....I had an Austin IBMer ask me if I'd ever announced for radio, because I have a very sonorous "Radio like" voice! Which my Honorary (not blood) Granddaughter Kiara seemed to really respond to and I first held her and talk with her today!

We first met today, she's about month old and a real sweetheart of a baby! :-)

John Kuthe...

On Saturday, August 8, 2020 at 5:12:27 PM UTC-10, John Kuthe wrote:
> ...I had an Austin IBMer ask me if I'd ever announced for radio, because I have a very sonorous "Radio like" voice! Which my Honorary (not blood) Granddaughter Kiara seemed to really respond to and I first held her and talk with her today!
>
> We first met today, she's about month old and a real sweetheart of a baby! :-)
>
> John Kuthe...

I got three voices - my regular voice, my speech voice, and a radio voice. I don't much care for my regular voice, my speech voice comes deep in the chest and is hard to keep up for long, my radio voice is a combination of deep voice with some nasal thrown in. My wife has a totally awesome voice when recorded - one imagines all kinds of things on playback.

The Hawaiians have all kinds of non-blood or distant relationships. These are called "hanai." This can mean a formal adoption or an informal understanding of taking care of or raising other people's children. I believe the roots of this practice comes from the Chinese and Hawaiian cultures.

On 8/8/2020 11:12 PM, John Kuthe wrote:
> ...I had an Austin IBMer ask me if I'd ever announced for radio, because I have a very sonorous "Radio like" voice! Which my Honorary (not blood) Granddaughter Kiara seemed to really respond to and I first held her and talk with her today!
>
> We first met today, she's about month old and a real sweetheart of a baby! :-)
>
> John Kuthe...
>
Oh good lord. Have you resorted to accosting women with babies on the
sidewalk?

We'll have to ask Steve if you have a "sonorous" voice.

Jill <---was a radio news announcer in the 1970's