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Truly love these posts… brings back a ton of memories and conversation pieces… Many thx for all the effort put into them…
Classic Dr. Demento!
They´re coming to take me away,
Haha, they´re coming to take me away,
Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha,
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I´ll be happy to see
Those nice young men
In their clean white coats
And they´re coming to take me AWAY,
HA HAAAA
The new presidential theme song???
Wow, Dr. Demento that brings back memory’s. Was he nation wide or only in the Los Angeles area?
He was syndicated on stations across the nation. Just like Casey Kasem & AM Top 40. I don’t recall if his show was pressed on a disk or was on a 7″ reel. AM Top 40 came on 2 discs.
The Good Old Days … The G … O … D …
The missing ingredient today … actually, since 1962 …
My birth year!
Can’t tell you why but when I was very, very young, I thought Maynard G Krebs was so funny. Go figure.
Actually, while the Dymo labeler is a bit primitive compared to far superior labeling products, it is an OUTSTANDING technology for the blind. There are great Dymo products that do the exact same thing but in Braille dots so that blind folks can label microwave oven buttons, and other things that have flat surfaces and only visual clues.
And here, let’s have some better pics of this wonderful and beautiful lady of the past:
Damn, Lib. I’d forgotten about her. This last photo…she’s a hottie.
Must be a fat, homely, lonely woman who likes to disapprove ’round here.
I remember chicken pox- except I had it as an adult. Worst 24 hours of my life with the intense itching that I couldn’t scratch. Went to the doctor- they had me come in a rear entrance to stay away from other people. Took my shirt off (worst breakouts were on my back) while the doctor stood in the doorway and told me “Yep, chicken pox. Don’t scratch it. Use Calamine lotion.”
Got it from my daughter. We had my son hang around with her and wrestle but he never got it. He lucked out when a real vaccine was introduced later.
I think you got the real “vaccine”. I had it too back in the early 60s. You are right about it being the worst couple of days!
Ahhh….the Good ‘Ol Days…when everyone was White.
… and US Citizens … and spoke English …
. . . and knew where to place apostrophes . . .
Damn Anon….you just won’t leave it alone.
So many of those could have been me.
Great collection.
shag carpet was completely awful.
had a water bed, the power went out in winter. the first night was warm, the second night was chilly, and the third night was impossible.
Shag only needed to cleaned once a year, though – with a rake.
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I had a waterbed and my stepdad was obsessed with what he assumed was the massive energy costs to keep it heated. So, he’d turn the thermostat off. I tried many times to tell him it wasn’t like an electric blanket and the bed would be ice cold and take hours to heat up again but he couldn’t/wouldn’t grasp the concept. Spent many a night on the couch because of him. Drove me crazy!
Remember when being indoors was punishment?
Actually, for me, the punishment was “Why don’t you go out and play until tomorrow morning?”
Funny thing is, by the time I was 13, that is exactly what i did as often as possible and got punished for it.
(Yeah, I know I know…
. . . not exactly a “normal upbringing” back then, but that was mine for a few formative years.)
I’ve only had deformative years.
Groan. Lordy, the Lions didn’t even make it into the group of miniature helmets.
The Ford family really needs to sell the franchise to actual winners.
I loved collecting those things as a kid.
That, and one of those table top vibrating football game that hummed, and the players
sometimes went in the direction they were lined up in, and other times, they spun around in circles.
Remember the quarterback?
He was taller than the other players, with his flexible plastic throwing arm cocked back?
Whoever was running the Offense had control of the toggle switch. After lining the O & D players up facing each other, the Offense started the play by turning on the vibrato.
If a receiver opened up down field, you could kill the power, then take the little hard cotton football (about the size of an Alleve caplet), put it in the QB’s throwing hand, pull back the arm, and then let it go to launch the ball, and try to hit the open receiver for a completion, then give the receiver the ball, turn the juice back on, and see if he vibrated all the way into the end zone, or turned around and started going the other way, just like Football Follies.
Can you imaging finding one of those games in mint condition, inside the original box,
in some Granny’s attic estate sale? Big money to collectors, I’d bet.
Memories of my youth.
Innocence lost.
And look at us now.
Milton Bradley must be having seizures up in Toy Heaven, with the shit they have kids playing with these days.
This one’s for Hardscrabble Farmer.
Maybe some day I’ll get around to building one of these for my shop. Nice.
1st pic: Every little boy’s “Need for Speed”.
2: I’ve climbed more trees in my life than how many times I had sex, including by myself.
3: We played tackle football w/o helmets.
4: If it wasn’t for the one pond by us, we would never have played hockey .
5: How many of you had that 45 “They’re coming …..”? I did.
6: Nataly gave me wood.
7 : About that Honeymoon Special…DON’T ever get a woman anything with a plug that implies “work”. However,
if the item gives pleasure, I’m all in.
8: I still have my folding Westclox in my camping gear.
9: Never had the chicken pox. I feel ok. I think.