Me too!
Rural people going for a swim at the old swimming hole.
Back in the day, many rural people lacked regular access to swimmable water and as such never learned to swim. You were more likely to learn to swim if you had access to a pool or perhaps a summer camp.
You’d also pick up a lot of leeches at the old swimming hole. I speak from personal experience.
Thank you for that. Here ya go.
Nonetheless, swimming holes were still popular.
“I now pronounce you Man and Wife. Proceed with the execution.”
One of the best lines ever!
I didn’t know Rockwell was a historian. He was more of a trope creator.
There are a lot of lakes where I live. There are not a lot of lakes where the farmers live in my state. The lakes are either around towns and cities, or they are in the unfarmable north country.
Naturally occurring swimming holes in rural areas are not abundant where I live. They are rare. I’m not in an arid state and they’re still rare. If the rurals have to travel 20-30 miles to the nearest swimmable body of water, they go once a year and don’t learn to swim.
Beyond that, kids just trying to learn swimming on their own are highly likely to drown.
Another subtle detail that makes that line so punchy is there is no pause at all between the two sentences, not even a comma. It’s spoken like one rapid fire sentence.
… And can be eaten by sharks if the water is brackish.
in California it’s up to the owners if they serve minors if they serve food …
Bubble Baths. I think on screen they like the bubbles to hide the naked parts. I know people do take bubble baths from time to time, but on TV and in the movies, it’s close to 100%.
This plotline shows up all over the place in sitcoms or dramas.
Basically a family learns there’s been a series of break-ins in their neighborhood. They immediately decide on buying a gun to protect their household. So the rest of the episode is either zany hijinks with the gun or basically learning about the risks of gun ownership. The episode ends with the entire family deciding to get rid of the gun because of the danger it poses to them.
Now the first part happens all the time but would a family really get rid of a $200 to $500 purchased gun so easily? I think most people would just keep it and stick it in the back of their closet. Instead the shows always make a point of showing them getting rid of the gun, sometimes really cheesily at a Police Gun Buy-Back so their $200 investment nets them a $25 gift card.
I mean obviously you’d just sell it to someone else but these shows also don’t want the whole “cycle of violence” unintended message to happen.
I remember a made-for-TV movie like this back in the '70s. It ended with Sally Struthers beating the crap out of a burglar with a baseball bat. (I think it was called A Gun in the House.)
Similar if a woman has a unplanned and poor timing pregnancy. The couple never discussed abortion.
Also “And this time, it’s personal!” said by a TV cop, etc. Nope, the judge would likely throw out all that copes evidence.
In my state, it is my understanding that the law requires an establishment tha serves cocktails/distilled spirits to generate a non-small fraction of their revenue from food, so, yeah, all bars here do serve food. I am not sure how the restaurant aspect works, because I know some places that take minors do also serve mixed drinks.
Sort of similar is how often TV and movie characters are served breakfast in bed by their spouse, partner or children (the last especially at Mother’s Day). And everyone seems to have those bed trays, designed so the legs sit on either side of your legs.
Well, I take them daily. I’m not sure how much of an outlier I am! There’s nothing like a good bubble bath especially after you come in from the cold.
I don’t think you’re that much of an outlier - I don’t take a bubble bath every day , but when I take a bath instead of a shower, it’s specifically to take a bubble bath.
Wow, now that you mention it, I’ve never seen one of those bed trays in the wild.
My former boss, the president of the company, had worked his way up the ladder through sales and he was incapable of holding a conversation with someone without maintaining eye contract. Sales training had taken over his mind.
We were driving to a meeting of some kind, president driving, VP in passenger seat and me and another guy in the back seat. And the president did exactly this, he would turn almost fully around to look me in the eyes while I am in the back seat and he was driving. I finally had to yell at him, “Bruce, will you please watch the damn road!”
Fortunately the trip was uneventful and someone else drove on the way back.