THIS GUY'S GOT LOVE (STREET) CORNERED.Byline: Cynthia Thomas (language) Thomas - A language compatible with the language Dylan(TM). Thomas is NOT Dylan(TM). The first public release of a translator to Scheme by Matt Birkholz, Jim Miller, and Ron Weiss, written at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory runs Houston Chronicle chronicle, official record of events, set down in order of occurrence, important to the people of a nation, state, or city. Almanacs, The Congressional Record in the United States, and the Annual Register in England are chronicles. This is not your typical boy-meets-girl story. Here's how it goes: Boy wants to meet girl. Boy writes a sign that says, basically, "Want to meet girl." Boy holds up sign on street corner. Girl calls. She's from a radio station. She puts him on the air, along with his pager number. Boy gets 550 calls. Boy interviews lots of girls. Finally boy meets one who makes him sweat. Boy goes back on radio and pops the question. Girl says yes. The wedding will be in June under an old oak tree. Russell Dunnem, a Houston firefighter, is 39, good-looking and industrious. He has a touch of Brylcream in his hair and a 12-year-old daughter. Sometime after his divorce two years ago, he found himself the perfect romantic hideaway in the Texas Hill Country. Deer skipped on the hills, the river burbled, the stars burned brightly at night. He had big plans for the place. The only thing he didn't have was a wife to share it with. He had a girlfriend, but she didn't like his little piece of heaven. So, well, she had to go. It wasn't working out. "And I said, 'Dadgummit, I need to meet a girl.' " His friends told him, "Russell, you'll meet a girl when you meet a girl," but Russell figured it was silly to sit around and wait. So last spring, he wrote "Houston firefighter seeking new girlfriend" on a piece of pink cardboard Cardboard is a generic non-specific term for a heavy duty paper based product. Paperboard
Paperboard is a paper based material. It is often used for folding cartons, set-up boxes, carded packaging, etc. , followed by his pager number. He took it to the busy corner of Westheimer and South Post Oak and stood there for an hour, "just to be able to say I did it." The next morning, his pager went off. Schelby Sweeney from the "Larry and Schelby Show" on KHMX had seen the sign and called to put him on the air. When the disc jockeys disc jockey (DJ) Person who plays recorded music on radio or television or at a nightclub or other live venue. Disc jockey programs became the economic base of many radio stations in the U.S. after World War II. dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. him "Russell the Love Muscle," his pager went crazy. Overwhelmed o·ver·whelm tr.v. o·ver·whelmed, o·ver·whelm·ing, o·ver·whelms 1. To surge over and submerge; engulf: waves overwhelming the rocky shoreline. 2. a. by the response - the calls came in for weeks, more than 550 of them - Russell elicited e·lic·it tr.v. e·lic·it·ed, e·lic·it·ing, e·lic·its 1. a. To bring or draw out (something latent); educe. b. To arrive at (a truth, for example) by logic. 2. the help of his daughter, Amy, who made a chart to map the callers' basic information: height, weight, age, hair color, eye color. |
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