The name of the contributor -- first in with the example -- is alongside the quote...

They weren't the bletherer!

"[Jock Name] along with you" Tommy C.

"[Jock Name] keeping you company" (because we think you need it, you sad person, you!) Grant Seton

"[Jock Name] on your radio" Grant Seton

"[Jock Name] with you during the month of Zeptember" Randy Jones

"___ degrees on the outside" ("... and 98.6 on the inside!") Andy Waits

"... and a half" (usually no need to be this exact with time) Grant Seton

"... and before that we heard from…" A.J. Junop

"... and before that…" (people have been listening to radio long enough to know that when you are back announcing songs, the song title you say next was 'before that!') A.J. Junop

"... and, if you're listening in the car, thanks for the ride!" Darren Hellwege

"... and, just a reminder" Grant Seton

"... as we travel along in song together" Shawn Smith

"... as we travel back to [year]..." (don't make me feel old!) Grant Seton

"... coming at ya" (it sounds like a physical threat) Curtis Leeds

"... here in the air-chair with you" Matt Northorp

"... here on your ___day…" (who else's is it?) Scott Gilbert

"... playing 10/15/20 in a row" (by the way, are you any good at sales?) Scott Taylor

"... phone to own..." Grant Seton

"... right around the corner" (how many times have you heard a jock say that a particular holiday, concert or other event is "right around the corner"? Where's the damned corner?) Steve Miller

"... sitting on [temp or time]" Grant Seton

"... wishing you a pleasant good night... and good morning!" (back when stations signed off at Midnight) Scott Taylor

"17 minutes before the hour" (most cultures use digital watches nowadays… tell 'em 8:43) SSG Kat Flanagan

"All roads lead to [where we're broadcasting live]" Steve Miller

"And the year was 1974/taking you back to 1974" etc Rick O'Shea

"Another long block of non stop rock" Jamie McDonald

"At the Radio Ranch..." Steve Miller

"Blue skies and green lights to ya" Steve Miller

"Broadcasting 'live' from…" Doug Jennings

"Come on in and see the fine folks" Shawn Smith

"Cranking it up in JAMuary" Tommy C.

"Cruise on by and check it out..." Shawn Smith

"Currently it's 58 degrees outside" (never use CURRENTLY!) Eric O'Brien

"Did you know..." or "Didja know..." (I guess I didn't, until you told me. Thanks for making me feel like an idiot) Christian Dady

"Don't touch that dial!" Grant Seton

"Dudes" (please, let's leave this phrase in the Seventies, where it belongs. See also: "Man") Kit Carson

"Everything we could get our grubby little hands on" (I had a PD in Texas who said this in every remote break) Steve Miller

"Exactly" (See also: "Of course") Grant Seton

"Feel-good Friday" Grant Seton

"Glad to have you along…" (beats the heck outta going alone) Chris Lemke

"Good morning!" (too many jocks use it to hit the post, but do they MEAN it? I bet listeners could tell) Scott Gilbert

"Here in the Metro..." (whee doggies, Mabel, let's load up the young'uns and head into the metro!) Scott Taylor

"Here's what happening in our community…" (just tell them!) SSG Kat Flanagan

"Hi, it's Johnny Jock checking in with you…" (what the hell's he checking? His oil?) Scott Gilbert

"Hiways and biways" Shawn Smith

"Hope your day's going well so far" Grant Seton

"I gotta tell you" or "Let me tell you" (Maybe, I don't want to hear it) Christian Dady

"I wanna say 'hi' to ___ for checkin' in" (what's with all this "checkin' in?" Are we conducting bed-checks or something?) Steve Miller

"I'm ___ with you 'til _[time]_…" (just because you're done at this time doesn't mean the listener is) Chris Lemke

"I'm tellin' you" and "I'll tell you what" (just tell me. Don't tell me that you're going to tell me first) Steve Miller

"It's [time] here on 93X" (and everywhere else in the Alaskan Standard Time Zone) SSG Kat Flanagan

"It's 8:51, Nine minutes 'til eight, thirty-nine minutes 'til 9:30, if you gotta be there at 10, you have an hour and 9 minutes…" (and other timechecks that lack brevity) Scott Gilbert

"It's currently 3:08 right now" Shawn Smith

"It's presently (time/temp/both)" ("presently" actually means "soon" ("presently" means "soon" to some, "now" to others? Ed)) Scott Taylor

"It's the summer of '98" ((or whatever year this decade happened to match your frequency) for those of you too stoned to keep track of these things) Scott Taylor

"Jamming you in Rocktober" Tommy C.

"Just ahead of [artists and or music sweep name here]" (like the damn thing is threatening to overtake us or something!) Tommy C.

"Kxxx News Time is..." (what's the time in Guam?) Scott Taylor

"Kxxx, where the winning is easy" (if you've entered our number in the speed dial and started dialing the instant I started talking) Scott Taylor

"Let's get back to more music…" (thank the God in heaven!) Chris Lemke

"Let's go to the phones…" (won't the crappy sound of the call alone tell them this?) Scott Gilbert

"Let's keep the music rolling…" (really bad when used EVERY single time you hit the ramp) SSG Kat Flanagan

"Let's take a look at..." (ain't it putry on your radio?) Scott Taylor

"Live and in living color on the radio" (I had a PD in Texas who said this in every remote break) Steve Miller

"Lock it in to [station name]" Bryan Pennington

"More fun than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs" (and similar cliches) Steve Miller

"Music Sweeps" and "Sets" (real people think sweeping is done with a broom. Musician "Dudes" play "Tunage" in "Sets". We don't) Kit Carson

"News and weather together" Scott Taylor

"No repeat Thursday" (except our positioner, which you'll hear 20 times in this stop set) Scott Taylor

"Of course" (this is a crutch that I hear jocks use in many fashions... and have never heard a PD break bad on someone for using it) Steve Miller (See also: "Exactly" Ed)

"On your Friday" Tommy C.

"Oops... no cans on..." [squeal]"... whoa!" Matt Northorp

"Stop ON by..." and "Stop ON in..." (leave the word "On" out) Steve Miller

"Sporting Saturday" Grant Seton

"Stick around" (used usually when going into a break; also see "Hang Around") Rick Scott

"T.G.I.F." Steve Miller (certainly better than S.H.I.T. - Sorry Honey It's Thursday. Ed)

"That's one of my favorite songs" Rick O'Shea

"The current temperature right now…" (from the Dept. of Redundancy Department) Scott Gilbert

"The time is…" (when you say just "7-52", what do you think people think you're trying to say?) A.J. Junop

"The wet stuff" (it's rain, okay? Snow is not the White Stuff, either. Nobody ever says, "It's the Wet Stuff outside. Looks like it might change to the White Stuff. I'd better get my boots." Except maybe jocks) Kit Carson

"They've got lots of stuff and things on sale here" Shawn Smith

"This one's going out for [name]... hope you've got your ears on!" Grant Seton

"Thunderbumpers" (I saw on the Weather Channel that thunder isn't really caused by the clouds bumping together, no matter what Momma told you when you were a kid) Kit Carson

"Today's hot new country favorites" (if it's new, can it truly be a favorite yet?) Scott Taylor

"Tunage" (this is what "Dudes" call music, "Man". But not real people) Kit Carson

"twenty/four/seven" (okay, maybe this goes beyond the jock realm, but I hate it anyway!) Tommy C.

"Until 10, I'm Ron Radio" (who are you after 10?) Rick O'Shea

"Up next..." (batting clean-up...) Scott Taylor

"Welcome to a Wednesday" (oh, you got there first?) Andy Waits

"We'll be right back…" (where are you going?) A.J. Junop

"We'll take more calls on the other side" (used when heading into a stopset. The other side of what?) Rick O'Shea

"We're having a great time, here" Doug Jennings

"What station just made you a winner?" (and why am I such a loser?) Scott Taylor

"What's up with that?" (I was hooked on that one for a bit) Tommy C.

"Weatherwise..." Matt Northorp

"Whoa... that little old lady can sure belt 'em out!" Matt Northorp

"Winning Wednesday" Grant Seton

"You just won yourself ___" (you can't win "yourself") Andy Waits

Any mention of a "desk" as in "newsdesk," "weatherdesk," "trafficdesk." I have never seen such a desk in any furniture store. Curtis Leeds

Any reference to "hump day". Shawn Smith

How about: "join Johnny Jock and myself" for the remote, the sports broadcast, the whatever. "Join Johnny Jock and me" is grammatically correct, but it amazes me how many people seem afraid to use it. Jim Bartlett

I always hate run-on forecasts: "Cloudy tonight, low of 60. Tomorrow, sunny, high near 70. Tomorrow night, partly cloudy and 62.  In the extended forecast... " Unless it's Thursday and you briefly plug the weekend forecast, shut up! I certainly don't care what the weather's gonna be on Monday when I'm headed home Friday afternoon!  I always gave the current and next daypart forecast - left the rest to the Weather Channel!  Ken Heath

Local idiosyncracy from long-time Iowa Hawkeye PBP man Jim Zabel on WHO, Des Moines: If the Hawks were in a 'do or die' situation, Z would tell the fans, "Start hugging and kissing those radios, folks!" Scott Taylor

One of my pet peeves when I worked in radio, back in the days when call letters were more in vogue than cutesy mnemonics (out of radio since '91), was when jocks would follow the call letters with the word "RADIO". Idiots! It's obviously radio! Dave Mackey

True, you shouldn't say "currently" or "right now" or "outside," but what about not saying "degrees" or "high" or "low"? Wouldn't everyone know what you meant if you said, "Clear tonight, 38... a few clouds tomorrow and 59... it's sunny and 53 at blah blah blah..."? Joe Bob Hunter