Mister Boffo lead time revealed (28 October)
Joseph Nebus
is working a zippy 46 years ahead of deadline.
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2009/10/28&name=Boffo
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Joseph Nebus
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Mike Marshall
> So since Conelrad went off the air in 1963 apparently Joe Martin
>is working a zippy 46 years ahead of deadline.
>http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2009/10/28&name=Boffo
I remember seein' some ad
so I turned on my conelrad
but I didn't pay my Con Ed bill
so the radio didn't work so well...
-Mike
Jim Strain
> So since Conelrad went off the air in 1963 apparently Joe Martin
> is working a zippy 46 years ahead of deadline.
>
>
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> Joseph Nebus
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Jeez, to paraphrase Jeff Foxworthy, "You might be a geezer if you
still remember CONELRAD." There are radios in *antique* stores that
have the little Civil Defense triangle marked at the 640 and 1240
spots on the AM dial -- which was pretty much the only dial that
mattered in those days.
. . . jim strain (certified geezer) in san diego.
Dave Garrett
http://www.conelrad.com/index.php
Dave
Jim Strain
> In article <hc9olp$6...@hubcap.clemson.edu>, hub...@clemson.edu says...
>
> > nebu...@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) writes:
> > > So since Conelrad went off the air in 1963 apparently Joe Martin
> > >is working a zippy 46 years ahead of deadline.
>
> > I remember seein' some ad
> > so I turned on my conelrad
> > but I didn't pay my Con Ed bill
> > so the radio didn't work so well...
>
> http://www.conelrad.com/index.php
>
> Dave
Well, *that* was pretty depressing. Thanks for posting it, I guess.
I did get a laugh out of the crusading minister who claimed that
communist-sponsored "jungle beat" music was the inspiration behind
both the Watts riots and campus unrest of the 60s. I don't know if
it's a positive or a negative, but after visiting conelrad.com, at
least I know that the current crop of wing nuts didn't invent batshit
craziness.
. . . jim strain in san diego.
James Nicoll
Jim Strain <jasps...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On Oct 28, 2:10�pm, Dave Garrett <d...@compassnet.com> wrote:
>> In article <hc9olp$6...@hubcap.clemson.edu>, hub...@clemson.edu says...
>>
>> > nebu...@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) writes:
>> > > � � � So since Conelrad went off the air in 1963 apparently Joe Martin
>> > >is working a zippy 46 years ahead of deadline. �
>> > >http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2009/10/28&name=B...
>>
>> > I remember seein' some ad
>> > so I turned on my conelrad
>> > but I didn't pay my Con Ed bill
>> > so the radio didn't work so well...
>>
>> http://www.conelrad.com/index.php
>>
>> Dave
>
>Well, *that* was pretty depressing.
I liked the piece about Janet Greene.
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<cd317cf0-eb35-4312...@c3g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
Jim Strain <jasps...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Jeez, to paraphrase Jeff Foxworthy, "You might be a geezer if you
> still remember CONELRAD." There are radios in *antique* stores that
> have the little Civil Defense triangle marked at the 640 and 1240
> spots on the AM dial -- which was pretty much the only dial that
> mattered in those days.
Ad from the Los Angeles Mirror-News, October 26, 1959 (as seen on the
L.A. Times' history blog):
http://bit.ly/B12fs
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