Rodney Bullock Posted July 5, 2007 Report Posted July 5, 2007 I took the 1940 to a picnic today and the V8 folks tried to run me in the ground. I did not know where I was going so I had to follow them. This one stopped, that one broke down, I need some gas, who has a pair of plier's:p The Plymouth had no problems. When we got to our destination everyone had a better appreciation for an older original car:cool: funny at the start I was in the way;) I sat in my chair and was served all day, it's great to be right:) we'll set the wayback machine for the year 1940!Plymouths forever! Happy 4th! Quote
eric wissing Posted July 5, 2007 Report Posted July 5, 2007 That's funny Rodney, I always liked the Bullwinkle Show. What was the turtle's name? "Trizzle trazzle drone time for this one to come home" help Mr. Wizard I don't want to be a cop". Glad you had a good time at the picnic. Eric Quote
Charlie Olson Posted July 5, 2007 Report Posted July 5, 2007 Exactly. Rodney, when I drove PLYWOOD to CA for WaveCrest last summer in the AZ heat with nary a problem; everybody was amazed an old car and an old guy could make it. Good on you! Quote
Rodney Bullock Posted July 5, 2007 Author Report Posted July 5, 2007 That's funny Rodney, I always liked the Bullwinkle Show. What was the turtle's name? "Trizzle trazzle drone time for this one to come home" help Mr. Wizard I don't want to be a cop". Glad you had a good time at the picnic. Eric trizzle, trazzle trizzle trone time for this one to come home, I love it! Quote
BobT-47P15 Posted July 5, 2007 Report Posted July 5, 2007 Good story, Rodney. It's nice to get one up on people who give you some static. Shows how good these old Mopars can be. Quote
Don Coatney Posted July 5, 2007 Report Posted July 5, 2007 I must be old. I dont speak Bullwinkle:confused: Glad you had a good trip Rodney. Quote
Rodney Bullock Posted July 5, 2007 Author Report Posted July 5, 2007 Don, you must have been one of those kids that was always reading a book, studying for a test, cutting fire wood, ploying the north 40, mending a post fence, fixing the roof..... "I never get to watch T.V. How could you not know Bulwinkle and Rocky, tudor tutle, underdog, Tennesse tuxedo and chumly, Comander Mcbrad, Ollie conolli and the king and The Hunter:p You must have looked at those Warner Bros. cartoons, they were OK however these others were the best. I know not many of you did as I did, when I was young(TV would go off the air and come on at 5:00 AM on Saturday ) I would sit there looking at snow and then the National anthem. OH boy now that's exciting! Then my Cartoons would come on. Forgive me I was an only child for 9 years! I think I am going to get acess to the drive in and have cartoon night, WOW can you imagine:D all my friends and my friends in one place. I can see it now" There's no need to fear Underdog is here" dadadadadadadadaddadadadadunderdog underdog see to much time on my hands! So long folks! Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted July 5, 2007 Report Posted July 5, 2007 Rodney...I have a collection of Rocky and Bulwinkle...moose spoken here (Moose 101 at Whatsamatta U.)...Bulwinkle gets pretty risque in his dialog...best part of this show..both kids and adults see humor... Quote
eric wissing Posted July 5, 2007 Report Posted July 5, 2007 Tudor Turtle Thank you Tim. Bullwinkle was great, as a kid I was always surprised that my dad would watch it with us. He didn't watch any other cartoons. We were at a family gathering at a lodge in Minnesota a few years back and they hired young men and women from all over the world. My brother asked our Russian waitress to say "Moose and Squirrel". Her accent was great. She wouldn't comply!! Eric Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted July 5, 2007 Report Posted July 5, 2007 Maybe the sounds or thought of fame and fortune was too much for her...Iz Moose and Squrl...man the good ole days of cartoons are long behind us..this new stuff is just not even funny.. Without the aid of looking on the net, who can name the cast of Top Cat?? Quote
BobT-47P15 Posted July 5, 2007 Report Posted July 5, 2007 Occasionally watched Bullwinkle et al.......don't recall Top Cat at all. Must be a sign of getting old, or maybe it was indifference to cartoons, but can't remember what I watched. Quote
greg g Posted July 5, 2007 Report Posted July 5, 2007 What? No mention of Gidney and Cloyd??? Would that we could find the illusive mooseberries and make our own fuel. Also word of Dudley DoRight, the inspector and Nell, Snidely Whiplash and of course Dudley's horse, "HORSE". Who was the voice that introduced the Fractured Fairy Tales segment??? I remember TC, Benny, and The Brain........ Quote
62rebelP23 Posted July 5, 2007 Report Posted July 5, 2007 i was one of those kids that got up way too early on Saturdays to watch cartoons too.... warner bros and the bullwinkle genre were my favorites; never liked the hanna barbera stuff too much except Jetsons and Flintstones. to this day i love the warner bros stuff; wile e coyote was my nickname in the Navy. wife buys ANYTHING with wile e on it for me... i watch some of the modern stuff with the grandson and it makes no sense to me... wish i could find more classic stuff for him. Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted July 5, 2007 Report Posted July 5, 2007 Top Cat, Bennie, Brain, Choo Choo, Fancy and wasn't one named Spook or something like that...and of course lovable Officer Dibble. Quote
Rodney Bullock Posted July 5, 2007 Author Report Posted July 5, 2007 TIM, I remember , cho cho was my favorite, That theme song was the bomb. I would sing it on the way to school. The secret squirrel and Morroco mole, "yes" you guy's are right, the cartoons of today just don't make sense. I tried to look at them however they just don't cut it. I don't know who's voice that is however the one voice that stands out in my mind was Edward Everet Thornton you guy's know him he was an character actor in the 30's and 40's his voice was on the story tell portion on Bulwinkle and Rocky. The actors would sometimes end their careers with voice over work. SEE YOU CAN GO BACK! Quote
greg g Posted July 5, 2007 Report Posted July 5, 2007 Edward Everett did introduce and narate the Fractured Fairy Tales segment. What a very distinctive voice. Quote
Niel Hoback Posted July 5, 2007 Report Posted July 5, 2007 Greg, the announcers name was Edward Everett Horton. Edward Everett was the main speaker at the dedication of the National cemetary in Gettysburg in 1863. Now I am worried that I have spelled Everett wrong. Quote
greg g Posted July 5, 2007 Report Posted July 5, 2007 Yea I thought Rodney had mentioned the Horton part, but he spelled it Thornton. Was he the Horton whom heard the Who??? Yeooowww!!! We won't be fooled again........ But I digress Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted July 5, 2007 Report Posted July 5, 2007 That was the first book I ever read...Horton hatches the egg, Mazy the irresponsible bird...now 50 odd years later...I still work for Mazy... Quote
james curl Posted July 5, 2007 Report Posted July 5, 2007 boy you guy were lucky, we didnot even get TV until I was 24 because the signal would no come over the hills from the flat land stations 65 miles away to the south and 100 miles away to the east. We got cable TV in 1960 and I was always at work. Always had to work half day on Saturday so no cartoons except at the movies. Had to be to work at 7:00 every day, worked over a drawing board for eight hours a day with a 10 minute brake in the morning and afternoon, the management thought we were machines that turned out designs for aircraft parts. Quote
randroid Posted July 5, 2007 Report Posted July 5, 2007 Gents, "Rocky & Bullwinkle" was the only cartoon show I watched other than the short-lived Bugs Bunny Show, which was aired to get a share of R&B's market. A piece of trivia: The show was taken off the air because of its subtle political statements. Remember, its popularity occurred during the hight of The Cold War with Viet Nam looming in the not-too-distant future. JFK was President and was rumored to love the show, but it was decided that to many kids were being taught question authority and see a satiric approach to politics, so the plug was pulled. There have been several modern attempts to recreate R&B on film; all have flopped and none of the 'Powers-That-Be" ever figured out why. They omitted the current politics (by this I'm not speaking about Republicans and\or Democrats; just some inane policies) because the humorless bean counters (or whomever) saw R&B as lovable duo of a fast and intelligent small guy and his lager but somewhat mentally slow companion, and they were wrong. "Pogo The Possum", a cartoon strip started around 1948 by a former Disney illustrator named Walt Kelly, was so political that my Dad (a USMC Night-Fighter Pilot) hid a small stack of the Pogo cartoon books in a corner of the closet like other fathers might hide Playboy or Hustler. I found them while he was "out of town" during the evacuation of Quimoi and Matsu, and when he came home we'd already bought a copy of the "Songs Of The Pogo" record. He fessed-up to liking their message but never bought another one of those books. Saturday morning cartoons evolved into mere baby sitters, versus the cartoons aired during prime time forty years ago, and they use only visual stimuli instead of adding a subliminal dribble of something causing us to use our noggins. Maybe that's why we don't care for them and why they don't endure. Just a few pieces of trivia I think might have a place in this thread. -Randy Quote
eric wissing Posted July 5, 2007 Report Posted July 5, 2007 "I have met the enemy and he is us" Pogo. Eric Quote
Don Coatney Posted July 6, 2007 Report Posted July 6, 2007 My dad was an avid POGO follower. He had a couple of books on the subject but they were displayed on the coffee table not tucked away in the closet. I was never into such things while growing up. My dad was named Albert and Albert the alligator was his favorite POGO characator. Quote
greg g Posted July 6, 2007 Report Posted July 6, 2007 We have met the enemy and he is us. We are faced with insurmountable opportunities. Goin gown to the Fort Mudge Memorial Dump and Free Lending Library. Quote
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