Uh oh, I'm getting...HAPPY FEET!!!!
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Searching for gingy bottles(Ginger bottles or soda bottles) to get 2p back on them at the ice cream van and then some midgy racking(Climbing inside refuse bins to see what luxuries you could find)....then off to your grannies to watch Glen Michaels cartoon cavalcade with the hope of snagging a piece and jam before of home.
Heady days.
Heady days.
Taking a slightly different tack, from something that came up in the "dinner" thread, anyone else remember comedy albums? I remember my folks having friends over for cards and such and playing the now iconic Bill Cosby and Bob Newhart (and even Carlin after we kids were sent off to bed) albums. For me, it was Steve Martin all the way, Cheech and Chong, Richard Pryor .... Steve Martin especially, we'd play over and over and over. We knew every word.
"My I mambo dogface to the banana patch?"
"One time I got really small and crawled inside a vacuum .... And the drug wore off. I retained the shape of a vacuum for two weeks!"
Bob and Doug Mackenzie's "Great White North".
Robin Williams' "Reality, What A Concept".
I'm talking about, of course...CAT JUGGLING. 
Taking a slightly different tack, from something that came up in the "dinner" thread, anyone else remember comedy albums? I remember my folks having friends over for cards and such and playing the now iconic Bill Cosby and Bob Newhart (and even Carlin after we kids were sent off to bed) albums. For me, it was Steve Martin all the way, Cheech and Chong, Richard Pryor .... Steve Martin especially, we'd play over and over and over. We knew every word.
"My I mambo dogface to the banana patch?"
"One time I got really small and crawled inside a vacuum .... And the drug wore off. I retained the shape of a vacuum for two weeks!"
Bob and Doug Mackenzie's "Great White North".
Robin Williams' "Reality, What A Concept".
Carlin's "A Place For My Stuff"
Robin Williams' "Night at the Met"
I'm talking about, of course...CAT JUGGLING.
Yes to all of those!!!
And to this day I find the "I forgot" bit coming out of my mouth with disturbing frequency.
"I forgot that armed robbery was against the law."
Absolutely, to both of those!!! I can't believe I forgot Robin Williams! The album came first then I remember being addicted to the HBO special ... which I only watched late at night, at very low volume, after my parents had gone to bed.
Robin Williams also reminded me of another album my folks and their friends used to listen to: Jonathan Winters. Classic stuff.
Taking a slightly different tack, from something that came up in the "dinner" thread, anyone else remember comedy albums? I remember my folks having friends over for cards and such and playing the now iconic Bill Cosby and Bob Newhart (and even Carlin after we kids were sent off to bed) albums. For me, it was Steve Martin all the way, Cheech and Chong, Richard Pryor .... Steve Martin especially, we'd play over and over and over. We knew every word.
"My I mambo dogface to the banana patch?"
"Give that kid a special test"
Pretty much had all of his albums memorized.
Oh hell, if you want to play that, how about Bill Cosby's early stuff from the late 60's into the 70's? I loved listening to those (on cassette).
Hell, i think it's time we all Get Small!!!!
And am i the only one who listened to Robert Klein?
And am i the only one who listened to Robert Klein?
Robin Williams imitating Lawrence Welk:
"Tank you tank you, let's all get down, get funky. And now, the lovely Lemon sisters gonna sing 'I Can't Get No Satisfaction'...and now let's hear it from the brothers in the band, each and every one o' dem is a bad mother in his own right...play dat funky musik, white boyce!"
"Tank you tank you, let's all get down, get funky. And now, the lovely Lemon sisters gonna sing 'I Can't Get No Satisfaction'...and now let's hear it from the brothers in the band, each and every one o' dem is a bad mother in his own right...play dat funky musik, white boyce!"
But it was so much FUN...
Actually, Liver and bacon was one of my favorite meals...although brussell sprouts was a lot over the limit as far as I was concerned, along with a tablespoon of cod liver oil once a day, for vitamins...UGH!
Oh, I definitely remember "I forgot", and "I dunno"
Sometimes, on a Sunday drive, we would go to the dump...this was before certain people had salvage rights...once we found a beautiful mantle clock, which my father fixed and it lasted many years, and boots and clothing that still had the price tags on them...it was better than a thrift store back then...furniture, like a new kitchen table with matching chairs, a rocker...it was amazing what people would throw away; all in very good condition, too.
I remember finding bottles and turning them in for the pennies, then going to the penny store for candy. You could get quite a bit for a penny.
I liked Cosby's albums and I remember, at age 14, my friend and I sneaking down to her basement to listen to a George Carlin album (the one with the 7 cuss words.)
Of course her father moseys on downstairs when we're listening to it.
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Yeah, taking back pop bottles! The regular size got you 2 cents and the big sized ones got you a nickel. My allowance was a quarter a week at that age (10, in 1968) so any extra money was awesome.
I used to sell things door to door and was good at it as a kid. One Christmas, some hippies went up into the mountains and brought back real mistletoe. They put it in baggies and got all the neighborhood kids to sell it for 50 cents a pop, out of which we got to keep a quarter! Man, I made bank that Christmas. I remember having ten dollars to spend. Of course, I did treat myself for my work. I bought the big box of Crayola crayons, the one with 64 crayons. Man, I was living.
Of course her father moseys on downstairs when we're listening to it.
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Yeah, taking back pop bottles! The regular size got you 2 cents and the big sized ones got you a nickel. My allowance was a quarter a week at that age (10, in 1968) so any extra money was awesome.
I used to sell things door to door and was good at it as a kid. One Christmas, some hippies went up into the mountains and brought back real mistletoe. They put it in baggies and got all the neighborhood kids to sell it for 50 cents a pop, out of which we got to keep a quarter! Man, I made bank that Christmas. I remember having ten dollars to spend. Of course, I did treat myself for my work. I bought the big box of Crayola crayons, the one with 64 crayons. Man, I was living.
T'Bonz;3801238 and the occasional porn collection hidden in a bush. :lol:[/QUOTE said:Days when one had to work to find porn and get really lucky finding such a stash.
Taking a slightly different tack, from something that came up in the "dinner" thread, anyone else remember comedy albums?
My parents had a whole stack - Bob Newhart, Bill Cosby and a couple of Martin Mull.
This one has always stuck with me:
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"If she's a dunce, I'm stupid at once:
We had stacks of 78 speed records, but none like what you've all been talking about...most of ours were by Danny Kaye and Bing Crosby...and one of them was songs from the movie "Dondi" and all I can remember was there was a very haunting song on it that always made me cry, though I can no longer remember what it was called...something about being a long way from home and it was dark...
My favorite one of Danny Kaye was "I got a loverly bunch of coconuts" and I loved all the Bing Crosby records.
My favorite one of Danny Kaye was "I got a loverly bunch of coconuts" and I loved all the Bing Crosby records.
Do you remember when Jonathan Winters had a weekly TV show? Great stuff -- great and weird as only he could be.
For the comedy albums, had all of the early Cosby records memorized and would recite them with friends. Had all of the early Carlin records (also could recite those from memory.) A little later, all of the Cheech & Chong records, Let's Get Small and Reality, What A Concept joined the collection, along with David Frye's I Am the President. Richard Pryor's "Cocaine" stand-up was in there, too, off of one of those Warner Records anthologies, and more than a few obscure singles we chased down after hearing them on pre-syndication Dr. Demento (Napoleon XIV and Holy Modal Rounders FTW!)
Bonz, I lived at the edge of one of those canyons in San Diego (probably a bit north and west of where you were) but I don't really have any memory of it due to being less than one year old for most of that time. There's a freeway built in the bottom of the ravine now.
I had Bob Newhart's Button-Down Mind Of Bob Newhart (I have it on CD now), as well as Let's Get Small and Reality... What A Concept on cassette. My friend had all the Monty Python albums... including the one with three sides. 
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