Directed by Michael Bay. Surprised the sandwich didn’t blow up.
Please No Anchovies - J. Geils Band, 1980 (a spoken word number of the “Love Stinks” album)
Just remembered one from the early 70s.
What do you call a feminist leprechaun?
Erin Go Braghless
I also heard it as “hippie leprechaun”
My mother doesn’t like pizza very much but when when we went to a fancy pizza place she ordered one with anchovies. I tried a bite and had when not been in a public place I would have spit it out. The flavor was overwhelming.
One came looking for me once…
Anchovies again? That is so post #35.
For a while in the 80s the San Francisco phone book had a listing for Nick Danger. A friend of mine phoned and said the opening line. The guy who answered snapped right back with the answer, and hung up. And my friend, into the now dead phone connection, said, “Huh?” Almost a case of mind-reading, because you know that Nick “heard” him say it!
I was thinking today that any joke referencing 4-1-1 might have to be explained nowadays.
I think that “411” has entered the culture as meaning “information” (although I’m old, I should my kids (who aren’t that young anymore either)). They may not know where it came from, but that’s not important.
I’m old enough to remember that Information wasn’t always at 4-1-1. I think the number was 1-3-3 until I was around ten years old (1965). Why it was changed, I don’t know.
Anyone else remember this?
Well, of course, a joke that emphasizes her limitations as a vocalist is not going to get the same degree of blowback as one that compares her to a dog…
Just to take this to take this a little further into the “today needs explanation” realm,…
I thought the joke was that they removed Tammy Fae Bakker’s makeup and found Jimmy Hoffa, and that the police were looking in Jeffrey Dahmer’s refrigerator and found Gein Cuisine. (does anyone today know who Tammy Fae was, or remember Ed Gein?)
What?
The makers of Fantastic Cigarettes - long in the leaf and short in the can - bring you another true story from the tattered case book of Nick Danger, Third Eye. Join us now in the adventure we call “Cut Him Off at the Past!”
Did this as a “radio play” for a class when I was in high school; can probably still quote most of it from memory. “At Fourth and Drucker, he turns left. At Drucker and Fourth, he turns right. He crosses McArthur Park and walks into a great sandstone building (smak! Ow, my nose!)” I’ve made a few Firesign Theater references at work, and have only had one recognized. I’ll often throw in a “Why, he’s no fun, he fell right over.”
I still sometimes use “I can shout! Don’t hear you!” It often gets a laugh, even though I’m sure no one gets the reference.
Oh, you mean Nancy!
I posted the Tammy Faye joke; “Gein Cuisine” instead of “Lean Cuisine” (nyuck-nyuck-nyuck!) is one I never heard before, though I do know lots of Ed Gein jokes (many of which can’t be posted here). My older brother came home from his junior high one day with a whole slew of them.
It occurs to me that there must be some who wouldn’t get the nyuck-nyuck-nyuck! reference today. Or lines like “Shaddup, Porcupine!”
I think every local phone system had their own way of doing it. When I was a kid in our local telephone system, you just “0” for operator to request directory assistance.
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I was on a setup for early teleconferencing software for an engineering firm, with a dozen offices around the world. The head tech guy said “Okay, to test levels we’re going to need twenty minutes of speech with no pauses.” One of my co-workers immediately announced “We got this. Digs, let’s have some Firesign.”
I’d spouted lines at work, but hadn’t heard all of Nick Danger since college 20 years before, but damn it was permanently lodged in my brain. It was so fun to do all the voices (perfectly, I might add, even Catherwood). By the end, my boss asked the group if they had their levels. Tech guy said “Oh, we were done ten minutes ago, but we all had to hear how it ended!”
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I listened to that one a few weeks ago, and it was the first time I understood the line “My story had more holes in it than Albert Hall.”
Can’t tell you how many movies and TV shows from the 60s have someone pick up a phone, dial 0 (or just jiggle the connection) and say “Hello, Operator? Get me the police!”
I had to explain that to my kids… turns out it wasn’t just the lack of 911 they were wondering about, it was that there was a human being that was paid to wait until you needed them to connect a call for you without you having to dial.
Huh? Jiggling the hook (or the buttons on the hook) to alert an operator was still a thing in the '60s? I remember it being done in TV shows like The Untouchables, but not when I was in grade school. We all had to dial 0 to get an operator. (This was in Minneapolis, which might actually have been more advanced than other parts of the US, hard as that is for me to believe.)