Free Association Thread 5

[latecomer91364]

For me, '60s TV would have been tough, as I read that "Gilligan" aired against "The Monkees".

Both great theme songs;
As for Gilligan - the big question has always been:
Who would you want to fuck more - Mary Ann or Ginger?

Mary Ann (somebody had to defile that innocence)

 

[Trumpire]

Both great theme songs;
As for Gilligan - the big question has always been:
Who would you want to fuck more - Mary Ann or Ginger?

Mary Ann (somebody had to defile that innocence)

Someone had to & did...

I seem to recall at least 1 episode where someone heard on the radio her boyfriend was getting married to someone else (something similar in the "Rescue From..." movie too), & I have a feeling that she didn't have hormonal problems with the island men due to having done plenty before the "tour".

 

[latecomer91364]

Someone had to & did...

I seem to recall at least 1 episode where someone heard on the radio her boyfriend was getting married to someone else (something similar in the "Rescue From..." movie too), & I have a feeling that she didn't have hormonal problems with the island men due to having done plenty before the "tour".

I think everybody assumed she was fucking the professor.

 

[SamScribble]

I think everybody assumed she was fucking the professor.

Am I the only person on the planet never to have seen Gilligan?

 

[Handley_Page]

Am I the only person on the planet never to have seen Gilligan?

I doubt it; but I am also in complete, blissful ignorance of this programme.

 

[AnAngelReally]

I doubt it; but I am also in complete, blissful ignorance of this programme.

I find that hard to believe. The series is so iconic of the American culture and it was syndicated around the world. Surely you must at least have heard references to it.

(By the way, as sultry as Ginger was, I always found Mary Ann to be the sexiest, but I admit to a bias toward petite brunettes. )

 

[latecomer91364]

I find that hard to believe. The series is so iconic of the American culture and it was syndicated around the world. Surely you must at least have heard references to it.

(By the way, as sultry as Ginger was, I always found Mary Ann to be the sexiest, but I admit to a bias toward petite brunettes. )

It only ran for 3 seasons, and some follow-up movies, but pretty much killed or slowed the careers of most involved, at least for a few years (Jim Backus, aka Mr. MaGoo, was already too big to fail, in his own way). Bob Denver had a later series 'The Good Guys', which lasted 1, maybe 2 seasons, and then I lost track of him. Once you're Gilligan, you're always Gilligan...

The show was idiotic, stupid fun, and I loved it.

On the news just now, they announced the death of Walter Becker, who founded Steely Dan with Donald Fagan.

One of my all time favorite bands (named for a steam powered dildo from Burroughs' Naked Lunch).

R.I.P.

 

[Handley_Page]

I find that hard to believe. The series is so iconic of the American culture and it was syndicated around the world. Surely you must at least have heard references to it.

(By the way, as sultry as Ginger was, I always found Mary Ann to be the sexiest, but I admit to a bias toward petite brunettes. )

Believe it !
I was seldom near a TV (and spent much of my time in Germany).

 

[JKendallDane]

Believe it !
I was seldom near a TV (and spent much of my time in Germany).

One of my memories of my first trip to Europe during high school was watching "Dragnet" one evening at the youth hostel in Frankfort. Of course, there were no subtitles but Joe Friday with a serious Gestapo accent was hilarious.

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[oggbashan]

One of my memories of my first trip to Europe during high school was watching "Dragnet" one evening at the youth hostel in Frankfort. Of course, there were no subtitles but Joe Friday with a serious Gestapo accent was hilarious.

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In the early 1960s I used to go to a cheap movie theatre if it was raining on Saturday afternoons. Their afternoon showings were usually European imports dubbed into US English.

There was one, Hercules tackling some cheap rubber monster that had been made in Italian. Hercules' mouth obviously said two or three long sentences in Italian. The dubbing was in fake 1930s Chicago Gangster style. "Wanna make sometin' of it, Bub?"

 

[Trumpire]

If someone mentions "Dragnet" around me & my sibling, we are likely to start staring at each other & repeating, "I am the train. I am the train...". Though I must admit I also like the Webb-Carson bit.

I remember Mary Ann produced a behind-the-scenes TV-movie a few years back, & she & Gilligan were rumored to have been connected (one got the other in) in some sort of int'l illegal-drug thing around that same time.

 

[JKendallDane]

If someone mentions "Dragnet" around me & my sibling, we are likely to start staring at each other & repeating, "I am the train. I am the train...". Though I must admit I also like the Webb-Carson bit.

I remember Mary Ann produced a behind-the-scenes TV-movie a few years back, & she & Gilligan were rumored to have been connected (one got the other in) in some sort of int'l illegal-drug thing around that same time.

Johnny Carson ruled late night television for so many years because NO ONE else could get away with things like this:

Johnny nails Don Rickles to the wall

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[Trumpire]

Johnny Carson ruled late night television for so many years because NO ONE else could get away with things like this:

Johnny nails Don Rickles to the wall

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Skip that link b/c I could never stand Rickles.

However, I loved reading Sports Illustrated when Steve Rushin would write articles in "Carnac" form, & I still can get that Ed Ames (think name was) tomahawk clip to play in my head.

 

[SamScribble]

However, I loved reading Sports Illustrated when Steve Rushin would write articles in "Carnac" form, & I still can get that Ed Ames (think name was) tomahawk clip to play in my head.

The Illustrated London News. I believe that it was the world's first illustrated weekly news mag.

 

[Noor]

The Illustrated London News. I believe that it was the world's first illustrated weekly news mag.

Godey''s Ladies Book was the first publication for women. I have a few years worth.

 

[oggbashan]

Godey''s Ladies Book was the first publication for women. I have a few years worth.

The first AMERICAN publication for women.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/dec/20/women-pressandpublishing

For a few brief weeks in 1693, the first women's magazine in British history grappled with what would become a staple ingredient of the genre: relationship problems. The Ladies' Mercury promised to answer any questions relating to "Love etc" with "the Zeal and Softness becoming to the Sex". All the readers had to do was send in details of puzzling male behaviour to a coffee house near St Paul's and wait for "the Ladies Society" there to crack the code, or at least come up with some bracing advice about not bothering. The Mercury lasted for just four issues and was, in a pattern that would echo down the centuries, published by a man. None the less, it was the first time that "women" as a special interest category had been defined as needing a magazine, a paper room, of their very own.

 

[Handley_Page]

Godey''s Ladies Book was the first publication for women. I have a few years worth.

welcome back
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[JKendallDane]

The first AMERICAN publication for women.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/dec/20/women-pressandpublishing

For a few brief weeks in 1693, the first women's magazine in British history grappled with what would become a staple ingredient of the genre: relationship problems. The Ladies' Mercury promised to answer any questions relating to "Love etc" with "the Zeal and Softness becoming to the Sex". All the readers had to do was send in details of puzzling male behaviour to a coffee house near St Paul's and wait for "the Ladies Society" there to crack the code, or at least come up with some bracing advice about not bothering. The Mercury lasted for just four issues and was, in a pattern that would echo down the centuries, published by a man. None the less, it was the first time that "women" as a special interest category had been defined as needing a magazine, a paper room, of their very own.

Just a few hundred years before Xaviera Hollander was writing her advice column for Penthouse magazine.

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[AnAngelReally]

Just a few hundred years before Xaviera Hollander was writing her advice column for Penthouse magazine.

You too bought the magazine for the articles? My mother didn't believe me when she found me reading my father's copy.

 

[oggbashan]

You too bought the magazine for the articles? My mother didn't believe me when she found me reading my father's copy.

My mother believed that I was studying Geography when I was reading ancient copies of National Geographic - for the bare breasted ladies.

My eldest aunt knew better. She had a collection of 1890s to 1910s postcards sent to her by a missionary friend working in West Africa. They were trying to see what could be sent without the General Post Office deciding they were obscene. Some went missing in transit and she knew because he would send a postcard openly through the mail and another copy in an envelope. Was it censorship? Or just a postman (they were all postMEN then) deciding he liked it? She let her just adult nephew see her collection, including naked males as well, together with her 'naughty postcards from Paris' sent by another friend. Unfortunately her younger sister decided they should be destroyed after my eldest aunt died.

The ancient aunt remained unmarried because both her fiancés were killed in the First World War. But as she said in later life "I might be titled a Miss, but I didn't miss much". We believed her.

 

[Handley_Page]

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The ancient aunt remained unmarried because both her fiancés were killed in the First World War. But as she said in later life "I might be titled a Miss, but I didn't miss much". We believed her.

Somehow, I cannot imagine that quality of English being found today,
except in the theatre, perhaps.


Mizz doesn't quite get there, somehow.,

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Somehow, I cannot imagine that quality of English being found today,
except in the theatre, perhaps.


Mizz doesn't quite get there, somehow.,

Glottochronology: forsooth! The tongue doth change!

 

[SamScribble]

Glottochronology: forsooth! The tongue doth change!

Mind your language, young man!

 

[latecomer91364]

Mind your language, young man!

At one time, they wanted 'Ebonics' taught in American schools.

 

[JKendallDane]

At one time, they wanted 'Ebonics' taught in American schools.

The one thing that's stood out to me in all my foreign travels, is that America is just about the only country where we can converse (at least minimally) in only one language.

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