# "1900 House," "Frontier House"—what next? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 30, 2002, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1900-house-frontier-house-what-next/106495 "2002-04-30T16:48:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1900-house-frontier-house-what-next/106495/41 "2002-05-02T21:44:46Z")
**1-900 House** - Take a wild guess. ---
**Author:** ![meezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@meezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meezer)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1900-house-frontier-house-what-next/106495/42 "2002-05-03T20:19:30Z")
\*\*-- parents are both smokers, who light up after dinner and stub the butts out on the plates. \*\* OMG - you knew my Dad!!:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1900-house-frontier-house-what-next/106495/43 "2002-05-03T23:47:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mooney252 \* > \*\*Fibonacci, Shirley – this is the stuff of genius. Having a teenager, we need to find a way to act out some of what we lived through – > > clearly Fibonacci came from a much more intellectual family than ours, where ‘The Lawrence Welk Show’ dominated Saturday night TV. > > Some additions to the atmosphere: > – parents are both smokers, who light up after dinner and stub the butts out on the plates. > – eating dinners in the basement during a heat wave because it was 15 degrees cooler down there > – starched shirts kept in the fridge until there was time to iron them > – mandatory dress code for going downtown or to church: > > - fedora and a suit for boys > - taffeta dress, gloves and patent-leather shoes for girls > – city chicken (a skewered collection of veal and pork parts) > – late-night AM radio (that was the only kind), with carrier-wave signals from far-off stations in New Orleans or Minneapolis > – canning vegetables in the fall > – a push-mower > – sending the kids to the store with a note to buy cigarettes > – blue laws: meaning nothing but milk was sold on Sundays > – the Cleveland Indians out of the AL race by June. Oh wait: we don’t need to go back in time for that > – domestic medicines: aspirin, Vicks Vaporub and Musterole. We were spared the castor oil. > – Reader’s Digest in the bathroom \*\* Also add: B&W TV no outdoor electrical outlets\* no garage light\* no real sound equipment, just tabletop radios and record players \*From “Postwar Tract House” variation ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1900-house-frontier-house-what-next/106495/44 "2002-05-04T00:16:06Z")
_Aaron Spelling’s House_ - a group of contestants are scattered throughout Spelling’s enormous mansion and must try to reunite the entire group while being chased by daughter Tori. _Ozzy Osborne House_ - constestants are locked in the Osborne home and must decipher verbal clues from dad Ozzy to find the keys to escape. All while avoiding dog crap land mines and getting caught in the middle of petty squables between Kelly and Jack. Any contestant who actually encounters “the other daughter” will be killed and eaten. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1900-house-frontier-house-what-next/106495/45 "2002-05-04T08:21:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jessiecarol \* > \*\*hey, hey, hey - I lived the 1970’s show. Don’t forget that we drank Tang. \*\* “Wow, chicks must really dig astronauts 'cause it says here that astronauts get all the Tang they want!” –Kelso, That '70’s Show What about a remake of that old Sonny and Cher classic: **Cliff House**? Cliff Robertson’s interpretation of Bill Cosby’s Cliff Huxtable, with his lovable companion, Clifford the Big Red Dog. Music by Jimmy Cliff. …teleplay by Cliff Simak… Okay, I’m no good at this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1900-house-frontier-house-what-next/106495.md?page=2)