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By: Another Guy

Another Guy — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:01:30 +0000

Thanks for remembering the show, Minnie! And I totally can hear the tune in my head! ~ ~ ~

By: Minnie

Minnie — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:43:41 +0000

Well forget that little music-notation experiment! The notes all piled up to the left once it was posted.

The tune was
(ascending) C C C C C E G G A
(descending) F D C B
(ascending) D
(descending) G
(ascending) G C C C C C E G G A
(descending) F D B
(ascending) C (hold this note longer than the others).

By: Minnie

Minnie — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:34:26 +0000

Another guy, I do remember “Friendly Giant”! I remember the opening tune he played on his recorder:
A A
GG GG
E F F
CCCC C D D E D
C CCCC C C
B B
GG

Read left-to-right (and up and down) to follow Friendly Giant’s tune. All the notes are the same length: one-beat notes, except for that final “C”, which is a couple of beats longer than the others.

After “Friendly Giant”, we’d watch “Mr. Rogers’ Neighbourhood”, which first aired on Canadian TV. It was 1963 or 1964, and both were 15-minute shows then.

I did exercises to Jack LaLanne’s TV show once the kids were down for their nap.
Did we have a second TV channel in Canada yet? Somehow Jack LaLanne doesn’t seem to fit the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation profile.

By: Minnie

Minnie — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:55:34 +0000

Bonjour Annie,
Connaisez-vous une bibliothèque dans laquelle c’est possible d’acheter le livre en la langue française “Dykes to watch out for”?

C’est impossible a trouver avec “Amazon”.

Merci!

By: Dr. Empirical

Dr. Empirical — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:21:05 +0000

I defy anyone to look at a guy, white, black, your elementary school principal, your grandpa, anyone! in a purple felt hat with a peacock feather and not think “pimp.”

By: Another guy

Another guy — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:22:33 +0000

Does anyone here remember The Friendly Giant? I think that it was a Canadian show. This gentle giant type dude (don’t know the actor’s name but will Google it) would read these awesome kid’s books for a half an hour – they were always illustrated books. This show was on in the later sixties to very early seventies. One of his cohorts was a puppet chicken (I think) who was called Rusty: “look up, wa-a-aay up, and I’ll call Rusty.” I loved that ol’ giant…..

By: Ready2Agitate

Ready2Agitate — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:03:47 +0000

OK, thx Dr. E., for pointing the racist label where it belongs! (smile). Ch – at Chat! I just loved that! Cosby narrated some amazing PBS black liberation documentaries. anyway, maybe I’m wrong, Freeman has his own issues w/TEC!

Happy Inaug all. (So whom from our beloved dtwo4 gang is in DC? Certainly not Stuart–too much a carbon footprint to trek all the way there!) Enjoy.

By: Dr. Empirical

Dr. Empirical — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:40:16 +0000

Just to clarify: He was never called the Phonics Pimp on the show. That’s just my description. He would wander the streets in a brightly-colored hat with a big feather in it, grooving to the billboards and traffic signs.

Silent “e” had a particular fascination for him.

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:23:27 +0000

Okay, my turn. My math teacher would read to us every day in elementary school. One of the books was about friendly dragons that only the kids saw, and it may have been connected to feathers that fell on one kid’s shoulder — one with a circle and one with a square. This was the mid-70′s.

By: Kelli

Kelli — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:51:38 +0000

It’s also possible that Freeman felt as though he was the fill-in for Bill Cosby. Cosby, mind you, did not play stereotypes himself, but was not beyond using them in animation to tell a morality tale, as he did on “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids”.