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12/17/2022 🚗Retro Bumper Stickers🚗   2 comments

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I’ve never been one to load up the bumpers of my vehicles with the pearls of wisdom contained on bumper stickers. I’ve had more vehicles than I can remember and the only bumper sticker I ever put on one of my cars was in 1975. It read, HONK IF YOUR HORNY, on the back of my beautiful orange Gremlin. That being said I still love reading them on the cars of others. Here are a few that decorated vehicles during the late 20th century.

CAUTION, I DRIVE JUST LIKE YOU

SORRY, I DON’T DATE OUTSIDE MY SPECIES

NOT ALL DUMBS ARE BLOND

I DON’T BRAKE FOR PEDESTRIANS

IF YOU LIVED IN YOUR CAR, YOU’D BE HOME BY NOW

LEARN FROM YOUR PARENTS’ MISTAKES, USE BIRTH CONT ROL

EAT WELL, STAY FIT, DIE ANYWAY

MY WIFES OTHER CAR IS A BROOM

INSTANT ASSHOLE, JUST ADD ALCOHOL

BEER ISN’T JUST FOR BREAKFAST

HE WHO LAUGHS LAST, THINKS SLOWEST

BE CAREFUL – 90 PERCENT OF PEOPLE ARE CAUSED BY ACCIDENTS

DON’T DRINK AND DRIVE – YOU MIGHT SPILL SOME

I’M NOT A COMPLETE IDIOT – SOME PARTS ARE MISSING

HONK IF YOU’VE BEEN MARRIED TO ELIZABETH TAYLOR

SEVEN SHOPPING DAYS LEFT

06/16/2022 🥸Retro Trivia🥸   Leave a comment

Everyone seems to love old TV shows, old movies, and any and all celebrities. Here’s a collection of film and TV trivia items from the past. Enjoy them if you can. Call an older family member or friend for help if necessary.

  • The waist size of bus driver Ralph Kramden’s uniform on the hit show, The Honeymooners, was 49 1/4 inches.
  • Do you remember that the TV characters, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, were married on the show at the Byram River Beagle Club in Greenwich, Connecticut?
  • During his 30-year run as the host of the Tonight Show, Johnny Carson delivered 4531 monologues.
  • The Clampett family from the Beverly Hillbillies TV show originated from a home in the Ozarks called Hooterville. It also served as the setting for two spinoff series, Petticoat Junction and Green Acres.
  • Bob Clampett who created the Bugs Bunny cartoon character was inspired when he saw an actor munching a carrot in a movie. That actor was Clark Gable.
  • Groucho Marx’s real first name was Julius.
  • The 14th screen Tarzan, former LA Rams linebacker Mike Henry, sued for physical and mental injury following his third and final film when he was bitten by Dinky the Chimp.
  • Lucille Ball became an official redhead at age 30, after 12 years as a platinum blonde and 18 as a natural brunette.
  • The 1955 movie, King Kong with Fay Wray, was the first Hollywood film shown on television after the US movie industry ended its ban.
  • One of our favorite actresses, Farrah Fawcett, had a plumbing fixture named after her. It was a gold plated “Farrah Faucet”.

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