Our local talk radio station’s noon-3pm guy asks a question of the day, takes callers, and then rates the answers, to pick a winner at the end of the show. The question of the day was “Who is so famous that he/she goes by one name?”
I was on hold for over an hour but finally got on the air with my answer: Shakespeare. My reasoning was that theaters still put on his plays, and that if I somehow got marooned on a desert island with only one book from my library, it would be “The Complete Works of Shakespeare.”
The show host used to teach high school English before he got into talk radio. The producer started arguing with him that “nobody likes to read Shakespeare, and besides, it’s many books, not one.” The show host refuted that, and even asked me for a Shakespeare quote. God knows how this got on the air, without getting bleeped, but I replied “Out, out, damned spot.” The host said “That’s a good one.” I’ve got at least a dozen more, but something short from Macbeth is better than reciting the Hamlet soliloquy. What’s even funnier is that the show host said tomorrow’s question of the day might be “What’s a good Shakespeare quote?”
The upshot is that my answer made it into the top three for consideration, but didn’t win. *sad trombone*
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