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Q100 waging uphill battle to collect letters for U.S. troops
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Q100’s Bert Show is riding high in the ratings, but the show isn’t just about warped psycho relationships and giggles over Britney Spears’ latest mishap.
Less than two weeks ago, Bert Weiss and his colleagues came up with an ambitious feel-good goal — get listeners to send hand-written thank you letters to every U.S. military person overseas during Thanksgiving.
That’s a daunting 375,000 letters. Given the logistical logjams, the deadline for the campaign was last Friday but as of Monday afternoon, Weiss told Buzz he had no clue how close they are to that goal and won’t know until today. “We’re navigating by the stars,” he said.
A week ago, Weiss said, they only had 30,000 letters so he thought the final goal was “insurmountable,” but he’s hoping a late-week surge will get them over the top.
Schools have jumped aboard while Taco Mac’s 20 or so locales provided dropoff points throughout Atlanta and Pitney Bowes covers postage.
The idea of doing a hand-written letter (rather than e-mails or mass Xeroxed form letters) was the personal touch we seldom see anymore in this day and age of IM and e-mail.
This could make even an anonymous letter special to a soldier stuck in Iceland, Iraq or some isolated island in the Pacific.
Weiss so far has received more than 7,000 e-mails on the subject, more than any topic since the Six Flags giveaway this year that went awry when too many people showed up too early, unexpectedly tying up I-20 for hours.
‘Survivor’ went as far as she could
There are several ways to go far on CBS’s “Survivor.” You can connive your way to victory via artful dodges, feints and lies. Or you can stay likably under the radar. Atlanta fourth-grade teacher Sherea Lloyd, ousted Thursday, tried to be indispensable at immunity challenges.
But her weak tribe Zhan Hu tended to lose despite her efforts. Lloyd chose not to play mind games, and her opinionated, Type-A personality clashed with some tribe members. So when rival tribe Fei Long kidnapped Lloyd two episodes ago, she became vulnerable. Even worse, Frosti Zernow, another kidnapped Zhan Hu member, accidentally spied the immunity Idol this past Thursday, protecting his survival for now.
Lloyd could have lasted longer if Zhan Hu had thrown the immunity challenge a second time this past Thursday, but they weren’t sure if she was trustworthy once the two tribes merged. She hurt herself when she chose not to talk to Zhan Hu member Peih-Gee Law during the reward challenge.
Overall, Lloyd said she had a good time. “I made it as far as I could and I’m proud of that,” she said. But she did say that “I wasn’t connecting with all the people day by day. You never knew what was going on.”
At least she got to sightsee around China the remainder of her time instead of semi-starving on rice and fish.
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