Ziggy by Tom Wilson & Tom II for January 26, 2024

Nothing like a little humor!!!!

Sometimes those tests do catch you off guard. Most of the time they will tell you that it is a test before the test, it is the ones that only tell you after the test that it was just a test that get you worried.

For some reason we get a test on the TV most weekdays each week. If we’re lucky we were muted for a commercial so it doesn’t startle us since they are loud.

It’s funny that those emergency broadcast alerts always interrupt the program. Interrupting the commercials would be doing the viewers a big favor!

Ziggy and I are both of the generation whose attention is quickly seized by the EBS/EAS tones.

Saw a LOT of those TV “commercials” during the Cold War era.

Why I don’t like listening to the news…I prefer to read it online. More careful about what they say in print.

Not funny!

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Gives the heart palpatations!

We get alerts on our phones, but those are always genuine. We haven’t seen/heard one of those tests in quite a while. But then we rarely use on-air TV or radio.

Funny

“If this had been an actual emergency, the Attention Signal you just heard would have been followed by — An Earth-Shattering Kaboom!

THIS IS ONLY A TEST!!

It wasn’t long ago when North Korea was demonstrating the range of its ballistic missiles, and threatening the U.S. There was a test of the EAS in Hawaii, but someone made a mistake, and it was broadcast as a warning, not a test.

Been there, done that. I live in Hawaii. That’s not funny.

“Moscow in flames! Missiles headed for New York! Film at 11!”

They always do their tests at the worst times!

Ooohh, the snots! They must all be little brothers or something. Thanks for the laugh.

The highlight of watching recorded shows is figuring out if the alert is recorded or current. They can inject alerts on recorded shows.

Eh these days you is never knows eh.

We had a lot of those when I was a kid during the Cuban missile crisis.

In Mexico City, there is a public alarm system which sounds a warning when an earthquake is about to hit. Of course, that only gives you about a minute or so to get out of your building before the trembling begins. Since I have to go down three flight of stairs to get to the street, I usually just stay put and hope that it’s not a bad one!