Things that make you go HMMMM

[Goodheart]

A couple of days ago I was driving back to Louisiana from North Carolina, and listening to Sirius as I usually do on such a long trip. Anyway, Howard Stern was replaying an interview with Sia, best known for the hit songs "Chandelier", "Titanium", "Diamonds", and for her breakthrough song "Breathe Me" in Six Feet Under's closing scene.

Well, this morning I got to wondering how David Ball chose "Breathe Me" as his closing moment to such a landmark series, considering that Sia was really an unknown at the time. So, a couple of web articles later, and with a better appreciation of how it was chosen, I replayed that scene a couple of times on YouTube, and got choked up all over again.

Anyway, after asking myself "why am I doing this to me?" I shut that down and walked over to the gym... turned on the TV to accompany my elliptical routine... the Kelly Clarkson Show was on... and guess what song Kelly was singing?

In all honesty, it didn't make me go HMMM, although it did cause a chuckle. I do NOT wonder about coincidences. A lot of other people take them as messages from some higher power, etc., but I am certain that this world would be much much stranger, with far more evidence for a creation plan, if they didn't happen at all.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Our brains notice when things like this happen and don't think of the almost infinitely

larger number of times ... it does NOT happen when it theoretically could've.

[Harker]

3. I knew you were going to say that. n/t

[rsdsharp]

2. Sometimes it's REALLY not a coincidence.

Back in the 70s in San Francisco, disc jockeys Ken Levine and Beau Weaver were working the same shift at competing top 40 stations KYA and KFRC. They were friends, and arranged to play the same songs at the same time for a period during the same late night hour. Eventually their respective program directors caught on and made them stop, but for a week or so they messed with the listeners minds.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. I still hear the 70's jingle when I see the letters KFRC

K - FRC ... San Francisco!

You probably remember it too if you were around in that era

[rsdsharp]

6. I remember the KHJ, KFRC, CKLW, WHBQ, WRKO, and WOR-FM

jingles, too. All were RKO General stations, and the jingles were all done by the Johnny Mann Singers using virtually the same musical logo. At least until Bill Drake was canned as consultant in the mid 70s. Then KHJ and KFRC switched to TM Productions for jingles.

[Goodheart]

5. I like that story. :)