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Favoriting April 9, 2009: Twentieth Century Fads: Part I!!

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Belbury Poly  From An Ancient Star   Favoriting
Les Sacqueboutiers  Merula: Ciaconna   Favoriting
The Box Tops  Whiter Shade of Pale   Favoriting
Alemayehu Eshete  Enat YeenDJere Enat   Favoriting
Banza  Saltarello   Favoriting
James Booker  Medley: Slow Down Baby, etc.   Favoriting


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Listener comments!

  2:13am
thomas:

good morning, at least its morning here in the netherlands
  2:15am
thomas:

dave..... dave.......daaaaaaaisy
  2:16am
thomas:

easy to break record :D
  2:17am
thomas:

are the hipies unexplained?
  2:18am
joshua k:

fake famous phonies
  2:19am
brycepunk:

Night people! One of my favorite times of the week!
  2:24am
thomas:

too bad i have to get to work, but i'll check out the archives ;-)

saaaandy... can't you seeee
  2:26am
thomas:

shower us with knowledge dave
  2:33am
Nick the Bard:

Flagpole Sitting
  2:34am
thomas:

not everything that's specific for a period of time is a fad
  2:36am
Brian:

Fads of 1920's - pole sitting, dance marathons
  2:38am
Brian:

Crossword puzzles were invented earlier, but became wildly popular in the 1920s
  2:39am
joshua k:

http://www.badfads.com/pages/events/flagpolesitting.html
  2:41am
Josef:

I cant call cause i dont have a phone so i hope you are reading these on the air..... cause a big fad in the 1920s was a fascination with Egypt after the discovery of King Tut's Tomb. or would that be a trend?
anyways if you read and mention this then i write more and you can reach your comment goal!
  2:42am
Brian:

Hindenberg - 1937; You're thinking of Felix the Cat
  2:42am
max:

DUDE betty boop was in the late 20's on
  2:43am
max:

check out "bimbo's initiation"
  2:44am
max:

one of the craziest cartoons ever... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyH2U4I8MT8
  2:45am
Joshua K:

I just read playing Mahjong was a fad of the 20s.
  2:53am
Joshua K:

Amos and Andy first aired in 1928.
1930 mickey mouse first comic strip
  2:53am
max:

orson's last role was for transformers: the animated movie....
  2:54am
Josef:

'30s..... Frozen dinners became big
  2:59am
Joshua K:

This is a good page http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Time/timefr.htm
  3:00am
Joshua K:

html... should have an L on it... oops
  3:03am
Joshua K:

Benny Goodman
  3:05am
Lori:

The Little Rascals
  3:09am
Lori:

Darla

WC Fields
  3:15am
Benjamin, uk.:

My dad wore shirts with detachable collars. He was a blue collar worker and wore detachable collars because the collars got dirty and wore out first, so he just bought new collars, which were cheaper than buying a whole new shirt.
  3:19am
Joshua:

All the long distance flight records, lindbergh, amelia earhart. The first commercial passenger planes... all that was in the 30s
  3:21am
Lori:

Abbott & Costello
  3:22am
Joshua:

I think most vodkas are actually made from grain these days instead of potato.
  3:23am
frenchy:

ouzo makes me sick. anise is the worst. abisnthe is yucky too.
  3:24am
brycepunk:

It's weird... I've tried calling twice in the past ten minutes but it just keeps ringing...
  3:25am
shaniquah:

can you dig a hole in my black hairy earth and place your "thing" in it?
  3:26am
Ben, uk.:

I drank absinthe once. It cost me £6 British pounds. It was so strong by the time I'd drunk it I was incapable of telling whether I was getting an alcohol buzz or a wormwood drug buzz from it. I've never drunk it again. You can also buy absinthe in Amsterdam , together with other more potent substances, which I haven't tried.
  3:28am
jocko:

tight black hairy earth
  3:28am
joshua:

I think we just entered zoot suit territory
  3:30am
josef:

Slinky was big in the '40s.... how's that for a fad??
  3:30am
en rich edbread:

your convo reminds me of taking acid with a group of friends that ends up talking til 9 in the morning. or just a regular coke night.
  3:32am
Lori:

Rosie the Riviter
Pearl Harbor
  3:35am
Lori:

frisbees
The Baby Boom
Sweaters
  3:36am
Josef:

another '40s fad.... the Bikini was invented. not that you are reading any of my posts... :(
  3:45am
Lori:

Spam
  3:46am
JOsef:

The Jitterbug
  3:46am
Lori:

Spam
  3:48am
frenchy:

vaudeville was pre-40's
  3:50am
frenchy:

fantasia, pinocchio and bambi came out in 1940
  3:50am
Joshua:

how about hank williams
  3:53am
bob marley:

vacuum cleaner invented in 1901
  3:53am
Lori:

Spam
Slinky
Goldfish swallowing
  3:57am
thomas:

josef - i guess they are never reading comments
  3:58am
thomas:

they dont deserve 86 comments :D lets all stop at 85 to taunt the night people
  4:02am
Dave In London:

You can use my backyard in Hackney - London, for the time capsile. The MTA museum is in Brookyln, and it's fun place to see subway trains.
  4:11am
Lori:

I think the song was Sara
  4:13am
thomas:

sings "oh lori" for lori
  4:19am
Lori:

Monopoly
Miniature golf
  4:27am
thomas:

mini toothbrush dispensers
  4:29am
thomas:

even the commenters dont read comments :D
  4:35am
bakelite:

are you going to post the playlist ?
i'm falling asleep, goodnight night people.........
  4:35am
Josef:

whered the isnsightful and thoroughly engaging conversation go?
  4:36am
thomas:

who cares about the music
  4:37am
thomas:

that was meant in appreciation of the talkies
  4:44am
thomas:

all commenters are asleep. and i'm at work. alone.. again
  4:50am
thomas:

still going for that extra comment
  4:52am
thomas:

2 more hours to go, hang in there night people
  4:52am
thomas:

these math questions are killing me :D
  4:54am
thomas:

ps: i need to know the make and type of you reverb unit
  4:56am
thomas:

i meant youR ofcourse.. and the unit really needs a nickname
  5:00am
joshua:

Like is there a standardized IQ test somewhere... if you take one made by someone else the results would be different.
  5:06am
Dave in London:

Lionel Trains were big in the late 1940's and 50's. Also, plastic was invented down the street from me in London in 1928. Did not come into pratical use until WW2.
  5:11am
thomas:

everybody needs a nemesis
  5:16am
thomas:

nemesea would acutally be a cool topic
  5:17am
thomas:

this is comment 73 with one hour to go
  5:19am
thomas:

74 just for the hell of it
  5:23am
thomas:

party like its 1975
  5:24am
thomas:

76 so what is exactly your point in wishing for 86 comments? i bet they wont be added to the time capsule anyway
  5:26am
thomas:

77 crazy japanese swordfighters in a barrel
  5:28am
thomas:

78 bottles of absynth on the wall
  5:29am
thomas:

79 running that extra mile
  5:30am
thomas:

80 all those calculations feels like im playing brain training for the mentally challenged
  5:31am
wha?:

I'm listening, and I'll bet he's talking about Greystone in Morris Plains. (I'm not a cop,)
  5:31am
thomas:

there are actually 81 dimensions
  5:32am
thomas:

+ that one makes 83
  5:33am
joshua:

Theres some delay on the internet
  5:34am
Dave in London:

I have a straight jacket if you want it!
  5:35am
josef:

i wonder which decade breaking records first became a big fad?
  5:36am
Dave in London:

it's ex US Army, leather & burlap type material
  5:36am
thomas:

so there you have it, comment 86
  5:37am
wha?:

Yeah, you have to wonder how many people are in straight jackets for recreational purposes.
  5:43am
Joshua K:

Maybe ghosts are some kind of jungian collective archetype brain illusion
  5:45am
Dave in London:

I think ghost are memories left behind, like a recording but left in places not on tapes.
  5:46am
thomas:

from Holland.

have a good morning's sleep guys
  5:52am
L:

Good show.
THX!
  5:52am
m:

Kudos from an overtime worker @ Barcelona Spain. Ha.
  5:54am
thomas:

5 minutes to go, hang in there
  6:08am
thomas:

is the last clerk left
  6:26am
thomas:

haunting the post-broadcast comment list..
  8:08am
thomas:

STILL HERE!
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