Chips Off The Block

As part of my radio career, I spent about a year doing voice-over work. It was my full-time income for a while - which isn't to imply that I was a big voice-over guy so much as a reflection of how low my bills were when I was 25.

I developed a fairly sharp ear for voices; I got to know some of the bigger names in local voice-over work, and learned to tell their voices apart from all the others on the dozens of commercials I'd hear daily on the radio and TV.

And over the last dozen or so years, while watching TV or listening to the radio with the kids, I'd toss in little things; "Did you notice how Bart Simpson and Chucky Finster have the same voice?" They'd wrinkle their eyebrows and give me that "Jeez, what a nerd you are" look, and go back to watching.

But more and more lately, I'll hear it: "Dad! Meg Griffin and the girl from That Seventies Show are the same person!"

I'm not sure whether to be proud or scared...