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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: fightingquaker13 on July 07, 2011, 10:34:18 PM
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This is an honest question to those a bit older than me. Irony was present in the '20s and '30s. It made itself felt in literature and film However in the fifties? Its seems like having a dark sense of humor marked you as a Red and not to be trusted. I ran across this classic on TV the other day. I thought Fess Parker was always Davy Crockett. I Loved the Movie from Disney. Little did I know he was Daniel Boone as well. (same hat). The thing is this, how can you sing "Daniel Boone was a man, yes a BIG man..." when the man in question is wearing fur and leather and carrying a 5 foot long phallic symbol and not burst out laughing? Is my generation too cynical, because honestly It seems like something from SNL.
FQ13
You decide whether you can keep a straight face. For good or ill, I am a Gen Xer and well....
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Back in the day that was my favorite show. I had the coon skin hat and my handle on the CB was Daniel Boone.
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The same way you can watch drivel like "Lost" with out a lobotomy.
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There was always Leave It To Beaver where the lead character's name was Beaver Cleaver.
And the line where Beaver's mom, June Cleaver, says to his dad "Ward, you were a little hard on the Beaver last night."
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Before my time, but I loved many of the re-runs in my youth (70's). I think there were probably some veiled attempts at throwing stones at the rabid censorship of network TV of the time.......... whether trough titles, names, or symbols.
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