RoyalP
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The jabberwocky is, once again, affecting me.
A sabbatical is in order.
"I'll be baacck."
A sabbatical is in order.
"I'll be baacck."
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MarkM31 (Washington)
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WERD
RoyalP
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did you mean WEIRD ?
MarkM31 (Washington)
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Werd \werd\ interj (ca.1960) {a slang term whose origin is based on the remembrance of WERD; the first black-owned radio station, based out of the Masonic building in Atlanta, Georgia, owned and operated between 1949-1968 by Jesse B. Blayton and a means of media exposure for Dr. Martin Luther King} 1: a statement within itself of agreement and power
"Remember this?" Jack said, pointing to a picture. Joe says, "werd." "That was a crazy time, huh? I'll bet we could do that again." Joe says, "werd."
For the total dorks
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Werd
"Remember this?" Jack said, pointing to a picture. Joe says, "werd." "That was a crazy time, huh? I'll bet we could do that again." Joe says, "werd."
For the total dorks
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Werd
RoyalP
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Posted:
WERD, man, WERD
RoyalP
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Posted:
Mark,
MLK
Groovy stuff, very, very, WERD
MLK
Groovy stuff, very, very, WERD
RoyalP
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link did not work:
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/werd
WERD
Original entry by
Laurence W. Etling, Valdosta State University, 01/28/2005
Last edited by NGE Staff on 12/16/2014
WERD in Atlanta
Jesse B. Blayton Sr., known as the "Dean of Negro Accountants," speaks in 1928. Blayton worked as both a bank president and a college professor before purchasing WERD in 1949. In 1995 he was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame.
Jesse B. Blayton Sr.
became the first radio station in America to be owned by an African American when Jesse B. Blayton, a professor at Atlanta University and a bank president, bought it in 1949 and hired his son, Jesse Blayton Jr., as station manager. The 1,000-watt station, purchased for $50,000, was located in the Prince Hall Masons Grand Lodge at 334 Auburn Avenue.
Jesse Blayton Jr. hired veteran disc jockey Jack Gibson as announcer and replaced the rest of the all-white staff with black announcers. The station's "Four Horsemen"—Gibson, Joe Howard, Roosevelt Johnson, and Jimmy Winnington—played music and other programming of interest to black listeners. Gibson was a popular on-air personality, perhaps the city's leading disc jockey at the time. Blayton also hired Ken Knight as program director.
During the 1960s, the WERD radio station shared the Prince Hall Masonic Lodge on Auburn Avenue with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Prince Hall Masonic Lodge
lodge that housed WERD was also home to Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) during the 1960s. It has been said that King would bang on the ceiling with a broomstick when he wanted to make a public statement, and the WERD disc jockey upstairs would lower a microphone from the window above.
Blayton Sr. sold the station to white owners in 1968. He remained active in community affairs until his death on September 7, 1977, and was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1995.
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/werd
WERD
Original entry by
Laurence W. Etling, Valdosta State University, 01/28/2005
Last edited by NGE Staff on 12/16/2014
WERD in Atlanta
Jesse B. Blayton Sr., known as the "Dean of Negro Accountants," speaks in 1928. Blayton worked as both a bank president and a college professor before purchasing WERD in 1949. In 1995 he was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame.
Jesse B. Blayton Sr.
became the first radio station in America to be owned by an African American when Jesse B. Blayton, a professor at Atlanta University and a bank president, bought it in 1949 and hired his son, Jesse Blayton Jr., as station manager. The 1,000-watt station, purchased for $50,000, was located in the Prince Hall Masons Grand Lodge at 334 Auburn Avenue.
Jesse Blayton Jr. hired veteran disc jockey Jack Gibson as announcer and replaced the rest of the all-white staff with black announcers. The station's "Four Horsemen"—Gibson, Joe Howard, Roosevelt Johnson, and Jimmy Winnington—played music and other programming of interest to black listeners. Gibson was a popular on-air personality, perhaps the city's leading disc jockey at the time. Blayton also hired Ken Knight as program director.
During the 1960s, the WERD radio station shared the Prince Hall Masonic Lodge on Auburn Avenue with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Prince Hall Masonic Lodge
lodge that housed WERD was also home to Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) during the 1960s. It has been said that King would bang on the ceiling with a broomstick when he wanted to make a public statement, and the WERD disc jockey upstairs would lower a microphone from the window above.
Blayton Sr. sold the station to white owners in 1968. He remained active in community affairs until his death on September 7, 1977, and was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1995.
MarkM31 (Washington)
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When does your sabbatical start?
RoyalP
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RETRY
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Posted By RoyalP on 11/18/2018 12:43 PM
Mark,
MLK
Groovy stuff, very, very, WERD
Mark,
MLK
Groovy stuff, very, very, WERD
RoyalP
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Posted:
now
MarkM19 (Texas)
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Wow I hear they can be from 6 weeks to 6 months.
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