Aw, crap. I never could get that straight. People really ought to be more careful about the clear linear progression of terms when choosing superlatives for naming standards. Hmmph! 
Zeldar: It was, “Believe It … Or Don’t!” (One of my very favorites!)
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Oooooh! Ooooooh! Jerry Reed!
“he’d just knock 'em in the head with a stump
that’s all he got left cos a alligator bit him, hah!”
Me again.
Two words:
GREATURE FEATURES!!!
That made me go look it up to be sure and it’s Strangely Believe It With Ernie Kovacs but the examples shown aren’t as familiar as I would have hoped for.
Other Geezer stuff to think about:
And for a sidetrack that’s been visited before:
http://www.candyattic.com/oldtime.html
http://www.bulkcandystore.com/Other-Old-Time-Candy-Favorites-C301.aspx
http://www.nostalgiccandy.com/
ETA: Old thread on candy: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=507464&highlight=candy
Candy and junk food from the good ole days
I think we’re thinking about two different features.
Try as I might, I could not find a picture, but here are cites:
*"In my 1950s childhood, Ripley’s Believe It or Not was part of everyday life, a syndicated comics page feature where you could stumble upon such mind-boggling facts as: "If all the Chinese in the world were to march four abreast past a given point, they would never finish passing though they marched forever and forever.” Or if you were young and iconoclastic, you could chuckle over Mad magazine’s parody, ‘Ripup’s Believe It or Don’t!’ "
*
from this site.
And also:
“Ripley’s Believe It or Not continued to be operated under license in a number of U.S. cities, including Chicago, Illinois, and Orlando, Florida. His feature gave rise to numerous parodies as well, from a 1950s Mad Magazine spoof titled “Ripup’s Believe It or Don’t” to the National Lampoon’s True Facts: The Book, a photo archive of funny roadside signs, and Kevin Goldstein’s The Leslie Frewin Book of Ridiculous Facts.”
from this site.
I just have to say “Wow” over this one. Aside from the Kovacs page in MAD for several years in the 50’s, the “original” Ripley’s Believe It Or Not which appeared in syndication in quite a few places, was the only one I knew about. I was aware of at least one Ripley’s Museum in Gatlinburg, but the MAD thing was my main parody.
You have enlightened me, brujaja, and I appreciate it!
Ripley's Believe It or Not! - Wikipedia!
Perhaps more recent than pure Geezer days, there’s Bullshit or Not? from Amazon Women on the Moon - Wikipedia which (aside from being a step removed from the parodies we have been mentioning) is some great entertainment!
Two that I thought of (unrelated)
“I can’t believe I ate the whole thing!”
Microfiche.
Those who recall with varying degrees of nostalgia and regret, those old cigarette commercials, may enjoy browsing:
UCSF Tobacco Industry Videos
Is it bigger than a breadbox?
Put that in your Funk and Wagnalls!
Sock it to me!
Kilroy was here.
23-skidoo, but oh, you kid!
Racoon coats and the bee’s knees
Touring in the old jalopy
That’ll be the day!
Purple mimeograph ink.
Library paste. (Mint-flavored. How do I know that? Uhhh… I dunno.)
You’ve helped me remember tasting and chewing that glue/cement used in model airplane kits. Dope, was it? ( Covering a Model Airplane in Tissue : 6 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables )
Were we weird, or what?
Don’t know about you, but I’m **still **weird!
Yikes, that airplane glue smelled really poisonous to me! Dope indeed.
There is a Ripley’s Museum in San Francisco too; I remember going as a little kid. Big fun. There was a Madame Touddaud’s as well, but it’s gone now.
For a fun “hangman styled” puzzle with a theme similar to this thread’s, check out
Anytime before Monday
Gleem – the toothpaste that makes your teeth so tough, you can fire a submachine gun at a jet aircraft canopy, or something like that.
Timex, it takes a licking but it keeps on ticking.
The Legion of Superpets: Krypto the Dog, Comet the Horse, Beppo the Monkey and Streaky the Cat.
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Not knowing anybody who listened to FM - because it was just a couple of classical music stations from Highland Park or somewhere.
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Sunday afternoons the AM station would broadcast one channel of a symphony and the FM station would broadcast the other channel, so you could listen in stereo!
Arthur Murray’s Dance Party.
To remember the Banana Bunch, we must be almost exactly the same age.
But you got UHF and VHF backwards. (We only got VHF, and not all of those because we lived in a valley. Never could watch Ultraman, though!)
Let’s not forget Pogo.
“Lloyd Thaxton,” “Where The Action Is”, “Dark Shadows” (loved "Quentin’s Tune"http://youtu.be/fwaFCXEYJ14and don’t gimme no shit, okay? :))
Gleem! Yow! Earth Born apricot-scented shampoo!
“The Point!”
“The Courtship of Eddie’s Father!”
SlowMindThinking : March 3rd, 1963.
I never got to watch Kimba or Speed Racer either, dammit.
I wadn’t done yet! 
When I really do “geeze”, this is the one I geeze to.
And rap? I’m all over it, Homages and Plasmas! How about the Sugar Hill Gang?
And me and D sure did some “Hip-Hoppin” to thisone.
Oh yeah: The white guys, I know, right?
So, let’s cut to the chase, okay?
Me and D are totally aware, and neither one of geezes!
“The Twist”? Who did that one? David Bowie, right?
See what I mean? So don’t try to lay no Boojie WoojieOn the King of Rock’n Roll!
Hope y’all enjoyed these a little. Sometimes, I just need to make y’all smile!
Y’all know, right?
Y’all’s Pal
Quasi
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Seeing your feet inside your shoes. (you know what I mean)
