We all love puns

[ex-khobar Andy]

A further pun deseving wider circulation, stolen from an online comment - this time the Daily Mail story about R Kelly and his alleged habits around young women:

Paul Kelly, Bristol, United Kingdom, about 3 hours ago

I thought this was common knowledge, I bought his CD and on the cellophane it said keep this rapper away from children

[BoSoxGal]

[wesw]

scooter s pie R round...

[Scooter]

[Econoline]

[RayThom]

Phillies pitcher, Roy Halladay, had a brand new pair of baseball shoes. After a game at Veterans Stadium he goes to visit his teammate, Matt Klentak, in his Rittenhouse Square apartment. Being polite, Roy removed his shoes and leaves them at the door. While eating a hoagie with his friend, Matt’s cat discovers Roy's new shoes, likes the smell and proceeds to chew them up. Roy sees his mangled shoes and goes ballistic. Matt, feeling very bad, has a dilemma: he has two cats. One of the cats enters the apartment at that moment. Matt then asks: Pardon me Roy, is that the cat that chewed your new shoes?

Thank you, I'm here all week.

[Joe Guy]

That one is so old that when I heard it, Roy was Roy Rogers...

[Lord Jim]

Here's an even older variation on the same theme:

Lamonte Cranston once hired a new Chinese manservant. While describing his duties to the new man, Lamonte pointed to a bowl of candy on the coffee table and warned him that he was not to take any. Some days later, the new manservant was cleaning up, with no one at home, and decided to sample some of the candy. Just then, Cranston walked in, spied the manservant at the candy, and said:


"Pardon me Choy, is that the Shadow's nugate you chew?"

You have to be familiar with old radio serials for that one to make any sense...

[RayThom]

... You have to be familiar with old radio serials for that one to make any sense...

The Shadow, no?

[Lord Jim]

The Shadow, yes:

[Joe Guy]

Pardon me boys, Is that a show you used to tune to?

[RayThom]

Pardon me boys, Is that a show you used to tune to?

No, I don't remember The Shadow on the radio. However, I do remember regularly listening to the Lone Ranger. The show went to TV around the time I was in 1st grade.

Fun fact: The first time I heard "STEREO" radio was during a Lawrence Welk experiment. Your needed two radios -- one at each end of the room you were in. One was tuned in to the "normal" frequency and the other on the next closest. And then we would sit between them and listen to the sound that was yet to come. Shortly after, real FM radios started to become popular... and the rest is history.

Here's the same model of the old, reliable, Philco console we used until my parents finally broke down and bought a (used) B&W TV in 1959.

[Joe Guy]

Do you remember "quadraphonic" in the 70s? It didn't last very long. I don't think I ever heard it.

[Bicycle Bill]

Here's the same model of the old, reliable, Philco console we used until my parents finally broke down and bought a (used) B&W TV in 1959.

With the "Magic Eye" tube prominently set in the dial.

The purpose of magic eye tubes in radio sets is to help with accurate tuning to a station; the tube makes peaks in signal strength more obvious by producing a visual indication, which is better than using the ear alone.  The eye is especially useful because the automatic gain control (AGC) action tends to increase the audio volume of a mistuned station, so the volume varies relatively little as the tuning knob is turned.  The tuning eye was driven by the AGC voltage rather than the audio signal.

-"BB"-

[RayThom]

Do you remember "quadraphonic" in the 70s? It didn't last very long. I don't think I ever heard it.

A friend who considered himself an audiophile had the quad sound in his basement. I seem to remember he spent a fortune on it. Although you could hear the four different channels of audio it became annoying after an hour of listening. I remember the Allman Brothers and Bad Company with the quad format. Nothing like the surround sound you'll find in the movie theatres today.

Like the BetaMax, some new technologies just aren't worth it.

[Burning Petard]

Oh Ray you are such a child. 'The Shadow' I listened to every Sunday late in the afternoon, just before supper time. The Lone Ranger was on Monday nite, after supper, sponsored by Cheerios. The Shadow always caught the bad guy with his strange powers to cloud men's minds., but he was somehow scary himself. The Lone Ranger was special. "Come with us now to those thrilling days of yester-year. With a flash of light, a cloud of dust, and the hearty cry of High Yo Siiiilver! " This strange masked man was a fantastic pistolero. He never put a bullet in anybody. The climax of any shoot-out was always the bad guy declaring "You shot the gun right out of my hand!" His faithful Indian companion, Tonto, on tv was played by a real indian, Jay Silverheels, who was said to be actually the best hand with the single action colt in Hollywood, and coached James Arness on gun-handling for his role on Gun Smoke.

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[Scooter]

IIRC one of the Lone Ranger's tasks was to go after poachers. Hope he catches these guys:

[Joe Guy]

Legend has it that the poachers were much more compassionate when Ruth was with them.

[RayThom]

Legend has it that the poachers were much more compassionate when Ruth was with them.

God, that's an obscure reference.

[Burning Petard]

But I love it anyway. Snailgate