Falling further out of the loop

[darwinbulldog]

Originally Posted by pclpads

I messaged a friend this week that I couldn't believe Frau Blucher - AKA (Cloris Leachman) - had turned 93. He replied kids today have no idea who Frau Blucher is. Sad, but true. (For those here who don't know, google, or better yet, watch "Young Frankenstein.)

I think it's been a good 25 years since the kids got Frau Blucher references. Same goes for Lilly von Schtupp.

[clydepepper]

"What hump?"




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[Butch7999]

"What's a 'gub'?"
"You bet your bippy!"
Maude Frickert.
Crazy Guggenheim.
Clem Kadiddlehopper.
Percy Dovetonsils.
Ish Kabibble.

Had an old movie on TV the other night, and the wife of one of the guys here
didn't know who Pinky Lee was. Jeez!

[gopherfan]

A friend of mine told me the other day that your memory is the second thing to go when you get old. I asked what the first was. His response, "I can't remember."

[tedzan]

Don McLean's lyrics in his 1971 song "American Pie" said it best...."the Day the Music Died". Of course he was referring to the accident that ended the lives of Buddy Holly,
Ritchie Valens, and Jiles Perry "The Big Bopper" Richardson in 1959.

In my opinion, "the Day the Music Died" occurred in the mid-to-late 1980's. The music ended when Hall & Oates, Marvin Gaye, Donna Summer, "Blondie", Tina Turner, etc.
were no longer the pop music scene.


TED Z

T206 Reference
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[barrysloate]

Originally Posted by Butch7999

"What's a 'gub'?"
"You bet your bippy!"
Maude Frickert.
Crazy Guggenheim.
Clem Kadiddlehopper.
Percy Dovetonsils.
Ish Kabibble.

Had an old movie on TV the other night, and the wife of one of the guys here
didn't know who Pinky Lee was. Jeez!

Take the Money and Run
Laugh-In
Jonathan Winters
Frank Fontaine
Red Skelton
Ernie Kovacs
Musician with unkempt hair-when I was a boy and I needed to comb my hair, my mother would say Hey Ish Kabibble and I knew exactly what I needed to do.

P.S. And I didn't google any of them. I'm a bit of a trivia nut.

[steve B]

While I don't really have the sort of encyclopedic memory some have, I have always liked stuff that's older. I was talking about music with one guy I almost ended up having a card shop with, and after a few minutes he said he had just realized I was too young to know the 60's bands I did, and the songs.
I told him that's what records are for

We got along pretty well, I would have gone into running the shop, but the guy who was there decided not to go back to teaching. Long term, it worked out well, I was almost certainly not ready back then.

[Butch7999]

'Tweren't a trivia quiz, Barry, but nice goin'. We were just adding to the list of "what hump?" / Frau Blucher / Lily von Schtupp references...

We once worked with an editor -- and this was fifteen, almost twenty years ago -- an editor who didn't recognize the names "Perry Mason"
and "Godzilla." We're paraphrasing clumsily here, but the great Leslie Fiedler said something to the effect of "pop culture is the only real culture."