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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 10:12 PM Original message |
Remember television station sign-offs? |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 10:17 PM Response to Original message |
1. I remember these. |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 10:31 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. When I was a kid I used to get up early for the Saturday morning cartoons |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 10:44 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. What was it like when Lincoln was shot? |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 11:16 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Everyone here in the home remembers where they were that day.... |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 12:01 AM Response to Reply #1 |
16. Yeah, me too. Also waving flags and the national anthem playing. |
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MorningGlow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 11:26 AM Response to Reply #1 |
31. I remember the Indian test pattern |
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Inchworm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 10:28 PM Response to Original message |
2. It's 10pm.. do you know where your children are? |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
3. When I was little, they kinda scared me |
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enigmatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
5. Oh yeah |
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Born_A_Truman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 10:40 PM Response to Original message |
6. Ours was "High Flight" |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 10:47 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Here's a couple memories... |
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Dangerously Amused (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 11:55 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. "Ruff and Reddy visit an 'aqueerium'... |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 11:57 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. And this week on "Fury"... |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 01:21 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. I can remember Fury a little. |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 02:11 AM Response to Reply #10 |
22. Captain Kangaroo, Circus Boy, Fury |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 11:32 AM Response to Reply #10 |
32. Yes. Highway Patrol !! |
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Frank Cannon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 06:38 AM Response to Reply #6 |
27. We had "High Flight" and the "Indian Chief Lord's Prayer" |
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Born_A_Truman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 02:31 PM Response to Reply #27 |
35. I remember that one too! |
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BattyDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 10:46 PM Response to Original message |
8. When I was a kid, I thought they were creepy. |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 01:27 PM Response to Reply #8 |
34. Roger that. I used to try to time it just right |
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Cant trust em (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
9. Geez. What am I? Old? |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 10:50 PM Response to Original message |
11. That reminds me of Poltergeist. |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 11:22 PM Response to Original message |
13. Oh, yeah. And I remember that tune they played on this one. |
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Tabasco_Dave (744 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 01:03 AM Response to Original message |
17. when i was a kid i had a nightmare |
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Mugu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 01:49 AM Response to Original message |
19. Not only do I remember sign-offs, |
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mwooldri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 01:56 AM Response to Original message |
20. The BBC used to have "sign-offs" too. |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 02:32 AM Response to Reply #20 |
25. I can't find video of the one I like |
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mwooldri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 04:55 PM Response to Reply #25 |
37. And cue Richard Baker with the news... :) |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 07:24 PM Response to Reply #37 |
41. '...until the name 'Maudling' is almost totally obscured.' |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 10:23 AM Response to Reply #20 |
29. "Well, that's just about it." |
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mwooldri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 04:49 PM Response to Reply #29 |
36. Depends on whether engineering work needed to be done or not. |
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bluesbassman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 02:04 AM Response to Original message |
21. Yeah, and pre-VHS when we waited all year to see The Wizard of Oz. |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 02:18 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. I also remember waiting for Peter Pan every year. |
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mwooldri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 02:19 AM Response to Original message |
24. Here's a site about them: http://www.tv-signoffs.com/ |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 04:15 AM Response to Original message |
26. They're Heeeeere! |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 07:31 AM Response to Original message |
28. I used to spend summers with my grandmother |
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FloridaJudy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
30. Ours used to have some clergy |
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Reverend_Smitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
33. I remember them, they continued well into the 90's... |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
38. So what happened to the Good Television Code? |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 07:03 PM Response to Original message |
39. I grew up in the Los Angeles basin during the 1950s-70s |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 07:08 PM Response to Original message |
40. The CBS affiliate in Springfield, MO used to sign off at 10:45 on Sunday night! |
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