And now for our regular language mangling segment.
I've heard several ads in the past week by that mangler par excellence, Tony Marinaro -- whether it's for Montreal Auto Prix or some other sponsor, where he can't even pronounce his own name. Has anyone noticed this? He says, "this is Tony MARRR-NARO".
Which reminds me of one of Marinaro's all time worse pronunciations. Whenever he talks about the Montreal Alouettes, he refers to them as the "Montralouettes. I've heard him getting grilled about this by the 690 morning guys.
Just when I thought Marinaro was the only on-air dud crunching up words like that, I had the misfortune of hearing Elias Makos just two weeks ago, pronouncing the words "municipal politics" as "municipolitics". Straight out of the Marrrrnaro School of nonsensical speech patterns.
I was listening on 690 this morning when a trio from hell was dealt out. On a consecutive basis, it started with Marinaro playing a radio ad featuring himself where he used the "Marrrrnaro" pronunciation. Followed by the lame and somniferous Sean Campbell with a fluff bit about nothing. And completing the disaster when the station played a Limp Act ad with Rick Moffat doing his donkey-ass goal call.
Only thing that could have made it even worse, would have been to have all of that followed by Moe Khan. Man, that station just keeps hitting new lows.