[Magdalen] My tips to the BBC for today

[Jay Weigel]

Amazon is coming up with Alexa for your car. I signed up for one at half
price to be given to S/O as gift if I'm chosen to receive it. He let his
Sirius subscription lapse some time back and now I'm forced to listen to
podcasts of old time radio when I ride with him. Most of them are okay, but
the voice of the guy hosting the Old tTime Detectives is so horrible that I
sometimes want to scream and jump out of the car. He can get the dang
podcasts on Alexa too, plus music of his choice.

I'll buy one for myself at full price, as far as that goes, when they hit
the market. I only hold on to Sirius because of Progressive Talk (and that
only for Stephanie Millier and Dean Obeidallah!) and the audio of MSNBC,
plus Sunday morning classical when on my way to church. I can get most of
that on Alexa.

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 10:49 PM Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I was relieved today of a deep anxiety -- the prospect of spending almost
> half of November in an office building in NYC doing a project I could much
> better do where I sit now.
>
> I celebrated with a drive in a car, a lovely treat, especially because the
> car has XM/Sirius satellite radio, through which I always listen to channel
> 120, the BBC World Service.
>
> Dear BBC:
>
> There's a major city in Texas called "HYOO-ston," not "HOO-ston." Try
> "Euston" and you'll be 99% there.
>
> The University of San Diego is absolutely never referred to as "San Diego
> University." Likewise, no one ever says "Michigan University" for the fine
> institution in Ann Arbor. And Ohio University is never The University of
> Ohio. You'll be forgiven for referring to The Ohio State University as
> simply Ohio State University, however.
>
> That is all.
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>