The Over 40s Club meeting

[Yeoman Randi]

You watched the BEST morning show EVAR -- Captain Kangaroo.

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Omg, yes, Capt Kangaroo, Bozo the Clown and we also had Sunny Fox here in NY. And of course, my favorite, Soupy Sales. Much like Data, as a child i didn't quite get the concept of humor when Soupy was hit in the face with a pie. I cried for him every time. My mother tried explaining it to me....that it was a joke that he was in on, but i didn't get it. I just thought people hated him and threw pies at him!

And.....Lassie. At the end of the show, she'd be sitting on top of the hill and she'd raise her paw. I cried every time.

Good god. Is it any wonder I'm so insane now?

 

[MANT!]

not really, My dad would tune the TV and fine tune it on the following test pattern...

Later my Mom would corrupt my mind with the "Outer Limits" (1st run on ABC at the time)..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outer_Limits_(1963_TV_series)

The music and the screams scared the living crap out of me...

 

[Yeoman Randi]

"We are in control of your television set. We control the horizontal......"
That show was soooo scary!

 

[RJDiogenes]

One of my favorites. As I mentioned before, every Saturday at Noon on Channel 56. Accompanied by leftover Spare Ribs from Friday night Chinese food.

 

[TheKeeper]

"We are in control of your television set. We control the horizontal......"
That show was soooo scary!

All props to the various Treks, but the original "The Outer Limits" is the Greatest TV Show Ever Made.

 

[John Picard]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkO87mkgcNo[/yt]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ[/yt]

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I'll see you those, and raise you this:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TXJRZ4CFc[/yt]

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

You watched the BEST morning show EVAR -- Captain Kangaroo.

.

Omg, yes, Capt Kangaroo, Bozo the Clown and we also had Sunny Fox here in NY. And of course, my favorite, Soupy Sales. Much like Data, as a child i didn't quite get the concept of humor when Soupy was hit in the face with a pie. I cried for him every time. My mother tried explaining it to me....that it was a joke that he was in on, but i didn't get it. I just thought people hated him and threw pies at him!

And.....Lassie. At the end of the show, she'd be sitting on top of the hill and she'd raise her paw. I cried every time.

Good god. Is it any wonder I'm so insane now?

Romper, bomper, stomper, boo
Tell me, tell me, tell me do
Magic mirror, tell me today
Have all my friends have fun at play

And then she talked right to me! I know because she said my name.

 

[T'Bonz]

Damn bitch NEVER said MY name. Every other female name used in America must have been used.

 

[Captain Ice]

I remember when we just had AM radio.

AM radio, and if conditions were just right at night, chances were one could pick up signals from a station hundreds of miles away. That was always a lot of fun, listening to shows and DJs, from another area, that were always better than local fare.

You can still do that. I used to drive out on the forrest service roads around Flagstaff, AZ (within the last five years) and tune in KNX out of LA to listen to their Old Time Radio Hour.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Damn bitch NEVER said MY name. Every other female name used in America must have been used.

Bonz, she never said MY name either! I always wondered what i was doing that was so bad that she wouldn't acknowledge me. Probably why i am so demented now.

DEATH TO MISS NANCY or whatever the freak her name was!

 

[1001001]

My wife is a third grade teacher, and she has all that Schoolhouse Rock stuff on DVD. Best learning tool ever.

How about this one: did any of you Hanker for a Hunk of Cheese?

 

[John Picard]

My wife is a third grade teacher, and she has all that Schoolhouse Rock stuff on DVD. Best learning tool ever.

How about this one: did any of you Hanker for a Hunk of Cheese?

You are what you eat
From your head dowwwwwn to your feet

 

[RevDMV]

There were several Miss Nancy's(and other first names), one of my neighbors mom's was one of them.

 

[sbk1234]

Damn bitch NEVER said MY name. Every other female name used in America must have been used.

Bonz, she never said MY name either! I always wondered what i was doing that was so bad that she wouldn't acknowledge me. Probably why i am so demented now.

DEATH TO MISS NANCY or whatever the freak her name was!

To be fair, the names T'Bonz and Yeoman Randi aren't all that common.

 

[sbk1234]

There were several Miss Nancy's(and other first names), one of my neighbors mom's was one of them.

How many moms does your neighbor have?

 

[Mistral]

I remember Starman. LOL. And Johnny Socko is on Hulu now, FYI.

Some of you riffed on watching Sunday Night Disney but no one mentioned the other Sunday ritual show- (drumroll):
Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
"I'm Marlin Perkins. I'll be sitting in this helicopter 60 ft off of the ground while my assistant, Jim, wades through the alligator-infested Everglades looking for water moccasins."

God I loved that show!

Memorized most of the ABC educational Rock cartoon songs. Anyone recall the "Bicentennial Minute" things they ran between commercials in '75-76 on Saturday Mornings?

Comics were 20c in '72 when Jack Kirby was running his "Fourth World" line over at DC. I hung on to my collection after hearing the pain in my Dad's voice as he told me about his mom tossing his comics when he went into the Service in '58. He had all of the old EC pre-Code horror books, very early Superman and Batman books etc. Worth a fortune now, of course. So I kept mine safe. Some of them are 40+ years old. Wow. Sounds weird. 40 yrs old comics from my youth. LOL.

 

[John Picard]

I remember Starman. LOL. And Johnny Socko is on Hulu now, FYI.

Some of you riffed on watching Sunday Night Disney but no one mentioned the other Sunday ritual show- (drumroll):
Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
"I'm Marlin Perkins. I'll be sitting in this helicopter 60 ft off of the ground while my assistant, Jim, wades through the alligator-infested Everglades looking for water moccasins."

God I loved that show!

Memorized most of the ABC educational Rock cartoon songs. Anyone recall the "Bicentennial Minute" things they ran between commercials in '75-76 on Saturday Mornings?

Comics were 20c in '72 when Jack Kirby was running his "Fourth World" line over at DC. I hung on to my collection after hearing the pain in my Dad's voice as he told me about his mom tossing his comics when he went into the Service in '58. He had all of the old EC pre-Code horror books, very early Superman and Batman books etc. Worth a fortune now, of course. So I kept mine safe. Some of them are 40+ years old. Wow. Sounds weird. 40 yrs old comics from my youth. LOL.

Yeessssssss! Wild Kingdom FTW. My dad would always make cracks about how Marlin Perkins was safely in the studio while Jim was out wrestling lions and running from other beasts

 

[Ghost07]

We weren't allowed to watch TV...oh...wait a sec...there was no such thing as TV; not til I was 8 years old...

and who'd want to watch that teensy weensy 8 inch screen anyway...we used to go all around the block without touching the ground...we ran around on everybody's roofs... you should hear what grown-ups used to say to us! Shame on them.

We played baseball in the park, and, every Tuesday evening there was a band concert in the park. Everyone could sit on their front porches and listen to the music.

Us girls would go to the neighbor's garden and pick all the blossoms off her Hollyhocks, and make Princess dolls out of one full bloom and one bud, then line them up on her porch railing and play ballroom dance with them...that is, until she came out one day and saw all the pretty dolls...she started choking...no idea why.

Another neighbor had this huge loom out in her backyard. We watched her weave nine by twelve foot rugs on it; it was fascinating to watch her weave big roses out of rug yarn...I think that's one reason I love crewel embroidery today...you can draw with thread...

The Milkman had a horse and wagon, and we liked to feed his horse all the carrots he could eat...and on hot summer days, he would chop bits of ice off the block of ice in the back of his wagon for us...

Being a child was lots of fun in the city when I was small. We WERE told "Don't take candy from strangers," One day, this big fat man tried to give away candy and we all ran for parents. They came storming out of the houses like angry bees...the man turned out to be the Mayor; he was out fishing for votes, and WAS just trying to be nice to kids so their parents would vote for him......that didn't quite work out like he planned. I think he was glad to get out of the neighborhood without a beating, and he made sure to say,"Your parents are right...don't ever take candy from strangers." Then mopped his forehead and walked away... poor man.

 

[RevDMV]

There were several Miss Nancy's(and other first names), one of my neighbors mom's was one of them.

How many moms does your neighbor have?

I live in the Bay Area, you never know....