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Burbank is both a common placename in English-speaking countries and a common surname (last name). The name Burbank is of English origin and means "lives on the castle's hill".

Places[link]

Australia[link]

• Burbank, Queensland
• Burbank, South Australia

United States[link]

• Burbank, California (Los Angeles County, California)
• Burbank, Santa Clara County, California (named after Luther Burbank)
• Burbank, Illinois
• Burbank, Massachusetts
• Burbank, Ohio
• Burbank, Oklahoma
• Burbank, South Dakota
• Burbank, Utah
• Burbank, Washington
• Burbank Township, Minnesota
• Low and Burbank's Grant, New Hampshire
• Luther Burbank School District, San Jose, California

People[link]

• Buzz Burbank, real name Michael J. Elston (b. 1953), Newsman for the Mike O'Meara Show.
• Daniel C. Burbank (b. 1961), American astronaut.
• Elbridge Ayer Burbank (1858-1949), portrait painter of Native Americans.
• Gary Burbank (b. Billy Purser, 1941), American radio personality.
• John A. Burbank (1827 – 1905), American businessman and fourth Governor of Dakota Territory.
• Luke Burbank (b. 1976), American podcaster and current host of Too Beautiful to Live.
• Luther Burbank (1849-1926), American horticulturalist.
• Truman Burbank, the main (fictional) character in The Truman Show.

Other[link]

• Russet Burbank potato, named after Luther Burbank
• Burbank (DART station), a light rail station in Dallas, Texas
• Burbank Elementary School (disambiguation)
• Burbank High School (disambiguation)
• Luther Burbank Middle School (disambiguation)

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Look up post or post- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Post or POST may refer to:

Mail[link]

• Mail, the postal system, especially in Commonwealth of Nations countries
• Hotel post, a service offered by remote Swiss hotels for the carriage of mail to the nearest official post office
• Local post, a mail service that operates only within a limited geographical area, typically a city or a single transportation route
• Parcel post, a service for sending parcels through the post
• Prague pneumatic post, the world's last preserved municipal pneumatic post system
• Wine post, also known as New Zealand Wine Post, is a privately owned postal service in New Zealand
• Post, an entry in a blog or internet forum – see posting style
• Anonymous post, an entry in a blog or internet forum without a screen name or more commonly by using a non-identifiable pseudonym
• Sponsored post, a post to any community-driven notification-oriented website which is explicitly sponsored as an advertisement

Newspapers and magazines[link]

• New York Post, USA
• The Washington Post, USA
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, USA
• The Christian Post, USA
• The Jerusalem Post, Israel
• The Sunday Post, Scotland
• National Post, Canada
• The Sunday Business Post, Ireland
• Australasian Post, Australia
• Post Magazine, British magazine first published in 1840
• Post Newspapers, Australia
• South China Morning Post, Hong Kong
• The Kathmandu Post, Nepal

Music[link]

• Post (Björk album), the third studio album by Icelandic singer-songwriter and musician Björk, released in June 1995
• Post (Paul Kelly album), the first solo album by Australian singer-songwriter rock musician, Paul Kelly
• Post Records, record label

Organisations and companies[link]

• Post Foods, brand name
• Post University, a university in Connecticut USA
• Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, UK

Places[link]

• Post, Texas, the county seat of Garza County, US
• Post, Oregon, a community at the geographic center of the state of Oregon, US
• Post Lake, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community, US

Sports[link]

• Posting system, transfer system for baseball players moving from a Japanese baseball team to a Major League Baseball team
• Post (route), route run by a receiver in American Football

Technology[link]

• Structural post: Column (architecture)
• Power-on self-test, start-up routines on electronic devices, typically on computers
• POST (HTTP), an HTTP request method
• Pillar (car), structural element of a car body
• .post the internet top-level domain

Other[link]

• Post, a way of riding a horse trot
• Military base, an assigned station or a guard post
• Post (surname)
• Part-of-speech tagging, the process of marking up a word in a text (corpus) as corresponding to a particular part of speech, based on both its definition, as well as its context—i.e. relationship with adjacent and related words in a phrase, sentence, or paragraph
• POST Certification (Peace Officer Standards and Training), a program nationwide for Law enforcement officers

See also[link]

• Pole (disambiguation)
• Posting (laundering process), or postadh, a traditional Scottish method of washing clothes
• Hitching post (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Post"
• All pages with titles containing "Post"

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Andrew Phillip "Andy" Harmon (born April 6, 1969 in Dayton, Ohio) is a former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the sixth round of the 1991 NFL Draft. He played college football at Kent State.

He holds the Philadelphia Eagles sack record for a defensive tackle with 40.^[1]

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Gary Burbank (born Billy Purser, July 1941, in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American radio personality. He was heard daily on WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio, from June 15, 1981 until December 21, 2007, when he signed off for the last time.

Career in Radio[link]

Burbank began his radio career in his hometown at WMPS in the mid 1960s, where he was known on the air as Johnny Apollo. In 1968 he moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where he became an instant hit on WAKY-AM. It was at WAKY that Billy Purser officially became Gary Burbank, a name taken from radio and television legend Gary Owens, who as a regular on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In would announce that he was broadcasting from "beautiful downtown Burbank." (Burbank's natural voice is remarkably similar to Owens' on-air voice.)

Burbank left WAKY in 1973; his final program there was an elaborate prank in which he pretended to be fatally shot by a disgruntled listener. ^[1] At that point, he moved to New Orleans for a brief stint as program director of WNOE. From New Orleans, Burbank went on to CKLW in Detroit/Windsor, and then back to Louisville for a successful, lengthy afternoon gig on WHAS-AM. Burbank left Louisville again for a brief spell in Tampa, Florida at WDAE, but moved to the Ohio Valley in 1981 when he signed with WLW, originally doing morning drive time but later moving to afternoons. It is there that he has enjoyed his greatest success, developing his best-known characters:

• Earl Pitts Uhmerikun, a full-blooded redneck who makes daily commentary on everything from politics to family to friends.
• Gilbert Gnarley, a senior citizen who made crank calls to various businesses and people.
• Howlin' Blind Muddy Slim, Your 60-Minute Jelly-Belly Toejam Man (a/k/a Blues Break 201), a Friday afternoon music show which featured blues artists as guest stars.
• Eunice and Bernice, the "Siamese twins joined at the telephone" ("turr-a-bull, turr-a-bull, turr-a-bull")
• The Right Rev. Deuteronomy Skaggs, radio preacher who encouraged listeners to "dig in them jeans and pull out them greens" (money). Skaggs and Eunice and Bernice carried over from Burbank's WHAS days.
• Ranger Bob, children's show host.
• Riley Gert, of the U.S. Senseless Survey, who prank calls people asking obscure and sometimes awkward questions for the Survey.
• The Synonymous Bengal, a mole in the Cincinnati Bengals organization who calls in to provide anonymous rumors about the team using frequent malapropisms.
• Lars Peavey, talk show host (tribute to the comedy team of Bob and Ray)
• Dan Buckles, newscaster (takeoff on Dan Rather and David Brinkley); his on-air partners, Kevin "Doc" Wolfe and Leah Burns, portrayed vocal spoofs of Sam Donaldson and Diane Sawyer in the news segment. Buckles didn't hide the fact that he loved to dress in women's clothing and often made comments about his high heels or how tight his dress happened to be as he transitioned from one news item to the next.
• Ludlow Bromley, the "richest dude in the world" (named after Northern Kentucky cities)
• Bass Ackwards, news commentator
• Thelma Hooch, helpful hints
• Maw Hirishi, advice columnist
• Bruiser LaRue, fey football player
• Big Fat, AKA, The Big Fat Balding Guy With a Stubby Cigar in His Mouth and His Pants Half-Zipped, pushy con man seller of a wide variety of worthless junk. Often joined by his mascot, Timmy the Termite who would endorse the product or pretend to be a famous celebrity endorsing the junk. Sign off line was always "And dis time I'm being honest wit' youse."

Burbank regularly satirized former Cincinnati mayor Jerry Springer, along with other local politicians, newscasters, and celebrities, such as former Cincinnati Reds owner "Saint CEO" Marge Schott. Satirical radio serials were also used to lampoon the (often struggling) Reds baseball team during the postseason playoffs ("The Hunt for the Reds' October") and the Cincinnati Bengals ("All My Bengals"). Burbank also hit the Top 100 in 1980 with the song "Who Shot J.R.?", a novelty record about the cliffhanger on that year's season finale of Dallas.

Before moving to afternoons, he started in the morning drive time slot.

Burbank often did his show from a home in north central Florida, while the rest of his show's cast and crew was in the WLW studios in Cincinnati.

Burbank's show in the late 90s was syndicated out of WLW to other regional stations (including WTVN in Columbus, WAKR in Akron and WERE in Cleveland). By 1999, the show would revert to being only on WLW, although a weekly "best-of" show dubbed the Weekly Rear-View - which featured mostly character bits and little-to-no Cincinnati-centric material - would run until his retirement. The network (and eventually, the program itself) was called "The BBC: The Broad-bank Burb-casting Corporation," a send-up of Gary Owens' classic line.

Today, Earl Pitts' daily "commentaries" are still syndicated throughout the country on about 200 stations. Burbank's show was also eventually heard, along with the rest of WLW's programming, on XM Satellite Radio Channel 173.

Burbank has won several major awards, including back-to-back Marconi Awards as Large Market Personality of the Year in 1990 and 1991.

In 2010 Burbank was nominated for the National Radio Hall of Fame

Barbecue[link]

Burbank founded and co-owned Burbank's Real Bar-B-Q and Ribs restaurant in Sharonville, Ohio. In December 2009, the restaurant closed.

The Sharonville restaurant was the first to open and last to close. There were others, including one at I-75 and US 42 in Florence, KY, one on Colonel Glenn Highway in Fairborn, OH near Wright State University and WPAFB and for a brief period, one in Columbus, OH at the corner of Bethel and Sawmill Roads.

Retirement[link]

On March 7, 2007, Burbank announced that he would retire on December 31, at the expiration of his contract. ^[2] The last show was broadcast on Friday, December 21, 2007. Despite Burbank's retirement, Earl Pitts' commentaries will continue to broadcast on its network of affiliates including WLW.

On September 23, 2009, Burbank returned to the airwaves at his old time slot of 3p-6p with then hosts Eddie Fingers and Tracy Jones promoting his new book "Voices In My Head"

References[link]

External links[link]

• Gary's online stream
• Gary Burbank's page at www.700wlw.com
• Gary Burbank at WAKY retrospective site
• Earl Pitts Uhmerikun official site
• Pirate BBC, all about The show