Open thread
I’m taking off for part of the day to play with my wife so here’s a place to discuss whatever you want. Here’s some food for thought from our buddy Dave in Texas at Ace. I can hear the phonies salivating from here.
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No coverage on the la vet lawsuit?
I find those animated M&M characters in their commercials very disturbing.
And I believe that Michael Dudikoff never got the respect he deserved.
@50. For the younger set, you can confirm this with your parents/grandparents. CBS, NBC, and ABC were it for TV. And when I say it, I mean that’s all there was. Oh, some areas had local stations, sure, maybe one–places such as NY had 3! Otherwise, you watched ABC, CBS, or NBC. Oh, and the stations went OFF the air, sometimes as late as 1 a.m. And when a network went off the air, it usually did so with a prayer (honest!) followed by the Star Spangked Banner. Then came pure static or a test pattern.
Here’s an l. Place replace the k with it in Spangked. Thanks.
I remember the stations “signing off” after the late show. The National Anthem, then the Indian Head test pattern.
I love my wife … But she drives me crazy!
I have to best and coolest son ever … But he drives me crazy!
I work with a bunch of barely trained monkeys that I like … But they drive me crazy!
There is this one chick in the office … And she really drives me crazy!
What do I do?
@57.
Smoke grass.
“I Spy” is the best ever TV series. With or without a bowl of bean soup.
Funny thing is – not everyone actually owned a TV in those days. It was often a special occasion to gather around someone’s set to watch a particular something or another.
No. I do not watch soaps. We did, out of boredom, watch and Arabic one one night during DS/DS. No subtitles.
MCPO NY? So, that would be why you come here? To get away from the crazy?? Good choice.
@51 Sky King? What, you had the hots for Penny?
@67. Well, if you act on a fantasy, you will be caught. That should go without saying. Oh, you can de-perfume yourself. Eat garlic before you come home. Plan out every detail. And it may take a single day, or a week, or–if you are a really talented liar and lucky–weeks BUT YOU WILL BE CAUGHT. And then your life as you know it will end. Your wife will despise you and your son’s image of you will tarnish. Oh, and that hot number that got your blood boiling? History. She’ll be doing Fred before the gun in your wife’s hand is cold.
MCPO: words of wisdom from a late, great American that might apply to your particular situation:
@59. That was a darn good show, as was Mission Impossible. Funniest TV in the 60s? Get Smart.
2/17 Air Cav: not all stations used the National Anthem for their sign-off in years past. I remember two from my youth that didn’t.
One used “America the Beautiful.” The other used the poem “High Flight”, recited to a video background of aviation video clips (F-104s, if I recall correctly).
Both were quite stirring.
OWB: not sure I can agree.
“You are number 6.”
@61.
A man of experience, I presume.
Damn, man.
You take the fantasy right of the equation.
So here’s one at Military Fakers who is a hoot. He was a Ranger deployed to NYC to snipe at the enemy on 9-11.
http://militaryfaker.webs.com/robert-alan-leonard
@67. I threw up in my mouth a little. 2 yrs service and he got out as a Pvt? yea, sounds like this guy had problems long before he decided to start telling people he was a Ranger.
I like sunflowers.
2 1/4 mile shot?
Bet it was with a sidearm, no less.
Another Food Service stud. I love this stuff!
OK, best TV shows ever: Hopalong Cassidy. Bill Boyd was a playboy until he got the iconic role of Hoppy and cleaned up his image.
The Lone Ranger: No one can EVER EVER EVER replace Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels.
Zorro: If you want to get a girl weak in the knees, win a sword fight, buckle a swash, and do it with a smile.
Sea Hunt: I used to watch Lloyd Bridges paddling around in his SCUBA gear and wonder why my dad didn’t do any of that stuff. (He was busy.)
Maverick: Jim Garner and Jack Kelly. Too cool for words.
Burns and Allen: what can I say?
Hennessey: Jackie Cooper was a Commander in the Navy Reserves. I just thought the uniforms were so cool.
The Mickey Mouse Club: I SO wanted to be a Mouseketeer.
Bob is THE MAN. His shot was longer than Manhattan is wide. But he did receive the coveted Granola Bar–before his Secret Squirrel records were erased.
#71. Burns and Allen: what can I say?
Jeez. Talk about an opening! I’ll take it. “Say goodnight, Gracie.”
“Who are you?”
‘Two. The new number two.”
“Who is number one?”
“That would be telling.”
Ex. Did you get to watch the Saturday morning old movie shorts? Flash Gordon? If so, how about Ming of Mongo? Those spaceshps were a scream. Looked like a beer can with a funnel on top, powered by an overhead string.
@74. I’m a big fan of the Prisoner as well. It was with great anticipation that I tuned in for AMC’s remake. I was SO disappointed with it.
Ming the Merciless! Oh. My. God! Charles Middleton at his snarkiest. He use to just slay me. And the spaceships all had flames on wicks or something, or sparklers, depending on who did the effects.
We could go see the Saturday serials like the first “Zorro” (not Guy Williams) and “Tarzan” and “Buck Rogers” at the movies for $.05, plus popcorn for $.05. After the movies, we’d go to the nearest drugstore, because they all had soda fountains, and get I’d get a chocolate soda with ice cream and my sister would get a Dr. Pepper float. $.10 each. And the only movie I ever missed on Saturdays was “Battle For Apache Pass”, because we moved from Texas to Illinois. Never got to see it.
I almost forgot: ‘Men Into Space’, with Bill Lundigan, about a working moon base and colony;
‘The Blue Angels’ – loved the Navy then, still do;
‘Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers’, Warren Stevens sadly underused;
‘Have Gun – Will Travel’, Richard Boone hated his horse and the horse hated him;
‘Gunsmoke’ – who could beat Jim Arness as Matt Dillon? I think ‘Longmire’ kind of approaches that.
And then there are all those movies that Mae West made, and W. C. Fields. Seriously, getting nostalgic again.
LebbenB: The Prisoner is definitely on my GOAT short list for TV programming. I’d have to think about it a while to be sure – but it might be #1. I’m sure it’s top 10, and likely top 5.
American Ninja 2.
Dudikoff and Steve James.
Bob Newhart and the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Best shows!!
Miami Vice, number one new show !!
Why do we still have pennies?
Same reason gas sells for 9/10 cents a gallon over a penny.
@84 And why do people always round up instead of down when stating the price?
Re 85 Damn, I meant round down instead of round up.
I actually round down to whatever the big number is.
No one pays attention to the 9/10s added, but it stacks up the more gas you buy.
Jonn,(@30)
The cult of L. Ron Hubbard.
But $2 bills work great in Gentlemen’s Clubs.
Why do we still have pennies? Because despite the psychology of marketing using .09 instead of .10, the antique denominations of ‘mill’ and ‘millre’ (millray), which used to represent tenths (mill) and hundredths (millre) of a penny, have never been abandoned by the financial world. It isn’t anything new, either.
I have two coins from the Sassanian empire, 4th century AD, part of the very extensive Roman empire. Found in Britannia, probably part of a buried hoard or an ambush that failed. One coin is silver, the other is copper. Both are just blobs of molten metal that was dropped on a rock and stamped with a die stamp on each side. The silver coin is probably a month’s pay for a legionnaire, the copper is probably a week’s pay. The Roman army also paid in goods, such as salt, which is sala in Latin, which is the source of the word salaria (salary), which is why we say someone may or may not be ‘worth his salt’.
The term ‘two bits’, referring to a quarter coin, goes back to being able to cut or break a gold or silver coin into bits, usually eight bits.
This trivia brought to you by Gaius Iulius Caesar, Imperator, and commander of the Roman Army. SPQR. All roads lead to Rome.
The Fugitive. The Twlight Zone. Perry Mason. The Rifleman. Bonanza. The Buggs Bunny Show. Jack Benny. The Honeymooners. I Love Lucy. The Donna Reed Show.
Ach! I nearly forgot My Three Sons, Superman, and The Ed Sullivan Show. That’s it for me…My life by TV show.
Oh, and Combat, The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle USMC, and Bewitched. I thought Eliz Montgomery was hot–but Honey West (Anne Francis) made me have impure thoughts.
While I’m confessing, I admit to looking at National Geographic and learning nothing.
Cav, you old
Crusader Rabbit, Captain Video, and Bullwinkle and Rocky the Flying Squirrel.
I have a question for all of you. What would you do if you are leaving a building, but before you exit you hear the National Anthem playing for retreat. Do you stay inside, at attention until it is over or do you proceed outside, come to attention and salute?
@91.
you should get out more.
@92.
Chuck Connors. Nice. Lever action 30/30 with trigger on the scoop. Remember the tavern owner’s name?
@94.
I Dream of Jeannie.
I think this
@98.
Step outside.
Attention, Salute.
Never bitch out and ovoid the door, the car door, etc.
Avoid.
Damn.