When Worlds Collide

[figmo]

A conversation at the day job yesterday went like this:

Co-Worker: Did you know there's a woman on the radio with the same exact name as you? She's on 1590, KLIV.

Me: (Going into my usual KLIV shtick in my "radio voice") Lynn Gold, 1590, KLIV, Silicon Valley's News Station and the South Bay's home for CNN Headline News."

CW: So you've heard of her?

Comments

Lynn who?

[hazelchaz]

You could say, "I've never met her"... (okay, that's the best I could come up with.)

I've noticed your radio voice isn't the same as your normal speaking voice. So it's a lot less likely you'll run into someone saying "...and you sound just like her, too" if you haven't used the R.V. on them...

Re: Lynn who?

[figmo.livejournal.com]

When I went into my shpeel, I did it in my radio voice, which made it that much funnier when the co-worker said what he did.

Re: Lynn who?

[hazelchaz]

No, I got that part, that's not what I meant...

I mean, if I'm your co-worker, and I've just heard your normal speaking voice up until now, I may not realize who the voice on the radio with the same name but a different-sounding voice is. And, if you do your radio voice all of a sudden, it may not register that you're doing your own radio voice as opposed to a clever impression of the radio personality with the same name.

To use one example, imagine if radio personality Michael Jackson did an impression of the singer Michael Jackson...

Re: Lynn who?

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Oh. Got it.