Julia Altshuler wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>
>> Okay, Bob - gotta test your knowledge. Do you remember where that
>> phrase "Oh, the humanity" originated? And please don't tell me it
>> was on an episode of WKRP in Cinncinnati!
>
> Alex, for 400 points, what is Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener?"
>
> --Lia

BZZZZT! No, sorry, wrong answer! The phrase actually came from the
reporter standing outside what was my house (gawd!) at Lakehurst Naval Air
Station, NJ. Herb Morrison reporting. You can hear him he

http://www.otr.com/hindenburg.html

Our house was the former waiting station for the arriving passengers of the
Hindenburg dirigible coming in from Germany on May 7, 1937. She burned and
fell at the airfield just across the way. I've got some military paperwork
from that day you wouldn't believe.

They used this phrase when television character Les Nessman reported as
staff from 'WKRP in Cinncinnati' tossed live turkeys out of helicopters over
a supermarket, not realizing turkeys are flightless birds.
"Oh, the humanity!"

Jill