What was the deal with Gene Rayburn's microphone?

[slj0101]

[HughBeaumont]

1. It looked like the dumbest electronic straw ever.

[XNASA]

2. Gene was a self-admitted....

"Free Spirit". Just look at his sportcoat if you don't believe me.

[asthmaticeog]

3. Gene's a space alien. That's an anal probe.

Where the hell have you been? :eyes:

[Orrex]

4. It's that thing that Arnold pulled out of his nose in Total Recall

And thence to governorship. Go figure.

[Connonym]

5. clearly phallic

Match Game was really very naughty. Which is, of course, why I loved it even though I was only a kid and didn't know exactly HOW it was naughty.

[asthmaticeog]

6. "I loved it, even though I was only a BLANK"

:silly:

[Deja Q]

7. (all together now)

"HOW NAUGHTY WAS IT!" :spray:






(typo)

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. LOL!

[Left Is Write]

9. It's not much different from Bob Barker's.

[Deja Q]

10. You mean Gene and Bob shared their big microphones with each other?

:wow:

[Sanity Claws]

11. Isn't that photo about 30 years old?

Has this question been bothering you all this time? You are tenacious!! ;)

[slj0101]

12. It's been simmering in my mind for at least the last 27 years.

:P