[Storm]

We watched Channel 2 at ten o'clock and saw nothing. We watched Channel 4 at eleven and saw nothing. Read the paper this morning and saw nothing. Considering we were setting a new world record I thought sure there'd be a lot of media coverage. There were a lot of rapes, murders, car crashes as usual but not a word or photo of the Moot. Did we miss something? Would Channel 4 have been happier if we were all falling down drunk, raping, murdering and shooting heroin as they seem to think most boaters do per their previous coverage of Jobbie Nooner? Anyhow, we had a great time. We tied up with the Big Red Bus Driver (purely by accident) and also met Delsocruz. Saw Hammer in his very fashionable orange T-shirt collecting forms. Hope everyone had as good a time as we did and arrived back in port safe and sound!

 

[sunsation al]

Totally agree about the media coverage, or, lack there of. Too bad.

 

[magerthrill]

yeah. whats up with that !! i know they were aware that this was happening. I really expected all local stations 2 4 and 7 there.

 

[JABBERJAWZ]

There's a big front page article in the Maciomb Daily today.

 

[Irie Mon]

Sadly enough, the media attitude is, "if it bleeds, it leads." They would rather show rapes and murders than a record-breaking charity event.

 

[Guest]

I bet we'll get a nice write up down in Lake Norman.

Up here, nothing. <_<

I didn't even see anything on the Festival of Lights.

 

[bobrob]

Was a great time .. was nice meeting you storm and lake luver.. too..

 

[surfergirlck]

hopefully next year i can help out and make it better than the awesomeness that was this year.

pwease.

my dad saw the mac d photo and was like, 'that's what you guys go do on the weekends?' and i said 'yup.' and he said, 'seeing we chose camping over boating, looks like i picked the wrong recreational outlet.'

awesome pic!

 

[Float On]

BIG NEWS FLASH- as reported in the front section in todays Free Press along with a photo:

Taiwan beat the world record for the largest drum ensemble by gathering 1,899 drummers to perform for 30 minutes in Tainan, located in southern Taiwan. The previous record was set in Japan.

All I can say is - WHO GIVES A S***!!!!!

Nice priorities Free Press

 

[JABBERJAWZ]

Does that mean the news of our record is in a Taiwaneese news papers front headlines?

 

[makowish]

I was expecting a bigger article in the Macomb Daily on Sunday???

I did print out the pic and laminate it though

 

[BLONDEANDBRATTY]

I must say it came together nicely, we stayed over night and it all connected well. I was connected to Beachbum and Dancing Girl...lots of smiles ..a definite must do. I thought I saw a boat out there early morning with CBS on it's side.

 

[bikinigirl]

QUOTE(JABBERJAWZ @ Aug 9 2004, 12:09 PM)Does that mean the news of our record is in a Taiwaneese news papers front headlines?

I will get a press release out to them right now.

 

[Adios]

Yeah channel 4 and there "local" news.....
news that works for you...BS

I know that there was a cat stuck in a tree over the weekend in Ohio, and that a man in Nebraska was killed when trying to fix his Combuine whiule in motion.

 

[GaryDebs]

QUOTE(Pornodave @ Aug 9 2004, 12:04 PM)BIG NEWS FLASH- as reported in the front section in todays Free Press along with a photo:

Taiwan beat the world record for the largest drum ensemble by gathering 1,899 drummers to perform for 30 minutes in Tainan, located in southern Taiwan. The previous record was set in Japan.

All I can say is - WHO GIVES A S***!!!!!

Nice priorities Free Press

I say EVERYONE gets a bongo drum on their boat for next years Raft,

then we can crush two records at once!

 

[Snowbi-Wan]

QUOTE(garydebs @ Aug 9 2004, 01:16 PM)I say EVERYONE gets a bongo drum on their boat for next years Raft,

then we can crush two records at once!

Better yet, Raftguy can fill as many rafts as he can with chicks in thongs and have record for the longest line of butt cheeks.

 

[Goose]

Detroit News is doing a follow up article tomorrow, Brian and I just got off the phone with the reporter. Once it's demonstrated what the event is and was, people will be jumping on the bandwagon, I'm already hyped at what next year will bring.

 

[Going Deep]

Funny the News stations will cover
Jobbie Nooner and talk about how bad
boaters are but when you do something good
and pull all the boaters together to break a world
record they dont cover it. Great Job to the
that set it up. I was out of town but heard it
was a sight to see. my 2 cents

 

[Adios]

QUOTE(Goose @ Aug 9 2004, 12:53 PM)Detroit News is doing a follow up article tomorrow, Brian and I just got off the phone with the reporter. Once it's demonstrated what the event is and was, people will be jumping on the bandwagon, I'm already hyped at what next year will bring.
YES !

 

[Aggressortom]

Where's Kevin Dietz now, the jacka$$. He made boaters look bad with his under cover crap at Jobbienooner, why not show what we did for charity and how hard the volunteers worked the raft.

Nocode was everywhere, thanks for time you spent out there hustling, it is appreciated by all of us more than you know.