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I'm at the point of renewing my driver's license so Saturday morning went to the local BMV. While waiting for it to open I was sitting outside and a young family was there with a boy about4 and girl about 6. The boy was racing around in the grass and at one point a squirrel came down from a tree and stood there. Told the boy to stand there and call across to the squirrel and ask, "Hey, where's the moose??". And he did. The squirrel ran off, neither he nor the other kids or the folks asked what the reference to the moose was. I don't think they really knew, just an old guy kidding the boy probably.

So how many get the late 50s/early 60s reference to moose and squirrel??....
 
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At my college student union, one of the most popular girls there was from Russia...popular because everyone just wanted to hear her say Natasha's best line..."moose and squirrel". Not only was she a good sport being glad to comply, she sounded like a dead match.
 
My wife was a ticket agent for American Airlines here in KC. Every year for Halloween, they got to dress up. One year, she went as “Natasha” from the show. I made her a name tag that said “Natasha Fatale” (> Natasha Fatale - Wikipedia <). Everyone called her Ms. Fatale, not getting the connection!

Another year, she went as “Rufus T. Firefly.” I’ll leave you to guess who that was…
 
mikephillips said:
I'm at the point of renewing my driver's license so Saturday morning went to the local BMV. While waiting for it to open I was sitting outside and a young family was there with a boy about4 and girl about 6. The boy was racing around in the grass and at one point a squirrel came down from a tree and stood there. Told the boy to stand there and call across to the squirrel and ask, "Hey, where's the moose??". And he did. The squirrel ran off, neither he nor the other kids or the folks asked what the reference to the moose was. I don't think they really knew, just an old guy kidding the boy probably.

So how many get the late 50s/early 60s reference to moose and squirrel??....
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You should have used a Russian accent and said "where is moose?"
 
ckeithjordan said:
My wife was a ticket agent for American Airlines here in KC. Every year for Halloween, they got to dress up. One year, she went as “Natasha” from the show. I made her a name tag that said “Natasha Fatale” (> Natasha Fatale - Wikipedia <). Everyone called her Ms. Fatale, not getting the connection!

Another year, she went as “Rufus T. Firefly.” I’ll leave you to guess who that was…
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I'm older than dirt, but I had to look that up.
Would you believe I know about Duck Soup but don't think I ever saw it.
 
Let’s see…the latter has to do with Ed “Big Daddy” Roth?

And the former is a particular actor’s pseudonym: Steve McQueen, who would be 90 this year! I always liked his quote, “I’m not sure whether I’m an actor who races or a racer who acts.”
 
Duck Soup!

"Hail Fredonia! The country's gone to war!"

Ah, the Secretary of War. Awfully thoughtful of you to drop by."
 
  • Rufus T. Firefly: Married. I can see you right now in the kitchen, bending over a hot stove. But I can't see the stove.
  • Rufus T. Firefly: I got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.
  • Rufus T. Firefly: I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows till you come home.
 
When I lived in Riverside, California in the early 1970s, my friends and I harbored a deep fascination with the Marx Brothers and their movies. We used to go to a revival house (movies, not religion) in Anaheim near Disneyland, and watch a couple of Marx Brothers' movies. Seeing them on the big screen was something else. We memorized the dialog, too. One year, I went to a party dressed as Groucho and my friend was Harpo. We stayed "in character" the whole evening, with "Harpo" chasing the young ladies around the backyard pool, not saying a word, but honking his bulb horn! What great times! (Oh, yeah, I used to drive my 1966 Spitfire to all these places.)
 
One of my favorite movie scenes:

 
mikephillips said:
And don't forget Rufus' mysterious lady friend, Lydia the tattooed lady....
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One of my favorite songs, because I have seen clips of him singing it, I can almost remember the words to.
Almost.
I also think I have never seen 'a day at the races, a night at the opera'.
My ex Wife and I used to go to Midnight Shows at the art house cinema in Uniondale Long Island.
They showed two or three films a night, after hours.
One night we saw 'the treasure of Sierra Madre', when the bad guy said we don't need no stinking badges, I laughed out loud.
I finally got the joke in Blazing Saddles.
We were both movie nuts, and we didn't even know during 7 years of marriage.
 
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You ever notice, in those 1930s movies Groucho never had an actual mustache, it was always painted on. Later during his tv years he had a real one.
 
Captioning the photo above of the brothers, from left to right it’s Arthur (Harpo), Herbert (Zeppo), Leonard (Chico), Julius (Groucho) and Milton (Gummo) Marx. Lots of folks mispronounce Chico as “Cheeco”, when it was pronounced “Chico” with a short “i” like in “it.”

The brothers, evidently in a train compartment for the photo, look like gangsters! :smile:
 
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