested in hearing the old EBS tones, as well as the old “This is only a test,” etc. message that we used to hear back in the day. I had read about a few accidental (or otherwise...) EBS false alarms, in which the nuclear attack message followed the EBS tones. Looking up these things on YouTube, I came across a hilarious example of a nuclear attack false alarm that occurred on WOWO 1190 AM in Fort Wayne, Indiana on February 20, 1971 (see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu4r79l8P8I [short version] and www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B1EAeh6H_I [long version]), and:

What made it funny was that had it been a real nuclear attack, the last song before the end of the world would have been “Doesn’t Somebody Want to Be Wanted?” by The Partridge Family (the absolutely straight-laced delivery of Bob Sievers, an old-fashioned announcer, while introducing the song made it hysterical [imagine Alfred Hitchcock announcing a Sex Pistols song...]). Some of the commenters wrote that they would prefer being nuked to being subjected to The Partridge Family. :-)
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