Last night I was listening to another CD in the Spike Jones box set I bought this past Saturday. There was a tune I heard on the Dr. Demento show, but had forgotten the title. This tune, Black Bottom has no vocal but it does have a joke of sorts in it. The joke depends on knowing one way that a record can fail or be damaged. There is a point where
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I really, really, REALLY hate that stupid line. It's never been amusing. Not even the first time.
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Even stuff they didn't cut out is full of topical references. "Open the door, Richard!" for example, or references to ration cards, or any number of things.
Heck, even Animaniacs and Tiny Toons would come across as dated already. The former, especially, was full of topical humor -- where the celebrity "cameos" are concerned, most notably. In that regard, it gets dated more quickly than the classic cartoons' celebrity cameos. Stars who were famous then have remained famous, for the most part (OK so maybe one or two of the crooner singers, like Rudy Vallee, may not be household names anymore nor be recognized by sight), but today, fame is much more fleeting, and there's so much new entertainment out that things fade into obscurity quite easily, even when they were hugely popular at the time ( ... )
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Its still possible to become literate in bygone culture... in fact it makes life a lot more fun. I have been listening to Old Time Radio for a few years now, and I have been amised to no end to hear the original gags that WB listed from radio to use in their Looney Tunes.
I don't hold so much with 'everyone knows that' even though I'm sometomes on the wrong side of a phrase. I just use.. 'that was before your time' instead. Sometimes I explain, but explaining sometimes just makes the situation more confusing ;)
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My uncle has a story about his son asking if he could call someone. Permission was given and the son told he could use the phone in the basement, where they both were. He stared at it a moment, then asked it worked. Yep, it was a dial phone.
I recall the family being on a party line, but not for long. Either the folks didn't put up with it for long, or it was just replaced by the now-standard private line as the phone company phased out the party lines.
For a while the phone in the garage had a cracked dial that could catch a fingernail. Having listened to the click pattern, I decided to see if I could "dial" by keying the switch-hook. I was quite pleased to find that I could do that. I don't know if I can still do that, though. Maybe some line are DTMF only now.
I also remember my grandfather calling the fridge the "icebox" as well.
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So, I guess the way to not "miss" is to keep up on your history... which has made me think of something I want to go post in my journal... bye
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