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Horn Player Quits TV News Show
Springfield—KYTV’s horn player has decided to quit the show. Harry Pally, who played the main theme song music for local TV station KY3 for decades has quit citing lack of recognition and a bad case of “terrible boredom”.
“Every morning show, every noon, every evening, each news break, day after day after day. It starts to wear on a man after a while,” said Pally referring to his rigorous work schedule.
KYTV general manager, Eric Norman, said he had no idea Pally was playing live all these years. “Couldn’t we have recorded that like 30 years ago?” said the puzzled GM. Norman flew into a tizzy when he learned that in fact no one had thought to record the instrumental before Pally left. “(Ned) Reynolds must have that tune memorized by now, get that man a tuba!” Norman said, mistakenly identifying the lead instrument in the stations prominent ditty.
At first I took this seriously but then realized that it is just for fun.
The full fake story is here.
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