Chirstmas with Dino

[Thumper]

I can still remember the every day afternoon lineup of good westerns on TV. I was probably in the third or fourth grade then. Sugarfoot, Maverick, The Rebel, and the Lone Ranger. On Saturdays we got My Friend Flicka and The Rifleman. Those were darned good old westerns. They must have filmed a jillion of them.BKB

and on edit it wasn't The Rebel it was Johny Yuma. I was thinking of the theme song....'Johnny Yuma was a rebel, he roamed through the west....'BKB

You were right the first time dufus ... the name of the show was The Rebel ... (Johnny Yuma was the rebel). I can still sing the theme song myownfineself! Don't forget Rawhide (Clint Eastwood) or Rin Tin Tin!

Can't believe nobody mentioned Roy Rogers. P-hole mentioned My Friend Flicka ... but how 'bout Fury? And I HAD to watch Sky King!

Loved Wagon Train. Anybody remember that old show, Broken Arrow or Wanted: Dead or Alive?

Not persactly a western ... but how 'bout Circus Boy? It starred Micky Dolenz who would later become one of The Monkeys. (Hey ... I was a kid, ok?)

[jb]

I think the only reason I've bought my Colt SAA's are because of all the westerns I watched growing up and all the cap guns I had while we played cowboys and indians.
Saturday night was special in our house, I got to stay up late to watch Gunsmoke.
I think #3 is getting me a western style holster for one of the Colts.
Now I just better hope I don't shoot my foot with some fast draw practice.

[Thumper]

Man! Do kids even still have cap guns? Or have caps been labeled as too dangerous? I used to take a whole roll of caps and smash it on the sidewalk with a hammer. WOW! Was that ever fun!

[HideHunter]

You were right the first time dufus ... the name of the show was The Rebel ... (Johnny Yuma was the rebel). I can still sing the theme song myownfineself! Don't forget Rawhide (Clint Eastwood) or Rin Tin Tin!

"He was panther quick and leather tough and figured he'd been pushed enough" .. my ownfineself too. and: "Crest has been shown to be an effective decay preventative dentifrice when used in a conscientiously applied program of oral hygiene and regular professional care." Now, I wish I could remember my cell phone number in case someone asks. I have several friends who call me on a regular basis for answers to "off the wall" questions. My wife refers to me as "a walking wealth of worthless knowledge".

[Buckrub]

Fanner 50. My best present.

They still make cap pistols. I make sure my grandson, or at least the one I can control (ha), has one.

[BarryBobPosthole]

Me too, HH. When we get together with the Missouri family, my team always wins the trivia games. Don't know if thats due to my knowledge or the factits in Missoura.

"you'll wonder where the yellow went, when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent!"

Probably the thing that set us off from the English..

BKB

[HideHunter]

"Anacin, the pain reliever doctors prescribe most for headache, neuritis and neuralgia." (whatever the hell those are? )

and poetry:

I took a contract to bury the body of Blasphemous Bill McKie
Whenever, wherever or what-so-ever the manner of death he die.
Whether he die in the light of day or under the peak-faced moon,
In cabin, dance-hall, camp or dive, mucklucked or patent shoon.

Wow, I'm not sure I could do the whole thing.. I think maybe I've lost a couple brain cells along the way.

How about this?

As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd stay away.

There, got that one in its entirety.

[Buckrub]

Reddy Killowatt

Anacin

Mrs. White's Bluing

"More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette"

Sugar Pops are Tops

Burma Shave signs on the highway

Burroughs Computers (I actually learned COBOL on one of these)

"When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen"

Woolworths

Tab Soda

Otasco

on and on

[BarryBobPosthole]

One of my favorites was the Alka Seltzer commercial ' i can't believe I ate the wholething" where they'd play the Elephant Walk music from Daltari.
BKB

[quercus alba]

Mommy mia, that's one spicy meatballa

[HideHunter]

"I want my Maypo".

[Thumper]

I always wanted to be the meat in the sandwich with the Doublemint twins.

Chunka chunk big chunk,
Chunka chunk big chunk,
CHUNKY!!

Brylcreme! A little dab'l do ya' .....

RAID'S HEEEEEERRRREEEEEE!!!!!!

Relief is just ...... a swallow away!

[Niner]

Bucky, Bucky Beaver
Uses new Ipana
Bucky, Bucky Beaver
It's good for your teeth.

[BarryBobPosthole]

Wouldn't ya really rather drivea Buick?

BKB

[jb]

"Happy 57 from Heinz 57 to you"

[Thumper]

50's ad. Huh??? WAIT A DANG MINUTE!!!

[Captain]

I'd rather fight than switch...

Come to where the flavor is, come to Marlboro Country....

Youngins today ain't never even seen a cigarette commercial...

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[Thumper]

Well, I'll tell you ONE dang thing! This is an ad they've never seen! Merry Christmas! (Lucky's are easy on the throat!)

[HideHunter]

Hamms the beer refreshing..

and I've heard it said, arguably the most successful advertising campaign in history,
and possibly even *too* good..

"'Smokey the bear says, "Only you can prevent forest fires"."

[quercus alba]

I see Jim finally put up a self portrait. Not sure it's much of an improvement over the monkey

[Thumper]

Naaaa, they wouldn't target "kids" ... would they? Imagine seeing THIS in this day and age!

[Captain]

Smokey USE to say that.
I just finished my prescribed fire training and that slogan has been changed. It is now
"Only you can prevent WILDFIRES"

Prescribe fire is good and has been done even before "we" were here by American Indians.
They want more and more acres burned now to remove the fuel on the forest floor. So they are promoting prescribed fire.
If more acres are controlled burned with the correct conditions the when wildfires do happen they are not nearly as bad. The way it is now there are decades of fuel laying on the forest floor.

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[Niner]

A silly milli meter longer....

From a time when 90% of Americans had NO concept of the metric system.

[HideHunter]

Yep - that's the way I understood it Cap'n.. They "prevented" forest fires for too long.. then... poof.

oh yeah.. and "plop - plop - fizz - fizz."

[Captain]

Oh what a relief it is....

I'd walk a mile for a ---------

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[jb]

Rode in and worked on some of these.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULuXAIpAZuU

[HideHunter]

a Camel.. Cap'n.

You know JB - One of the very coolest cars I ever saw was a Edsel convertible.. I believe it was a 1959. Black with white interior. Chrome all over that sob. I think it had every available high-end factory option. They still had the original sticker in the window.. it was (remember 1959) $5,200. It made an absolutely gorgeous convertible. I was a sucker for rag-tops. I owned about a half a dozen of them (no Edsels).

"Miller High Life the...

[jb]

HH, me too, had 5, still have one, back then we called them the "4C's" , Cloth Covered C#@t Catchers".
Here's my first one

[Captain]

The Champagne of bottled beer...

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[jb]

"From the land of sky blue waters"
"The beer that made Milwaukee famous"
"Blatz beer is Milwaukee's finest"