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jreddoch Offline
#1 Posted: Fri, May 31 2002, 4:07 PM EST
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Very funny!

http://www.texasmonthly.com/mag/issues/2002-06-01/roundup.php
jreddoch Offline
#2 Posted: Fri, May 31 2002, 4:09 PM EST
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Oops! Can't click on it. Go to www.texasmonthly.com Type "Kinky Friedman" in the search engine and click on his latest essay "Blowing Smoke". It's worth the trouble.
eleltea Offline
#3 Posted: Sat, Jun 1 2002, 4:13 AM EST
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Great essay. Thanks. Leave it to Kinky to finish with my favorite cigar smoker, Ernie Kovacs, creator of the the Nairobi Jazz Quintet (maybe it was quartet, it was a long time ago) and my favorite poet, Percy Dovetonsils. Ernie's wife, Edie Adams, was the TV blond sexpot spokesgirl for Muriel Cigars ("Why don't you pick me up and smoke me sometime." When Ernie traveled, the first thing he packed was two boxes of cigars. They weren't Muriels. They cost him $2 each, a lot of money in the 1950's. Ernie died way too young, a genuine comic genius. Thanks again, JR. (hmmmm. can i use jreddochs initials on this board? hey, Slimboli!)
cruiser Offline
#4 Posted: Sat, Jun 1 2002, 8:22 AM EST
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And I was thinking I am a heavy smoker Edison 40 a Day,yet I saw a movie about winston and he smoked while eating,it startet in the morning with breakfast and lets not forget the american Ikon George Burns, smok'em up guys. Amen
xibbumbero Offline
#5 Posted: Sat, Jun 1 2002, 2:45 PM EST
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A goodun. I too loved the Nairobi trio,Percy Dovetonsels and those glasses he wore and Edie Adams...UMMMM. Ernie K was indeed great. X
eleltea Offline
#6 Posted: Sat, Jun 1 2002, 5:25 PM EST
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X, you and Rick and I must be about the same age and craziness.
cwilhelmi Offline
#7 Posted: Mon, Jun 3 2002, 10:32 AM EST
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A funny thing about Churchill, he was such an avid cigar smoker that he had a crew make an oxygen mask for him that would allow for cigar smoking when he was going up in an airplane that didn't have a pressurized cabin and thus required oxygen masks to be worn throughout the flight.
esplendidoschick Offline
#8 Posted: Mon, Jun 3 2002, 10:37 AM EST
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Ka-Boom!

sammydaddy Offline
#9 Posted: Mon, Jun 3 2002, 11:10 AM EST
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I cut down on my smoking. Now I only smoke one at a time.
Charlie Offline
#10 Posted: Mon, Jun 3 2002, 11:56 AM EST
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Kinky is a lot of fun to read and to listen to when he is on a talk show! He is one of the guys who smokes cigars all day long! Charlie
xibbumbero Offline
#11 Posted: Mon, Jun 3 2002, 12:37 PM EST
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Espychick,Kaboom used 2 be my favorite breakfast cereal. I wonder if anybody even remembers it. X
esplendidoschick Offline
#12 Posted: Mon, Jun 3 2002, 3:51 PM EST
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Sure...isn't it Shredded Wheat or Grape-Nuts? At least it is for me, LOL!
Charlie Offline
#13 Posted: Tue, Jun 4 2002, 12:58 PM EST
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Count Chokula!
Mr.Mean Offline
#14 Posted: Tue, Jun 4 2002, 1:40 PM EST
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Charlie, Charlie, Charlie. You're acting like a pup! Captain Crunch man! Yes, with crunch berries!
JonR Offline
#15 Posted: Tue, Jun 4 2002, 1:54 PM EST
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Cereals, didn't have that stuff when I was a kid, first thing in the morning we had to go out and steal fire from another clan to cook our T-Rex steaks. JonR
BMW Offline
#16 Posted: Tue, Jun 4 2002, 2:41 PM EST
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mmmmmm fire good, me no got.
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#17 Posted: Tue, Jun 4 2002, 9:12 PM EST
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xibbumbero & eleltea.--- what are your dob's. lets see who is the oldest fart on the bb.
eleltea Offline
#18 Posted: Wed, Jun 5 2002, 1:39 PM EST
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Rick, 1.) you got me by a bit less than 8 years. 2.) Diana Ross and I have the same birthday........
This data will reveal the truth to a sufficiently motivated gamester.
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#19 Posted: Wed, Jun 5 2002, 7:47 PM EST
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ELELTEA---so you were born a poor black girl and went on to invent ??
xibbumbero Offline
#20 Posted: Thu, Jun 6 2002, 7:59 AM EST
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Rick,I'm old enough to remember that before TV,we used to listen to the Inner Sanctum on radio. We used to turn off the lights and had 2 radios,one at each end of the livingroom. Kind of a precursor to stereo. Man, when I heard the sound of that door opening,I would bury my head under a pillow. To this day,nothing I've seen on the screen can scare me like the radio did. As far as how old I am,see if U can guess. I graduated high school in 1962. X
SteveS Offline
#21 Posted: Thu, Jun 6 2002, 9:56 AM EST
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X ... for me, it's an easy guess, because I got out of HS in 1960 ... I remember Inner Sanctum well and you're right, it was frightening. I remember the Lone Ranger, Burns and Allen, Saturday morning kid shows on the radio and listening to ballgames and championship fights with my dad ... nothing on TV looks quite the same as all of that did in my imagination ...
xibbumbero Offline
#22 Posted: Thu, Jun 6 2002, 10:50 AM EST
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U R right Steve,I used 2 listen 2 the fights and the Lone Ranger 2. I used 2 love all those phony sound effects. X
esplendidoschick Offline
#23 Posted: Thu, Jun 6 2002, 12:47 PM EST
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You old fogie stogies!
xibbumbero Offline
#24 Posted: Thu, Jun 6 2002, 1:47 PM EST
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Hey Espychick,shut up you little punk kid..I think I'll go gum some food now, where's my walker? X
esplendidoschick Offline
#25 Posted: Thu, Jun 6 2002, 8:37 PM EST
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I sent a friend a walker on his 40th, so don't push me bud! I kick your bitchey little ass! As far as punk kid goes, ya, yo mama! hehehehehhe
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#26 Posted: Fri, Jun 7 2002, 1:32 AM EST
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xibbumbero----the good old days. the green hornet ring that glowed in the dark for about 60 seconds after you kept it under the light for two hours, 10 cents and i believe the peel off lid from a can of ovaltine. a decoder ring, a whistle ring, the lone ranger glow in the dark belt, and the cardboard walkie talkies with the string betweew the two. hi school class of 1950.
mhollowa Offline
#27 Posted: Fri, Jun 7 2002, 4:42 AM EST
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frogmen in cereal boxes...green, blue and gray...at the end of one flipper they had a hollow disk that was covered with a metal cap...you could pop off the cap, fill the disk with baking soda and drop the frogman in water...he would go up and down until the baking soda was gone.
JonR Offline
#28 Posted: Fri, Jun 7 2002, 6:06 AM EST
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What was the name of the cereal that had a coupon in the box and you could send away for a life size Jane Fonda blow-up doll that you could actually use for... er wait a second that might have been in my Penthouse magazine... never mind. LOL JonR
bud451 Offline
#29 Posted: Fri, Jun 7 2002, 6:13 AM EST
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Inflate-N-Munch
xibbumbero Offline
#30 Posted: Fri, Jun 7 2002, 7:36 AM EST
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Good one Bud. X
larrym Offline
#31 Posted: Fri, Jun 7 2002, 8:33 AM EST
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Anybody remember the deed for a square inch of the Yokun that used to be in Quaker Oats?
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#32 Posted: Fri, Jun 7 2002, 9:04 AM EST
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: mhollowa ---so baking soda is the original viagra?
mhollowa Offline
#33 Posted: Fri, Jun 7 2002, 9:11 AM EST
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Rick:
You betcha, if you like frogmen and rubber suits.
xibbumbero Offline
#34 Posted: Fri, Jun 7 2002, 9:50 AM EST
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I have some more. How about Captain Midnight Ovaltine cup and the decoder ring. How about Captain Video? Along with the Frogmen was a PT boat that operated the same way(with baking soda). X
SteveS Offline
#35 Posted: Fri, Jun 7 2002, 9:57 AM EST
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I had a little plastic submarine that worked with baking soda ... in fact, I had several of them ...
esplendidoschick Offline
#36 Posted: Fri, Jun 7 2002, 12:33 PM EST
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Me too, only there was a tablet of it included in the package with the sub. Once, when I was about 5 and a cousin of mine was about 3, we were bathing in the tub together and playing with the submarine. Well after awhile, I couldn't find the submarine. Then, I spotted it under some bubbles. I grabbed for it and let me tell you what! It wasn't the sub, it was a turd! My little cousin took a dump in the tub! EEWWW!!!! I will never forget how gross that was. That was the last time I ever shared a tub with my little cousins!!! Come to think of it, I think I gave up the submarines too! Just had to share that...
SteveS Offline
#37 Posted: Fri, Jun 7 2002, 1:28 PM EST
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well, I now prefer sitting in a HOT tub with a plastic glass of adult beverage and a good cigar ... after reading your note, if I drop the cigar in the water, you may rest assured that I will NOT be attempting to retrieve it ... although, if the right company were to reconsider her sharing of tubs, I could be persuaded to put both the beverage and the cigar aside for a later time ... hmmmmmmmmm
esplendidoschick Offline
#38 Posted: Fri, Jun 7 2002, 7:54 PM EST
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