You should have heard "now-local Albuquerque-caller-booked-part-time" this weekend at the A&C. For every single call, he had a clever pun or joke or jab or SOMETHING in the 'dead air' until he said the next call. Even I who has lots of verbal garbage got tired of it in a hurry. Too much to process and too much not funny. He's been calling for maybe 30+ years, with maybe 20 years of that full time. Other callers know him. He's been around.
I call this uncontrollable need to fill 100% of the call-time with verbal stuff the "former-caller-from-Shreveport Form."
I'm sorry I still haven't heard you call since that weekend in the Poconos three years ago.
Dayle is right. If the calling itself isn't working, then just call the calls with nothing else, working on indestructibly perfect timing. Any fluff-fill comes later.
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Date: 2009-10-21 04:44 am (UTC)I call this uncontrollable need to fill 100% of the call-time with verbal stuff the "former-caller-from-Shreveport Form."
I'm sorry I still haven't heard you call since that weekend in the Poconos three years ago.
Dayle is right. If the calling itself isn't working, then just call the calls with nothing else, working on indestructibly perfect timing. Any fluff-fill comes later.