Another Pleasant Valley Sunday...
It's early. Nothing much has had time to happen yet. Got a phone call from our son, last night. He says things are going quite well with his gig in the Rockies. I'm so happy for him and I get to live, vicarously, thru his adventures. He's everything I probably wanted to be....
On the opposite end of the spectrum, our daughter has been having back problems and related pain for some time now; she's been going to therapy for it lately. Her doctor sent her in for an MRI the other day and they found that our "little one" has a herniated disc; that sucks. For the time being, they are gonna continue with the therapy sessions, but eventually, she may need surgery. That... really sucks. She is scared, and worried. Such surgery is fairly dangerous, from what we know. Not good.
Edie Adams
- Spokesperson in the 1960s for the Muriel Cigar Company where she provocatively coaxed the male viewers with her seductive sales pitch: "Hey big spender, spend a little dime on me" and "Pick me up and smoke me sometime."
Edie's husband (at the time) was comedian Ernie Kovacs who did competing ad spots for Dutch Master Cigars.
In a number of the Muriel commercials singer/comedienne Edie Adams appeared in different ethnic settings―German, French, Spanish, Chinese―to sing the Muriel song in many accents.
Edie also did her own series of singing commercials for the "Muriel" brand of cigarillo "It's the light cigar that keeps a cool head," she crooned in a sultry voice. Edie Adams was the first of the sexy commercial females on television. Susan Anton later took over her role in the late seventies.
The minute you walked in the joint
I could see you were a man of distinction
A real big spender, good looking, so refined
I figured that you're the Muriel cigar smoking kind.
So let me get right to the point
You're right in style when you're in Muriel's company
Hey! Big Spender, spend a little dime with me.
Hey! Big Spender, spend a little dime with me.
{Edie Adams speaks]
"Join the Muriel mild crowd. Pick one up and
smoke it some time."
Ad lyrics based on the song "Hey, Big Spender"
from the Bob Fosse Broadway play "Sweet Charity"
Muriel Cigar sponsored a series of "Here's Edie" specials on the ABC Network in the late 1960s. One 1968 promotional ad for the show came in the form of a Decca LP album ($3.98 value) called "Behind Those Swingin' Doors" where the "Fabulous Edie Adams" interpreted twelve top all-time classics. To get it you had to "Simply send $1 (Case, check or money order), five bands from any size Muriel and your name and address to: Muriel Record offer P.O. Box 150, Pinckneyville, Illinois. Like Now!" In the 1950s, before Edie Adams, Muriel Cigar commercials featured a cartoon female who sang the lyrics "I'm today's new Muriel, the fine cigars..." (the animated ads also included a husband and $5 child cigar).
TRIVIA NOTE: Edie Adams patented a cigar holder-ring which she used in TV ads for Muriel cigars in the 1960s. It was designed to show women that it was "lady-like" to smoke cigars.
Tiparillo's
The memory of Edie Adams & her Muriel's commercials brought to mind another series of ads from rival, Tiparillo's, and their spots that posed the question: "Should a gentleman offer a lady... a Tiparillo?" (Of course, he should, if he wanted her to improve the odds of her coming down with lung cancer, too...!)
Reminds me of a time, back in 1971. I'd just returned from Vietnam and had gotten my Honorable Discharge from the U.S. Marine Corps. Anyhow, I was out on a date with the then "love of my life" and we were sitting in a nice little restaurant. Anyhow, she pulled out a package of those tiny cigarillos and held one up for me to light for her. I looked at it, and at her and she asked, "Well...?"
I replied, "You don't actually intend on smoking that thing in public, do you?" To which she answered, "Of course."
I told her that I wasn't gonna light it, and that she wasn't gonna smoke it while I was with her. She took out a lighter and lit it for herself.
I got up and left the restaurant... and her. I don't recall who paid the bill; I don't think we'd been served yet. And I never saw her again. Some things just don't sit right with me, I guess....
Oh! And I just thought I'd toss in this ad for Winchester's, since I kinda like the picture.... Some things do... sit right with me, for whatever reason, I guess, too....
And, do you recognize the second woman from the left (in black)? Think... "Charlie's Angels".
And, let's not leave out an ad for "Virginia Slims". That wouldn't be fair to free-thinking, free-spirited women, everywhere, especially those who want to be men's "equals", in every respect.
THEY WALK AMONG US
(From my friend, Mary...)
I was at the checkout of a K-Mart. The clerk rang up $46.64 charge. I gave her a fifty dollar bill. She gave me back $46.64. I gave it back to her and told her that she had made a mistake in MY favor and gave her the money back. She became indignant and informed me she was educated and knew what she was doing, and returned the money again. I gave her the money back again...same scenario! I departed the store with the $46.64.
I walked into a Mickey D's with a buy-one-get-one-free coupon for a sandwich. I handed it to the girl and she looked over at a little chalkboard that said "buy one-get one free." "They're already buy-one-get-one-free", she said, "so I guess they're both free". She handed me my free sandwiches and I walked out the door.
One day I was walking down the beach with some friends when one of them shouted, "Look at that dead bird!" Someone looked up at the sky and said, "Where?"
While looking at a house, my brother asked the real estate agent which direction was north because, he explained, he didn't want the sun waking him up every morning. She asked, "Does the sun rise in the north?" When my brother explained that the sun rises in the east, and has for sometime, she shook her head and said, "Oh I don't keep up with that stuff."
I used to work in technical support for a 24/7 call center. One day I got a call from an individual who asked what hours the call center was open. I told him, "The number you dialed is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week." He responded, "Is that Eastern or Pacific time?" Wanting to end the call quickly, I said, "Uh, Pacific."
My sister has a lifesaving tool in her car designed to cut through a seat belt if she gets trapped. She keeps it in the trunk.
My friends and I were on a beer run and noticed that the cases were discounted 10%. Since it was a big party, we bought 2 cases. The cashier multiplied 2 times 10% and gave us a 20% discount.
I couldn't find my luggage at the airport baggage area, so I went to the "Lost Luggage Office" and told the woman there that my bags never showed up. She smiled and told me not to worry because she was a trained professional and I was in good hands. "Now," she asked me, "has your plane arrived yet?"
While working at a pizza parlor I observed a man ordering a small pizza, to go. He appeared to be alone and the cook asked him if he would like it cut into 4 pieces or 6. He thought about it for some time before responding."Just cut it into 4 pieces; I don't think I'm hungry enough to eat 6 pieces."
"Bushism"
HOT... is HOT!
7 comments:
Very entertainin today Chief...good read!
I had that same cashier...give me too much money back, I explain how much I am really owed and she looks at me as if I'm the stupid one....no thank you, nothing but a dead stare. Your cigar post reminded me of a friend of mine that use to smoke Mores...they had a dark paper wrapper that gave them that cigar look without the cigar smell.
Don't you folks have anything better to do on a pleasant Sunday, than read the crap I choose to blog? LeeAnn, you should know better than to be hangin' around with guys like us.... (I'd write more, but I'm gonna go watch "Duel At Diablo" for about the 100th time in my life; I'm trying to memorize the dialogue...)
And, Cookie, isn't it soon that you'll be flyin' high? Are you figurin' on joinin' the Mile High Club, while yer up there....?
LOL....joined the "Mile High Club" about 43 years ago over the Atlantic Ocean on a flight to Madrid Spain...in fact I might even have been a charter member. I've been married fer almost 41 years...so I had to be correct about when or the wife mighta got a little upset if'n she should ever read these comments... ;-)
...and yur right...although I don't know who she is...Leeann shouldn't be hangin around with the likes of us old bears....we might just negatively influence or embarrass her, you bein an old Jarhead and me an old salt frum the Navy....
I smoked a cigar in public once. It was at Disney Land, we spent the entire day there and we just watched the parade of lights, when I decided I'd better run to the gift shop a grab a few gifts. There was a lady there in front of the figurine display, she must have weighed 350 pounds -- every time I moved to get around her she stepped in front of me and I couldn't see anything. So I ran to my significant other and said: "Give me cigar!" He didn't want to, but I insisted, I ran back to where the large lady was and lit the cigar and started puffing smoke like a copper smelter (this was back before smoking bans). She started coughing and finally moved away and I got my figurines. My significant other wanted to crawl away and pretend he wasn't with me. But sometimes you gotta do what ya gotta do!
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