I caught myself doing something yesterday during a demo which surprised me. I was in the middle of my speil about our product when I realized my cadence sounded familiar. The it occured to me: I’m trying to sound like Greg Fishel, the WRAL meterologist.
It wasn’t a conscious decision. I just noticed that I sounded a lot like him. True, I have heard him speak on the air a lot, and maybe I admire his flow of words. It wasn’t easy learning how to speak on my feet the way I do. It helps to have a model to pattern yourself after. In this case, it’s a forecast model. Ha ha! A little joke there.
Seriously, with that and my weather geekiness at having my own weather station, things are starting to get a bit weird.
P.S. While I was fishing for a Greg Fishel link for this post, I came across a story on Bill Leslie’s new-agey CD. While I haven’t heard any of Bill’s music personally, I seem to recall he was John Tesh’s roommate at UNC. And that pretty much tells me all I need to know about his music.
Then again, I could be wrong. But what are the odds of that?
Hopefully you left out the corny puns.
I catch myself doing that sometimes too.
Sincerely,
David Crabtree
Crabtree, you’re a jerk. Get off my TV.
Well Mark, you could have picked a worse guy to sound like. I’ve met Greg Fishel a couple of times and he’s a really nice guy. Its when you start taking on the cadence of Gov. Schwartzenegger that you have to worry… 😉
Unfortunately, Mr Tesh is an alumnus of our school.
Sincerely,
NC State
You’re correct. They weren’t college roommates. They were roommates after college (scroll to bottom of page).
Bill Leslie was actually Rick Dees‘s roommate at UNC, and Rick Dees is The Man.
TOM BOWEN!!! The Master Weather Dude. Yeah, that’s it.