There's a radio station called Wink 106. I capitalize only the first letter because its call letters are actually WNKI. Dotty supposes that this actually would be said, "winkie".
Nevertheless! The announcers and singers and whoever else says it, they say Wink 106.
In high school my friend Marco and I liked to whine and complain and generally prove that we were better than everybody else.
Which we were.
One evening as we were driving around trying to find something good on the radio (there wasn't anything), the singers sang, "Wink 106, double you eye enn kay!" But the announcers say "double you enn kay eye". So the singers spell "wink" while the announcer spells "winkie".
Marco sighed a big sigh and said, "What Hooked on Phonics moron said that WNKI spells Wink?"
I still laugh a little when I hear those crazy singers make the little tune flow melodically from my car radio. Tee hee. Hooked on Phonics.
Posted by dotty at May 5, 2005 11:39 PM