Cultural references no one under 30 would get.

[Pryderi]

[Texasgal]

1. 1971

[IcyPeas]

15. I had that book. it was well worn.

[hopemountain]

138. one of the trippiest reads

ever!

[Lochloosa]

2. "Don't eat the brown acid"

[Sanity Claws]

101. I'm well past 30 and don't get the reference

[Lochloosa]

106. Woodstock. The "Brown Acid" was so strong they were warning people not to eat it.

It's possible the acid was also laced with other chemicals. No one really knows, but it was giving people bad trips.

1. A reference to the Woodstock Festival in 1969, when stage announcements were made by legendary radio disc jockey Wavy Gravy, telling people that some of the brown-colored blotter acid (LSD) circulating the crowd was giving people negative hallucinations, causing freakouts.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brown+acid

[madinmaryland]

3. ....... g...n, IT'S PEOPLE!!

[trof]

120. Soylent Green

[LiberalElite]

4. You talkin' to me?

[sarge43]

5. "From out of the West comes the thundering hoof beats of the great horse Silver."

"On King, on you huskies."

"Only The Shadow knows."

[femmocrat]

22. "Who was that masked man?" nt

[Adsos Letter]

29. "Out of the blue of the western sky comes...Sky King!"

...and Penny...

[trof]

123. The airplane was the Songbird. Skipper was Penny's older brother.

[trof]

122. "Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of man...?

"The Shadow knows."
"While "traveling through East Asia," he learned "the mysterious power to cloud men's minds, so they could not see him."

"...and Tonto, his faithful Indian companion."

Oh yeah...Bobby Benson and the B Bar B riders.

You must be as old as I am.

[sarge43]

124. Turned 73 this month :)

What's the name of Tonto's horse?

[trof]

126. Scout. 75 next August.

"Gettum up Scout!"

[sarge43]

127. The horrible thing is

we can remember this stuff, but not what we had for breakfast.

[trof]

128. OK, here's my secret.

Have the same thing every morning.
Peanut butter on rye toast and a fruit/yogurt smoothie.
Except Sunday.
Sunday is "real breakfast".
Pancakes or waffle or eggs w/bacon/sausage/ham.

[sarge43]

129. Sounds like a good plan except

"what day is it?"

[trof]

130. Oh I got that one nailed too.

Miz t. is a faithful church goer.
I'm not.
She keeps me grounded.

[sarge43]

133. Well thought out, sir. n/t

[Paper Roses]

169. Yup! n/t

[Wolf Frankula]

6. I'm Coming Beanie Boy, I'm Coming

And here's The Singing Dinah Saur!

Wolf

[Iggo]

91. Closing Theme Lyrics, stuck in my head forever.

"So long kids, wind up your lids

We'll flip again real soon

With Beany Boy.

And your obedient serpent in...

A Bob Clampett Cartoon!"

[trof]

125. Theethill the theethick thee therpent!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!

Hiya, kids! Hiya! Hiya!

[WinkyDink]

25. WINNER!! My All-Time favorite! (Gotta have the right raspiness!) (And Midnight the Cat...Meoooooow!)

[mainstreetonce]

62. Who lives in a shoe?

Buster Brown and his little dog too.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

77. And those serials with the two Indian guys

Ganga and Rama and their elephants.

[WinkyDink]

87. Wow! Now THAT, I forgot!

[Xipe Totec]

8. Where's the beef?

[Callmecrazy]

224. Her name was Clara Peller...nt

[pinboy3niner]

9. Leave...

[CTyankee]

90. "Tell Mike it was only business"

[progressoid]

110. My 20 something daughters would know that.

They've seen all three movies. Weirdly, I haven't.

[baldguy]

10. I'm just a WILD AND CRAZY GUY!

...
"That dress! It's lovely!"


"I saw it in a window and I just had to have it."

[mopinko]

33. that dress

quite possibly the funniest bit in television history.

[sarge43]

35. That was brilliant, but this has to be the funniest

[mopinko]

41. it was a running thing with them.

heard her on fresh air recently, and she said he was always trying to crack her up. she said she frequently, literally, had to bite her tongue.
ah, the good old days.

[sarge43]

43. Burnett's expression, "Oh God, he's going to fly his freak flag." n/t

[ms liberty]

186. Snork!

These two are my favorite Carol Burnett skits. Her shows are still some of the funniest work ever, and not at all dated.

[sarge43]

187. That's Snorket

A good thing Korman wasn't in that skit. Conway could crack him up with an expression. This routine would have put him in intensive care.

[phylny]

83. The dress. Hand's down, pee-in-my-pants funny ;) n/t

[3catwoman3]

137. Even her daughter...

Burnett's daughter, Jody Hamilton, is a frequent guest on Stephanie Miller's radio show. During last week's appearance, her mom's show was the topic of some discussion, and her own daughter is not familiar with this iconic sketch. Interesting.

[Pryderi]

11. "My little chickadee"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. "Water? Never touch the stuff ...

Fish fuck in it."

[The Second Stone]

16. Well, alcohol is ethanol, and ethanol

is yeast poop. It's why bacteria can't live in high concentrations of it. Makes ya, drink. I mean think.

[OriginalGeek]

97. Some day

I'm gonna make some Eggs Woodhouse.

[rug]

12. Free tuition

[BlueJazz]

13. Sky King (and Penny)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

76. "Out of the blue of the Western sky comes Sky King!"n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. "Here I come to save the day!"

"You rang?"
"Now cut that out!"
"Seventy Seven Sunset Strip! (snap-snap) Seventy Seven Sunset Strip!"
"Hey, Wild Bill, wait for me!"
Clarabelle the Clown
Super Circus
Fizzies
Tom Terrific
"Fan mail from some flounder?"
"Will the next guest enter and sign in please."
"Man, woman, birth, death, infinity."
"There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them."
"And that's the way it is."
"Who was that masked man?"
"We have a really big shew for you tonight."
"N-E-S-T-L-E-S, Nestle's makes the very best...CHAWKLUT."
"Down down down the stomach through, round round round the system, too, with Alka Seltzer you'll surely say..."
"Brusha-brusha-brusha, new Ipana toothpaste..."
"Our Mr. Sun"


If you know the answers to all of these, you are probably either on Medicare or eligible for it in the next couple of years.

[WinkyDink]

27. Mighty Mouse! The rest, from memory only:

ADDAMS FAMILY---"You rang?"
JACK BENNY---"Now cut that out!"
WELL, IT'S 77 SUNSET STRIP! KOOKIE, KOOKIE,...---"Seventy Seven Sunset Strip! (snap-snap) Seventy Seven Sunset Strip!"
WILD BILL HICKOCK---"Hey, Wild Bill, wait for me!"
HOWDY DOODY---Clarabelle the Clown
????----Super Circus
DROP THEM INTO WATER FOR A DRINK------Fizzies
A COMIC STRIP CHARACTER, I THINK---Tom Terrific
SOUPY SALES, IS MY GUESS (I ADORED HIM!)---"Fan mail from some flounder?"
WHAT'S MY LINE?---"Will the next guest enter and sign in please."
BEN CASEY (SYMBOLS ON THE BLACKBOARD)---"Man, woman, birth, death, infinity."
THE NAKED CITY (OPENING)---"There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them."
WALTER CRONKITE (SIGN-OFF)---"And that's the way it is."
THE LONE RANGER (AS HE GALLOPED AWAY)---"Who was that masked man?"
ED SULLIVAN---"We have a really big shew for you tonight."
FARFEL THE PUPPET DOG!---"N-E-S-T-L-E-S, Nestle's makes the very best...CHAWKLUT."
NEVER HEARD THIS COMMERCIAL---"Down down down the stomach through, round round round the system, too, with Alka Seltzer you'll surely say..."
BUCKY BEAVER FOR IPANA----"Brusha-brusha-brusha, new Ipana toothpaste..."
????---"Our Mr. Sun"

[Lydia Leftcoast]

32. Very good, Winky Dink--you with the 1950s cartoon character name--

and here are the ones you missed.

"You rang?"--Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver) on Dobie Gillis

Super Circus was an afternoon kids' program with Claude Kirchner as the ringmaster and Mary Harline as the trapeze artist. It literally featured circus acts.

Tom Terrific was a cartoon character, not a comic strip character, who had a dog named Manfred. His shtick was that he could shape shift--turn himself into anything to overcome the scheme of the villain, Crabby Appleton ("rotten to the core&quot .

"Fan mail from some flounder?" a line from Rocky the Flying Squirrel. Rocky and Bullwinkle find a message in a bottle, and that's what Bullwinkle asks. Actually, it's a lead-in to a commercial.

"Our Mr. Sun" was part of Conquest, a kid-oriented science program that played on Sunday afternoons. In the days before PBS, and before pro sports conquered the world, Sundays were the day for educational and cultural programs. Other episodes in the series were "Hemo the Magnificent" (about blood) and "The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays" (about radioactivity). The series was sponsored by Bell Labs.

[DFW]

55. I still say the most famous "you rang?"

....was "Lurch" from the Addams Family

[WinkyDink]

89. Oh, man! I DO remember "Super Circus" now! Never watched "TT," though. But i never missed a "Rocky

and Bullwinkle,: so I am chagrined! I even drew all the characters for my own amusement (favorite was Dudley DoRight).

Never heard of "Conquest." Only science I watched was "Mr. Wizard."

But Lurch from the "Addams Family" was famous for "You rang?"

[Stardust]

177. Wow, I haven't thought about Mary Hartline in forever. I had a Mary Hartline doll although I don't

know if I knew who she was. I think she had a black skirt with a musical staff and notes on it.

Thanks for the memories!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

180. She wore a drum majorette's uniform, but

I don't know what color it was, because we only had black and white TV.

[annabanana]

206. "Fan mail from some flounder?"

My auditory memory is telling me it's Bullwinkle, to Rocky...

[a la izquierda]

85. I knew only one...

Mighty Mouse.
And I'm 38

[In_The_Wind]

18. Tired Blood

[Le Taz Hot]

19. "And they all moved over on the Group W bench."

[progressoid]

115. Ha!

We made our daughter listen to that in the car during a long trip. She wasn't impressed.

Guess you had to be there.

[MH1]

145. 27 8 by 10 colored glossy photographs ...

[hobbit709]

20. It's a quarter after or a quarter til the hour.

[lastlib]

23. How do you explain "clockwise" to the kids of the digital age??

[LiberalElite]

51. Often when I'm stuck behind some

kid on a phone standing in my way, I get annoyed and say hang it up! It's recently occurred to me that that phrase is probably meaningless to them, if they've never used a landline.

[lastlib]

52. Here's a story from before cell phones were widespread:

I was at a Scout meeting, and a boy (age 11 or so) needed to call his parents. The church basement had a rotary-dial(!) phone on the wall. He lifted the receiver, looked at the phone, turned around and asked us, "How do you work this thing??" He had no clue on how to use a rotary phone.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

93. Here's a story from the days when computers had become the main means of typing

I used to volunteer at a non-profit radio station located on the grounds of a high school that had a broadcasting vocational program in which the students ran the station's AM service.

So one day, I'm sitting at the receptionist's desk, and one of the broadcasting teachers comes up to me and says, "Tyler needs to label some carts, so could you show him how to use the electric typewriter?"

So I show him how to turn it on, insert the label, and type.

"So what if I make a mistake?" he asks.

"You switch to the correction ribbon and backspace," I explain.

His reaction: "Cool!"

[annabanana]

207. Boy, yeah!.. That one snuck up on me.

"half-past"

Sons: "Huh?"

[femmocrat]

21. Plop, plop, fizz, fizz. Oh what a relief it is.

Halo, everybody, Halo!

See the USA in your Chevrolet.

[sarge43]

24. No matter what shape your stomach is in

[WinkyDink]

26. "See the USA/ In your Chevrolet!" "I'd give it an 82...." "Sock it to me!" "Peanut Gallery."

[Earth Bound Misfit]

28. Atsa some spicy meat-a-ball..

[OxQQme]

30. Burma Shave signs

http://burma-shave.org/jingles/1940/hes_the_boy

[2naSalit]

183. I remember those!

and to celebrate...

[Brother Buzz]

31. Good Night Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are

[mithnanthy]

74. Jimmy Durante

He kissed my cheek at the Copacabana in New York 1957.

[Brother Buzz]

141. Stop da music, stop da music! The Schnozzola kissed you?

I read his biography and understand he was the consummate people person, so I can believe it, but we deserve a bit of the backstory.

The closest I ever came to him was watching him on a black and white television back in the fifties.

[mopinko]

34. now there's something you dont see every day, chauncy.

you prolly have to be from chicago to get that one.

[ailsagirl]

36. The noisiest chips in the world!!

[mrmpa]

45. And they still make potato chips, been around since 1926.........

never had them because I'm out East. But may be purchasing some online soon. Are they good?

[ailsagirl]

37. Mother PLEASE!!!

[ailsagirl]

38. He likes it!!

[Facility Inspector]

39. "Lamont . . .

you big dummy"

"Take my wife . . . Please"

"Moe, Larry, the CHEESE!"

[Hassin Bin Sober]

40. Anthony!!!

Funny, I never remembered this was in the North End.


https://m.

[Arugula Latte]

42. Dyn-o-mite!

[broiles]

44. William Boyd is Hopalong Cassidy.

[lastlib]

46. "Good night, Chet." "Good night, David."

[KamaAina]

159. "And that's the way it is..."

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

189. And that's the way it never will be again. I miss that man and his "daddy" voice.

I was thrilled to see him once in Northeast Harbor Maine.

[kentauros]

47. Springtime for Hitler

'Scuse me while I whip this out!

(For that matter, any of the cultural references of Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, and Richard Pryor.)

[Sanity Claws]

155. and Germany

I started singing that tune, as soon as I read the title of your reply.

The Producers was on Broadway in the 1990s. Under 30s might know the song from the Broadway production.

[kentauros]

157. Yeah, that's a possibility.

Yet there's still the meme from the original time of the song-title. If their parents were ever fans of Mel Brooks, their kids might have heard it, yet not understood, or even been aghast

[shanti]

48. Up in the air, junior birdmen...

we sang this song on the bus to summer camp in 1966.

[lastlib]

230. Up in the air, upside down!

We STILL sing that one at Scout camp!

(But they DON'T let us do "The Men From Nairobi"! )

"They said there's a team from the big Serengeti
That no one's been able to beat,
They came down to play us, and when we were done,
They were fed to the lions as meat! (RUMP ROAST!)"

Singing, 'Um-ga-wa, um-ga-wa, um-ga-wa, um-ga-wa,
Um-ga-wa, um-ga-wa, um-ga-wa-wa!"

[kentauros]

49. "And So It Goes."

Linda Ellerbee, NBC News Overnight (1982)

Best news program evah!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

81. Loved that show!

Came on at 12:30 am. I was in grad school. I thought that guy with the curly dark hair and the strange mustache was cute in his own weird way.

She was pretty sharp and I think from Trinity, Texas?? Or Riverside?

[kentauros]

86. I had to look her up.

She was born in Bryan, and went to grade and high school in Houston (check out the links on my post.)

The guy with the curly hair was her second co-host, Bill Schechner, after Lloyd Dobyns. The show won awards and yet only lasted two years. Suits still seem to never have a clue even when they have quality shows on the air.

Here's Schechner:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

99. Yeah that's him!

I thought he was cute in a strange way. I have her book, "And so it goes".

I would watch that show with my law school friend Judith. I'm not sure when I had time to watch it between working full time at the courthouse and going to law school at night. Must have been in the summer of '81.
Great show. Linda has a very dry humor about her.

[chade]

215. As a person who just turned 30

I remember her from Nick News, which looks like it was still on as of December, which I didn't know and is totally awesome! She kills it on creating a really great, informative format for kids to learn about and contribute to tough topics. I loved her show as a kid/teen.

[kentauros]

221. Did she use "And so it goes" on that, too?

I did watch that some back then, though there was a technology news show on Nick with Joseph Campanella, too. Can't remember the name of it, but did enjoy the show
(Just looked it up and discovered it was a Canadian show: Science International, later retitled What Will They Think Of Next?)

Here's one episode of Overnight from 1983. Sure, it's old news, but you get to see Ellerbee and Schechner deliver it:

[IDemo]

50. "That concludes today's broadcast schedule"

[Arugula Latte]

98. Good one!

There was nothing like staying up late enough to get the Star Spangled Banner, some footage of military airplanes and such, and then that slightly ominous beeeeeeeep and the color bars.

[IDemo]

107. "High Flight", one of the coolest things on tv in those days:

[Lochloosa]

118. Wow...that brings back memories of waking up and seeing that...

then it was time for bed.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

150. This is what you heard at the sign-off of the TV station at 1 am or whatever.

Carmen Dragon's arrangement of America the Beautiful:

I was lucky enough to play first violin at Midwestern Music Camp (KU-Lawrence) under the fabulous Carmen Dragon, and of course we played his arrangement. It is really wonderful. The key changes, the instruments that have the ball change, and he really made it interesting. He was very approachable and friendly, and pretty famous in Hollywood. He conducted the Glendale Symphony Orchestra.

He was the conductor the first week of camp. It lasted five weeks. Every week we got a new conductor, in both orchestra and choir, and put on a concert on Saturday at the end of the week. One overture and two major works or long movements from a symphony. So that was 5 orchestra concerts and 5 choral concerts in 5 weeks.

Everyone was nervous, because we were afraid we wouldn't be good enough for the first conductor, and didn't know what to expect. There were high school kids there from a variety of states. We played the finale of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, which is a real barn burner and a difficult piece. Mr. Dragon had to reassure the timpanist to go ahead and beat hell out of the tympani. He said, "Son, the percussionist is one of the most virile men in the orchestra."

Carmen Dragon's son is Daryl Dragon of The Captain and Tennille for those of you that remember 70s pop.

[annabanana]

208. heh..Yeah..Remember when there was an "end"?. . . .n/t

[Pryderi]

53. "Doo-doo-DOO-doo, Doo-doo-DOO-doo"

"You have entered....The Twilight Zone"

[DFW]

54. It's not nice to fool Mother Nature

[hatrack]

56. "You are correct, Sir!"

"Ever eat a pine tree?"

"God damn you all to hell!!!"

[Kingofalldems]

57. Where's the beef!

[Major Nikon]

151. Parts is parts

[mackerel]

58. Dave's not here man

[begin_within]

112. I'm Dave! Let me in.

[mainstreetonce]

59. Is it bigger than a bread box?

..?

[Pryderi]

67. lol "What's a bread box"? n/t

[mainstreetonce]

70. Vote vote for Miss Rheingold

I can stll remember those pictures

[IrishEyes]

60. Okay, I'll admit it.

I didn't recognize many of these but I did recognize some because I have watched a lot of old TV shows and films. I am over 30 but not very much.

[mainstreetonce]

61. Just the facts m'am

Sergeant Friday

[trueblue2007]

63. GOOD ONES

[rurallib]

64. "Operator, I'd like to make a collect call"

another phone reference: "That number is murray hill 4567'"

[warrprayer]

65. "You Bet Your Sweet Bippy"!

from Laugh- In.

[KamaAina]

173. Sock it to me!

[warrprayer]

190. The best one

Sorry, last reply was mistaken identity...

[mainstreetonce]

66. Say the secret word

And the duck will come down and give you fifty dollars.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

75. Groucho Marx

"You Bet Your Life."

In those days, $50 was more like $500.

[Pryderi]

68. "Time to make the donuts"

[Mendocino]

69. Cigarette commercials on TV

[link:

|[link:

|Do you realize say in 1965, it almost seemed about a quarter of all TV ads were for tobacco. Then came the anti-smoking commercials, followed by PSA-type messages about drugs.

[mainstreetonce]

72. LSMFT

Lucky Strike means fine tobacco

[chade]

216. That is one if the most bizarre ad campaigns to me

Modern advertising needs to be so straightforward and instinctual, that it's so interesting to go back and see print and tv ads where they spent a long time introducing or explaining concepts. This one is just soooo...it has this complicated and awkward acronym that feels so weird to have to explain in an ad. I love it!

[Iggo]

94. "You can take Salem out of the country but...

...you can't take the country out of Salem."

[progressoid]

119. You've come a long way baby.

[2naSalit]

184. I'd rather fight than switch!

I think that was the Winston commercial for some time.

[mainstreetonce]

71. Which twin has the tony?

Do you know what a Tony was?

[Laffy Kat]

95. A permanent. God, I feel old. nt

[Arugula Latte]

73. Sweathogs, "Up your nose with a rubber hose," "Oooh! Oooh!", Mr. Kot-air, etc.

[Mendocino]

78. That was

Eric Stratton, rush chairman and he was damn glad to meet you.

[vanlassie]

79. "Fan mail from some flounder."

[Wolf Frankula]

80. "Where Am I?"

"In the Village."
"What do you want?"
"Information."
"You won't get it."
"By hook or by crook we will."
"Who are you?"
"The new Number 2."
"Who is Number 1?"
"You are Number 6."

Wolf

[CBGLuthier]

82. Kubrick didn't get it either.

He didn't live in the states so he had no idea that Nicholson was doing a pop culture reference.

[phylny]

84. Great marketing, everyone knew this song,

and I bet if you asked people of a certain age, they could sing it right now. I never liked this candy:

[link:

|

[steve2470]

88. Plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is!

[Iggo]

92. A Quinn Martin Production.

[Mendocino]

134. Weren't Quinn Martin Productions

always broken into four acts with roman numerals?

[Number9Dream]

96. "Klaatu Barada Nikto"

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

131. Gort, barringa.

[Arugula Latte]

100. Dial P-O-P-C-O-R-N to get the time.

[sharp_stick]

102. All Your Base Are Belong To Us

[jonno99]

103. "Same bat time..."

[jonno99]

104. "A three hour tour..."

[2naSalit]

185. Was out on a big lake on a friend's boat

a few summers ago and a nasty thunderstorm came up rather quickly which made us pitch and sway with such intensity that when we finally made it back to marina and knew we were safe we started laughing and singing that song,. It sure looked and felt like Gilligan's Island was a possibility for us that afternoon, at least for an hour and a half. Early on a huge wave washed the anchor off it's bracket, I was trying to hold on and stay upright in the cabin, it was an experience alright.

[jonno99]

193. Glad you made it out ok. Were you able to

take a video of the event?

[2naSalit]

194. I had a camera

capable of doing so but it would have been one of the worst videos in history, there was no way I could have held it steady nor was there a safe place to set it. Took both hands and a wide stance to keep from getting knocked on my butt.

I have no desire to go out on the ocean and this was just a large lake. I have a tacit agreement with large bodies of water: if I don't go out to depths over my head, whether swimming or boating, it won't swallow me up.

[jonno99]

197. Sorry - I meant the question to be tongue-in-cheek. If you're like me, I'm sure

the last thing you were thinking about was trying to video an attempt at self-preservation!

Unless of course you're this guy up the tree:

[2naSalit]

199. Oh...

went right by me like an offramp two lanes over!

[jonno99]

105. I hear nothing, I see nothing...

Well, perhaps not exactly culturally ubiquitous...

[mainstreetonce]

108. To The Moon Alice

Honeymooners

[rurallib]

109. the cultural symbol for nerds everywhere back in the day

[Lochloosa]

114. I collect those. My father worked on the Gemini and Apollo programs and gave me his.

Now I'm hooked.

Most are not expensive to own. A few are worth quite a bit.

The rarest slide rules are 19th Century hand-engraved instruments such as Palmers Computing Scale (a circular model), first published in 1843, or the cylindrical ‘Thacher’s Patent Calculating Instrument’ slide rules produced by Keuffel and Esser Co in the 1880s. These can run close to $1,000 in good condition.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

132. My watch has E6b circular slide rule in the bezel...

...and I still remember how to use it.

[3catwoman3]

139. My husband still has his...

...from his years at the Air Force Academy (class of 68).

[lastlib]

234. I've had to explain to late-20-somethings what a slide rule was....

...once took mine to work to show them how it worked. It was indeed the status symbol for nerds of the time!

[mainstreetonce]

111. S&H Green Stamps

Stick them in a little book

[rurallib]

116. boy do those bring back memories

and all the others like them.

[KamaAina]

158. They still exist, in a virtual format

the market near Mom and Republican Stepdad's place at the Jersey Shore used to offer them when it was Super Foodtown; not sure if the Stop & Shop that replaced it still odes.

[mainstreetonce]

162. I Remember Mama

That's very early TV

[begin_within]

113. Ancient Chinese Secret?

[Lochloosa]

117. Don't drink the Kool-Aide

I wonder how many would know the origin of this one....

Jim Jones.

On November 18, 1978, Jim Jones and more than 900 members of his People's Temple committed mass suicide in the jungle of Guyana. Since that time, the event has occupied a grotesque but fringy place in American history. Jones's followers are imagined as wide-eyed innocents, swallowing his outrageous teachings along with his cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones

[mainstreetonce]

121. Call for Philip Morris !

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Roventini

[Mendocino]

135. She has huge...tracts of land.

She turned me into a newt.

It's only a flesh wound.

Your father was a hamster and your mother smelled of elderberry.

Bring out your dead.

[MH1]

146. Bring me a shrubbery.

[Mendocino]

147. Camelot.....Camelot..CAMELOT

It's only a model.

[Mendocino]

136. This

[link:

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[3catwoman3]

140. "You sound...

...like a broken record."

[U4ikLefty]

142. antici...pation

[davidpdx]

143. Surely you can't be serious

Don't call me Shirley.

[Pryderi]

144. "Just a peench between my cheek and gum...

[MH1]

148. 8 6 7 5 3 0 9

[Paulie]

149. Toga! Toga! Toga!

It's in there!

I'll paint any car any color for $99.95

Tank you veddy much.

Phone first!

Hot side hot and the cool side cool.

Who's on first, what's on second, I don't know! Third base.

The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.

The grand prize game!

Tang

[Generic Brad]

191. I experienced one of these yesterday

One of my employees was struggling to explain an issue to me and kept mixing up terms. I said "Who's on first". He just stared at me blankly. That's when it dawned on me that he had no idea what I was referring to.

[Paulie]

200. Hit them with "So cry on the horsey!" Line next

[zanana1]

152. Is this the party to whom I am speaking?

I think that came from SNL.

[Sanity Claws]

156. You must be young'un

Lily Tomlin did this routine on Laugh-In, way before SNL.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

195. Ernestine the telephone operator.

"One ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingys, --SNORT-- three ringy-dingys"




I also remember the Tasteful Lady and Edith Ann.

[Capt. Obvious]

153. In case of nuclear bomb climb under your desk

[MosheFeingold]

154. Lines from the movie Airplane

I knew I had to retire when no one:

1. Got the jokes from Airplane!
2. Knew who Sgt. Shultz was for Hogan's Heros.

[KamaAina]

160. "I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!"

[KamaAina]

161. "Turn out the lights, the party's over"

[Pryderi]

233. Used to love that! n/t

[mainstreetonce]

163. Uncle Milty wore dresses

Tuesday nights

[jpak]

164. Niagra Falls...Sloooowly I turned...

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[jpak]

165. The Devil made me do it

n/t

[countryjake]

166. "Peace"

J. Fred Muggs has to be the best co-host that the "Today" show has ever had and I don't doubt that many kids of my generation became interested in current events of the day thanks to Garroway's choice of sidekicks.

I cried on the day that I heard that Dave had killed himself.

Peace

[Wolf Frankula]

203. J. Fred Muggs is Still Very Much Alive

and living with his main squeeze Phoebe B. Beebe.

Wolf

[countryjake]

219. Cool! He was pretty small for a Chimp, so must have been fairly newborn...

when Garroway first brought him on the show. And wild. I can remember him running around tearing up the Today set and because of that, I looked forward to watching.

Nice to hear that he's still kicking, thanks!

[lunatica]

167. Elvis has left the building

[KamaAina]

168. Incoming!

[Paper Roses]

170. How about a typewriter ribbon?

Now kids don't even know what a typewriter is.
Party line? Old number was 422R4. Try and explain that to someone who has seen a crank phone only in an antiques shop.

The bread man, bread delivered 2X a week. (Cushman for us)
The milkman (if he was nice, you could get a chunk of ice from the truck on a hot day.
Cream on the top of the quart milk bottles. I think quarts were the only was you could but milk when I was a kid.
Bleach in glass gallon jugs.
Ham and other foodstuffs opened with a key and that deadly metal strip would roll off.
Mercurochrome was he only thing for your cut.
Kleenex and Q-tips were unheard of. Use a Hanky and clean your itchy ears with a bobby pin.(no thought to puncturing your eardrum)
Oh Yes, Bobby pins.

The list goes on, life was simpler then but some of these old time recollections are still valid today.

Bread tasted like bread.

[Paulie]

201. Do you remember your zone number (pre zip code?)

[mainer]

171. "Would you believe....?"

The re-makes didn't do "Get Smart" justice.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

196. "Sorry about that, Chief."

Don Adams and Barbara Feldman, Agents 86 and 99.

And he drove a red Sunbeam. That's a car you don't see anymore.

[mainer]

172. "A three hour tour."

Sit right back and I'll the tale, the tale of a fateful trip...

[KamaAina]

174. "You're either on the bus or off the bus."

[KamaAina]

175. Put a tiger in your tank!

[longship]

176. There's a hold-up in the Bronx...

Brooklyn's broken out in fight.
There's a traffic jam in Harlem,
That's backed up to Jackson Heights.
A scout troop's lost a child.
Khruschev's due at Idlewild.
Car 54, where are you?

Toody and Muldoon. (And, of course, Schnauzer, too -- Al Lewis)

[KamaAina]

181. Rush the OxyMoron used to use that one to trash David Dinkins

NYC's first African American mayor, with "General David Dinkins" in place of 'Car 54".

[Manifestor_of_Light]

198. I remember Car 54 Where Are You?

The guy on the right is Fred Gwynne, who was also Herman Munster.

And Idlewild Airport is now called JFK.

[Sanity Claws]

204. That song is still my favorite theme song for a show

Idlewild
Kruschev
I wonder how many folks under 30 know those names.

[madamesilverspurs]

178. "Look, Ma, no hands!"

and "Ooo Eee Ooo Ah Ah Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing Bang"

"And I helped!" (drops cast iron skillet into trash can)

[KamaAina]

179. "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"

[ms liberty]

188. Two all beef patties, special sauce

Lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun!
This thread is great!

[edhopper]

192. "It is baloooon!"

[Mendocino]

202. Lets get Mikey

He won't eat it, he hates everything.

[onyourleft]

205. Princess...

...Summer Fall Winter Spring.

[ScreamingMeemie]

209. "It's got a good beat, and it's fun to dance to...I give it an 85"

I was horrified my son had no idea what I was talking about tonight, and then I was sad.

[cry baby]

210. "It's 10 pm...do you know where your children are?" nt

[Arugula Latte]

211. "That's a spicy meatball!"

[Arugula Latte]

212. Carol Burnett ear tug

[Arugula Latte]

213. School House Rock -- Conjunction Junction, Three is a Magical Number, Lolly Get Your Adverbs, etc.

[Arugula Latte]

214. Ring Around the Collar

[GaYellowDawg]

217. Is better to look good than to feel good.

You look mahvelous!!

[GaYellowDawg]

218. Who could it be now... maybe, I don't know... SATAN?!?!?

nm

[cemaphonic]

236. Good one

Most of these are more like "no one under 60"

[ghostsinthemachine]

220. NORM!

[mainstreetonce]

222. Rabbit ears

TV

[mainstreetonce]

223. J Fred Mugs

Today

[Callmecrazy]

225. Ultraman!

[Pryderi]

226. "This...is...Howard...

Cosell"

[doc03]

227. What a revolten developement this is!

Chester Riley The Life of Riley staring William Bendix

[doc03]

228. Just the facts mam n/t

[Ken Burch]

229. "Dial M for Murder"-or anything else with "dial" in the name. n/t.

[lastlib]

231. "You won't have Nixon to kick around any more."

[truegrit44]

232. Always was an animal nut......

Trigger, Buttermilk and Bullet

[lastlib]

235. "Go placidly amidst the noise and waste...."

...and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof. Avoid quiet and passive persons, unless you are in need of sleep. Rotate your tires. Speak glowingly of those greater than yourself; and heed well their advice, even though they be turkeys. Know what to kiss - and when. Consider that two wrongs never make a right, but that three do. Wherever possible, put people on hold. Be comforted, that in the face of all irridity and disillusionment, and despite the changing fortunes of time, there is always a big future in computer maintenance.

(You are a fluke of the universe.
You have no right to be here.
Whether you can hear it or not,
The universe is laughing behind your back.)

Remember the Pueblo. Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate. Know yourself. If you need help, call the FBI. Exercise caution in your daily affairs, especially with those persons closest to you... That lemon on your left, for instance. Be assured that a walk through the seas of most souls would scarcely get your feet wet. Fall not in love, therefore, it will stick to your face. Gracefully surrender the things of youth: the birds, clean air, tuna, Taiwan - and let not the sands of time get in your lunch. Hire people with hooks. For a good time, call 606-4311, ask for Ken. Take heart in the deepening gloom that your dog is finally getting enough cheese. And reflect that whatever misfortune may be your lot, it could only be worse in Milwaukee.

Therefore, make peace with your god, whatever you perceive him to be: hairy thunderer or cosmic muffin. With all its hopes, dreams, promises, and urban renewal, the world continues to deteriorate. GIVE UP!

--National Lampoon, "The Deteriorata"

[Gidney N Cloyd]

237. Caught part of The Fortune Cookie this weekend. Loaded with 1966 pop cultural references.

While younger people would get a reference to 'watching Batman,' how many would know what "I'm on Metrecal" meant?

[Pryderi]

238. "Yes Grasshopper"