Old East at UNC: Ancient Anchor Critiqued the Mortar in 1793

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What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.

1. 

   Hank LedgerOn this day in seventeen ninety-three, the cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, was laid at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, according to Wikipedia.

2. 

   Gloria VanceI watched them lay it. The mortar was bad, and I said so to the foreman.

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   Hank LedgerGloria, that's two hundred and thirty-three years ago.

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   Gloria VanceI was young. Nineteen ninety-four, the Magellan spacecraft burned up in the atmosphere of Venus, and I was there for that too.

5. 

   Hank LedgerOn Venus.

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   Gloria VanceNineteen seventy-nine, Typhoon Tip became the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded. I held the umbrella.

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   Hank LedgerAdd it up and you're older than the university, and the umbrella still lost to the biggest storm ever recorded.