Recently on the Internet OTR Digest there was a discussion about the show Can You Top This?, an audience-participation program where the listeners could send in jokes to tell; the panelists would then try to top the laughter level as measured on the meter, which would determine how much money the joke-sender would receive.

Our friend Jim Widner, he of the Radio Days website, provided a collection of episodes he’s acquired from the Net for running on this podcast. This episode is labeled from November 20, 1947 and has as its first topic “Psychiatry.”

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 Can You Top This? - First Topic, Psychiatry [29:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I purchased this evening a SanDisk Cruzer 4G thumb drive (flash drive, whatever you want to call it) so I could transfer some files between the computers here. Should have been a no-brainer; plug in the drive where Windows installs a driver, copy files to the drive, remove the drive, move to other computer, lather, rinse, repeat.

Instead the computer went bonzo installing some bizarre computer program…without my knowledge or permission, and trying to remove the drive stops the computer from properly restarting! Seriously, avoid SanDisk items of any kind until they have enough respect for their customers not to pull this crap on them.

I have never seen anything like it…it threw up a big button on the machine, an item marked “U3″ in the notification area, and demanded I restart the machine. But any time I tried to remove the drive, it not only failed but then when I restarted it would hang before Windows Explorer was finished loading.

Holy crap. (Details after the jump.)
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