Do you still recall Bugs Bunny exclaiming “What’s up Doc?” and Sylvester’s “Sufferin’ succotash”? And all those other cartoon characters that were so funny. “I tawt I taw a puddy tat” maybe helps unlock memories of Tweety Bird at your local movie theatre, and of course, Uncle Scrooge who was always so tight with his money. Back in the fifties and sixties with Jim Backus who did the voice over for Mr. Magoo and those nostalgic days watching Movietone News, previews and cartoons. Those times now projected through memory, help us to renew and suddenly, allow the magic of the past to bloom. |
Do you recall the posters of the movie greats, placed outside your favourite theatre? What about those matinees with Ma and Pa Kettle, or the Bowery Boys? Oh what a thrill we experienced as kids. We still recall the thrill when the curtain opened to The Three Stooges or Donald O’Connor and his talking mule, way back when us seniors were still in elementary school.
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She was a wild and lovely Rose. Does that bring back Al Martino? Fairy tales come true, sung by Sinatra, Jimmy Durante, Dino, so many of those. Remember when Dean ended a show with..."keep those cards and letters coming, wont you?" That was really a great program on the old 21 inch tv, eh? Do you recall Bob Newhart's, THE DRIVING INSTRUCTOR, monologue? How about his comedy skit, The USS Codfish. Remember Danny Kaye and his film Hans Chrisian Anderson, singing The Ugly Duckling, does that a bit of childhood perhaps jog? From CBC do you recall moderator Fred Davis on Front Page Challenge. With Gordon Sinclair, Betty Kennedy, Jack Webster, and Pierre Burton. How about on radio, The Happy Gang, without a TV screen how did we manage? Do you recall the old shortwave radio that sometimes could even pull in a signal from the Iron Curtain. Then with Sputnik the whole world orbited in a changed direction. Goodbye, vacuum tubes, hello transistors, computers, yahoo. Looking back at the mirrors of many yesterdays, time for a few reflections to ponder, me and you.
So here we are today with many folks, world wide, are purchasing masks in bulk. Apparently, the good ones contain rubber. Suddenly, the prices have skyrocketed into orbit. Some might suggest.... what you have to pay for them now is highway rubbery. There's a rubber band and a brass band. You have to both contract and expand and face the music of this language called English to understand. Say cheese, c'est fromage; smile, c'est domage learning two tongues in our land. Comprehending too, two,to, and if that's not enough. Were, where, and wear. As it were, "pip pip", old boy we still remember those expressions everywhere. How about a tongue twister tutor who tooted a flute tried to tutor two tutors to toot. Said the two to the tutor, is it harder to toot or to tutor two tutors to toot....folks its no picnic learning both languages, c'est dommage, its tough. Wow, what new immigrants today have to pursue! Plus all the exceptions in grammar and expressions to boot. It ain't easy today's ESL route and all the peculiar subtle nuances to discern. Oh well, I guess that's show biz. Sinatra's record label, if memory serves correctly, was Reprise... Some of us seniors remain de feeted by metrics. Trying to inch along with centimeters as the new rule.. We still feel removed by the ethics. Many of us, as youngsters, were Imperially conditioned by the ever changing norms at school.. With the pints, quarts and all that was familiar, like Fahrenheit, deep down, we still feel rather uncomfortable measuring and weighing so many concepts with a completely altered appetite. So many people from all over the world are coming to Canada. I came here at age five from Bolivia, South America in 1950 and couldn’t speak a word of English. There was no ESL in those days and sink or swim is all you could hope for. Today, immigrants also have to try and digest both English and French. |
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