Re: I live for the lord, I ain't got to do all the boogie woogie.

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And teh hero is back! The Chief just rules.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 9:25 AM
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"The Chief stole the show. I've seen him Get Low and Tootsie Roll, but I didn't think he had it in him."


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 9:31 AM
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I listed to WKYS (tha PEOPLE'S STATION! I vote yes KYS Mr. Voice Man!) on my commute home from Tyson's every day for like three years, which means that any mention of Eastern Motors gets their goddamn jingle stuck in my head for days. Thanks, Apo. (Are you listenin', man?)


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 9:42 AM
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You're welcome, snarkout. It's a small world after all, it's a small, small world.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 9:43 AM
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The trifecta of homemade District ads: Eastern Motors ("Where your job's your credit"), Montgomery Flea Market ("It's just like, it's just like, a mini, mall"), and Shoe City ("It's your city, it's my city, it's our city, it's Shoe City"). That last one might be the jangliest of all of them, too bad I can't find it online.


Posted by: Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 9:47 AM
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Oh, Apostropher, you bad, bad man. Fortunately, this Akrobatik should drive your poisonous earworms away.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 9:48 AM
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Bwa ha, Spaq and I are here at the office and I got through only the first syllable of "Eastern Motors" before he was singing along.


Posted by: Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 9:49 AM
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I can't remember if you're a DC native, 'smasher, but there's also the television jingle for Joon Ri which ran constantly during Saturday morning cartoons in the mid-80s. ("When you take Joon Ri self defense/Then you too can say/'Nobody bothers me!/Nobody bothers me!'/Joon Ri means might for right!")


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 9:49 AM
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Nobody bothers me either!


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 9:50 AM
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There's also the estimable Senate Auto Insurance--"Kiss My Bumper! That's Right, Jussssssssst Kiss It! Ha Ha Ha"


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 9:54 AM
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yes KYS Mr. Voice Man

Morning is much, much better IMO. Russ Parr is personally grating, but the program that either he or the people who employ him put together is often really interesting listening. At least 2 of the horoscopes are consistently funny, 1 or 2 days/weekly there is something that makes me change the station, but it's often rhetorically sophisticated staged talk. Goffman in _Forms of Talk_ is very interesting on radio speech, and Parr is realy good at it.


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 9:59 AM
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Nothing beat Dennis Owens in the mornings in DC. What a sublimely odd man.


Posted by: mike d | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 10:05 AM
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9: Nobody bothers me either!


Posted by: joe dokes | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 10:11 AM
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13: Funny. Not really related, but the end of that commercial reminded me of this, and would somebody please steal that child for me?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 10:27 AM
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14: aren't your hands pretty full with the three you have already?


Posted by: Brock Landers | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 10:29 AM
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I don't know that one, snarkout. I've lived here for about 5 years, but I'm from Tejas originally. I might not have mentioned that before here.


Posted by: Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 10:35 AM
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Damnit, snarkout. I had managed to forget that for years.


Posted by: Nathan Williams | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 10:39 AM
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I had managed to forget that for years.

I just lost the game!


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 10:43 AM
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That's not funny, apo.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 10:49 AM
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This DCist post on Count Gore De Vol had a lot of good comments mentioning (and linking to) classic DC advertising.

Is the mini-mall guy really from the DC area? I thought that was in the Carolinas for some reason.


Posted by: Tom | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 10:51 AM
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Is the mini-mall guy really from the DC area?

Alabama.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 11:03 AM
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Christ, it's been ages since I lost the game. Now I'll be losing it for weeks. Curse yoooou!


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 11:03 AM
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19: Did you just lose too, ben?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 11:04 AM
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No, I just mean that the whole "the game" gag is amusing for about five seconds the first time you hear about it, and completely unnecessary ever after.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 11:06 AM
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Sounds like you're bitter.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 11:07 AM
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If I remember that the game is about losing when you remember something, but I can't remember what it is that I'm supposed to remember (which is actually the case), have I lost? (Slightly more subtle followup question -- it's possible that the only thing you have to remember is that the game where you lose something when you remember something exists -- there's no underlying subject matter. I can't actually remember if this is the case. Still, even if that is the case, if I can't remember the conditions for losing, have I lost?)


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 11:10 AM
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Oh, I thought the Flea Market was located in Montgomery (County).


Posted by: Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 11:13 AM
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Poor LB, she's lost the game and doesn't even know it.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 11:34 AM
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if you're an old enough dc hand, you'll love it at levitz.

anyone remember the old whfs?


Posted by: kid bitzer | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 12:08 PM
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I grew up with Levitz commercials in KC - definitely not an exclusively DC thing.


Posted by: shane | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 12:17 PM
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amazing that they managed to film ads with production values so unbecoming of a national chain. you would have thought they didn't even have a local chain, given how horrible the commercials were--maybe they were just selling off the back of a truck.
did they strive for that look?


Posted by: kid bitzer | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 12:19 PM
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29: Do you remember Cookie O Puss?


Posted by: joe dokes | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 12:28 PM
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29: anyone remember the old whfs?

Indeed. It was one of the things that help me survive high school in NoVa.


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 4:48 PM
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33=me. Stupid Firefox.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 5:33 PM
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dude. cerf. cellar door. little feat.


Posted by: kid bitzer | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 5:39 PM
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would somebody please steal that child for me?

Damn, that was tough, but I got her in a box here. How much you gimme for her?


Posted by: froz gobo | Link to this comment | 08- 3-07 6:43 PM
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