Texas "Loan" Star

[jim4065]

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=86241162

May have been carried by the Loan Ranger?

Saw a used furniture store in Louisiana with a sign that said:

Chester Drawers $15.00

The American education system at its best...........................

[jim4065]

Never mind - just having a bad day.

[Bent Ramrod]

My personal favorite was in a newspaper ad back in the America of long ago when such sales were nobody's business but the buyer and seller:

"Smith and Nelson Highly Petroleum

Very good condition $90

Call---------------Eves and Weekends"

Probably less of an education problem than an unhearing ad assistant combined with a mushmouth seller.

[Skrenos]

"8mm Kurtz"... it's KURZ!

and dont forget "It runs/looks/shoots good". It's "It runs WELL."

[Ricochet]

But it only looks well if you're judging its health.

[Skrenos]

In that case, it looks fine :)

[floodgate]

Skrenos:

No, the "good" is being used as an adverb; it should be "It runs goodLY".

floopgate

[Morgan Astorbilt]

Sign on a lawyer's office window:
Dewey Cheetam & Howe

Morgan

[beemer]

Smith and Western
Ivory Johnson
M1 Car Bean
Elsie Smith
Mouser

Just a few I've seen in the local Iwanna. Someone typing up the adds that had no idea.
Probably no worst than some of mine.

beemer

[floodgate]

A friend claimed that as a kid he lived across the street from one -


"HECTOR SPECTOR - CHIROPRATOR"

floosgate

[223tenx]

We have a local rag for want ads only. I saw an ad for a cadillac with 4 guitars.
I thought about that all day and finally called the guy. It seems that he had just put 4 GOOD TIRES on his caddy before he decided to sell it.

[Skrenos]

on a car: caddilac converter.

[FISH4BUGS]

I went into the local bagel shop to buy bagels and cream cheese. I asked for a half pound of cream cheese and the young lady behind the counter said "sorry....all we have is the 8 ounce size!"
Jeez...........no wonder our country is going into the toilet!

[Bent Ramrod]

My sainted mother always got a kick out of this one.

She was shopping in the A&P (Anybody remember that store?) when she came upon a table set up with a little lady behind it and a pitcher of an orange drink with a bunch of little cups of the drink set out. "Would you like to try this new drink?" the lady asked. "It's called 'Tang,' and it tastes just like orange juice only it's a powder and won't spoil out of the refrigerator."

Mom tried a cup, said it was good, and the lady replied, "It's full of vitamins even real orange juice doesn't have and it's even better for you because it isn't carbureted."

Mom choked back a burst of laughter with difficulty, left the table and continued shopping. Down another aisle was a guy stacking cans on a shelf. He was the boyfriend of one of us siblings' hotter babysitters, so Mom knew him. She asked him if he'd tried the Tang yet and he said he had. (For you who were born after the Pleistocene period, the only powdered drink around at the time was Kool-Aid. Anything closer to reality was a futuristic marvel back then.)

Mom then said, "The lady offering the samples said one of the reasons it was so good for you is because it isn't 'carbureted.'" She smiled at him, expecting him to get the joke and start laughing with her.

"Oh it is, too!!" exclaimed this high-school senior and hope for the future. "They'll tell you anything to sell you stuff!"

[waksupi]

This thread, reminds me of this song.


Artist: Prine John
Song: It's a Big Old Goofy World
Album: Great Days: The John Prine Anthology
Buy John Prine Sheet Music
Buy John Prine CDs

Up in the morning
Work like a dog
Is better than sitting
Like a bump on a log
Mind all your manners
Be quiet as a mouse
Some day you'll own a home
That's as big as a house

I know a fella
He eats like a horse
Knocks his old balls
Round the old golf course
You oughta see his wife
She's a cute little dish
She smokes like a chimney
And drinks like a fish

There's a big old goofy man
Dancing with a big old goofy girl
Ooh baby
It's a big old goofy world

Now Elvis had a woman
With a head like a rock
I wished I had a woman
That made my knees knock
She'd sing like an angel
And eat like a bird
And if I wrote a song
She'd know ever single word

Kiss a little baby
Give the world a smile
If you take an inch
Give 'em back a mile
Cause if you lie like a rug
And you don't give a damn
You're never gonna be
As happy as a clam

So I'm sitting in a hotel
Trying to write a song
My head is just as empty
As the day is long
Why it's clear as a bell
I should have gone to school
I'd be wise as an owl
Stead of stubborn as a mule.

[jhalcott]

Masn't it TANG that was sent to the moon?

[Bent Ramrod]

Absolutely, Tang went to the moon. No room for even frozen concentrate on that trip! One of the best publicity tie-ins ever.

[Rick N Bama]

My sainted mother always got a kick out of this one.

She was shopping in the A&P (Anybody remember that store?)

My 1st (paying) job was at the local A&P. I worked there through high school as had my brother before me.

Rick

[leftiye]

Rick, Did you know B. R.'s mother back then?

[AZ-Stew]

I've compiled these for years. It never ceases to amaze me that the people writing ads based on phone-ins from the Classified customers are so ignorant about guns. For your reading enjoyment:

Snug-nose revolver

30 odd 6

TC Contender, 10" and 14" barrels, 2 foriegns

Cult AR-15

Wanted: American made Cult 45 auto

Winchester 364 Rifles for sale (pre-64)

Eddie Stone Rifle

Lewhorton revlover

3-band assault rifle (pre-ban)

For Sale: Ruger Red Hot

For Sale: 45 Long Coat

44 Mag. Perf Cond NIB, (but) fired only a few times

Antique Revolutionary War filntlock (what, as opposed to a new Rev War flintlock?)

Browning Bold Action Rifle

Ruger Level Action Rifle

For sale: .25mm pistol

Brownie B.A.R. .22 cal.

7mm Browning Semi-auto, loop holed scope

Remington Mod. 7400 woodstock (Hippie Commemorative?)

Rummington 30-06

J.P. Sour rifle

Moffburg shotgun

Mooslurg M500 12ga

Sea Camp .25 auto

Ruger #1 Leather Action

For Sale: 3 Muzzle odors (that black powder stuff aint no Chanel #5, y'know)

I have a Blackpowder rifle that I would like to sell, it was my fathers and I have no use for it. It's never been fired. He used it for civil war recreations. It's a .58 cal-3 band-infield. (Baseball fan, too?)

Stub nose 38

Reloading press. RCBS Rockchoker.

Tommy gun. Commando style. Nickel finish. (Obviously for that added bit of stealth every commando is looking for.)

Rossi M92 .357 Mag with 2 stalks.

ALL IN ONE DAY...

---Belgium Browning. Made in Belgium. (Whoda thunk it?)
|
| Rugger 10-22.
|
| Colt Agent 38spl, LNIB, Hammer Schroud, Nelson Ford trigger job. (Those German accessories are SO nice!)
|
| Remington Custom Shop Model 40-X, .308, 27-3/4", Stainless steel bull barrel, pack driver.
|
| (Various firearms for sale and a) Compound Boe.
|
| 16ga Sear Ranger.
|
| Rossie M92 .44. (the small one)
|
---54 calibur Burnside carbine, 22 calibur S&W.

And, lastly, the custom rifle with the finishing touch, a timmy tricker.

Regards,

Stew

[omgb]

Mmmm Tang, we used to go look'n for that when I was an Airman 1st class. [smilie=1:



Seriously, I used to drink that stuff all of the time. haven't had it in years. When I was a kid I called it John Glenn's drink

[KYCaster]

At the top of my wish list is a "Hawkins Black Powered Rifel". Haven't seen one yet but I'll keep looking.

For something so rare I sure do see lots of ads for them.

Jerry

[AZ-Stew]

Hawkins? Wasn't he that kid in Treasure Island? AAaaRrrrgh!

Regards,

Stew

[drinks]

I tried to buy one on the Worn electric wenches, never did find one.

[jim4065]

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=86241162

May have been carried by the Loan Ranger?

Saw a used furniture store in Louisiana with a sign that said:

Chester Drawers $15.00

The American education system at its best...........................

Just remembered - the name of the town in Louisiana was "Dry Prong", which ain't so bad since I live near "Toad Suck".

[floodgate]

The western Nevada town of Yerington used to be named "Pizen Switch". They re-named it in the hope that the local RR magnate - name of Yerington - would run the line through the town. But he laid it along the other side of the river and they had to build a bridge to get to the station. Some you win, some you lose....

floodgate