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    Everyday Women of the Golden Era

    Just yesterday I saw a rack of throat drops made in Boston, England. Otherwise I would have guessed the road sign arrow for New York and Boston were one of those cute jokes we sometimes see. I always figured there's a YORK in England, as well as a Hampshire, but NEW York too? How about that...
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    So, I got me this Fez see.....

    I was thinking of this thread while listening to Dutch Newman sing his original "old-time Oriental style" song "Zenobia" about a queen of Palmyra. I saw a fez in an antique store lettered MIZPAH-- Hebrew for, roughly, "May the Lord protect each of us until we are together again." I probably...
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    The lost art of dressing for the occasion

    A T-shirt emblazoned FOLLOW ME TO ST. [------] would also tell people where you're going.
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    All You Need to Know About Hat Etiquette

    From a 1951 "Baby Snooks" radio episode (making plans to have the boss over for dinner): DADDY: I'm just glad your Uncle Louie isn't coming to dinner-- his table manners are atrocious! SNOOKS: But Uncle Louie always tips his hat when ya pass him the potaytas...
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    Hats after film

    "No vintage automobiles, hats or clothing were damaged in the making of this film"
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    What Golden Era star do you think other users look like?

    Gene, You were in a lot of B pictures. And I think you changed your name a couple times.
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    What would be done at a birthday party in the 1940s?

    And if you were Tuesday Weld, on crutches due to polio, your teen friends would even put on some dusty 1920s records made by your dad (Danny Kaye) who would then be inspired to make a comeback!
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    Clean Jokes

    The Pope's secretary shouts excitedly, "Your Holiness! On the phone... GOD is on the phone, and wants to speak to you... however... I think I should tell you... he's calling from Salt Lake City."
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    The Doctor's buggy

    I'll buy that! My computer's too decrepit to get to some of the translation sites, but I saw Images... (I think there were more hits for different spellings.) Hmmm... trying to remember... maybe Bob also followed that remark with "He is?"
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    The Doctor's buggy

    In a Bob and Ray radio show from 1959-60, they're waiting for a doctor to come to the studio to check on The Great Bob and Ray Bird, who hasn't been feeling well. Ray: "I just looked out the window-- and I saw... the Doctor's buggy." Bob: "He is?" Ray: "Yes, that's what I thought." Later...
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    Clean Jokes

    That Scottish Wife joke has a short parallel, which I heard in a stand-up act-- WIFE: "Have you considered taking an Anger Management Class?" HUSBAND: "Have YOU considered taking an Anger PREVENTION Class?"
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    Clean Jokes

    Does that idiom connect to George Harrison's line in A Hard Day's Night? "And who is this 'Susan,' when she's at home?"
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    Clean Jokes

    Goodman Ace also said his wife Jane tried to prompt him to re-tell that joke when they had company-- saying, right in front of everyone, "Tell the one about Now that they have the time, they don't have the inclination." A bit like Miss Moonlight did above, with the Complimentary Peanuts joke!
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    Clean Jokes

    Goodman Ace told this one, or something like it: As an advertising gimmick, a large clock was installed on top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. But the next time the government surveyors made an inspection, they found that the weight of the big clock was causing the Leaning Tower to straighten...
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    Amazing! Fabulous! Awesome!

    I keep finding young waiters and waitresses who have only one way of addressing a party of diners-- "you guys." My 86-year-old mother has never wanted to be one of the guys.
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    "Battleship"

    The posters I was seeing had the title and release date, but from a distance, no hint of stars or director. So I figured it was a video game.
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    Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

    That photo makes me think of Claude Rains... in drag.
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    Perry Mason's shirt--only in Los Angeles!

    At that time Burr was starring as "Ironside," the ex-police chief in a wheelchair.
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    How do you play "Ask Me Another"?

    I did the introduction at Janet's show last night, based on "Ask Me Another." And her first number (hastily substituted) was "Who-oo? You-oo, That's Who!" Today, a friend who was at the show, discovered that National Public Radio is debuting a trivia series called Ask Me Another. What timing...
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    How Did You Discover Old Time Radio?

    A DJ named Clark Race on KMPC Los Angeles around 1973. Saturday nights at 10:00. The first show I heard was Amos n Andy-- I scribbled some notes about character names and the commercials, to ask my folks if they remembered. The next time, I made a cassette recording of Lady Esther Screen...

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