You-Name-It Friday

Whimsical Thought For the Day...You-Name-It Friday...Frig Friday.. if you must finish the week's work AND two days more for the weekend. HMMMM some are like the TV "SOAP OPERA" writers who must work ahead for a vacation or the show "eats up" all its scripts and faces "script starvation." Those guys must be more prolific than Walter B. Gibson, who incidentally wrote "Detective Stories" that were adapted to radio thrillers then for the hit radio show before the pulp magazine,"The Shadow" hit the market In the era known as "Radio's Golden Age". The Shadow became one of the most easily recognized and famous radio programs of all time, deduting in its first public airing on July 31, 1930 and continuing through December 26, 1954..One of the radio sponsors was,"Blue Coal".__________________________________________ Well, coal gave way to "coal oil or kerosene or Diesel #2. Likewise, it is said that video killed the radio or just took a lion's share of the market away. After car radios became almost universally AM and FM, new innovators like Rush Limbaugh rejuvenated AM radio with talk after AM was considered "inferior" for music especially stereo music. Some people recall the thrill of switching CO-AX speakers with the el cheapo factory car speakers to get outstanding sound and truly good tone. Which brings us to the question,"Was Detroit SLOW in making CO-AX standard equipment on new cars? Did that give the "poop boxes on wheels" (THEIR phraseology) an advantage over American made cars?" It is an established fact that Detroit was reluctant to make smaller cars, even the ever popular "compact car" the 1949 Ford. Clearly the profit motive spurred the "V8 Fever"and "big car" that made Detroit slow to adapt. Perhaps Cadillac should have tested the 2-4-8 engine in the Oldsmobile division BEFORE debuting it on the American public. Detroit's diesel car was a 1970s innovation that faded away. The infamous "VEGA" further detracted from Detroit's reputation of fine motor cars. Then again where would Ford have found out that its "Edsel" was not popular? AMC is no longer American Motors perhaps because of the "Pacer".Many American car companies have come and gone one notably Nash-Kelvinator Corporation from 1950 to 1954 whose Rambler was originally a brand name of the Thomas B. Jeffery Company between 1900 and 1914. But enough serious thought...it's WHIMSY TIME! Even the "Bond writer" Ian Flemming wrote a bit of whimsy with his "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" which is even more fun when repeated with a Spanish accent. Did the pelican POOP in the Pelican Brief? I'll NEVER tell...not even Omar Sharif! T'was a goofy title for a serious flic If you have another Please tell me QUICK. My Email you'll find at the bottom of the page So "TITLE" me soon I'm a "Rhymin' Sage".