I'm so old I Remember when:

[BigBlueHen53]

I read that Esso chose the name Exxon when they went global because there was a language in which the word "esso" meant "stalled car" (Japanese, maybe?) and no language had any word containing a double "X".

 

[Hayden Goseek]

Automotive trivia. An urban legend has it that he Chevy Nova didn't do well in Spanish countries because it's name means 'no go'.
An Esso (Standard Oil) spinoff called ENCO did badly in Japan because the name meant 'stalled car.
Dang! Blue Hen beat me to it!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Automotive trivia. An urban legend has it that he Chevy Nova didn't do well in Spanish countries because it's name means 'no go'.
An Esso (Standard Oil) spinoff called ENCO did badly in Japan because the name meant 'stalled car.

Maybe that's what I'm thinking of ...

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

I left my Golden retriever in the truck with a full box of these once while I ran into a store to buy a single item, and when I returned there was nothing left but a few shreds of paper. Panicked, I ran back into the store, grabbed a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and ran back out, telling the store clerk I'd be right back to pay for it, and drenched the dog with the whole (small) bottle, about 4 oz. Ran back in and paid for it (I think it was under 50c), then ran back to check on my dog, who was looking very thoughtful. He said Urp once or twice so I let him out of the truck, and up it came, peroxide, paper and ten pounds of chocolate. I was so glad he wasn't going to die that day!


Tchaikovsky! Rimsky-Korsakov! Yaaah! Oh yes, and Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, "The Emperor"! Rachmaninov....

Blue, wow -- your quick thinking and practical knowledge saved your dog!!! 10 pounds of chocolate, OMG!

We had to rush our corgi to the vet after he ate a 12 oz. bag of semisweet chocolate chips he'd found in my daughter's room (and fortunately left the empty bag on her bed so we knew what he'd done); we didn't have a useful emetic in the house at the time. That much chocolate was life-threatening to him (a 25-lb. dog), so your chocolate-loving Golden would be doomed with 10 POUNDS in his system -- that may be some kind of a world record, not a claim to fame anyone would want. So glad you knew what to do to save him from his naughty mistake!

[That, and the cost of the 10 lbs. of chocolate plus a bottle of peroxide was certainly less than our emergency run to the vet to have Griff purged and treated...!]

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

I remember

Lum & Abner

Fibber McGee and Molly

Abbott & Costello

Red Skelton

Bob Hope and Bing Crosby and their "On the Road" movies.

And the Ed Sullivan show! I remember the time when he hosted the Beatles - first time they appeared live on American TV, if memory serves. February 1964; I was 10 years old and just didn't get what all the fuss was about!

 

[chrissynemetz]

I had to look up Lum & Abner but I have heard the rest.
My local favorites were Jerry Clower and Justin Wilson.
Justin is the reason I still have trouble with 'English'.

I loved Jerry Clower.

 

[Brooks_]

 

[Canadian Wind]

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I can still find canned meat with these.

 

[R2elk]

And the Ed Sullivan show! I remember the time when he hosted the Beatles - first time they appeared live on American TV, if memory serves. February 1964; I was 10 years old and just didn't get what all the fuss was about!

And the Lawrence Welk show.

 

[Sally PB]

And the Lawrence Welk show.

My grandma loved that show. Me, not so much. But anything my grandma loved got a lot of cred with me. My favorite rose is Crimson Glory, because it was hers.