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Post by benteen on Feb 15, 2012 13:58:59 GMT -6
. And some officers kept their whiskey casks on the mules. bc Save Those Mules!
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Post by quincannon on Feb 15, 2012 14:19:50 GMT -6
You know Dan I fail to see how Richard missed the chapter in the field manual about mules. It's right there in black and white wedged between the chapters on Deuce and a Half in the attack, and joyriding on an Ontos. The poor fellow did not spend his youth wisely. Plus he never heard of Spike Jones until yesterday. A pity.
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Post by wild on Feb 15, 2012 15:00:11 GMT -6
Colonel I'm getting some consolation for my deprived childhood by inflicting Spike and his superb rendition of Pass The Biscuit on my grandchildren."Homework or it's Spike guys" ;D
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Post by quincannon on Feb 15, 2012 16:44:36 GMT -6
Richard: It is simply my small contribution to the cultural exchange program between our two great countries.
I think your grandchildren may enjoy Der Fuehrer's Face, but keep in mind it usually goes over a lot better when combined with human bondage. Duct Tape will do nicely. Mind you without the duct tape, they will escape and go screaming out of the house. A word of caution though, it should not be taken with aspirin or any home remedies. That may cause a misery not unlike hearing endless renditions of "Who Put The Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder"
Dan would have his romantic strings plucked with a rendition of Cocktails For Two - In some secluded rendezvous.................. don't you think?
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Post by lilsandbay on Feb 15, 2012 18:30:03 GMT -6
I don't often contribute to this forum being content to sit on the side, however it's not often that the honored memory of Spike Jones shows up. I don't mean to steal this thread, but when I was in High School, (Vacaville, CA. '62) I had a Dixieland Band and Mr.Purves Pullen, AKA Horatio Q. Birdbath, had had retired there and was very helpful in getting a bunch of kids bookings. H.Q. was the guy that did all of Spikes bird calls as well as all other vocal special effects. I owe him to bring this up when given a chance... and believe me there ain't many chances!
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Post by fred on Feb 15, 2012 19:13:37 GMT -6
I am a little older than you and I remember Spike Jones very well from '50s TV. What a hoot! And I guess by that time, it was the tail end of the Big Band era of which he and his gang were part. What a great time it was.
Best wishes, Fred.
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Post by quincannon on Feb 15, 2012 19:31:44 GMT -6
Allright you old duffer, so you remember Spike, but do you remember Mrs Murphy's Chowder and the Ontos?
Spike is Rushmore worthy. I can see it now. Washington would tell him to move his skinny butt over. Jefferson would turn up his nose. Lincoln would think it wonderful to finally have some home folks nearby., and TR would laugh his ass off.
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Post by lilsandbay on Feb 15, 2012 21:27:17 GMT -6
quincanhnon: Do you mean this one..."Who put the overpants in Mrs Murphy's Chowder... no one spoke so he hollered all the louder ; It's an Irish trick I'm sure, I will kick the Mick that threw.. The overpants in Mrs, Murphy's Chowder!" I's been years since I've checked, but i think I've got an old 78 by... of all people Bing Crosby
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Post by quincannon on Feb 15, 2012 22:01:46 GMT -6
My memory was overalls and Authur Godfrey. If you have it on 78 keep it as your ticket to the Spike Jones Hall of Fame, which if negotiations go just right will open in the back corner of the Garryowen Post Office-Gas Station-and Tee Shirt Emporium, right next to the end cap that has Fred's upcoming book. You will know when to plan for the grand event as we will be passing out flyers at Ford A. We are a fairly low budget operation.
Does anybody remember the ONTOS, except possibly AZ and Dan?
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Post by Carl on Feb 16, 2012 8:37:05 GMT -6
Two words - Beetle Bomb
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Post by benteen on Feb 16, 2012 14:11:50 GMT -6
Dan would have his romantic strings plucked with a rendition of Cocktails For Two - In some secluded rendezvous.................. don't you think? Colonel, Yes sir, that would be correct except my romantic strings were sprung a while back. My song now is "Old Man River" While we are on the subject, can you tell me in the manual how to carry a bucket of slack, I always seem to spill it Be Well Dan PS.. Never figured how they reloaded those ONTOS
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Post by quincannon on Feb 16, 2012 21:56:02 GMT -6
Dan: The got out of their armor protected vehicle, which seems either counterintuative or the supreme test of Semper Fi, and loaded each of the six guns by hand, but only if the enemy faithfully promised not to fire on the poor mental deficient in the act. Then there is the famous double dog dare load where it is done in a free fire zone.
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Post by wild on Feb 17, 2012 10:31:36 GMT -6
Dan,Cathal I grew up in the 40s and 50s on a gulag island run by the mullahs. But every Saturday we did escape in the company of Superman and the 7th cavalry but now you tell me that the land of the free and Superman was a fraud and instead of heros it was the land of slack and Spike Jones?
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Post by Dark Cloud on Feb 17, 2012 10:48:06 GMT -6
"....But fair warning: It WILL end with Ireland as the issue. Not today's Ireland - he's not too fond of the immigrants who fueled the recent surge in their economy and who will suffer the most in their bank collapse - nor any Ireland of actuality, but the fictional, perpetual innocent victim Ireland of his generation in retrospect. Any exchange about Custer that devolves to WWII will then sequence to the Holocaust, other mass murders and supposed genocides (except the original inhabitants of the Emerald Isle), all carefully pruned so that any definition would include the Irish, which he'll point out. Ireland doesn't rise to importance of major nations, so he'll make sure that their fiascos and degenerate actions find company in the horrors of others, primarily the United States. If they can equal the worst actions of the most powerful one, their good actions must rank with them as well. Something."
It begins again....
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Post by quincannon on Feb 17, 2012 11:41:46 GMT -6
Richard: It was also the land of the Ontos, but never you mind. Consider Spike Jones to be Paddy Noonan on steroids.
And you see that Dark Clod was deprived of Spike as a wee slip of a child, and that very fact has caused his lifelong depression, and bouts of sheep ofal envy.
As to Superman. Isn't it a wonder what a pair of tights and the absence of glasses can do to transform a man's appearance. In addition I have it on very good authority that it was often the 2nd Cavalry is disguise on those Saturday afternoon excursions. I was a Zorro man myself, especially in that scene in one of the Zorro serials where Zorro was wearing a wristwatch.
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