Tell Me Your Age, Without Telling Me Your Age, Using Contemporaneous Ad and TV Show Slogans

“Huh huh huh huh huh.” “Heh heh heh heh heh heh. Fire! Fire!” “That was cool.”

“Yeah, well, ya know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.”

“It’s 10:00, do you know where your children are?”

  • was this national or just the Detroit market?

Channel 5 news in New York did it in the early '70s if not before. I suspect a lot of non-network stations that did news at 10 did it.

I actually just went and found that online and had a good laugh, in no small part because of your evocative spelling. :grinning:

There was an ad for a carpet company or something in the Chicago area. Used to freak me out:

Mo-hawk four, four-four hun-dred!
(recited over a pounding, “injun” drumbeat)

I remember it from when I was a kid - DFW

I want my Maypo, dammit!

What do these popular sayings tell you about when I was born? There was no TV so I couldn’t use ads, so these are from popular slang speech.

Murder = excellent
Solid = first rate
Chick = girl
Dig - to appreciate
Ticker = heart
Jackson = greeting similar to “Hey man”
In the Groove = moving along nicely
Duh = pretended ignorance (the most popular slang term for my first year on earth)

So when was I born?

Lip-smackin’, whip-crackin’
Paddy-whackin’, inka-nackin’
Zillaga-whackin’, Scallaga-whackin’
Cracker-jackin’
(deep inhale) Cracker Jack!

(sung)
That was the week that was,
it’s over, let it go.

The kids changed pretty regularly, so far as I recall. Of course, I haven’t seen the show in more than 40 years.

I can still sing the address, though:

Box 3-5-0 Boston Mass 0-2-1-3-4

Born in 1959, grew up in Cleveland area. I remember the line as “It’s 11 p.m. Do you know where your children are?”

‘Verrry interesting - but stupid’.

Oh, I’m glad I’m not an Oscar Meyer wiener . . .

Fan mail from some flounder?

Drizzle, drazzle, druzzle, drone - time for this one to come home.

Neeevverrr Miiiind!

Write to
Consumer Information Catalog
Pueblo, Colorado 81009

Here is the PSA

I got a few of those, still have them around, I think

I’m Chevy Chase. And you’re not.

Say goodbye a little longer, make it lasta little longer.
Give your mouth long-lasting freshness…

“the milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hands” (M&M’s)

“open wide for Chunky” (a thick chocolate bar )

Say “goodnight” Dick.
Goodnight Dick.