Did you all like "Earl" when it was first run?
bozo
For me it was an acquired taste and I had to let it grow on me. I
think the theme song hooked me first. I wonder by what percent of the
original market share (or however they measure the damn things) does a
production like that have to get to stay in syndication. I betcha it's
a lot less or more than we think. And what the hell does a 6.6 market
share rating mean anyway?
Jim
I can do an unctious sounding imitation of George Zimmer
(Men's Wearhouse) saying, "I guarantee it," but I don't
have the slightest who or what Earl is. Bro-in-law
of the guy two doors down, a plumber by trade?
Has a weekend gig at a state line casino north
of the Red River (day job: flipping burgers at
Wendy's)? U.N. diplomatic interpreter ("Earl the
Interpreter"), certified in French, Spanish, Swedish,
Finnish, German, and Mandarin?
bozo
I too thought a 6.6 "Earl" might not be enough information to beg the
question, but then I thought people like Cher, Seinfeld, Madonna,
Sylvester, OJ, Goofy and God would chide me for needlessly citing the
whole title of the show. Besides if you Google "Earl", what are the
chances you really want Scheib, Warren or Nightengale.
-bdn-
Jim
Odd you would mention Earl Scheib. I ran across an Earl
Sheib paint place only this morning in northwest Dallas.
I sort of remember when he died 20 years ago, but I had
forgotten he had gone national. I bet his successors charge
more than $29.95. (Maybe they'll repaint your Radio Flyer
wagon for that price.) They wouldn't know of his history or
his 1950s-70s TV ads around here, and I didn't stop in to
say hello.
The last I heard of the famiglia Scheib, his kid had
been arrested for caching prohibited arms like hand
grenades in the Mojave. He was a bit of a nutjob.
Tommy Joe
bozo wrote:
>
>
>
> I too thought a 6.6 "Earl" might not be enough information to beg the
> question, but then I thought people like Cher, Seinfeld, Madonna,
> Sylvester, OJ, Goofy and God would chide me for needlessly citing the
> whole title of the show. Besides if you Google "Earl", what are the
> chances you really want Scheib, Warren or Nightengale.
James EARL Ray
Tommy Joe - Founder and Chairman, the James Earl Ray Foundation
Tommy Joe
Jim wrote:
>
>
> Odd you would mention Earl Scheib. I ran across an Earl
> Sheib paint place only this morning in northwest Dallas.
> I sort of remember when he died 20 years ago, but I had
> forgotten he had gone national. I bet his successors charge
> more than $29.95. (Maybe they'll repaint your Radio Flyer
> wagon for that price.) They wouldn't know of his history or
> his 1950s-70s TV ads around here, and I didn't stop in to
> say hello.
I knew Scheib was dead but always thought he was from Southern
Cal, not Dallas. When you said he "went national" it seemed to imply
that he was from Dallas. I didn't read the obit I'm pasting here, so
maybe before it's over it says he's from Dallas, I don't know. But
anyway here's the guy's obit from the alt.obituary newsgroup where I
often go to see if I missed out on someone dying, which sometimes
happens when I drink for more than two days in a row and don't get the
newspaper or hear the news from someone else.
Tommy Joe
Earl Scheib, Founder Of Auto Paint Shop Chain, Dies
Folksy Businessman Won Fame For His TV Commercials Offering
Rock-Bottom Prices
FROM: The Los Angeles Times (March 1st 1992)
By Myrna Oliver, Staff Writer
Earl A. Scheib, whose commitment to painting cars at rock-bottom
prices led to a chain of more than 200 shops in about 40 states and
whose
television commercials made him an icon of Southern California's car
culture, died Saturday. He was 85.
Scheib was found dead in his Beverly Hills home by his housekeeper. He
had apparently died in his sleep early Saturday morning, said Jerry
LuVisi, a longtime employee of Scheib's Green Thumb Stables in Chino.
She attributed the death to probable heart failure and said Scheib had
suffered from emphysema for two years.
LuVisi said Scheib, who raised and raced thoroughbreds for more than
three decades, had been present at Santa Anita Park racetrack Friday
when his horse, Cause I'm Leaving, placed first in the fourth race.
Because his birthday was Feb. 29, he traditionally celebrated it on
Feb. 28, she said, and had done so Friday.
"Everybody loved him," LuVisi said. "He was very gruff to speak with,
but he had a heart of gold. He was a beautiful person."
Hardly a resident of Southern California was unaware of Scheib's
folksy, "Hi, I'm Earl Scheib" television commercials, in which he
promised to paint any car for a price that steadily edged up over the
years from $29.95 to $119.95.
Although car owners in some locales consider repainting a car an
abomination, Scheib had correctly decided in the 1930s that Southern
Californians would welcome an affordable way to spiff up their
much-loved vehicles.
Scheib, who also saw the possibilities in affordable ads on late-night
TV, starred in his commercials and prompted imitations by others in
the automotive field.
His commercials made him an enduring symbol of Southern Californians'
devotion to automobiles. They also made Earl Scheib a pseudonym for
low-cost jobs in a variety of fields.
Scheib and his company, headquartered in Beverly Hills, were
continually hounded by county district attorneys and the Federal Trade
Commission, who doubted the veracity of his claims. Only a few colors
were available for the special price, they said, and the price was not
special because it was the everyday cost, not a markdown from anything
higher.
"It is my sincere opinion," Scheib wrote The Times after one debacle
with the FTC in 1963, "that $29.95 is a special price as we have not
raised our price in 27 years, still giving the public their choice of
any color."
He changed a word here or there as various authorities cracked down on
his popular advertisements. But he said the minor changes would not
affect his sales, and they did not.
Scheib's enterprise, as it spread coast to coast, nicely provided
luxuries such as his 45-acre Chino horse farm.
Among his horses was Fran's Valentine, the leading California-bred
filly of all time with earnings of nearly $1.4 million.
Scheib, whose wife died in 1984, is survived by three sons, Phil of
Washington state, and twins Don and Al, of Los Angeles. Funeral
arrangements are pending.
Jim
> Jim wrote:
>
> > Odd you would mention Earl Scheib. I ran across an Earl
> > Sheib paint place only this morning in northwest Dallas.
> > I sort of remember when he died 20 years ago, but I had
> > forgotten he had gone national. I bet his successors charge
> > more than $29.95. (Maybe they'll repaint your Radio Flyer
> > wagon for that price.) They wouldn't know of his history or
> > his 1950s-70s TV ads around here, and I didn't stop in to
> > say hello.
>
> I knew Scheib was dead but always thought he was from Southern
> Cal, not Dallas.
He was and I am. Thus, having forgotten he had gone
national, it is a surprise to see him in Dallas, or
actually his name and logo in Dallas, since seeing
him in Dallas or anywhere is highly unlikely given
his present state of being dead.
--
The 1952 film version of Alan Paton's "Cry the Beloved Country"
(book, 1948) is playing on TCM. Near the beginning of the film
at a train station in Johannesburg, one can hear a chorus singing
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight". It is only a fragment, but interesting.
Tommy Joe
Jim wrote:
>
>
>
>
> The 1952 film version of Alan Paton's "Cry the Beloved Country"
> (book, 1948) is playing on TCM. Near the beginning of the film
> at a train station in Johannesburg, one can hear a chorus singing
> "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". It is only a fragment, but interesting.
I'm 62 but was never a huge fan of that song. It was catchy but
that's about it. I watch TCM quite a bit but don't recall that movie
being on lately. I'm not living in the past, there's some new stuff I
like, but most of today's movies are annoying soundwise, and I really
don't like the replication oriented movies where everyone looks like
they're wearing costumes of whatever era or time they're supposed to
be in. The colors are sometimes overbearing. But I really hate the
stereo sounds and the overall bass sound to most of today's movies.
I'm not impressed. The actors are really over-rated too, ones like
Meryl Streep and Matt Damon and others who do accents of people from
other countries or regions within the United States. Big fucking
deal, anyone can learn an accent from an linguist coach within days.
I didn't see that movie yet but might catch it if it's on TCM or some
other tv channel because you can bet your ass you'll never see me in a
theater again. And besides, I think tv overall is better than the
movies, which typically are just two straight hours of long drawnout
junk, sort of like this letter I'm just about to wind up
right ........ now.
Tommy Joe
Tommy Joe
Jim wrote:
>
>
>
>
> The 1952 film version of Alan Paton's "Cry the Beloved Country"
> (book, 1948) is playing on TCM. Near the beginning of the film
> at a train station in Johannesburg, one can hear a chorus singing
> "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". It is only a fragment, but interesting.
Whoops sorry, rushed myself again. I thought you were talking
about the newer version of the movie, not the '52 version, although I
don't think I've seen either. I believe they recently came out with
one with a similar title. By recent I mean from the 70s on. Some of
those movies from the 50s and earlier based in africa were not bad,
such as Zulu for instance, pretty well done. I saw your post and
didn't note the 1952 date of the movie and reacted with great violence
and aggitation because I don't care too much for movies from today,
with exception of course, because maybe there's a part of me that
doesn't like today period, although, like I said the first time, I
dont' live in the past buddy, I'm a futuristic type guy, and anybody
who says otherwise is going to get a fist in the face, dig it?
Tommy Joe
Jim
> Jim wrote:
>
> > The 1952 film version of Alan Paton's "Cry the Beloved Country"
> > (book, 1948) is playing on TCM. Near the beginning of the film
> > at a train station in Johannesburg, one can hear a chorus singing
> > "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". It is only a fragment, but interesting.
>
> Whoops sorry, rushed myself again. I thought you were talking
> about the newer version of the movie, not the '52 version, although I
> don't think I've seen either.
I haven't read the book since the 1960s, but in the 1970s, when
the L.A. channels began to stay on all night with movies,
I saw the '52 movie for the first time. It was mostly faithful
to the book which was fresh in my mind then.
I just read _The Hero of Currie Road_ a couple of months ago.
It's an anthology, and I've read _Ah, But Your Land Is
Beautiful_ , a novel, which I think is his best work.
Beats that insipid thing by James Michener about
South Africa.
Tommy Joe
I don't have the patience to read an entire book unless it's short
stories or one long one with multiple chapters to give it a sense of
separation and relief. I did however read your post. I'm not a big
history buff because I think it's always tainted, especially if it's
military or political. Even with war movies I prefer where the enemy
is un-named and the story involves conflict among the soldiers
themselves. A good example of this was one from the 50s called
"Attack" with Jack Palance. Yeah, it looked like Korea, but they
didn't dwell on that or any of the historical aspects, just the story
taking place among the unit. I don't like history and I especially
don't like it in the hands of film makers.
Tommy Joe
someone
> Jim wrote:
>
> > The 1952 film version of Alan Paton's "Cry the Beloved Country"
> > (book, 1948) is playing on TCM. Near the beginning of the film
> > at a train station in Johannesburg, one can hear a chorus singing
> > "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". It is only a fragment, but interesting.
>
> I'm 62 but was never a huge fan of that song. It was catchy but
> that's about it.
I liked the BJ version... oh, checked that was actually: Hooked on a
Feeling.
someone
heehee... tainted.
bozo
> don't like the replication oriented movies where everyone looks like
> they're wearing costumes of whatever era or time they're supposed to
> be in. The colors are sometimes overbearing. But I really hate the
> stereo sounds and the overall bass sound to most of today's movies.
>
You hate it but I DESPISE that totally manufactured BASS sound in most
movies today, and someday plan to go on a serious rampage in a theater
to make the point too ... that spewing bass noise into sound tracks
will soon raise the insurance rates for exhibitors after I throughly
spray paint a theater screen with "I GOT YOUR BASS NOISE RIGHT HERE
YOU PANDERING COCKSUCKERS"
http://popup.lala.com/popup/360569505300577294
-Bozo "you're push'n me over the borderline" de Niro-
bozo
Speaking of foundations, I saw two unlikely strip mall tenants sharing
offices and storefront advertising space:
"Amherst Cultural Affairs & Eviction Service Center"
Think about it, the terms "stripmall+architecture" and "stripmall
+ballads" mean the terms are already considered oxymoronic and grist
for music:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS328&q=stripmall%2bballads
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_mall
-bdn-
Tommy Joe
bozo wrote:
>
>
>
> You hate it but I DESPISE that totally manufactured BASS sound in most
> movies today, and someday plan to go on a serious rampage in a theater
> to make the point too ...
We both hate manufactured bass sounds because our souls are warm
and gentle and easily shocked by noise that is othewise pedestrian to
the average idiot. When I talk about the bass in movies, it's not
just the music or background sound, it's the voices. The whole thing
sounds lower than it should. But I also hate manufactured stereo.
What a waste. The human head is a stereo system. That's why they put
the ears on the sides. When you listen to a band on stage you hear
all the instruments evenly through your head, not like with
manufactured stereo where one instrument coming from one speaker on
the extreme right with the other coming from the one on the extreme
left. It's totally useless and very distracting. I remember in the
first Superman movies, everytime there was a scene in the Daily Planet
I'd hear this stupid scratching sound off to the side of the theater.
Turns out it was the typewriters in the news room. A good head has a
good stereo system. If you need manufactured stereo it means you
don't have a good head.
Tommy Joe (I BASSically agree with you, Bozo)
Tommy Joe
bozo wrote:
>
> Speaking of foundations, I saw two unlikely strip mall tenants sharing
> offices and storefront advertising space:
>
> "Amherst Cultural Affairs & Eviction Service Center"
One of these days I'm going to get booted out of my apartment
for not having a job that pays enough for my rent. Maybe I can get a
job as an eviction server to save my own apartment. When I hand out
the papers I can tell 'em, "It's just a job my friend, if I don't do
it somebody else will." Thanks for the tip Bozo. I think I'll check
out the eviction service center and see if they'll hire me. If they
don't, that's ok, I pull back the big hanging overcoat and out comes
the big heavy machine gun as I blast my way into the blessed relief of
longterm eternal unemployment.
tommy joe (To work or not to work, that is the question, and is it
worth dying to never have to work again?)
Jim
> Jim wrote:
> > On Dec 12, 5:00 pm, Tommy Joe <j...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > > Jim wrote:
>
> > > > The 1952 film version of Alan Paton's "Cry the Beloved Country"
> > > > (book, 1948) is playing on TCM. Near the beginning of the film
> > > > at a train station in Johannesburg, one can hear a chorus singing
> > > > "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". It is only a fragment, but interesting.
>
> > > Whoops sorry, rushed myself again. I thought you were talking
> > > about the newer version of the movie, not the '52 version, although I
> > > don't think I've seen either.
>
> > I haven't read the book since the 1960s, but in the 1970s, when
> > the L.A. channels began to stay on all night with movies,
> > I saw the '52 movie for the first time. It was mostly faithful
> > to the book which was fresh in my mind then.
>
> > I just read _The Hero of Currie Road_ a couple of months ago.
> > It's an anthology, and I've read _Ah, But Your Land Is
> > Beautiful_ , a novel, which I think is his best work.
>
> > Beats that insipid thing by James Michener about
> > South Africa.
>
> I don't have the patience to read an entire book unless it's short
> stories or one long one with multiple chapters to give it a sense of
> separation and relief.
I read to take mental breaks from other
cerebral tasks. Been a voracious
reader since kidhood.
> I did however read your post. I'm not a big
> history buff because I think it's always tainted, especially if it's
> military or political.
Well, five or eight weeks ago, I read Alex Korda's 700-page
bio of Eisenhower. That was very readable. You'd
probably like it especially if you grew up in the
American generation whose fathers were
nearly all in WWII.
When I was in high school, I read Churchill's
_Memoir of the Second World War_, his
1100-page abridgement, in order to stay
one step ahead of my father. But when
I quoted from it, he'd say, "No, I don't
think that's quite correct," and upon researching
I'd find out my father was the one who was right.
(I refer specifically to the invasion of Italy.)
My fave TV is on the weekend: C-SPAN2
where authors of history and current
affairs, nonfiction predominantly, are
interviewed.
But I read a fair amount of fiction, and
Alan Paton, whom I alluded to earlier
beginning with _Cry, the Beloved Country_
is the sort of writer that I've enjoyed over the years.
His countrymen are very prolific. I've
probably read a dozen things by Nadine
Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee, and Athol Fugard,
which are just the first three South African
writers who come to mind. Gordimer
and Coetzee are both Nobelists. Add
Doris Lessing (raised in Rhodesia
and East Africa) who was also awarded a
Nobel. Good writing is fun to read.
Greatest modern fiction writer in my
opinion was Iris Murdoch. Certainly
among the most cerebral. It is the
cruelest irony that she died from
Alzheimer's. Almost anything that
Murdoch wrote is hard to lay down.
I'm a light-year off-topic in ba.broadcast.
This is not the sort of group that listens
to book talk on radio or TV.
Tommy Joe
Jim wrote:
>
>
>
> I read to take mental breaks from other
> cerebral tasks. Been a voracious
> reader since kidhood.
> Well, five or eight weeks ago, I read Alex Korda's 700-page
Well, it's no big deal, to each their own, but you and I are
complete opposites when it comes to this issue. I agree that reading
something well-written can be a pleasant time. I've done it. But I
have alsolutely no interest in reading a bio of anyone unless it's
just the facts ma'am, which shouldn't take more than a few pages at
most. I'm just not interested. So I can't say I don't like to read,
I just don't like long stuff, and if I'm going to read something long,
the last thing I'd pick would be something about history in terms of
war or politics or other such fare. I suppose if you're in solitary
confinement and you've got a good light you'd probably read anything
they'd toss through the slot. Then they turn off the light just when
you get to the good part. Gives you something to look forward to
tomorrow.
Tommy Joe
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bozo
it's not a man crush or anything
it's just I can't take my eyes off Catalina
that bitch is so hawt
what I wouldn't do for a weekend with her
and I don't even like mexicans
but I'm thinking of converting
if she'll have me
lab~rat >:-)
puked:
Catalina is drop dead gorgeous, but it's funny, a lot of people I say
that to say she's a butter face. To which I reply, "what face, you
fag?"...
--
lab~rat >:-)
Do you want polite or do you want sincere?