SUNDAY FUNDAY - JANUARY 13, 2022

SUNDAY FUNDAY - JANUARY 13, 2022

Saturday Morning Television (as a kid)

I grew up with three television stations - a CBS station, an NBC station, and an ABC station.  (I don’t remember when PBS started in my area)

Our neighbors got television first and I remember (vaguely) watching “Highway Patrol” with Brodrick Crawford with my neighbor.  As a naive kid, I somehow thought this was real and was amazed at what they did.

We also had Matchbox cars that we played in the dirt at the end of the driveway.  I loved making cloverleaf intersections in the dirt.  (Alas, they eventually paved our street and that lovely dirt from a gravel road ended)

Most of the week, I didn’t watch much television, but Saturday Morning was television time.  

There were the adventure/cowboy shows.  The Lone Ranger was a televised version of an old radio show (but I didn’t know that).  Clayton Moore was the Lone Ranger with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. His horse was “Silver” - so “Heigh-ho Silver, away”  Tonto’s horse was Scout.

In some respects, it was a barrier breaker to have a Native American as a good guy on television!!

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I read that “Hopalong Cassidy watches outsold Mickey Mouse watches 3 to 1 in 1952. Under Bill Boyd’s guidance, Hopalong Cassidy grossed over $70mm in merchandise that same year.”  Topper was his horse.

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Gene Autry with Champion (the Wonder Horse), and Pat Buttram - was so famous that a small town in Oklahoma changed its name to Gene Autry for their local idol.  “I’m back in the saddle again”.  Autry wrote some famous Christmas songs including Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, “Santa Claus is coming to town”, and “Here comes Santa Claus”.

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And, of course, Roy Rogers (with Trigger), Dale Evans (with Buttermilk), and Pat Brady with Nellybell the Jeep.  “Happy Trails to you, until we meet again”

And, others - Sky King, Rin-Tin-Tin, Lassie, Sgt. Preston of the Mounties, My Friend Flicka, and Fury.

(Those were the days - carefree and fun)

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SOME AGING QUOTES:

1. “Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

2. “Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.” – Theodore Roosevelt

3. “You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.” – George Burns

4. “You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.” – Ogden Nash

5. “Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.” – Larry Lorenzoni

6. “I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap.” – Bob Hope

7. “If I had known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.” – Unknown

8. “I’m very pleased to be here. Let’s face it, at my age I’m very pleased to be anywhere.” – George Burns

9. “People ask me what I’d most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.” – George Burns

10. “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?” – Satchel Paige

11. “The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you’ll grow out of it.” – Doris Day

12. “By the time you’re 80 years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.” – George Burns

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National Days for January 16th, to 22nd

Sunday, January 16 - WORLD SNOW DAY - January 16, 2022 - National Today

“Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow” - (where does that come from)

Monday, January 17 - BLUE MONDAY - January 17, 2022 - National Today

“Monday, Monday, can’t trust that day”, (where does that come from)

Tuesday, January 18 - NATIONAL WINNIE THE POOH DAY - January 18, 2022 - National Today

He's Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh

Willy nilly silly old bear

Trivia question - name at least four characters from Winnie the Pooh

Wednesday, January 19, BREW A POTION DAY - January 19, 2022 - National Today

I took my troubles down to Madame Rue

You know that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth

She's got a pad down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine

Sellin' little bottles of Love Potion No. ____ (what goes in the blank?)

Thursday, January 20, NATIONAL COFFEE BREAK DAY - January 20, 2022 - National Today

National Coffee Break Day on January 20 every year is all about highlighting the importance of a coffee break during work hours.

You're the cream in my coffee

You're the salt in my stew

You'll always be my necessity

I'd be lost without you

(Which singer made this popular?  Hint singer whose middle name was King).

Friday, January 21, NATIONAL POPCORN DAY - January 19, 2022 - National Today

How often do you have popcorn?  

Which Christmas song has “I bought some corn for popping”?

Saturday, January 22, NATIONAL BLONDE BROWNIE DAY - January 22, 2022 - National Today

If you replace the cocoa with brown sugar in your brownie recipes you’ll get “blonde brownies”

Okay, which English group first sang “Brown Sugar”?

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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

January 16, 1945 -The U.S. First and Third armies link up at Houffalize, effectively ending the Battle of the Bulge.

January 17, 1963 - Soviet leader Khrushchev visits the Berlin Wall.  (And, this year Martin Luther King Day)

January 18, 1836 -Jim Bowie arrives at the Alamo to assist its Texas defenders.

January 19, 1981 -The United States and Iran sign an accord on a hostage release in Algiers.

January 20, Inauguration day - but in 1981, just after Reagan’s inauguration, the Iran Hostages were released

January 21 - First confirmed US case of Covid - 2020 (and it still is going strong)

January 22 - 1973 - Lyndon Johnson dies 

Answers for National Today:

Let it snow

Mamas and papas

Possible answers:  Kanga, Roo, Tigger, Piglet, Eeyore, Christopher Robin

Love Potion # 9

Nat King Cole

Let it, Snow

Rolling Stones

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WRAP-UP

Remember Texans - these are the days we dreamed up last July and August!!!

At least it isn’t SNOW!!!

We are halfway through our first month of the year!!!  Covid is still raging.

But, we can still love one another!!!

LOVE WINS!!

Karen

January 13, 2022