{"id":1720,"date":"2011-12-15T13:39:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T18:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2011-12-15T13:52:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T18:52:21","slug":"listening-post-its-no-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/12\/15\/listening-post-its-no-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening Post: It’s no context!"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the problems with social media is that it is a great vehicle for sharing content like photos and videos, headlines and short quotes, personal and\/or rude remarks, etc., but it falls a little short sometimes in providing context. A case in point is this photo shared by Jonathan Brown on the new NCPR Tumblr page<\/a>. It comes from Peter Sagal, host of the NPR news quiz program, “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!” <\/em><\/p>\n

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"Yo Yo Ma and a wombat walk into a bar..."<\/p><\/div>\n

A person might wonder just why the world-renowned cellist, Yo Yo Ma, impeccably turned out as always in a dark suit, is lying on a bathroom floor looking at a wombat. It’s a natural question. And the Tumblr entry provides no explanation. I tried a little research. There was lots of talk about the photo in Sagal’s Twitter feed, but mostly about how it had gone viral and how it was co-opted without attribution by a New York-area paper, much to Sagal’s (and, he alleges, the wombat’s) chagrin. So when Jonathan shared the photo again on the NCPR Facebook page, I felt it was incumbent upon me to provide some kind of explanation, even a hypothetical one. Here goes:<\/p>\n

Yo Yo Ma and a wombat walk into a bar. Yo Yo says to the bartender, “I’ll have whatever my friend is having.” The bartender says, “He’s a freakin’ wombat!” Yo Yo says, “No, no–he’s just having a bad day.” The bartender says “Okey-doke–two Bad Days, comin’ up.” The wombat says, “Wait a minute; just what do you put in a Bad Day?” The bartender says, “I can’t remember; I’ll have to look it up. But the last guy that ordered one woke up on the bathroom floor with a cellist.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Feel free to share any other inexplicable things that have shown up in your electronic neighborhood in a comment below. I’ll do my best to put the matter in context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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