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1964

/ Anita Marie / 11 Comments

Some Very Important Things Happened in 1964.

Well- for one- that’s the year I was born

( hurray)

In addition to that- two months later this hit the airwaves-

( trust me, it DOES figure )

Nobody was doing much with archeology  in 1964 but who would have guessed that the Beatles – yes those loveable ( geeze, I can’t believe I said that)  little mop tops- would one day be the poster Grand Dads of Rock and Roll?

Okay, this  picture was a big deal in 1964

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It’s called The Son of Man.

I think it’s dumb.

But on the other hand this is my idea of art so…

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 as an FYI this is what a commercial for Aspirin looked like in 1964-

it’s a tad bit dramatic.

Here’s a  movie that came out in 1964 proved that not only is war a really bad idea but working under the influence of controlled substances isn’t a very good one either

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To me the highlight of 1964 was when the Russians sent their astronauts into Space without a Space Suits- oh and the spacecraft didn’t have an escape hatch either.

 I don’t know who was drinking what when they dreamed up that idea, but there are writers out there that would pay good money for a swig.

It gets better, though- the Voskhod crashed in the Ural Mountains instead of landing in water and the crew spent the night in the  surrounded by Wolves.

Plus the rescue crew had to cut down trees to get to them.

I mean…WOW.

So let’s hear it for 1964

You know, after you all quit laughing.

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And Now For A Mental Health Break

/ Anita Marie / 6 Comments

If you need a boost this will give you one.

If you’re doing super you get to sit there and say,

” I know, I know “

and feel all superior.

So this is a win-win for us all.

amm

ps

I hijacked this from The London Caricaturist Blog

 

Mom, I Don’t Want To Go To School

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When I  in grade school part of our lessons involved  memorizeing  poems or math or English lessons.

To this day I can still remember what it felt like to go up to the blackboard and have to recite those lessons in front of the class with the teacher sitting there with his or her green ( and later red ) grade book.

Nah, I wasn’t scared I used to blow it for fun.

Just to see the look on everyone’s face.

Or I’d bust out with a song from School House Rock.

Those were the days.

 

Bring It On

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Nobody on this planet 

knows psychological warfare like my

Parents. 

When I was a kid and my Parents used to argue

and it was clear no one was giving in

this is how they called a winner.

The first one to convince the other

that they could get to a store

first

and buy me this toy

before the other one

and get it into my hands

WON.

No.

I never did get the toy.

Darn It.

Hey! Other Important Stuff Happens

/ Anita Marie / 8 Comments

Who cares what Uncle Bill and Auntie Hill

 and all the other

Ommpa Loompas did today in the Land of Skulduggery.

They Found Life On Mars

Yay!

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The World May Never Know

/ Anita Marie / 2 Comments

yeah…and all these years later we STILL don’t know

you Tootsie Pop Cretins.

SEE

That’s why PEZ are my favorite candy.

They are not complicated.

Do you remember this urban legend?

I do.

It’s one of my favorites. 

A Tootsie Pop Mystery

( this article snatched from the jaws of the internet )

The Indian on the Tootsie Roll Pop

as told by Larry Rosenblum,
Port Angeles, Washington

 

There is a legend associated with the wrapper of Tootsie Pop suckers. The story is that if you come across a wrapper with a picture of a boy in an Indian costume shooting an arrow at a star, and you send that wrapper to the company that makes Tootsie Pops, you will receive either a free sucker or a case of suckers.

(It depends on who is telling the story.)

That’s the legend, and this part is for real.

 One day I was working at NBC editing a show with the associate director who was also my friend. We were clowning around, and he used his left hand to write a letter to the company that makes Tootsie Pops asking about the story.

He was right-handed, but he used his left hand in an attempt to make the letter look like it came from a little kid. His name is Rick, so he signed the letter “Ricky.”

Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. sent back a nice letter explaining that the rumor had surfaced over fifty years ago, but nobody knows how or why.

 “Our records do not indicate that our company ever sponsored any type of promotion surrounding the Indian, or any other picture on the wrapper,” said the letter, and unfortunately it also said, “There has never been anyone who ever got Tootsie Pops free for sending in wrappers to our company.”

What you do get free is a fairy tale about how an Indian chief was responsible for the invention of Tootsie Pops.

 

Another wonderful Urban Legend dies.

Geeze.

PEZ fans wouldn’t do something like that to our candy.

However-

Tootsie Pops are fair game.

They brought it on themselves

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amm