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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited October 2016

    Loved Casper. Loved Wendy too.

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited October 2016

    Just got back from visiting my brother. We were talking about Bucky Beaver and Ipana toothpaste. Anyone else remember the song?

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited October 2016
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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited October 2016

    That one was BMT. First time seeing it. LOL.

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited October 2016

    NativeMaine - thanks for posting. Yes Elimar, I'm sure you're just too young. Although it may have been a regional thing.

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  • luvmygoats
    luvmygoats Member Posts: 2,942
    edited October 2016

    Not sure it was regional. I grew up mostly in the SW - El Paso, Albuquerque but did some time in Hawaii too and I certainly remember it and think we used it. Part of the Ipana song is in "Grease" at the sleepover. Wikipedia the source of all knowledge says Ipana reached it's peak in the 1950s but faded fast in the 1960s. Bucky Beaver was a Disney creation.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited November 2016

    "Eenie, meenie, chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak..."

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  • luvmygoats
    luvmygoats Member Posts: 2,942
    edited November 2016

    Had to Google that one but I shall not spill the beans. And that would certainly have been from my era.

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited November 2016

    I had to look it up, too, but remembered it after I found it!

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited November 2016

    I too had to check with Dr. Google. Good one Eli.

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  • BookLady1
    BookLady1 Member Posts: 253
    edited November 2016

    I'm so behind! I'm still walking around singing "Casper, the friendly ghost, the friendliest ghost you know! Though grown ups might look in anger and fright the children all love him so! -La, la, la forget words here - he's really glad to meetcha and he's kind to evry living creature." Loved that little dude. ✌️❤️ Linda

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited November 2016

    Casper the friendly ghost
    The friendliest ghost you know
    Though grown ups might look in anger and fright
    The children all love him so

    Casper the friendly ghost
    He couldn't be bad or mean
    He'll romp and play, sing and dance all day
    The friendliest ghost you've seen

    He always say, "Hello"
    And he's really glad to meet cha
    Wherever he may go
    You know he's kind to ev'ry living creature

    Grown ups don't understand
    Why children, all love him the most
    But kids all know he loves them so
    Casper the friendly ghost

    Casper, and he's friendly
    And he's friendly

    He always say, "Hello"
    He's really glad to meet cha
    Wherever he may go
    He's kind to ev'ry living creature

    Grown ups don't understand
    Why children, all love him the most
    But kids all know he loves them so
    Casper the friendly ghost


    Read more: Little Richard - Casper The Friendly Ghost Lyrics | MetroLyrics



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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited November 2016

    Since no one jumped in with it..."eenie, beenie, chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak..." was, of course Rocky & Bullwinkle.

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    That saying always came before they took a break for a commercial. I always thought it was a great line as a prelude to a fart. Knowing those Rocky & Bullwinkle writers, they might have been implying something about all those show interruptions. They were clever like that.

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  • luvmygoats
    luvmygoats Member Posts: 2,942
    edited November 2016

    My dear sweet mother loved Dudley Do-Right.

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  • Loral
    Loral Member Posts: 932
    edited November 2016

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited November 2016

    I LOVED Dudley Do-Right!

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited November 2016

    In my youth, any product with a hippie-girl pitchwoman would get my attention. How I remember Cybill Shepard in that field of corn for Cornsilk makeup. Must have been right before she landed the more lucrative Cover Girl contract.

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited November 2016

    I remember Cornsilk, never realized realized that was Cybill Shepard.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited December 2016

    We lost a BCO sister a few days ago, SlowDeepBreaths, one who posted here and had a great memory for all things retro. This was not her main thread, I realize, but this is where I got to know her and I always enjoyed her contributions. Just going to say I will miss her here too.


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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited December 2016

    Oh Eli - thanks for letting us know. I wasn't aware she had passed. I too will miss her. Damn this disease.

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited December 2016

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited March 2017

    Native, did you run out of memories? When I was riding my bike today, I remembered when Capri pants used to be called pedal pushers (or are those technically two different items of apparel?) All I know is I was wearing something with a short cropped leg whilst I was pushing the pedals today.

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  • Loral
    Loral Member Posts: 932
    edited March 2017

    Pedal pushers???

    I think Capri's are a bit longer.......

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited March 2017

    Then, what the heck are clam diggers? (Maybe if only worn on a coastline?) I heard both those terms in the 60's, but mainly hear them called Capri pants now.

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited March 2017

    El, I still think of capris as pedal pushers in my mind! There is probably some technical difference, but I can't figure out what it is!So, being the curious type, I did a quick web search and found this:

    The 3 types of cropped pants. (Maybe 4.)

    Generally speaking, "cropped pants" refers to any pair of pants that is, well, cropped. In other words, shorter than a standard hem length.

    But in between the tops of your feet and the bottoms of your knees, there are lengths that correspond to particular styles of cropped pants, listed here in order from a little bit cropped to a lot.

    • Ankle pants. This length is exactly what you think it is: cropped to hit just above your ankle bones.
    • Capri pants. Shorter than ankle pants, classic Capri pants come to a length that's slightly longer than halfway between the knee and the ankle. (Look at the length on the two examples Grace Kelly is wearing.) They also can come in a length that hits at about the mid calf. More on this later.
    • Clamdiggers. Picture someone who has rolled up their pants to walk on the beach barefoot, digging for clams. Yep, that's the length this corresponds to. Sometimes used interchangeably with Capris, true clamdiggers are more likely to be looser and cuffed, so I'm counting them as a separate length and style.
    • Pedal pushers. The shortest you can get without wearing actual shorts, pedal pushers end just below the knees (as opposed to Bermuda shorts, that end just above them).

    From <http://www.franticbutfabulous.com/the-nearly-definitive-guide-to-cropped-pants/>



    WhoSay - Photo from Tim Gunn

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited March 2017

    Growing up in Maine, "Clam diggers" weren't a kind of pant so much as the way pants got rolled up to go wading or, surprise, digging for clams. Later, Clam Diggers were just below the knee length pants with a cuff, either made that way or created by rolling up some of the leg..

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited March 2017

    Nowadays, we call these Clam Diggers:

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    notice the tie at the knee.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited March 2017

    I knew you could clear all that up, NM! I think the diagram has the pedal pushers a little longer than as described. Turns up I WAS wearing pedal pushers (as per the written description. Mine ended just below the knee cap. Bonus about the Bermuda shorts, I was thinking about those recently too.

    Now culottes...I think of those as a skirt divided into leg holes. When they came to fashion, the skirts were about the length shown in that diagram, so o.k.; but I think of culottes as being ANY length shorter than gaucho pants. In the 70's, I had some culottes that were short enough to get me sent home from school. That in itself was remarkable because hot pants were in style and girls regularly wore those (quite stylishly, I might add, with over the knee boots,) so I was not really dressing that scandalously.

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited March 2017

    I agree the diagram has the length of clam diggers too long, but fashion clam diggers and working clam diggers may be different things. I've always thought of culottes as various lengths, too, but don't go by me because I always thought Bermuda shorts where knee length or just below the knee length!

    These are what I found searching short culottes, I remember them being called tap pants or skorts.

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    I mostly think of this when I think of culottes:

    Image result for short culottesCulottes look like a skirt, and people don't notice they are actually pants until someone moves a certain way.

    These are shown when I search culottes, but I would call them gauchos:

    Image result for short culottesobviously pants, very loose but not pretending to be a skirt.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited March 2017

    A skort. I have heard culottes go by that name also. Yes, they should have the appearance of a skirt. My objectionable culottes had pleats in front and looked like a short skirt, but no shorter than actual regular skirts that were being worn to school at the time, so who even knew there was a "no culottes" edict? Looked something like this (but mine was cuter):

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    I just had a repressed Humbert Humbert running my school. When he called my mom at work to tell her I was being sent home because of my choice of apparel, she basically told him not to call her work again unless it involved actual injury. (Seems my disdain for authority is an inherited trait. Ahahaha.)

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