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I believe the “egg men” were like milkmen except, of course, they delivered eggs door-to-door rather than dairy products. I’m also guessing this was something that was mostly limited to the UK.
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No, my wife remembers the egg man coming every Saturday in the Los Feliz district of Los Angeles when she was a child in the 1950s.
Milkmen also used to bring eggs; to the best of my recollection they disappeared sometime in the early 1970s. I know this because we got a dog in 1969, and he used to bark whenever he heard the milk bottles rattle in the metal carrier. The dog was fully grown by that time, so it had to have been at least a year or two into the 1970s.
[QUOTE=Spectre of Pithecanthropus]
I haven’t seen aha around here in ages.
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I was out shopping yesterday, and “Western Union” was playing…and I thought “what ever happened to aha?”
“Telephone Man” by Meri Wilson. Sure, you can still get a guy from AT&T to come out to your house and you can probably even (maybe) talk him into boffing you in the kitchen, the bedroom, the hall and the wall, but he’s not going to install your phone. These days you have to plug them in yourself.
I hear the USSR will be open soon
As vacationland for
lawyers in love
“Rock this Town” by Stray Cats:
I had a whiskey on the rocks and
change of a dollar for the jukebox
“Misunderstanding” by Genesis:
Since then I’ve been running around trying to find you
I went to the places that we always go
I rang your HOUSE but got no answer
Jumped in my car, I went round there
[QUOTE=Spectre of Pithecanthropus]
I haven’t seen aha around here in ages.
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As last I recall, he had cancer in or of his tongue, and a female friend of his on the board whose name I don’t recall was evasive about his situation.
Nitpick: when “Operator” came out, direct-dial was already the rule. IIRC, the person singing the song is calling directory assistance, because “the number on the matchbook is old and faded”.
“Hey Ya” by Outkast-- its mention of “shake it like a Polaroid picture” was almost quaint-sounding when it came out (though IIRC there was a brief spike in Polaroid sales after its success), but it’ll be obsolete fairly soon now.
[QUOTE=Student Driver]
The theme song/title song “UHF” by Weird Al.
“Hey Ya” by Outkast-- its mention of “shake it like a Polaroid picture” was almost quaint-sounding when it came out (though IIRC there was a brief spike in Polaroid sales after its success), but it’ll be obsolete fairly soon now.
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Hell, technically it was dated when it was released, because a Polaroid picture stopped being needed to be shaken in the 90’s, and doing so might actually ruin the photo.
[QUOTE=MisterThyristor]
No, we had an egg man in our neighborhood when I was 8 or so (I’m 54 now). And it wasn’t just eggs, a lot of things were sold like this, one guy had produce (veggies and the like) and then there was the Charles Chips man who had a regular route delivering potato chips. We didn’t have it in our neighborhood, but there was a scissors-sharpening guy who went around from door to door sharpening knives and scissors. (And I wasn’t in a particularly urban area, where I think this was even more common, but in a suburb.)
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Anyone remember the “Sheeny Man”?
The guy who would come around and take your worthwhile junk.
That guy lived and died by ‘One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.’
I still see them.
My Mom threatened that she’d give me away to the Sheeny Man.
[QUOTE=Fiveroptic] “Telephone Man” by Meri Wilson. Sure, you can still get a guy from AT&T to come out to your house and you can probably even (maybe) talk him into boffing you in the kitchen, the bedroom, the hall and the wall, but he’s not going to install your phone. These days you have to plug them in yourself.
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Oh my god, are you me? I’ve never met anyone else on the planet who knows that song.
