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Post by tboneator64 on Mar 19, 2019 15:51:27 GMT -5
210. Miss McGillicuddy was also the earliest known unseen/unheard character in any kind of series. Whether this led to other future famous unseen legendary characters, such as Vera from CHEERS, and Maris from FRASIER (Sorry, but the unseen Mrs. Horowitz from THE BIG BANG THEORY could be heard, and HOW!), is unknown, and any documentation of such, remains unseen!
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Post by mtw12055 on Mar 19, 2019 16:20:09 GMT -5
211. Bullying children will lead to either getting stoned (with rocks), egged, bitten, or your clothes torn off.
212. Stymie's brother and a Vaudeville animal performer shop at the same clothing store.
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Post by malaria on Mar 19, 2019 17:03:50 GMT -5
Very good, tbone. I thought of Lars Lindstrom, dermatologist hubby of Cloris Leachman on Mary Tyler Moore. Neither heard nor seen. "Carlton Your Doorman" was heard but not seen. As I live in an area pretty much devoid of Scandinavians, I can say that one of the most amazing sentences I ever uttered was "Hi, Lars." This was to a hockey player. Sadly, the Rascals were to hockey as the Wild Man From Borneo was to Alpine Skiing... to wit, nothing. Bet he would have enjoyed it, too. 211. Lyle Tayo was generally enjoyable, though she was not exactly known for underacting. 212. Later scientists made the amazing discovery that the vacuum cleaner could be used to Pick Up Dirt, in addition to its noted cow-milking capabilities. 213. I always thought the actual GENIUS OF THE LAMP (tm) was Thomas Edison, not the down-and-out but sympathetic magician who chased off the watermelon-stealer.
214. Giants were distinguished by their propensity for humming, albeit rather tunelessly.
215. No matter who you were or where, if you threw a rock straight up, it would klonk Stymie on the head.
216. The unwitting consumption of thin slices of soap would later cause bubbles to issue from the mouth and presumably esophagus of the unfortunate who'd consumed the product; bubble production rose directly proportional to the victim singing.
217. Street-crossing on a busy thoroughfare was facilitated by throwing a primitive lightbulb into the street, as apparently when 1930s-era cars got a flat, the dead tire somehow made the sound of breaking glass.
218. The three main food groups of the decades were eggs, Plaster of Paris, and ice cream.
219. What was up with the opening music to Mike Fright? Not a bad tune, but did the powers that be lose the music sheet for "Good Old Days?" Forget the tune? Mix up soundtracks? Figure that they, indeed, may not have been THEM?
220. Anyone who thinks special effects were primitive in 50's sci-fi films should watch and re-watch "Shrimps For A Day."
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Post by RJH on Mar 19, 2019 21:50:26 GMT -5
221. The best way to pull a loose tooth is to tie one end of a string around the tooth and the other end to a dog.
222. Nitrous oxide (laughing gas for the not-so-nerdy) solves all sorts of problems.
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Post by tboneator64 on Mar 19, 2019 23:08:03 GMT -5
* The number of posted 'facts' in this thread have now surpassed the total number of 'Our Gang' productions. Amazing!
223. It was perfectly acceptable for toddlers to shoot bugs with pellet guns. This pastime was known as 'Bug Hunting!' 224. Anything involving Train rides usually descended into chaos, eventually. 225. If babies don't behave, gluing them to the floor and putting them in cages are possible alternative solutions. Any 4-5 year old male can employ this method!
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Post by myhomeo on Mar 20, 2019 12:59:59 GMT -5
226. 'Nickel' is properly pronounced with the accent on the second syllable 227. People were frequently hired to dress in bizarre, elaborate costumes and left idle long enough to decide to liven things up by messing with little kids' heads 228. Winning a talent show solves everything 229. Eight year olds had complicated love-lives involving jealous rivals and fickle damsels 230. The horse had already seen the movie
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Post by malaria on Mar 20, 2019 16:52:09 GMT -5
231. No male dared be seen in public without some sort of hat, usually outlandish if the wearer was younger.
232. A "Hobson's Choice", amazingly, had little if anything to do with old ladies, huffy butlers, and/or pill bottles.
233. Any group of kids in the general vicinity of a kindly white-haired old lady were required, pursuant to the Loco Parentis Act Of 1929, to call her "Grandma."
234. No matter what the role, Harry Bernard could play it, even if it were a one-legged Belgian ocarina player with tuberculosis.
235. The camera loved Spanky; it's just that when he was a tiny kid, occasionally it loved him A Little Too Much.
236. Despite the nation's worst depression, there was still Big Money to be made in the burgeoning Page-For-An-Animal-Show field.
237. Those who thought "Crabtree" an amusing throwaway joke name would have been quite surprised had they gone to a Denver Broncos game in the 60s.
238. Fire companies (with "lookerouts" and telescopes, yet) galore in the Rascalverse, but not a one of them picked off the Reichstag fire.
239. The bicycle was invented solely for delivery of ice cream to schools, so as to guilt hooky-players.
240 "School" consisted solely of silly answers, fun trips, distractions having nothing to do with actual learning, and clueless teachers. PRESCIENT!!
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Post by RJH on Mar 23, 2019 23:24:49 GMT -5
241. A popular pastime is rolling down big hills inside barrels, tires, pipes, or garbage cans.
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Post by myhomeo on Mar 26, 2019 13:25:40 GMT -5
242. Formal attire consisted of a suitcoat, a dress shirt, a tie, shorts, a walking stick, and a beret 243. Every neighborhood had a homemade boxing-wrestling ring in a vacant lot somewhere 244. Castor oil takes horrible but has no other apparent side-effects 245. Kennedy always gets his man 246. One should avoid showing one's ignorance to anybody 247. Sundaes were never sold on Mondays, but there were occasional exceptions when they were specially made for select customers
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Post by malaria on Mar 28, 2019 13:48:57 GMT -5
248. Whatever sort of worm had somehow invaded Spanky's innards, it probably wasn't a tapeworm. 249. Childhood afflictions such as measles and mumps aside, the major kiddie scourge of the decade was Jumping In Mud Puddles. (No known vaccine) 250. Cotton x Spanky = weep-wah, emphasis on WAHHH 251. A surefire way to make a recalcitrant baby go to sleep was to chant "yo-oh-leh-ee" at the brat. 252. Alfalfa was wont to sing songs about such random subjects as the second leg of the harness racing (pacing) Triple Crown. 253. One S. Beckett sneered that an Aryan must be "blond like Hitler, thin like Goering, handsome like Goebbels, virile like Roehm, and called Rosenberg," but it wasn't Scottie. 254. Flash Tarzan was not Gordon Person. 255. There was a divine character in show biz, but it was Waldo, not Miss M. 256. Fat guys probably went from being called "Chubby" to being called "Norman-Ubbsy." 257. How To Pick Up Women By Being A Caveman knocked The Good Earth off the best-seller list.
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