Title: CFPL TV Chronicles: The Baron's Fiery Encounter with a Nun

Title: CFPL TV Chronicles: The Baron's Fiery Encounter with a Nun

A Tribute To The Baron. RIP My Friend.

This is a draft of an entry from my ongoing blog of weekly posts that I started at the beginning of the year (MEMORIES OF CFPL TV)

To give you background on my upcoming chronicle: I looked up some emails that pertain to The Baron setting a nun on fire over 60 years ago and used them to compose a prompt to the robot ChatGPT. The picture is a composite of two separate pictures generated by Stable Diffusion and amalgamated into one in Photoshop.

Back in the late 1950's or very early 1960's, a story evolved about The Baron and how he set a nun on fire. In the studio they were producing the show "School of Christ" and Baron set a nun on fire with his cigar.

Over the years the story at CFPL TV grew and evolved into a more elaborate tale but with the help of the robot ChatGPT, this yarn to an even more fanciful and hilarious level. The Baron, a few weeks ago, before his sad passing, put the story into a far more conservative light. I hope you enjoy this tribute to Eric Boe in a lighthearted walk down memory lane.

Title: CFPL TV Chronicles: The Baron's Fiery Encounter with a Nun

In the hallowed halls of CFPL TV, where smoke-filled studios were the norm and cigars were as common as cameras, there existed a tale so outrageous, so ludicrous, that it became the stuff of legend – the infamous incident of The Baron setting a nun on fire.

Legend has it that on a fateful day in the late 1950s or early 1960s, during the production of the "School of Christ" program, The Baron, known for his penchant for cigars and penchant for mischief, found himself in a precarious situation. As the cameras rolled and the nun, clad in her holy habit, navigated the studio floor, disaster struck.

With cigar in hand and a mischievous glint in his eye, The Baron unwittingly found himself on a collision course with the unsuspecting nun. As she backed up, entangled in a web of camera cables and crew members, disaster seemed imminent. In a moment of sheer chaos, The Baron's cigar made contact with the nun's habit, igniting a spark that would set the stage for mayhem.

What ensued can only be described as pandemonium. The nun, momentarily ablaze, let out a startled shriek as her habit smoldered and smoked. The crew, stunned into silence, could only watch in horror as The Baron, realizing the gravity of the situation, frantically attempted to extinguish the flames with his bare hands.

But fear not, for this tale takes a comedic turn. In a stroke of luck (or perhaps divine intervention), the flames were swiftly extinguished, and the nun emerged unscathed, albeit with a singed habit and a newfound aversion to cigars.

In the aftermath of the incident, The Baron, consumed with guilt and remorse, embarked on a mission of penance. Riding his trusty horse to the School of Christ on Wellington, he sought out Father Finn to make amends for his unwitting transgression. And thus, an unlikely friendship blossomed between the cigar-smoking Baron and the seafaring Father, united by a shared love of tall tales and tall ships.

As for the nun, her brush with fiery peril became the talk of the town, embellished with each retelling until it took on a life of its own. And though the truth may have been obscured by the fog of time and the haze of cigar smoke, one thing remains certain – in the annals of CFPL TV Chronicles, The Baron's fiery encounter with a nun will forever be etched in the annals of absurdity.

Never wanting the truth get in the way of a good story, the legend of The Baron and the Fiery Nun, prevailed all these years. But I think The Baron's own rendition in an email before his death will set the record straight:

Email Thu, Feb. 8 at 10:10pm

In those days every one smoked in the studio. The Nun was backing up an would have fallen over some camera cables and me. I was operating camera had the cigar in my hand It burnt a hole in her gown, I did not set her alight. She only discovered this a week later.= so the story got out of hand!!!

Cheers Eric.

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