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JP says Hello from the Catskills
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Ah, “Get Smart”! One of the very best. Some of that show’s ideas are actually being implemented right now. Just yesterday I saw a photo of a recently re-opened restaurant, with a table with two diners who were covered by what appeared to be the “cone of silence”.
I originally thought it might be Don Adams who said “Good heavens, what’s that?” on the “Future” track from the Orange album, but upon closer listening I noticed that he dropped the “h” in “heavens”, so it must be some British guy. (Unless it was Agent 86 doing a British accent…)
This may not mean much to those outside North America, but just a few days ago on YouTube I found this amazing collection from 30 years ago that I somehow entirely missed at the time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UO5R7tbqWQ
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Ha! “Get Smart” probably introduced more catch phrases into American pop culture than any other TV show.
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Lol, I was going to mention Star Trek and Get Smart, but some other people beat me to it…. I enjoyed Get Snart, butbthe movie they did many years later….just did not have same umph to it, more like ” Got Dumb”, …lol…the ShoePhone….the best…I think Get Smart influenced the 80s tv show McGyver….. perhaps The 6 Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman too…lol….
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Jacki, are you talking about the movie “The Nude Bomb”? If so, I agree with you wholeheartedly. That was the first movie I ever saw at a theater that left me thinking I had completely wasted my time. On the way out I was hoping the theater manager would say “Sorry about that, Chief.”
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Yes, David, that’s the movie…lol…saw it on tv though, it was awful…lol…best left it to the series and not wasted doing a movie adaptation….it just failed….
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David, I think the 3 months of lock down is taking it’s toll on me. My mouth is watering over McDonalds Double Cheese Burger and fries! 🙂
Well folks, it is here, Smart Phone meets Shoe Phone. Get Smart technology arrives for 2020!
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And it looks like the phone booths are coming back, the new Phone BoothE.
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These are terrific, Jung! They rank right up there with the best of Saturday Night Live’s commercial spoofs in that they hold out for so long the possibility that they might actually be serious.
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Never seen these before Jung, but as you’ve said, it seems some 80s stuff is kinda sneaking in there as a comeback…lol….well, actually, a mixture of all vintage stuf…I always smile whenever I ‘ve to a thrift shop, memories of going with my parents to flea markets, estate auctions, (farm ones were what Dad enjoyed and usually wound up coming home with something …lol…much to Mom and I shaking our heads…but once in awhile he would buy some item of interest in which would be of interest to both Mom and I…the auctioneer’s fast talking always fascinated me….lol… ) and recall with fondness for most part or cringe at something I see, and recall either having it, or seeing it in stores, other people’s homes back in the day… 20-50 yrs from now, my niece and nephew’s generation and the ones after them, are going to tell their kids, grandkids, great grandkids…” Why I recall back in the days of shopping malls, yes, we actually had to go to a store to buy stuff when our internet was down…and it was so nice to have the malls offer the convenience of phone/mobile device charging stations in the malls, etc”…lol… ???
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Welcome JP from just “down the street” and across the river in Poughkeepsie! Not a fan of the 80’s for anything, a decade I’d rather forget about. But I guess I’m an “old fogey” now at 62!
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Hi Thomas,
I’m with you on that not a fan of the 80’s and onwards, 60’s and 70’s can’t be beaten i’m 65 myself.
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You know the old saying, “Great minds think alike”!
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I’m 51….the 80s were my teen years, but the fashion stuff, some of music was but not all, that cool, or I liked of, some other 80s stuff notvexactlybkern in either, as I’m more comfortable in stuff of the past, prior to 80s…. My music era luvs are Anything from 1920s-1960s, with the odd gems from 70s…as for 90s, well far and few, up to now…again, far and few…lol… and having been surrounded by older brothers, my interests, were more of a tomboy calibre, lol, so Barbies, etc weren’t really my thing…playing with my bros toys, listening to their music was …lol…still kind of like that in some ways….
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