Things no one says anymore...
02-07-11, 07:21 PM
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Good one! 
-Tube testers, just inside the door of Radio Shack stores.
-Being able to buy batteries one at a time. They were sold from those plastic chutes, usually located near cash registers.
If no one has mentioned it: TV repair men. Remember these guys? Always showing up in their vans, in spiffy uniforms, and equipped with all kinds of cool looking tools and gadgets.
-Tube testers, just inside the door of Radio Shack stores.
-Being able to buy batteries one at a time. They were sold from those plastic chutes, usually located near cash registers.
If no one has mentioned it: TV repair men. Remember these guys? Always showing up in their vans, in spiffy uniforms, and equipped with all kinds of cool looking tools and gadgets.
02-07-11, 08:05 PM
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Good one!
-Tube testers, just inside the door of Radio Shack stores.
-Being able to buy batteries one at a time. They were sold from those plastic chutes, usually located near cash registers.
If no one has mentioned it: TV repair men. Remember these guys? Always showing up in their vans, in spiffy uniforms, and equipped with all kinds of cool looking tools and gadgets.
-Tube testers, just inside the door of Radio Shack stores.
-Being able to buy batteries one at a time. They were sold from those plastic chutes, usually located near cash registers.
If no one has mentioned it: TV repair men. Remember these guys? Always showing up in their vans, in spiffy uniforms, and equipped with all kinds of cool looking tools and gadgets.
I could tell a million stories...hell, I could write a book. It would be X rated, of course.
02-07-11, 09:58 PM
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Pedaled too far.
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Never saw one. But then again, my Dad was an electronics engineer. Our first TV was a prototype out of the RCA labs where he worked.
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02-07-11, 09:59 PM
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Pedaled too far.
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10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Blast Off!
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02-09-11, 03:17 PM
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son of a, pitch me out the upstairs window
Do you burn anthracite or bituminous. it can also refer to a car that has a lot of smoke in the exhaust out the tail pipe.
The paper boys running a protection racket making the new kids pay them protection money
Loosing your shoes in the mud of the football field
Hey Bud anybody hurt in that wreck ?
What Wreck?
The one you are driving
To A hitchhiker after he has run a hundred yards
Do you want a lift
Yeah!
Put a jack under your but
take my wife for instance
Please take my wife (Henny Youngman)?
Cop ask me "what i was doing here" and i said " My parents had sex"
Are you bragging or complaining
Coach says are you hurt or are you injured
Dont walk the rail road tracks
Do you burn anthracite or bituminous. it can also refer to a car that has a lot of smoke in the exhaust out the tail pipe.
The paper boys running a protection racket making the new kids pay them protection money
Loosing your shoes in the mud of the football field
Hey Bud anybody hurt in that wreck ?
What Wreck?
The one you are driving
To A hitchhiker after he has run a hundred yards
Do you want a lift
Yeah!
Put a jack under your but
take my wife for instance
Please take my wife (Henny Youngman)?
Cop ask me "what i was doing here" and i said " My parents had sex"
Are you bragging or complaining
Coach says are you hurt or are you injured
Dont walk the rail road tracks
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02-09-11, 10:02 PM
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-- What's on the other TV channel ?
-- Avon Calling
-- Have you got a color TV, cable ?
-- Chicken wire fences.
-- Corner stores took empties as cash.
-- My doctor came to my bedroom when I had the Measles in 1962, missed 10 days of school.
-- Teacher said, go stand in the corner.
-- Barber asked, Do you want a brush cut ?
-- My dad always said " deer" for expensive.
-- Gambling's a sin.
-- Darn lawnmower/vacuum cleaner jiggling the TV pic.
-- Everybody watched the "Ed Sullivan Show" and had pole lamps.
-- Chesterfield.
-- Avon Calling
-- Have you got a color TV, cable ?
-- Chicken wire fences.
-- Corner stores took empties as cash.
-- My doctor came to my bedroom when I had the Measles in 1962, missed 10 days of school.
-- Teacher said, go stand in the corner.
-- Barber asked, Do you want a brush cut ?
-- My dad always said " deer" for expensive.
-- Gambling's a sin.
-- Darn lawnmower/vacuum cleaner jiggling the TV pic.
-- Everybody watched the "Ed Sullivan Show" and had pole lamps.
-- Chesterfield.
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02-10-11, 03:17 PM
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MMmmmmmm, "Fizzies". Especially Cherry!
Comic Book, Chocolate Bar & a bottle (real glass) of coke for 25 cents.
Fanta in a brown bottle.
Cards in spokes (clipped to chainstays with wooden clothespegs).
Fins that reached to "there".
BB Guns and birds that stayed alive (terrible shot).
Don Messer (Cdn reference, right after Hockey Night in Canada), real fights in hockey.
Sister & mother washing hair from "pure rain water" from the rain barrel.
Pedal Pushers (sister).
You just wait till your father gets home!
Eat everything off your plate.
Comic Book, Chocolate Bar & a bottle (real glass) of coke for 25 cents.
Fanta in a brown bottle.
Cards in spokes (clipped to chainstays with wooden clothespegs).
Fins that reached to "there".
BB Guns and birds that stayed alive (terrible shot).
Don Messer (Cdn reference, right after Hockey Night in Canada), real fights in hockey.
Sister & mother washing hair from "pure rain water" from the rain barrel.
Pedal Pushers (sister).
You just wait till your father gets home!
Eat everything off your plate.
02-10-11, 04:22 PM
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MMmmmmmm, "Fizzies". Especially Cherry!
Comic Book, Chocolate Bar & a bottle (real glass) of coke for 25 cents.
Fanta in a brown bottle.
Cards in spokes (clipped to chainstays with wooden clothespegs).
Fins that reached to "there".
BB Guns and birds that stayed alive (terrible shot).
Don Messer's Jubilee (Cdn reference, right after Hockey Night in Canada), real fights in hockey.
Sister & mother washing hair from "pure rain water" from the rain barrel.
Pedal Pushers (sister).
You just wait till your father gets home!
Eat everything off your plate, because children are starving in Africa.
Comic Book, Chocolate Bar & a bottle (real glass) of coke for 25 cents.
Fanta in a brown bottle.
Cards in spokes (clipped to chainstays with wooden clothespegs).
Fins that reached to "there".
BB Guns and birds that stayed alive (terrible shot).
Don Messer's Jubilee (Cdn reference, right after Hockey Night in Canada), real fights in hockey.
Sister & mother washing hair from "pure rain water" from the rain barrel.
Pedal Pushers (sister).
You just wait till your father gets home!
Eat everything off your plate, because children are starving in Africa.
02-10-11, 08:26 PM
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Plenty of clips of the Sullivan show are posted at youtube. Yes, I remember seeing the Beatles, the Rolling stones, The Doors, all on the Sullivan show. But, one that does stick out in my mind was Spanky and our Gang. They were good. Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane is still with us, but I believe most of her bandmates have passed.
"Highway Patrol" Entire first season posted at Hulu.
02-10-11, 09:30 PM
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My whole family gathered around the set to watch, "Ted Mack's Amateur Hour."
02-10-11, 11:36 PM
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I need more cowbell.
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I just saw a Rambler Ambassador on the road today.
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02-11-11, 07:32 AM
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My mother-in-law was on Ted Mack's Amateur Hour. Playing the marimba, I believe.
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02-14-11, 09:33 AM
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picking up the phone and hearing "Number, please".....
at midnight, watching tv and hearing "we now conclude our broadcast day"
don't go in the cellar....the coalman is making a delivery today
and there's a line in the 1953 version of War of the Worlds when they're trying to blow up the modules of the martians...."10 seconds to bomb time"....... ;-)
at midnight, watching tv and hearing "we now conclude our broadcast day"
don't go in the cellar....the coalman is making a delivery today
and there's a line in the 1953 version of War of the Worlds when they're trying to blow up the modules of the martians...."10 seconds to bomb time"....... ;-)
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02-14-11, 12:00 PM
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Hmm, I can only remember a few.
Operator, can you connect me to ....
I got a 5.25 inch floppy drive.
I got a magna chrome monitor
Where's my bamboo fishing pole?
Paper or plastic?
If you can't lick em, join em.
Bury the hatchet.
Give me a break.
It's all over cept the shouting.
Work the kinks out.
He is going like his tail is on fire.
Old Ads
Where's the beef?
Yahoo, Mountain Dew.
Weeo, how A & P prices have changed.
Let's all go to the lobby and have ourselves a treat.
Greasy Kid Stuff.
Operator, can you connect me to ....
I got a 5.25 inch floppy drive.
I got a magna chrome monitor
Where's my bamboo fishing pole?
Paper or plastic?
If you can't lick em, join em.
Bury the hatchet.
Give me a break.
It's all over cept the shouting.
Work the kinks out.
He is going like his tail is on fire.
Old Ads
Where's the beef?
Yahoo, Mountain Dew.
Weeo, how A & P prices have changed.
Let's all go to the lobby and have ourselves a treat.
Greasy Kid Stuff.