Fw: Hair in the Gate!! (was Re: [BC] KTLA Television...)

[Milton R. Holladay Jr.]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Pasadena Eddie
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: Hair in the Gate!! (was Re: [BC] KTLA Television...)


> At Ambassador there would occasionally be a knock on the video engineer's
> door, then when he'd open up his dark-but-for-the-monitors room, a
camera's
> flashbulb would be fired into his eyes and his shirt would be drenched
with
> Freon (I think).  In later years I often hoped there were no health
downsides
> to that kind of activity.  I don't know what TF at the end means, but it
was
> referred to simply as Freon, as best I remember.
>
> > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 8:03 PM
> Subject: Fw: Hair in the Gate!! (was Re: [BC] KTLA Television...)
>
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "jvodenik" <jvodenik at sosinet.net>
> > To: "'Broadcasters' Mailing List'" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
> > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 8:16 PM
> > Subject: RE: Hair in the Gate!! (was Re: [BC] KTLA Television...)
> >
> >
> >> Ya gotta love these wonderful ideas, I know I sure do.
> >> John @ VOA / Delano
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> >    One  of the more fun uses of Freon TF was to take a cloth  chair
> >> with
> >> >    a  foam  cushion and pour the Freon TF in it to give someone a
> >> "frosty
> >> >    butt"  just  before a newscast.  Just be sure and scrape off the
> >> frost
> >> >    ring before they come into the room.
> >> >    Mark Garrett, KA9SZX
> >>
> >>
> >>     When I worked for The Boeing Company, I heard of folks doing
> >> something
> >> similar,
> >> but involved the pouring of a small amount of freon down....uh.... an
> >> opportune location
> >> when one of the guys was bent over working on something.
> >>
> >> Dave Dunsmoor
> >>
> >>
> >>
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