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A Christmas song......but you have to be old like me to get it:

CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,197 ✭✭✭✭✭
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"Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla Walla, Wash, and Kalamazoo!
Nora's freezin' on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower, and Alleygaroo!

Don't we know archaic barrel,
Lullaby Lilla Boy, Louisville Lou.
Trolley Molly don't love Harold,
Boola Boola Pensacoola, and Hullabaloo!"

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    SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,268 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I remember reading that each season in the funnies
    Used to sing it too
    That must have been, what, two three years ago.

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    oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 13,235 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I remember this song from the 80's, when I was a teen working at a clothing store...a colorblind person working at a clothing store...they called me the "king of clash".

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    :D Yep... heard that a couple of times... Often with butchered words. Cheers, RickO

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    dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Pogo.


    Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...



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    ironmanl63ironmanl63 Posts: 1,975 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That reminds me of a rhyme I once knew. It went something like there once was a man from nantucket. Don't remember the rest.

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,197 ✭✭✭✭✭

    And now, The Musical!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL0lPcNwRqQ&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR30wYmYADx8ZxhWJLcalvs20iSnVB_OHZTeaiCQB6PW-7ARkGuIkBJNqBM

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,197 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sure am glad the second line has "dollar" in it to make this numismatic!

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    NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 11,050 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You're right. I don't get any of that. Was born in 1988 but I'm old of enough to remember the floppy disk in computer class. Wow I'm getting old. ;)

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    oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 13,235 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 3, 2020 1:01PM

    @coinJP said:
    You're right. I don't get any of that. Was born in 1988 but I'm old of enough to remember the floppy disk in computer class. Wow I'm getting old. ;)

    What? You had computers to use in school?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu3iCvAQCHg

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    DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I must have led a sheltered life, as I'm 61 and couldn't make any sense of the Captain's post.

    "Gold is money, and nothing else" (JP Morgan, 1912)

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    ModwriterModwriter Posts: 330 ✭✭✭

    @DoubleEagle59 said:
    I must have led a sheltered life, as I'm 61 and couldn't make any sense of the Captain's post.

    me too. Lol I'm 62

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    airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,769 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I rode the T enough times to know Boston Charlie (or at least who I know of as Charlie), and hey, I know Walla Walla for their onions and, of course, that they have an airport <3

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    SmudgeSmudge Posts: 10,007 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I remember hating long division and calculators weren’t invented.

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    oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 13,235 ✭✭✭✭✭

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    oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 13,235 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Smudge said:
    I remember hating long division and calculators weren’t invented.

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    NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 11,050 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @oih82w8 said:

    @coinJP said:
    You're right. I don't get any of that. Was born in 1988 but I'm old of enough to remember the floppy disk in computer class. Wow I'm getting old. ;)

    What? You had computers to use in school?

    What a great movie. Sean Penn as Spicoli.

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    TurtleCatTurtleCat Posts: 4,692 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I remember most of “Rudolph the Bald-headed German” but I’ve sadly forgotten some of the lines over the years. It was very popular in the late 70s and early 80s in my area.

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    oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 13,235 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A little more modern version, although malls are getting hard to find these days;

    Wreck the malls this Christmas season
    Fa-la-la-la-la, La-la-la-la
    Blow your cash for no good reason
    Fa-la-la-la-la, La-la-la-la
    Push your charge card to the limit
    Fa-la-la, La-la-la, La-la-la
    Checkbook now has nothing in it
    Fa-la-la-la-la, La-la-la-la
    Wreck the malls with my friend Charlie
    Fa-la-la-la-la, La-la-la-la
    Drive to K-Mart on his holly
    Fa-la-la-la-la, La-la-la-la
    Tamper with their muzak system
    Fa-la-la, La-la-la, La-la-la
    Trade something for Twisted Sister
    Fa-la-la-la-la, La-la-la-la
    Wreck the pet store, do some damage
    Fa-la-la-la-la, La-la-la-la
    Send the beagles on a rampage
    Fa-la-la-la-la, La-la-la-la
    Acting in an uncouth manner
    Fa-la-la, La-la-la, La-la-la
    Drop your pants and moon at Santa
    Fa-la-la-la-la, La-la-la-la

    Songwriters: Bob Rivers, Brian Silva, Dennis J Amero
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    cladkingcladking Posts: 30,333 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 3, 2020 3:08PM

    @oih82w8 said:

    Hobbs was deep.

    he even knew that "42" was the answer to the universe and that ain't no "imaginary number"!

    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
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    BJandTundraBJandTundra Posts: 401 ✭✭✭✭

    Walt Kelly's comic strip "Pogo" was a Daily and Sunday Comic Strip worth waiting for. Had a lot of thinly disguised political satire in it. He would be having a great time lampooning these Washington DC characters we have now.

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,197 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Smudge said:
    I remember hating long division and calculators weren’t invented.

    Heck, when I was a kid the numbers only went up to 42!

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    airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,769 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CaptHenway said:

    @Smudge said:
    I remember hating long division and calculators weren’t invented.

    Heck, when I was a kid the numbers only went up to 42!

    Isn't that the only number you needed?

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    pursuitoflibertypursuitofliberty Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CaptHenway

    I get it ... and got a good chuckle ... but the bigger question here, that seems left unanswered ...

    ... is anyone here really old like you?!

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    :p


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    ms70ms70 Posts: 13,958 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't remember the song but I do remember sniffing the dittos.... I think we called them mimeographs?

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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 34,254 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'll try to find that "I can't drive, I'm 65" song hmmm

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    WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,412 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 3, 2020 9:53PM

    Baby, It's Cold Outside

    :)

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    oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 13,235 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @johnny9434 said:
    I'll try to find that "I can't drive, I'm 65" song hmmm

    https://www.flashlyrics.com/lyrics/bob-rivers/i-cant-drive-im-65-38

    ...although they got the parody original wrong, it's by Sammy Hagar, not Van Halen)

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