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To Donr in particular, don't remember Cauliflower McPug. Would guess a boxer...maybe Gasoline Alley? To anyone who can advise. I thought I had sent a private message but it was never received so it is floating around somewhere. Could someone please give me instructions on how to do it correctly. Thanks.

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Cauliflower McPug...

by donr - 2013-08-04 01:08:38

...Red Skelton alter ego. Punchy boxer. Kept hearing bells & phones that weren't there. Never won a fight in his life.

Gasoline Alley is of same era. Walt Bobble & family. Skeezix, et al. Remember reading that one in the comics as a kid.

Will send tutorial via PM - it will be easier.

Don

Such fun

by magenniskeith - 2013-08-04 03:08:18

Man, you people stay up late. It is almost midnight here, an hour after my usual retirement and I assumed you were both on the East Coast three hours later. Will take my tutorial tomorrow when I am more alert. it is strange but Gasoline Alley was one of the comics I didn't read which is why I guessed that. And couldn't stand Fred Allen or Red Skelton because they laughed at their own jokes so didn't watch that. Well tomorrow is another day. Time to talk to my son and say my prayers. I talk aloud to my son up there and then silently say my prayers. Don't want to confuse them as to who I am giving my thanks and gratitude.

I loved ...

by donr - 2013-08-04 09:08:02

...Junior, the Mean Wittle Kid! Remember the time he trapped the Devil in a closet? I heard that when it first came on in about 1948. There was a hurricane that flooded the area where we lived in Miami & we had to abandon our house because of the three feet of water around it. Fortunately it was built on four foot columns, so we had no damage. Went to stay w/ some cousins in a dry section of the city & they introduced me to Red. The Devil sequence was the first one we heard. I howled w/ laughter (Today that would be ROFLMAO) Heard the sequence again on Sirius-XM radio several months ago & did it again. The most priceless line from the show - "The Devil, you say!"

Fred Allen was not my favorite - Jack Benny filled that slot. Anyone of the elderly set remember the show where Mary Livingston accidentally butchered a line that was supposed to be "Boy, did that grass reek!" into "Boy, did that grease rack?" They ran that on into the ground for several weeks.

Sparrow - that is the SHORTEST comment I think you have ever written. In that one outing, you told me that we had something besides an implantable device in common! It was sad that Red could not translate Junior into TV. Fanny Brice was unable to pull it off for "Baby Snooks,"
either.

Phil Harris & Frankie Remly were about as crazy as possible on the Benny show - then Harris split off W/ his own & I caught that every week. Somehow there was legal trouble over Remly's name so they suddenly switched it to Elliiot Lewis - the actor's real name & ran that joke into the ground for an entire season.

Those were the days - took imagination to listen to radio.

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