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09-30-2006, 12:38 AM
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Re: PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
 Oops, make that John Ratzenberger.Don't wanna start somethin' between Cliff & Normy! 
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09-30-2006, 01:00 AM
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Re: PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Knowing this bunch of guys, I probably shouldn't dare mention this, but in Feb. 1960 when I was 10 and a Cub Scout, I was selected to represent the nations Cub Scouts during National Boy Scout week on the Ed Sullivan show in NYC. There was a Boy Scout and an Explorer there along side me. Ed brought us out under the lights, said some nice things and "we" recited the Boy Scout Oath. Of course, just being a Cub, I didn't know it OR know I was supposed to recite it, so I just stood there nervously in front of the cameras with my hand raised in the Cub Scout salute and kept my mouth shut.
There was a terrible snow storm that evening and the tunnel into the city was closed. My parents were told at the toll booth that they had to turn around but my Mother told them in no uncertain terms that HER son has to be on the Ed Sullivan show that night and could not be denied access to the city. They had Pop park the car there (our '58 Pontiac Star Chief) and we all got in a police car and were taken directly to the studio with lights flashing. That was my one and only ride in the back of a police car! What a trip! Verne  
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09-30-2006, 01:14 AM
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09-30-2006, 01:41 AM
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Re: PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
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[/ QUOTE ] I second that! Great story. My son's first Cub Scout meeting is tonight. He wore his new cap to school and he looked just like Beaver Cleaver.
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09-30-2006, 01:54 AM
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Re: PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Cool stuff Verne...
So...you were in a realllly big snow ....  and on a reallly big show... 
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10-01-2006, 02:51 AM
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Re: PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Bruce,
You mean a really big shuuue! I'm trying to remember who else was on that I got to meet. Definitely Jorgie Jessel, Pete Fountain, Leana Horne (she was really young then), maybe Al Hirt and some guy spinning plates on tall sticks.  Oh, and maybe Topo Gigio..... After taping, all the stars got together on stage while the audience was still there (kind of like Saturday Night Live, but no one at home one saw it). We were out there too and I remember Jorgie Jessel giving me a big hug, like a grandfather, and we exchanged a few words. He impressed me as a geniune kind man. It was an experience that deserves the Verne
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10-01-2006, 06:02 AM
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Re: PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Hey Verne, what about the story you told me on the way back from the airport on the way to SCR9...where you were runnin' from the police and....
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09-30-2006, 07:22 AM
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Re: PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
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[ QUOTE ] Knowing this bunch of guys, I probably shouldn't dare mention this............. story Verne........And I'll behave... [/ QUOTE ] OK but the crack about being the only time in the back of a squad car somehow doesn't quite ring true...
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10-01-2006, 01:27 AM
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Re: PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
 I wanted to say that too, but that old "Glass Houses" thing keeps poppin' up.!
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