How 'bout the pounding anvil for GIVING you a headache, I can’t remember if that was Anacin, or Bayer aspirin.
But, my favorite was the woman yanking the spoon out of dear old mom’s hand,
“Please Mother, I’d rather do it MYSELF!”
EXCEDRIN HEADACHE number 42
Or the little kid in the highchair throwing spoonfuls of what looks to be oatmeal, before dumping it on the floor,
“I WANT MY MAYPO!”
And, I’m STILL coo-coo for Cocoa Puffs!
“Lilacs bloomed in April and fruit ripened on the vine. Heartbeats quickened and old appetites were renewed. In April a livelier iris gleamed upon the burnished dove. April was spring, and in the spring Milo Minderbinder’s fancy had lightly turned to thoughts of…tangerines.”
You’re half-right, Anti Pro. The woman is yelling at her Mom, who is trying to get a bowl down from the kitchen shelf: “Mother, please, I’d RATHER DO IT MYSELF!”
Remember the other ad from that series, with the Dad who storms in yelling, “Honey, can’t you keep Billy’s toys OUT OF THE DRIVEWAY?”
Didn’t the Man from Glad ride around in some sort of hovercratf?
Since Lucretia mentioned Mutual of Omaha, this month’s AOPA Pilot has an article on Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps. It’s a bunch of flying doctors who go to remote places in Appalachia to render free medical and dental services to the poor. Stan Brock, Marlin Perkin’s guide and sidekick, is the organizer.
Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce
Special orders don’t upset us
All we ask that you let us
Have it your way
Have it your way, at Burger King.
Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should.
Please don’t squeeze the Charmin!
You’re soaking in it! (Madge, on Palmolive)
Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.
Libby’s, Libby’s, Libby’s on the label, label, label
You will like it like it like it on the table table table
'Cause it’s Libby’s, Libby’s, Libby’s on the label, label, label
Dee da dee da dee dee do do / Dee ba ditty doh / Deedle dooby doo ba dee um bee ooby / Be doodle oodle doodle dee dohhttp://members.xoom.com/labradorian/
OK, now that I’ve had my brain jolted by Anti Pro and Eve, I’ve got Allan Sherman’s “Headaches” song running through my head.
Headaches!
Headaches!
Those sponsors love it when my headaches.
Just when I’m feeling chipper as you please
They go and show my all my si-nus
Ca-vi-ties…
Why, you ask? 'Cos the song had a verse:
Mother, don’t hand me those pills from the shelf
I’d rather do it myself.
…and a kid saying “Mommy, can’t you keep Daddy’s car OUT OF THE DRIVEWAY?!” Big laugh from the audience there.
So now I understand the song a little better (since I wasn’t around to hear it the first time it came out).
Now to throw a little water on the fire - I noticed the “Get A Life”/Chris Elliott thread got shunted to MPSIMS. What’s keeping this one here? Don’t get me wrong, I’m enjoying the thread immensely and I am most emphatically not questioning manhattan’s moderating techniques. I’m just curious.
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All I wanna do is to thank you, even though I don’t know who you are…
Heh. Funny you should ask. I left this one here, even though I don’t like these “survey” questions, because it asks for factual responses rather than opinions.
And because I thought it would die quickly and we could get back to the important stuff like pencil colors. Oops.
I guess basically, this one is a “close call” that I have decided, so far, to leave here. The “absent 60’s remake” thread is a close call that will go if someone doesn’t come up with some hard facts in a day or two (unless the thread dies naturally, of course). The Chris Eliot thread, which asked “who remembers this” as opposed to “what are examples of this” was not a close call and got moved. That said, I’m still feeling my way around over here.
NYC IRL III
is on April 15th. Do you have what it takes?
I was starting to wonder that myself. As you can all see by my post total, I havn’t had many and I havn’t started many threads and I’m extremely thrilled to see at least one of those “Someone has replied to your thread” in my inbox every day. In short, I thought it would die rather quickly myself, but I’m in awe at the number of responses I’ve already got. Thank you all.
Well, either you’re closing your eyes to a situation you do not wish to acknowledge or you are not aware of the power of the presence of a pool table in your community. Ya’ got trouble my friends! -
Prof. Harold Hill
Gary Conservatory
Gold Medal Class
'05
‘More mom’s choose Jif than any other peanut butter.’
‘It’s not a cake, it’s a cookie, a fig newton cookie’
And a special one that I used to practice on my bread at home, though my mom bought the cheap stuff, so it DIDN’T do what the REAL kind did;
‘Sunbeam bread, it tears evenly down the middle’
Mine always went jagged!! Oh the shame of it all!!
Judy
“Um, according to who? Nothing more than a high brow troll, though occasionally the bi polar personality swung in a constructive direction on innocuous topics.” Omniscient
“Tootsie roll hum hum with its chocolatey chew -
Tootsie roll I think I’m in love with you.
Whatever it is I think I see
becomes a Tootsie Roll to me.”
manhattan: If you can’t beat 'em, join 'em
All I wanna do is to thank you, even though I don’t know who you are…
