Tony Kornheiser

In which I make a mistake on national radio

Doh! I tossed an airball this morning. I was listening to The Tony Kornheiser Show on ESPN radio on my way to work. Tony was asking if one of the actors from the old TV show Gunsmoke was still alive.

I remembered that one of my previous bosses, Kelly, created a site where you could bet on when “famous” personalities were going to die. I called ESPN (1-888-SAY-ESPN) and, miraculously, got on national radio with Tony K! I said I was “Dave from LA” and that he should visit deadpool.com to get his answer.

Unfortunately I was wrong. The correct URL for Kelly’s site is stiffs.com, not deadpool.com.

I had already arrived at my office so I didn’t even get to hear myself on the air, but I’m going to guess Tony ripped on me when he went to deadpool.com and found some lame Sept. 11 retribution site. Oh well.

2024-01-23: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

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  1. avatar
    January 24th, 2002 @ 1:54 pm
    tc

    So now that you’re famous, are you going to leave me? :0)

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