Subj : Phones (was: Scavenger hunts)
To   : DARYL STOUT
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Sat Nov 28 2020 05:59:14

  Daryl wrote --

>   Amazing what they consider "humor"...and the "canned laugh track" does not cut it.

  I detest laugh tracks.
  A character will make some funny little remark and instead of a light
chuckle, the "audience" roars with laughter.
  When I was a kid there was some syndicated show and every so often the
same laughter and "Oh yeah!" was heard.  I thought that member of the audience
was at every show.  Only later did I learn the real reason.
  There was a woman in NYC in the late '50 and early '60s who went to every
show every day.  She made the rounds, since they were all free. 
  She was always in Jack Paar's audience and one time he interviewed her,
named Mrs Miller, a plump, friendly, middle aged woman.

>   When he told her "A telephone", she increduously said "You have got
> to be kidding me!!"...and with that, she left the room. <G>

   And a real pain to carry around.  :)
   I have a retired 1947 black Bakelite phone I used for years.  It's just
sitting on a table as decoration.  Someone asked why I had it and I said
"It's a conversation piece".  :)
   Joe
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