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Peoria Matt
 Post subject: John Coleman
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83 years old.

MANY on this board are too young to remember him. Mostly I recall him as a bit of a goof. IIRC he started the weather channel which made him quite wealthy.

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Co-founder. He was pretty goofy.
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 Post subject: Re: John Coleman
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He was kind of a corny jokester guy. Seemed pleasant enough.

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 Post subject: Re: John Coleman
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University of Illinois grad too.

Too soon.

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Zippy-The-Pinhead wrote:
Peoria Matt wrote:
83 years old.

MANY on this board are too young to remember him. Mostly I recall him as a bit of a goof. IIRC he started the weather channel which made him quite wealthy.

He did indeed. And I believe he's not a fan of the breathless tones some take on global warming, et al.

For the MANY kids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBqPK2nbfnI

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Kevin Matthews used to do some funny bits about him. I also recall he had some sort of frog character thing.

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Presuming that Joel Daly is gone, now the whole happy talk team is dead. Damn

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Presuming that Joel Daly is gone, now the whole happy talk team is dead. Damn

Face it dude you're old.

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Old School weatherman.

RIP.
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Regular Reader wrote:
Presuming that Joel Daly is gone, now the whole happy talk team is dead. Damn

Face it dude you're old.


:lol:

It's going to be even more amusing when you wax nostalgic behind the passing of Skilling or Jerry Taft you jerk. :lol:

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Presuming that Joel Daly is gone, now the whole happy talk team is dead. Damn

He's a living 83. For now.

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Don Tiny wrote:
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Presuming that Joel Daly is gone, now the whole happy talk team is dead. Damn

He's a living 83. For now.


Spada stay the hell out of the man's area

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My grandma loved him

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My family was a Bill and Walter shop, and then an NBC5 shop after Floyd Kalber went to ABC. So my memories of John are "Carol, Ron..."

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