Captain Kangaroo has passed.

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"Life would be devoid of all meaning were it without tribulation."

PENMART01 wrote:
> Captain Kangaroo has passed.
>
> http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet...personid-40540

Dang... you know he always looked old even when he wasn't. Isn't that
funny?

Jill

"PENMART01" > wrote

> Captain Kangaroo has passed.
>
> http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet...personid-40540

Just saw that on TV about ten seconds ago. I used to watch his show every
day in my pre-kindergarten era. But it was never as memorable as "Sesame
Street." I have vivid memories of the various characters and skits on
"Sesame Street," but only vague bits of impressions of Captain Kangeroo.

Paula

"jmcquown" > wrote

> PENMART01 wrote:
> > Captain Kangaroo has passed.
> >
> > http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet...personid-40540
>
> Dang... you know he always looked old even when he wasn't. Isn't that
> funny?
>
> Jill

Very true. In fact, I thought he died some years back...in the early 1990s.

Paula

PaulaGarlic wrote:
> "PENMART01" > wrote
>
>> Captain Kangaroo has passed.
>>
>> http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet...personid-40540
>
> Just saw that on TV about ten seconds ago. I used to watch his show
> every day in my pre-kindergarten era. But it was never as memorable
> as "Sesame Street." I have vivid memories of the various characters
> and skits on "Sesame Street," but only vague bits of impressions of
> Captain Kangeroo.
>
> Paula

Obviously you are younger than some of us. I remember Captain Kangaroo and
Romper Room with the magic mirror. I was a bit too old to watch such shows
when Sesame Street premiered.

Jill

"jmcquown" wrote in message
...
> PaulaGarlic wrote:
> > "PENMART01" wrote
> >
> >> Captain Kangaroo has passed.
> >
> > Just saw that on TV about ten seconds ago. I used to watch his show
> > every day in my pre-kindergarten era. But it was never as memorable
> > as "Sesame Street." I have vivid memories of the various characters
> > and skits on "Sesame Street," but only vague bits of impressions of
> > Captain Kangeroo.
>
> Obviously you are younger than some of us. I remember Captain Kangaroo
and
> Romper Room with the magic mirror. I was a bit too old to watch such
shows
> when Sesame Street premiered.
>

I was a too old for Sesame Street myself. It tough getting older. I remember
Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room (not my favorite), Major Mudd, Rex Trailer and
Bozo of course. Rex Trailer was a Boston thing, Major Mudd may have been as
well.

I'm sad to hear that Captain Kangaroo is gone.

-Mike

Mike Pearce wrote:
> "jmcquown" wrote in message
> ...
>> PaulaGarlic wrote:
>>> "PENMART01" wrote
>>>
>>>> Captain Kangaroo has passed.
>>>
>>> Just saw that on TV about ten seconds ago. I used to watch his show
>>> every day in my pre-kindergarten era. But it was never as memorable
>>> as "Sesame Street." I have vivid memories of the various characters
>>> and skits on "Sesame Street," but only vague bits of impressions of
>>> Captain Kangeroo.
>>
>> Obviously you are younger than some of us. I remember Captain
>> Kangaroo and Romper Room with the magic mirror. I was a bit too old
>> to watch such shows when Sesame Street premiered.
>>
>
> I was a too old for Sesame Street myself. It tough getting older. I
> remember Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room (not my favorite), Major Mudd,
> Rex Trailer and Bozo of course. Rex Trailer was a Boston thing, Major
> Mudd may have been as well.
>
> I'm sad to hear that Captain Kangaroo is gone.
>
> -Mike

Cheer up, Mike! We aren't getting older, we're getting better.

Jill

"jmcquown" wrote in message
...

>
> Cheer up, Mike! We aren't getting older, we're getting better.
>

Convince my knees of that, will you?

-Mike

From: (PENMART01)
Captain Kangaroo has passed.
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I think his show started in 1955, I was a year old.
So many memories watching him growing up.
I always wonder about his age too, it seem like as far as I can remember
he had white hair.
Sad with him and Fred Rogers gone now doesn't seem like there really
isn't any worth while children shows being aired.

I do believe I read "somewhere" he was in the Marines with Lee Marvin and
won several medals during WW II for bravery in action...

Harriet & critters (jj the world famous jack russell terrior who is telling
the squirrels to get out of his yard; and PK the lady manx who rules the
house and is somewhere else.)
"PENMART01" > wrote in message
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> Captain Kangaroo has passed.
>
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>

>Boston thing, Major Mudd may have been

Yes, he was. Not a bad attempt at a Soupy Sales clone.

>Dang... you know he always looked old even when he wasn't.

That point was made during some of the retrospectives in the '80s. When he
started out with the show, he used aging make-up. As time went on, he needed
less and less.

I was always entirely bored with the show, as young as age 4. Same with Mr.
Rogers. Mighty Mouse was what I needed.

Neil

"WardNA" > wrote in message
...
> >Boston thing, Major Mudd may have been
>
> Yes, he was. Not a bad attempt at a Soupy Sales clone.

Soupy sales as an astronaut! Never thought of him that way.

-Mike

"jmcquown" > wrote in message
...
> PaulaGarlic wrote:
> > "PENMART01" > wrote
> >
> >> Captain Kangaroo has passed.
> >>
> >> http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet...personid-40540
> >
> > Just saw that on TV about ten seconds ago. I used to watch his show
> > every day in my pre-kindergarten era. But it was never as memorable
> > as "Sesame Street." I have vivid memories of the various characters
> > and skits on "Sesame Street," but only vague bits of impressions of
> > Captain Kangeroo.
> >
> > Paula
>
> Obviously you are younger than some of us. I remember Captain Kangaroo
and
> Romper Room with the magic mirror. I was a bit too old to watch such
shows
> when Sesame Street premiered.
>
> Jill

Just turned 30 a few weeks ago. But I do remember a bit of Romper Room. I
had a record of songs from it. And I remember them pretty well. And the
little Micky Mouse record player I had back then.

Paula

WardNA wrote:
>>Dang... you know he always looked old even when he wasn't.
>
>
> That point was made during some of the retrospectives in the '80s. When he
> started out with the show, he used aging make-up. As time went on, he needed
> less and less.
>
> I was always entirely bored with the show, as young as age 4. Same with Mr.
> Rogers. Mighty Mouse was what I needed.
>
> Neil

There was also The Merry Mailman, Rootie Kazootie, Ding Dong School
and most likely some more that my children watched, but which I no
longer recall.

I liked Captain Kangaroo. He taught children about farming and eating
vegetables and about all sorts of animals. Mr. Green Jeans was a
valuable assistant.

Bob Keeshan was only 27 years old when he started as Captain Kangaroo
and even younger, when he was on the Howdy Doody Show.

Children today may be too sophisticated for the shows of fifty years
ago, but I find that they were just right for pre-school my kids.
Also, children at that time were allowed to watch a children's show in
the morning, but did not go near the TV set the rest of the day.

Wow - Ding Dong School with Miss Francis! I remember that fondly. I recall
when she used to tell the kids to leave the room becase she wanted to speak
to our mothers. I'd always stay right there and hear what she was saying
about us. <g> Long time ago.

Paul (55)



>
> There was also The Merry Mailman, Rootie Kazootie, Ding Dong School
> and most likely some more that my children watched, but which I no
> longer recall.
>
> I liked Captain Kangaroo. He taught children about farming and eating
> vegetables and about all sorts of animals. Mr. Green Jeans was a
> valuable assistant.
>
> Bob Keeshan was only 27 years old when he started as Captain Kangaroo
> and even younger, when he was on the Howdy Doody Show.
>
> Children today may be too sophisticated for the shows of fifty years
> ago, but I find that they were just right for pre-school my kids.
> Also, children at that time were allowed to watch a children's show in
> the morning, but did not go near the TV set the rest of the day.
>

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 00:05:16 GMT, Margaret Suran
> arranged random neurons, so they
looked like this:

>There was also The Merry Mailman, Rootie Kazootie, Ding Dong School
>and most likely some more that my children watched, but which I no
>longer recall.

Oh, man, I'd forgotten about Ding Dong School. I was really little and
we had our first TV set. The shows were only on about 4 hours a day.
Didn't the "teacher" ring a hand bell at the beginning of the show?
>
>I liked Captain Kangaroo. He taught children about farming and eating
>vegetables and about all sorts of animals. Mr. Green Jeans was a
>valuable assistant.

He was, indeed. But the Captain had much to answer for: I mentally
morphed inanimate objects into animate ones until I was well into my
teens, a la Grandfather Clock.
>
>Bob Keeshan was only 27 years old when he started as Captain Kangaroo
>and even younger, when he was on the Howdy Doody Show.
>
>Children today may be too sophisticated for the shows of fifty years
>ago, but I find that they were just right for pre-school my kids.
>Also, children at that time were allowed to watch a children's show in
>the morning, but did not go near the TV set the rest of the day.

Which did not preclude my mother from watching Bishop Fulton Sheen and
Liberace in the evening - something my brother and I wouldn't stay in
the room to watch, anyway!

A link: http://www.tvparty.com/lostromper.html

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret
had been as old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had
been as full as the waitress', it would have been a very
good dinner." Anonymous.

To reply, remove replace "shcox" with "cox"

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 12:23:07 -0600, "jmcquown"
> wrote:


>Obviously you are younger than some of us. I remember Captain Kangaroo and
>Romper Room with the magic mirror. I was a bit too old to watch such shows
>when Sesame Street premiered.
>
Ah, yes, the magic mirror. Amazing how close you'd pay attention to
see if she saw "you" that episode...and how thrilled you were when she
said, "and I see Jill" (or "bob" in my case).

Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Green Jeans...

Sesame street was ok...it beat the soaps when I was home sick from
school...Electric Company (out about the same time for older kids) was
pretty cool...and had some neat stuff (Tom Lehrer, former Harvard Math
Professor, turned musical comic/satirist, did some of the songs,
including "Silent E").

Bob

RIP Captain.

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:35:27 GMT, "hw" > wrote:

>I do believe I read "somewhere" he was in the Marines with Lee Marvin and
>won several medals during WW II for bravery in action...

Not that it isn't true, but a quick check of the IMDB database and a
quick search of Bob Keeshan biographies shows only that he served in
the U.S. Marine Reserve from 1945-1946.

Even without the medals, he's more than deserving of my respect.

Bob

in article , jmcquown at
wrote on 1/23/04 1:23 PM:

> PaulaGarlic wrote:
>> "PENMART01" > wrote
>>
>>> Captain Kangaroo has passed.
>>>
>>> http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet...personid-40540
>>
>> Just saw that on TV about ten seconds ago. I used to watch his show
>> every day in my pre-kindergarten era. But it was never as memorable
>> as "Sesame Street." I have vivid memories of the various characters
>> and skits on "Sesame Street," but only vague bits of impressions of
>> Captain Kangeroo.
>>
>> Paula
>
> Obviously you are younger than some of us. I remember Captain Kangaroo and
> Romper Room with the magic mirror. I was a bit too old to watch such shows
> when Sesame Street premiered.
>
> Jill
>
>

Yeah, i distinctly remember being in first grade, and our class subscribed
to "Weekly Reader", by Scholastic. There was an article about Sesame Street
in there, that's how I knew about it. Even the teacher said we were too old
for it. At 6 yrs old, mind you. I do remember watching it with my younger
neighbors, though. But always with the knowlege that "I know all that stuff
already".

LOL I guess that's where it all began for me!!! :-)

"Mike Pearce" > wrote in message
news:N_dQb.27525$Mb7.12827@lakeread04...
>
> "jmcquown" wrote in message
> ...
>
> >
> > Cheer up, Mike! We aren't getting older, we're getting better.
> >
>
> Convince my knees of that, will you?
>
> -Mike
>
>

Yeah, she'll be on her knees.....

in article , jmcquown at
wrote on 1/23/04 1:39 PM:

>> I'm sad to hear that Captain Kangaroo is gone.
>>
>> -Mike
>
> Cheer up, Mike! We aren't getting older, we're getting better.
>
> Jill

Yeah?
Well, as if Captain kangaroo passing wasn't bad enough today, guess what was
in my mailbox when I got home????

AN INVITATION TO JOIN AARP!!!

Augh! First they tell you all the great benefits of membership.
Then they tell you "But only if you're 50 or older...."

And I'm wondering (Not that I want to join or anything, i don't), but isn't
that age descrimination????

What a strange day!

in article . net, Margaret
Suran at lid wrote on 1/23/04 7:05 PM:

> There was also The Merry Mailman, Rootie Kazootie, Ding Dong School
> and most likely some more that my children watched, but which I no
> longer recall.

I loved Romper Room on channel 9. At the end, she'd look into her Magic
Mirror and say "I see Billy, and Susan, and David, and Michael. Look there's
Debbie and Lisa (yadda yadda yadda) and I remember asking my mother how we
could get her to "see" me. Now of course, I realize, she just said first
names, sort of a random list....and unfortunately, the closest she ever got
to Sheryl was Sherry. And I hated that name, soooo it didn't count!

And...Wonderama, of course, on Channel 5, Sunday mornings.
Followed by my Dad's favorite, Eastside Comedy (the Bowery Boys). Not a
kids' movie, but I always watched them anyway.

Channel 9, i believe, had Bozo the clown. And there was the guy who hosted
the cartoon show in the afternoon on channel 11, he was a captain, and he
rang this bell all the time, and he explained what "two bells" meant. Who
remembers...I think he was a Policeman, maybe?
>
> I liked Captain Kangaroo. He taught children about farming and eating
> vegetables and about all sorts of animals. Mr. Green Jeans was a
> valuable assistant.
>
> Bob Keeshan was only 27 years old when he started as Captain Kangaroo
> and even younger, when he was on the Howdy Doody Show.
>
> Children today may be too sophisticated for the shows of fifty years
> ago, but I find that they were just right for pre-school my kids.
> Also, children at that time were allowed to watch a children's show in
> the morning, but did not go near the TV set the rest of the day.
>

"jmcquown" > wrote in message >. ..
> PENMART01 wrote:
> > Captain Kangaroo has passed.
> >
> > http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet...personid-40540
>
> Dang... you know he always looked old even when he wasn't. Isn't that
> funny?
>
> Jill

This really made me sad. This was the first kid's show I remember
watching. I always liked Bun and Mr. Greenjeans, and of course, the
ping pong balls. :*(

-L.

"Mike Pearce" > wrote in message news:<nPdQb.27524$Mb7.14551@lakeread04>...
> "jmcquown" wrote in message
> ...
> > PaulaGarlic wrote:
> > > "PENMART01" wrote
> > >
> > >> Captain Kangaroo has passed.
> > >
> > > Just saw that on TV about ten seconds ago. I used to watch his show
> > > every day in my pre-kindergarten era. But it was never as memorable
> > > as "Sesame Street." I have vivid memories of the various characters
> > > and skits on "Sesame Street," but only vague bits of impressions of
> > > Captain Kangeroo.
> >
> > Obviously you are younger than some of us. I remember Captain Kangaroo
> and
> > Romper Room with the magic mirror. I was a bit too old to watch such
> shows
> > when Sesame Street premiered.
> >
>
> I was a too old for Sesame Street myself. It tough getting older. I remember
> Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room (not my favorite),

Tell me magic mirror, tell me today, will all the kids have fun at
play?...

Wasn't there some Fundie component to Romper Room? Or am I just
confused after watching Davey and Golliath...?

-L.
(Do be a Do Bee)

Sheryl Rosen wrote:
>> Obviously you are younger than some of us. I remember Captain
>> Kangaroo and Romper Room with the magic mirror. I was a bit too old
>> to watch such shows when Sesame Street premiered.
>>
>> Jill
>
> Yeah, i distinctly remember being in first grade, and our class
> subscribed to "Weekly Reader", by Scholastic. There was an article
> about Sesame Street in there, that's how I knew about it. Even the
> teacher said we were too old for it.

What goes around comes around, I suppose. My father loved the Muppet Show
(particularly the two grumpy old men puppets at the opera). Little did he
think it started out as kids TV with a frog, a lovesick pig and a blue dude
with a trash can

Jill

Mike Pearce wrote:
> "jmcquown" wrote in message
> ...
>
>>
>> Cheer up, Mike! We aren't getting older, we're getting better.
>>
>
> Convince my knees of that, will you?
>
> -Mike

Sure... do some knee bends every day to keep flexible and make sure you take
calcium (my doctor recommended TUMS for 1000 mgs per day and you also won't
get heartburn LOL) Call me in the morning

Jill

bobballwrote:
> Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Green Jeans...

Dancing Bear, Grandfather Clock...


> Sesame street was ok...it beat the soaps when I was home sick from
> school...

I appreciated Sesame Street more when I was older, when I could (gulp!) look
back and remember the first time I saw particular skits like "Put Down the
Duckie" and celebrities doing numbers and the alphabet.


> Electric Company (out about the same time for older kids) was
> pretty cool...and had some neat stuff (Tom Lehrer, former Harvard Math
> Professor, turned musical comic/satirist, did some of the songs,
> including "Silent E").

Rita Moreno and Morgan Freeman... "Fargo North, Decoder"... "Easy Reader"...

< " 'th'...'at'... 'that' " >

in article , jmcquown at
wrote on 1/24/04 2:33 AM:

>> Yeah, i distinctly remember being in first grade, and our class
>> subscribed to "Weekly Reader", by Scholastic. There was an article
>> about Sesame Street in there, that's how I knew about it. Even the
>> teacher said we were too old for it.
>
> What goes around comes around, I suppose. My father loved the Muppet Show
> (particularly the two grumpy old men puppets at the opera). Little did he
> think it started out as kids TV with a frog, a lovesick pig and a blue dude
> with a trash can
>
> Jill

Miss Piggy was introduced on the Muppet Show.
Her true love, Kermit, of course started on Sesame St. Oh, and the blue dude
was Cookie Monster! The one with the trash can was Oscar, and he was Green.
You may be confusing Oscar with Grover, who was also blue. Oscar and Grover
were essentially the same shape, they both had round heads and distinct
bodies....Grover was blue and his fur wasn't matted. Oscar, living in a
garbage can, had ratty and matted green fur. OK, I did watch Sesame Street,
but I only paid attention during the entertaining Muppet segments. I already
knew how to count and read. And i watched with my nephews later on.

There were a lot of Muppets who didn't "cross over" between the shows. Most
of them, in fact. I think only Kermit did both shows.

When my sister and I took my nephews (13-14 years younger than me) to see
the Muppet movie back in 1978, She had the 1 yr old on her lap, I had the
2.5 yr old on mine. I was 15. At the beginning, 2.5 yr old asks "Aunt
Sheryl, will Big Bird be in this movie?" and I replied that it was just
"Muppet show muppets, not Sesame Street Muppets". Well, who do you think is
hitchhiking in the opening sequence of this movie, only to be picked up by
Fozzie Bear and Kermit the Frog??? (Yes, the bear was driving).....but Big
Bird!!!! 2.5 yr old slid off my lap, stood in the aisle, hands on his hips
and announced for the entire theater to hear "YOU LIED TO ME AUNT SHERYL!
YOU SAID BIG BIRD WOULDN"T BE IN THIS MOVIE!!! And there he is!!!"

Too much!

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 12:35:04 -0600, "Mike Pearce"
> wrote:

>"jmcquown" wrote in message
. ..
>> PaulaGarlic wrote:
>> > "PENMART01" wrote
>> >
>> >> Captain Kangaroo has passed.
>> >
>> > Just saw that on TV about ten seconds ago. I used to watch his show
>> > every day in my pre-kindergarten era. But it was never as memorable
>> > as "Sesame Street." I have vivid memories of the various characters
>> > and skits on "Sesame Street," but only vague bits of impressions of
>> > Captain Kangeroo.
>>
>> Obviously you are younger than some of us. I remember Captain Kangaroo
>and
>> Romper Room with the magic mirror. I was a bit too old to watch such
>shows
>> when Sesame Street premiered.
>>
>
>I was a too old for Sesame Street myself. It tough getting older. I remember
>Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room (not my favorite), Major Mudd, Rex Trailer and
>Bozo of course. Rex Trailer was a Boston thing, Major Mudd may have been as
>well.
>
>I'm sad to hear that Captain Kangaroo is gone.
>
>-Mike
>
>

Mike,
Do you remember Buffalo Bob coming on tv and saying "What Time Is It
Kids?"..."It's Howdy Doody Time"! On the Howdy Doody Show there was a
clown named "Clara Bell The Clown" who went on to become famous as
"Captain Kangaroo"! My gawd that was a long time ago watching my
parent's 1949 Crosley television set!

Bill

Sheryl Rosen wrote:

> I loved Romper Room on channel 9. At the end, she'd look into her Magic
> Mirror and say "I see Billy, and Susan, and David, and Michael. Look there's
> Debbie and Lisa (yadda yadda yadda) and I remember asking my mother how we
> could get her to "see" me.

Wench never saw Nancy. Hello!!! NANCY. When I look back I remember
she was looking through a tennis racquet.

> And...Wonderama, of course, on Channel 5, Sunday mornings.

Yeah, I could catch some before the dreaded trip to church. But I
can't think of Wonderama without thinking of my friend Winnie. Her
brother wanted to watch something else, he kept turning from
Wonderama. She finally did the only thing she could, which was stab
him through the hand with a pair of scissors. (laughing) Hey, she
had the GOLD TEAM, dammit. To this day he cannot put his fingers
together, more like Spock on Star Trek. He can palm a basketball
like nobody's business.

Apparently I was too young to remember Diver Dan. Whoever that is.
But I do remember But DAVEY! What was the name of that claymation
show. Davey and Goliath. (laughing) There was this guy at work,
he was an absolute moron. Dumb as a box of rocks. Dave somebody.
They would call him But DAVEY! if I only had a brain.

nancy

>Bill BigC300 asks:
>
>"Mike Pearce" wrote:
>>"jmcquown" wrote:
>>> PaulaGarlic wrote:
>>> > "PENMART01" wrote
>>> >
>>> >> Captain Kangaroo has passed.
>>> >
>>> > Just saw that on TV about ten seconds ago. I used to watch his show
>>> > every day in my pre-kindergarten era. But it was never as memorable
>>> > as "Sesame Street." I have vivid memories of the various characters
>>> > and skits on "Sesame Street," but only vague bits of impressions of
>>> > Captain Kangeroo.
>>>
>>> Obviously you are younger than some of us. I remember Captain Kangaroo
>>and
>>> Romper Room with the magic mirror. I was a bit too old to watch such
>>shows
>>> when Sesame Street premiered.
>>>
>>
>>I was a too old for Sesame Street myself. It tough getting older. I remember
>>Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room (not my favorite), Major Mudd, Rex Trailer and
>>Bozo of course. Rex Trailer was a Boston thing, Major Mudd may have been as
>>well.
>>
>>I'm sad to hear that Captain Kangaroo is gone.
>
>Mike,
>Do you remember Buffalo Bob coming on tv and saying "What Time Is It
>Kids?"..."It's Howdy Doody Time"! On the Howdy Doody Show there was a
>clown named "Clara Bell The Clown" who went on to become famous as
>"Captain Kangaroo"! My gawd that was a long time ago watching my
>parent's 1949 Crosley television set!

Everyone remembers Howdy Doody, Phineas T. Bluster, Dilly Dally, The
Flubberdub, and Princess Summer-Fall-Winter-Spring, etc...even todays kids seem
somehow to recall Howdy Doody... but who remembers "The Magic Cottage" with Pat
Meikle, what a babe (great boobs), my first crush. Did anyone ever send in for
the Cocoa Marsh rocket launcher; what a terrific toy... a half a spalding
rubber ball with a plastic tube stuck into it at an angle, mounted on a
board... drop the pointy plastic rocket onto the tube, aim, and punch the
ball.... take your little brother's eye out! And then there was the Captain
Video rocket launcher, aka sling shot. hehe

http://www.tvparty.com/lostny3.html

"The Magic Cottage, early evenings on WABD, Channel 5. The hostess was Pat
Meikle. She would tell stories, sing, and teach art by drawing on an easel.
Can't recall all of her characters, but one was Wilbur The Pigeon and think she
also had a mouse and a rabbit. It was sponsored by Cocoa Marsh and included a
studio audience of about a dozen children each day. Her husband, Hal Cooper,
who created the show, went on to be a producer of the 'Maude' series."
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"Life would be devoid of all meaning were it without tribulation."

wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:35:27 GMT, "hw" > wrote:
>
>>I do believe I read "somewhere" he was in the Marines with Lee Marvin and
>>won several medals during WW II for bravery in action...
>
> Not that it isn't true, but a quick check of the IMDB database and a
> quick search of Bob Keeshan biographies shows only that he served in
> the U.S. Marine Reserve from 1945-1946.
>
> Even without the medals, he's more than deserving of my respect.
>
> Bob

This is another Urban Legend.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/librar...in-keeshan.htm


--
"There's some milk in the fridge that's about to go bad....
And there it goes!"
-- Bobby Hill

Nancy Young wrote:

....

> Apparently I was too young to remember Diver Dan. Whoever that is.
> But I do remember But DAVEY! What was the name of that claymation
> show. Davey and Goliath. (laughing) There was this guy at work,
> he was an absolute moron. Dumb as a box of rocks. Dave somebody.
> They would call him But DAVEY! if I only had a brain.
>

I remember Diver Dan -- I loved that show!

Damn! Now I've got the theme music stuck in my head...

---jkb

--
"...That's where you'll find Diver Dan!"

PaulaGarlic > wrote:

> Very true. In fact, I thought he died some years back...in the early 1990s.

I am sure that Bob Keeshan was glad you were wrong!

What surprised me the most when I heard of Bob Keeshan's death was
that his show was nation-wide. For some reason, I thought he was
a local Philadelphia personality.

Either way, I enjoyed his how when I was a kid. Romper Room
was one of my favorites when I was a little kid.

Jeff Bienstadt > wrote in message >...
> Nancy Young wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > Apparently I was too young to remember Diver Dan. Whoever that is.
> > But I do remember But DAVEY! What was the name of that claymation
> > show. Davey and Goliath. (laughing) There was this guy at work,
> > he was an absolute moron. Dumb as a box of rocks. Dave somebody.
> > They would call him But DAVEY! if I only had a brain.
> >
>
> I remember Diver Dan -- I loved that show!
>
> Damn! Now I've got the theme music stuck in my head...
>
> ---jkb

What about Clutch Cargo with Spinner and Paddlefoot, where only the
mouths moved - they were real mouths superimposed on the cartoon
background. I'd like to have that on DVD...

-L.

wrote:
>
> PaulaGarlic > wrote:
>
> > Very true. In fact, I thought he died some years back...in the early 1990s.
>
> I am sure that Bob Keeshan was glad you were wrong!
>
> What surprised me the most when I heard of Bob Keeshan's death was
> that his show was nation-wide. For some reason, I thought he was
> a local Philadelphia personality.

That was his intent. No studio audience so each viewer was who he
was talking to. _You_ were the most important kid with him.

> Either way, I enjoyed his how when I was a kid. Romper Room
> was one of my favorites when I was a little kid.

maxine in ri
who had to share him with my big sister!

Sheryl Rosen > wrote:

> Well, as if Captain kangaroo passing wasn't bad enough today, guess what
> was in my mailbox when I got home????

> AN INVITATION TO JOIN AARP!!!

> Augh! First they tell you all the great benefits of membership.
> Then they tell you "But only if you're 50 or older...."

I have been on AARP's mailing list for the past three or four months.
At age 42, I think I retirement is a ways off for me. I have no clue
how I got on AARP's mailing list. The next time I get something in
the mail from AARP, I will make it a point to find out how to get
my address off AARP's list.

On 30 Jan 2004 14:55:10 GMT, arranged random neurons,
so they looked like this:

>Sheryl Rosen > wrote:
>
>> Well, as if Captain kangaroo passing wasn't bad enough today, guess what
>> was in my mailbox when I got home????
>
>> AN INVITATION TO JOIN AARP!!!
>
>> Augh! First they tell you all the great benefits of membership.
>> Then they tell you "But only if you're 50 or older...."
>
>I have been on AARP's mailing list for the past three or four months.
>At age 42, I think I retirement is a ways off for me. I have no clue
>how I got on AARP's mailing list. The next time I get something in
>the mail from AARP, I will make it a point to find out how to get
>my address off AARP's list.

I have no idea how they decide to glom you onto their mailing list, as
I got my first solicitation when I turned *40*. I don't like
unsolicited junk mail (as if anyone does), so I just scribble
"deceased" on the envelope and indicate that it should be returned to
sender. Haven't heard a word from them since (or any other snail mail
spammers more than once).

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret
had been as old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had
been as full as the waitress', it would have been a very
good dinner." Anonymous.

To reply, remove replace "shcox" with "cox"

in article , Terry Pulliam Burd at
wrote on 1/30/04 11:29 PM:

> On 30 Jan 2004 14:55:10 GMT, arranged random neurons,
> so they looked like this:
>
>> Sheryl Rosen > wrote:
>>
>>> Well, as if Captain kangaroo passing wasn't bad enough today, guess what
>>> was in my mailbox when I got home????
>>
>>> AN INVITATION TO JOIN AARP!!!
>>
>>> Augh! First they tell you all the great benefits of membership.
>>> Then they tell you "But only if you're 50 or older...."
>>
>> I have been on AARP's mailing list for the past three or four months.
>> At age 42, I think I retirement is a ways off for me. I have no clue
>> how I got on AARP's mailing list. The next time I get something in
>> the mail from AARP, I will make it a point to find out how to get
>> my address off AARP's list.
>

Yeah, I'm just 40. AARP? How the heck did they get MY name??? AND my current
address. Unless....DMV? Maybe. Not much else has my current address. I've
loved not getting much junk mail these past 6 months.


> I have no idea how they decide to glom you onto their mailing list, as
> I got my first solicitation when I turned *40*. I don't like
> unsolicited junk mail (as if anyone does), so I just scribble
> "deceased" on the envelope and indicate that it should be returned to
> sender. Haven't heard a word from them since (or any other snail mail
> spammers more than once).

Careful with that. Might come back to "haunt" you. What if one of them
reported it to another company/organization? (and not even on purpose, if
they put you in their database as deceased, then sell the db to another
party....and then they sold it...and so on and so on) Might wind up somehow
on your credit report as "deceased", and that would be a NIGHTMARE to
correct!!!

I used to work someplace where I had to pull credit reports. My job was to
read them and look for any sort of "flag" that might cause the loan to be
rejected, and bring it to the attention of my boss, the loan officer. Well,
I found the word deceased on one of our applicant's credit report!

The loan got rejected because of that. They had to produce sworn affidavits
that they weren't dead.

>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
> AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA
>
> "If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret
> had been as old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had
> been as full as the waitress', it would have been a very
> good dinner." Anonymous.
>
> To reply, remove replace "shcox" with "cox"