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I find it fascinating that in the 50's and 60's we had no Internet and limited phone access, yet any kid in this entire country who watched Popeye knew those two sets of alternate lyrics LMAO

Thanks for the laugh!
Me the dino ain't ever heard that one.
It also rhymes a lot better!

What we are seeing is another proof if the plantation owners can prevent the slaves from reading or becoming educated in any way, then it's easier to keep them slaves. We are also seeing the willingness of the new slave class to voluntarily remain ignorant. Sad really.

Love it, Katrinam41 !!! I still think of Tom Terrific (from Cap'n Roo) when I see a funnel...

Yes! Smiling here!

Right you are, JakeOrilley! All because the left has zero sense of humor or good satire.

Yes! Also:

I'm Popeye the sailor man,
I live in a garbage can,
I eat all the worms,
And spit out the germs!
I'm Popeye the sailor man, boop boop!

Holy smokes, what we remember from a fun and misspent youth, LMAO! Oh no - more goofy stuff popping into my head, LOL!

His hair was PERFECT !!!

How did the millions upon millions that got killed whitewashed by any history? It was their own people that they were killing. Do not the people that are now espousing socialism realize this? If "they" succeed in a change in government, the first people up against the wall will be them!

And then I read through the rest of your post - the DEI nonsense and forcing kids that were bright to sit through a class that was geared toward the slowest (or lately the non-English speaking students) - and they did not have a chance.....

Hey Dino, some of the songs we sang would probably be banned today! And the one I remember about the Crocket song that us kids all used to laugh at would not be able to be uttered today....

Back then, if there was an issue, all it resulted in would have been a mouth washed out with soap. Now - no telling what the price would be! But might be fun to see the grins on the people that would remember their younger days.

Because since the late 50's the left (pro-socialists) have been in control of 'government' schools.
I think LBJ's damned fool Viet Nam war lies might have convinced enough
(not all) so-called 'educators' that socialism couldn't be that bad if it defeated the
US military. (Not that the 'educators' understood anything about the war.)
Dumping millions of less educated students into newly "integrated"
schools had a distinct negative effect on learning, iirc, starting in 1970.
DEI hiring of teachers without command of their subjects (and trained
to favor socialist policies) further destroyed the 'government' education system.
The inconvenient truth that socialism always ends in economic collapse
couldn't be taught by people brainwashed otherwise and the millions of
deaths caused by socialism had to be written out of history while
colonialism had to be demonized.
It was easier to blame the 'west' for thousands who fought and died in Viet
Nam than to blame communism for the more than 100 million that socialism
murdered.

Too True, Katrinam - too true.

Sometimes trying to hang onto the joy - is difficult, but I am always trying!

The death toll in the Soviet Union, The Chinese Communist State, and then add in the Pol Pots of the world - inflicted on their own peoples - make the death toll in WWII look small.

Why is it that this has not been taught in US schools since the '60's?

Had 9 brothers and sisters. When any one of us got any of these, she would put us all in the same bed (the pull out mattress on the sofa) so we could all get it and then not have to worry about it again. She was an RN - and knew what she was doing.

We were never bothered with any of them again!

You are all triggering so many memories with these posts. Francis Marion the Swamp Fox, Eh Chico, Eh Cisco, Hopalong, Sky King, Fury, Rin Tin Tin, Captain Kangaroo, Howdy and Buffalo Bob, Midnight the cat and Andy Devine, they just don't stop. How innocent and joyful, full of beans and unstoppable we were. No longer innocent, but the joy, beans and unstoppable are still part of us.

And that Little Nash Rambler, beep beep, beep beep. His horn went beep beep beep

ROTFLMAO!

I now recall hearing as a kid a different mockery of the Disney Crocket theme song repeated in Dothan, Alabama, but can no longer remember how it went.
But just awakened in my memory is~~
I'm Popeye the sailor man.
I live in a garbage can.
I always go swimmin' with bowlegged women.
I'm Popeye the sailor man.
Reading what I just wrote above~~That's just something stupid little kids would laugh at least the first time. Quite sure I must have because I picked it up and went around repeating it.
Loved those old Popeye beat 'em up cartoons and a Warner Brothers character like Bugs handing Elmer Fudd a stupidly staring at it lit stick of dynamite. Too violent me the dino recalls complaints.

I remember getting polio, smallpox, and measles vaccinations but that was all. My smallpox never "took", either. I got the shot but no scar showed up. Glad I did not get the mRNA jab, which isn't a vaccine.

Same, almost.

We should advise our youngsters that Socialism is a joke. It has not worked anywhere. nb

Agreed about the word gay, which is now forever tainted. The word was a happy word. I grew up with a good friend with the last name Gay before the word was so terribly "repurposed". The famous fighter pilot who was shot down and rescued during the battle of Midway was George Gay and then there's the Enola Gay...

I liked the Texas John Slaughter series, too!

We used to mock the theme from Davy Crockett (Fess Parker series), which I also really liked:

Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee,
Cutest little baby you ever did see,
Shot the nurse, killed the doctor,
escaped from prison in a helicopter!
Davy! Davy Crockett! King of the wild frontier!

Mytwosons both had Chicken Pox and Measlesbut no vaccines...,.my doctor forbid me to take the Coviid Vax...I had Covid and 4 other viruses before Covid. Covid was nothing. the puniest flu I ever had; I had Asian flu, Hong Kong Flu and SARS.Hello. nb

5 years, 6 months, myself . . . ;

You're very welcome.
I enjoy it, kinda like that architect in, The Fountainhead.