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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

1103.0. "Car Talk Credits" by OKFINE::KENAH (Every old sock meets an old shoe...) Fri Jun 17 1994 11:10

    Car Talk is a syndicated radio program broadcast on National Public
    Radio (NPR) in the US.  It is hosted by Tom and Ray Maggliazzi (sp?)
    two brothers who run a garage in Cambridge (our fair city) MA
    (pronounced MAAH.)
    
    They are very funny.  And they really know a lot about cars.
    
    The reason I started a note about Car Talk is because of my favorite
    part of the show: their closing credits.  Some of these were mentioned
    in another note (I'll copy the notes to this string).  If possible,
    I'd like to see a complete list of their credits, past and present. 
    They've dropped some, including my all-time favorite: Theme Music,
    written by Bela Kartok.  Obviously, the boys are into bad puns.
    
    So, list those Car Talk closing credits.
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1103.1OKFINE::KENAHEvery old sock meets an old shoe...Fri Jun 17 1994 11:1114
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Note 1102.11                     Creative names                         11 of 13
OKFINE::KENAH "Every old sock meets an old shoe..."  10 lines  17-JUN-1994 06:54
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    Another ficticious company name: The Car Guys (a syndicated radio show
    originating from Cambridge, MA) include in their closing credits the
    name of a prestigious (but bogus) New England law firm:
    
    			Dewey, Cheatam, and Howe
    
    Their personal lawyer, Hugh Louis Dewey, is known as Huey Louie Dewey.
    (This last probably belongs in the nominal punishment string).
    
    					andrew
1103.2OKFINE::KENAHEvery old sock meets an old shoe...Fri Jun 17 1994 11:126
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Note 1102.12                     Creative names                         12 of 13
NOTIME::SACKS "Gerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085"  2 lines  17-JUN-1994 09:11
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Dewey, Cheatham and Howe dates back at least 50 years.  Was is the 3 Stooges
or Abbott and Costello who used the joke?
1103.3OKFINE::KENAHEvery old sock meets an old shoe...Fri Jun 17 1994 11:1218
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Note 1102.13                     Creative names                         13 of 13
19715::PARODI "John H. Parodi DTN 381-1640"          14 lines  17-JUN-1994 09:40
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    Re: .12
    
    Probably both but the Stooges were first.
    
    The entire closing credits for Car Talk are a scream...a few from
    memory:
    
    Phone Support -- Isabelle Ringing
    Director of Long-Range Planning -- Kay Sera, who married Frank Sera to
                                       become Kay Sera-Sera.
    Grammatical Correctnes -- I. M. Shirley Wright
    
    JP
1103.4A few more...OKFINE::KENAHEvery old sock meets an old shoe...Fri Jun 17 1994 11:373
    Wardrobe:	       				  Natalie Attired
    President of the Car talk Hair Club for Men:  Emerson Fittibaldi
    Staff Physician:				  Doctor Denton Fender
1103.5Deja vu all over againFORTY2::KNOWLESRoad-kill on the Info SuperhighwayTue Jun 21 1994 06:418
    Not from Car Talk, but from Mad magazine about 30 years ago:
    
    Car park attendant		Rex Karz
    Gas pump operator		Phil R. Upp
    
    I was an early groaner.
    
    b