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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 02:36 PM
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Are you old enough to know why this is funny?
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malta blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 02:36 PM
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1. LOL
:rofl:

Yes.
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 02:37 PM
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2. Nope.
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 02:38 PM
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3. Argh, Argh !!!! To the Moon Alice!!
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 02:39 PM
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4. And away we go!
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RadiationTherapy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 02:40 PM
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5. Hey! That's not Jackie G!!
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AwakeAtLast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 02:42 PM
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6. Only because of reruns and TV Land






:hide:
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 05:19 PM
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27. Its funny how people think their TV shows only existed in one time.
I've met lots of boomers and older who think young people have never heard of old shows. Don't they know about reruns?
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 02:45 PM
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7. You can be young too; Honeymooners are always on reruns.
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 02:45 PM
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8. I am old enough to know *why* it is funny
But not old enough to find it *actually* funny.

The idea of a man hitting his wife just never made me smile.
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Blue Diadem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 02:56 PM
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11. Yeah, me too Book Lover.
It's not something I ever found funny either.
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tismyself Donating Member (501 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 03:27 PM
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16. oh...
He never hit her. Good lord - that would have meant skin contact in a time when couples on TV slept in separate beds.

He would say "to the moon, Alice" which seems to have been replaced with the "fuck you"s that I hear now.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 02:46 PM
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9. Unfortunately, yes.
Redstone
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 02:47 PM
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10. Yes. Repeats, of course.
Still, good stuff
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 03:31 PM
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22. Oh, so now domestic abuse is funny
I don't even know DU anymore!
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 03:32 PM
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23. Of course it is. Not like he's 'shopping pics of
black looters during a flood/hurricane, hater.
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VenusRising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 02:57 PM
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12. Hahahaha!
:rofl:

I guess I am old enough. :cry:
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 03:02 PM
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13. Yes, I am. Jackie Gleason had a home in Florida, and built a studio there, too.
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 03:09 PM
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14. HOW SWEET THIS POST IS
:rofl: :woohoo: :woohoo: :hi:
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LeftinOH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 03:12 PM
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15. Yes, and its good for a hearty chuckle. Was that toon from 1969?
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 03:29 PM
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17. Oh hell yes, my dear zanne!
But you know he never would do it!

:rofl:
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callous taoboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 03:22 PM
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18. Bang / Zoom
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Arkansas Granny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 03:25 PM
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19. Yes, as a matter of fact, I am.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 03:27 PM
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20. Yes, I do
Jackie Gleason.

While the idea of a man punching his wife does make me wince, I loved her response even more. The real joke was that one look from Audry Meadows, herself a formidable preseance, was all it took to completely melt him.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 03:28 PM
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21. LOL. That's good.
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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 03:32 PM
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24. yep!
Old Mr. Gleason finally went through with it.

"To the moon Alice"
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 03:43 PM
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25. Oh, yeah.
"To the moon!"
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 05:08 PM
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26. Yes.
:rofl:
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FKA MNChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 05:21 PM
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28. Sadly, yes
:evilgrin:
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Cant trust em Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 05:35 PM
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29. I'm not old enough. But I get the joke.
More clever than funny.
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Rhythm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 05:55 PM
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30. Yeah...
Used to watch the reruns late night... better than the so-called sitcoms that currently take up the airwaves.
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 05:59 PM
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31. I find myself watching alot of reruns instead of the major network shows now.
I HATE Reality TV!
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Rhythm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 06:13 PM
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32. TV is not 'reality'...
I don't watch any of that stuff, honestly.
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 06:20 PM
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33. It was *because* it was an empty threat that it was funny.
If she'd even acted in the least bit frightened, it wouldn't have been funny. Alice was obviously the brains in that outfit: he was a posturing blowhard, and Alice could see right through him. If he'd actually hit her, that would have been disturbing, and not in the least humorous.

Besides, Alice would have taken him to the cleaners, and rightly so.
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RoyGBiv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 09:28 PM
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41. Alice woulda kicked his ass n/t

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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 06:27 PM
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34. Yes -- thanks to reruns, thank you very much.
:P

Growing up in Conn., we got Ch. 11 in NYC, which reran The Honeymooners almost as incessantly as TV Land does Sanford & Son at present. :eyes:
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TheCentepedeShoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 06:39 PM
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35. Yes
And ya know, growing up in a somewhat abusive household, and being verrry verry young at the time, I still knew the difference between what Ralph was doing on the teevee and the 'real thing.'
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 07:19 PM
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36. Yes, I am, and yes, it's funny!
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 08:29 PM
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37. LOL!
I'm only 22, but I still know why that's funny. :rofl:
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 08:55 PM
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38. yes...
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 09:01 PM
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39. Yep.
Thanks for posting the grin :)
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 09:17 PM
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40. !
:rofl:
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woo me with science Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 09:32 PM
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42. Just watched one the other night.
Ralph got laid off, and nobody would hire him because they knew his layoff was temporary. Alice got a job instead, but the company HAD A POLICY OF NOT HIRING MARRIED WOMEN, so Alice had to lie and say she lived with her brother, Ralph. The comedy of the episode came because her boss kept hitting on her, and Ralph had to control his temper and keep up the facade, so she wouldn't lose her job.

What a difference a few decades make...

The standard of living was something, too. I know he was a bus driver, but the Kramdens never even owned a COUCH. :)
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-08 09:38 PM
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43. One of these days, Alice... One of these days...
Honeymooners were awesome.
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