BS: romper room Life's disappointment

Subject: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: olddude
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 05:38 PM

I was reflecting today, always a mistake when I do that. I figured out what prepared me most for life's disappointments was that 1950's children s show called Romper room. Remember that? Well everyday this skinny lady in the show would have a hand mirror with nothing in it. Like I didn't notice yah. Her Magic mirror. She would babble something like romper stomper bomper boo then say ... magic mirror, I see Sally, why hello Sally and hi Charlie, and there is Davey ... never never my name ...

On my birthday she would say .. a big happy birthday to Joey, Mary, Sebastien!!!   I mean really !!! Sebastien !!! .. nope never me ...

Watched that show when I was four ... When I was 16 I gave up :-( Not to be ... Danny wasn't in her magic mirror LOL

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: olddude
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 05:40 PM

Now I realize, the lady was bitch

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: olddude
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 05:52 PM

Sorry, I should say something kind .. You prepared me well for life with your magic mirror

Teasing that's all
:-)

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: gnu
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 06:23 PM

With your training, you coulda taken the bitch out painlessly and saved countless "Dans" their pain. In, quick shot, out and back to the Blackhawk. Worked for Binny.

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: olddude
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 07:06 PM

good idea GNU, I will gas up the blackhawk LOL

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 07:07 PM

"...this skinny lady in the show ..."

This was a franchise.... the one in Kansas was NOT skinny...far from it. (I knew her & her husband personally...)

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 07:31 PM

Romper room is still alive and well... Just look around you...

I had a guy today following me about 5 inches off my back bumper... I told the P-Vine to open the rear door of the CR-V so he could just drive into the back...

The economy adds 227,000 jobs last month and people screaming that Obama is wrecking the economy??? Bush was losing 500,000 a month???

Sarah Palin says that Obama wasn't vetted to be president???

Thin lady, fat lady and and lady in between... Time for recess for wacko behavior... Maybe too much sugar???

Bob

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: olddude
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 07:36 PM

naw Bill I remember a skinny girl ... hmmm

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: olddude
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 07:38 PM

That's her Bill ... why did I think skinny ... of course I was four

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 07:51 PM

she never called my name .... sniff sniff ... I apologize for my bad behavior .. now I know why my name was never called... I will go to time out quietly :-)

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 07:53 PM

Hate to break this to ya, Dan, but to get Miss (insert name of local Romper Room hostess HERE) to see you in her magic mirror, you had to send her money. The actual job paid peanuts. The only way to turn it into a gig that paid a living wage was bribery. You didn't get wished a happy birthday? Blame it on your mom. She's the one who didn't mail in a birthday request with a $20.00 bill in it.

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: olddude
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 08:12 PM

Dang ... all these years blaming it on the poor magic mirror lady .. wait till I see ma ... dang

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: olddude
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 08:14 PM

Lady I remember was Fran but she was from Pittsburgh .. maybe they were all called Fran ... hmmmm something else to ponder

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 08:30 PM

The Romper Room lady in Jacksonville, Florida when I was a kid was Miss Penny.

When I attended the university in Pensacola during the early '70s, the local Romper Room lady was the wife of one of my philosophy professors.

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: gnu
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 09:59 PM

I never saw Romper Room. I watched The Friendly Giant. He coulda set up ops take take out that Romper Room bitch. Gerome as a lookout and Rusty coulda pecked her eyes out on accounta Rusty was an Armed Free Ranger Chicken eh.

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: Janie
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 09:59 PM

Funny, I loved Romper Room. Couldn't tell you why. I guess because it seemed like magic to me and I will always love magic.

Or simply very fond memories of preschool mornings with a belly full of breakfast and sitting in front of the TV with my sisters while Mom caught up with chores, and playing together while we -sortawatched Romper Room, Betty Boop, etc.

A time of security and love.

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: olddude
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 11:02 PM

Janie honey I did too .. and I am teasing .. Oh my brother just reminded me that the girls name was Patty not Fran ... A mind is a terrible waste getting older :-)

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: olddude
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 11:03 PM

I bet she called your name Janie ... I am jealous .... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: Janie
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 11:56 PM

Back then, probably.

Not many girls named Jane or Janie these days.

Still, I'm trying to picture Ms. Romper Room gazing through her magic mirror and saying "Happy Birthday, olddude." *chortle*

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: Paul Burke
Date: 10 Mar 12 - 05:54 AM

Here she comes now, now
Gone, gone, gone
Ready, ready, ready, ready, ready
Got my eyes wide open

Ever since I was on cripples Monday
Got my eyeballs on my knees, Aww my baby walkin'
After hours with Mad Mary Williams
Said she never understood a word from me, because...

I know that she cares about me
I heard her call my name
And I know that she's long dead and gone
Still she ain't the same
When I wake up in the morning mama
I heard her call my name
I know that she's gone, gone, gone
I heard her call my name
And then my mind split open...

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Mar 12 - 07:16 AM

What a great idea for our nursing home ministry, to re-create this!

It was the Happy Birthday Olddude image that inspired this! But I'm gonna play ol' Dan's music for the soundtrack while we do it.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: Micca
Date: 10 Mar 12 - 12:13 PM

Oldude he wrote of how bad he felt
as a child not being named
on a TV show on his birthday
no magic worked, again
And it struck a chord of memory
With a deep enduring pain
For the kids who never stood a chance
Of being "in the frame"
For the ignored kids across the land
the ginger, short, or lame,
the four-eyed and the victimised
The bullied , shy , wrong name
the kid whose clothes were hand me down
again and again and again
memory opens up the door
and I too take my place
among those faceless long lost kids
in my own empty space

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: olddude
Date: 10 Mar 12 - 12:30 PM

Micca ... Priceless Laughing ... OMG

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: Bert
Date: 10 Mar 12 - 12:50 PM

So THAT'S my problem! We didn't have a Romper room, or a TV.

When the Air raid sirens went off, we would play under the dining room table.

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: olddude
Date: 10 Mar 12 - 01:08 PM

I am so sorry Bert, At least you were not left out of the magic mirror like me ...

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: olddude
Date: 10 Mar 12 - 01:11 PM

I bet the lady even called Kendall ... even back then he had all the girls :-) teasing ya buddie

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Mar 12 - 01:57 PM

Sorta takes all the romance out!

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Mar 12 - 03:20 PM

Miss Fran never called my name.... on the air.

I only saw her on the air maybe twice, because it was so insipid I couldn't stand it. She admitted later that she could barely keep her face straight trying to say that stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: ragdall
Date: 10 Mar 12 - 04:42 PM

Dan,
Consider yourself lucky to watch the show.   My family didn't have a TV when I was a child.

You can catch up on the names of the Misses in various locations here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romper_Room#A_typical_episode

rags

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: ragdall
Date: 10 Mar 12 - 04:43 PM

That's what I get for not using the preview.
Trying again for a clicky.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romper_Room#A_typical_episode

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Mar 12 - 07:00 PM

Never saw it and haven't ever cared about it.

Micca, that was beautifully penned and very poignant. I can relate...the ginger hair, teasing about my violin case, etc. Thanks for sharing, darlin'.

kat

Subject: RE: BS: romper room Life's disappointment
From: olddude
Date: 10 Mar 12 - 08:30 PM

Micca, wasn't laughing at the poem , it is beautiful just the though of calling olddude in the magic mirror ... Your poem is beautful

I see Mary and skipy and olddude

now that would have been something huh