You see that photo of me, to the lower left? Where I’m pretending to smile?
I’m very non-photogenic, and it’s the only photo taken of me during the past 10 years in which I don’t look completely terrible.
Hint: It wasn’t taken in the U.S. And it was somewhere you really would never expect to see me.
The first person to correctly identify the setting will win…Uh, five bucks.
And I might award a prize to the person with the most creative (albeit incorrect) guess.
So go nuts….
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Dan,
Since you live in California, I’m going to guess the picture was taken in Greenland. Cold and snowy. It makes a nice contrast.
Well, the picture was taken far from California. But what makes it such an unlikely locale isn’t the climate…
Hmmm – New Zealand springs to mind – but that might just be the white building (?) behind you …. tough one Dan.
Earl: Sorry, wrong continent.
Someone who looks that happy can only really be in Australia.
waiting in line for Robert Palmer tickets in Cleavland, am I close?
Cuba
The last places I’d expect to see you are Iraq Afghanistan, or Iran. However, I’m not sure you’ve been to any of those places…so I’ll try the tiny island nation of Nauru, which sits all alone in the Pacific Ocean, right on the equator.
I think the President of Nauru Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) called on you to help improve their morning radio program. Broadcasting to the entire nation–an audience of 10,000 (all 21 square miles of the island)–is no joke, and he wanted top-notch training for his talent.
When you got there and saw that the radio station got electricity for only 12 hours a day, in 2 irregularly scheduled six-hour shifts, you were not happy. But that afternoon you caught a glimpse of the locals catching noddy terns with Nauruan lassos at sunset. Captivated, you begged them to let you try. They did.
This photo captured your expression after catching your first noddy tern.
The radio station there stinks to this day because you never made it over to present any of your material. The President of NBC, being a noddy tern hunter himself, completely understood the distraction and was not the least bit upset with you. When it was time to leave, you took a souvenir Nauruan lasso and this photo with you and vowed never to return.
Am I close?
In the back seat of a grey hound bus in Nova Scotia right before their annual ferret festival?
Rodney: Wrong continent.
Adam: What makes your guess closer than the others is it specifies a locale and a context.
Aside from that…Not exactly close.
Chris: You’ll never win this contest is you stick with the most obvious scenarios.
Outside!
In Alaska on an open air outhouse?
Rockefeller Plaza, NY.
Outside – looking through the windows of the Today Show.
(Probably holding a “Radio Forever” sign.)
yeah. I know NY is in the US……I just can’t read directions.
Mark: Your guess is correct as far as it goes, but not quite specific enough…
Drew: You’ve come the closest in terms of providing a specific locale and a context. The details are a bit off, though.
In Prague at an outdoor theater presentation of “Famous Radio DJs On Ice” while sitting on a magic fingers massage chair. That might explain the smile.
In a mall.
Paul: I missed the ice show when I was in Prague, but I did know to tell the restaurant waiter to remove the basket of bread from my table. (Otherwise they charge you extra for the bread.)
Veronica: You don’t know me very well, do you?
Where does the guessing part come in? Anyone can SEE you’re in Reykjavík, South Iceland, observing either a Hindu holy Day or preparing for the Pillsbury Bake-off. Really, though, Dan, in that climate you ought to be wearing more.
Bobby: No, if that were Reykjavík the photo would’ve been taken inside the little Thai restaurant that had the mini-shrine to Princess Diana just inside the entryway. (Sure wish I’d had a camera with me then….)
Northern Canada, Yuk0n territory or BC? In a well-lit, government building, looking for a vending machine?
Finland. Helsinki. Or even Rovaniemi, recidence of Santa Claus. But I guess I’m wrong, it’s too cold for you there.
Priit: Your guess is geographically closest of all the ones so far. Wrong, but closer than the others.
In Tavulu at a Radioactive conference.
That would be radio on .tv
Russia? St.Petersburg?
Well, no one really managed to come close to what should be so obvious:
The photo was taken in the courtyard of a convent in Belgium.
Really.
So obvious in hindsight, isn’t it?
What a great example of an engaging competition Dan. I was did the same thing (inance question – what’s the connection between the song “Playground In My Mind” and the British drama “Coronation Street”?, valueless prize – one mini Mars bar). It ran every break on a summer breakfast for three days.
A think a better question would be to use you Facebook pr ofile phot and ask “WHY was this photo taken”? Or “why doesn’t Dan use the good photo for his facebook profile?”
Great contest! That was fun, now lets do another.
I think it was taken on a snowy mountain top at Dick Orkin’s Radio Ranch.