From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 02 Jun 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article   
   , Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
      
   >Moe Trin wrote:   
      
   >> But then we noted that there was really only a couple of choices   
   >> for our radio serials listening...    Didn't everyone listen to   
   >> "The Lone Ranger", "Tom Mix and his Ralston Straight-Shooters",   
   >> Roy Rogers, Gene Autry (at Melody Ranch)...  while the older kids   
   >> were getting frightened out of their minds by "The Shadow", or   
   >> "The Whistler".   
      
   >   Ah no.  I was about  10 years old when I was listening to the   
   >Whistler, the Shadow, Mr.District Attorney, and the Lone Ranger as   
   >well as Superman, Jack Armstrong the All American Boy, Chandu the   
   >Magician living on a farm I was cold to the charms of Gene Autry,   
   >Red Ryder with the Duchess and Lil Beaver was interesting.   
      
   I was a city kid (well, town, really) but for some reason I really   
   wasn't in to Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, or Red Ryder (although I did   
   get a Daisy b-b gun and I'm pretty sure that was logo-ed as Red Ryder.   
      
   >Red and his crew appeared in comic books and some good stuff that   
   >taught you more about the world.   
      
   Of course, but comic books were expensive and took a good chunk out   
   of my allowance.   On the other hand, the various breakfast cereals   
   were certainly targeting us.  I learned a fair amount of wood-craft   
   from the cards that separated the layers in a Shredded Wheat box - I   
   think that was from Straight Arrow.   Don't forget your Ralston   
   Straight Shooter Pledge of Allegiance that was often on the box   
   (especially the part where you promised to eat at least three bowls   
   of Ralston every week).   
      
   >   But the Whistler and the Shadow were good shows that never   
   >bothered me too much.  Learned to laugh like the Shadow and the   
   >Whistler was hard to whistle.   
      
   I think some of my problem with the Shadow, and the Whistler was my   
   sister pulling some stunts.   That laugh was beautiful.   
      
   >   TV is different because of the pictures that rigidify the   
   >imagination which you had to use to imagine the characters in a   
   >radio drama.   
      
   Stan Freberg probably described it best in one of his "Pay Radio"   
   skits - "Does television stretch the imagination?" "Yup - all the   
   way up to 21 inches". That was the same skit where he had the ten   
   ton maraschino cherry dropped onto the top of the 700 foot mountain   
   of whip cream that was slid into Lake Michigan (refilled with hot   
   chocolate for this demo), to the cheering of 25,000 extras.  ("Let's   
   see them try THAT on TV")   
      
           Old guy   
      
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