Loved this! I'm very grateful to you for the glossary... without which I'd've struggled! 🤣 Superb writing, as always - I never know what's coming next where it comes to your Experiments in Style, and have never yet been disappointed. 🙌
As soon as I read this version, I heard Rod Serling's voice, though it would have made more sense if it was a Dragnet actor. It was fantastic! You nailed it. You took me back to my 60s' youth and black and white TV, the family gathered 'round the television, where someone would have to get up to change the channel. 😀
I, too, enjoyed the usually-clipped dialogue of Jack Webb, Terry (or, shoud I say Fred?)....I was reading it doing my best Webb intonation! Too bad no one was around to hear it! Now, I might try it in my Don LaFontaine voice: "In a world..............and, this time, it's personal!"
Depends on which way the wind is blowing. Clouds are not brown-green like 50-70s . Particulate matter smaller easier to breathe. Industry pollution but less smoke from chimneys on cold rainy days like today. One indicator is if you can still see mountains from Sepulveda summit on 405 then it’s a clear day.
“Can the chat, daddy-o." Ha ha ha ha! This is one of the funniest ones ever! Man, that slang book came in handy. I could use about ten books like that with different eras featured Very entertaining, Terryman!
Loved this! I'm very grateful to you for the glossary... without which I'd've struggled! 🤣 Superb writing, as always - I never know what's coming next where it comes to your Experiments in Style, and have never yet been disappointed. 🙌
Hah, this was wild and hilarious, Terry, err I mean Fred.
Appreciate having all the footnotes.
As soon as I read this version, I heard Rod Serling's voice, though it would have made more sense if it was a Dragnet actor. It was fantastic! You nailed it. You took me back to my 60s' youth and black and white TV, the family gathered 'round the television, where someone would have to get up to change the channel. 😀
Nicely hilarious, Fred, and so glad we get to see that long-haired pic of you again!
Love the US version. Very clever.
Given that we're binging Endeavour at the moment, I became quite excited that Thursday had made it into an American cop show!!!!
I loved this. Have you 'done' Gothic yet? Did I miss that? How about Enid Blyton? Or 'self-help'?
These little explorations are just so clever.
I, too, enjoyed the usually-clipped dialogue of Jack Webb, Terry (or, shoud I say Fred?)....I was reading it doing my best Webb intonation! Too bad no one was around to hear it! Now, I might try it in my Don LaFontaine voice: "In a world..............and, this time, it's personal!"
Great read. I used to watch Dragnet. You nailed the dialogue.
Chuckle, chuckle. Thanks Fred. A cool read dude.
Depends on which way the wind is blowing. Clouds are not brown-green like 50-70s . Particulate matter smaller easier to breathe. Industry pollution but less smoke from chimneys on cold rainy days like today. One indicator is if you can still see mountains from Sepulveda summit on 405 then it’s a clear day.
Dragnet: black and white so you couldn’t see smog clouds of Los Angeles on the other days besides Friday.
There were moments of Happy Days and Westside Story mixed in, Daddy-o. This one made me laugh.
“Can the chat, daddy-o." Ha ha ha ha! This is one of the funniest ones ever! Man, that slang book came in handy. I could use about ten books like that with different eras featured Very entertaining, Terryman!
They would be online or on one of his CD compilations.
It reminds me of the comedy parody records Stan Freberg made of "Dragnet" in the 1950s.