'Shindig'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
A children’s book that included the word “scrotum” was recently the subject of great controversy in school libraries nationwide. A Google search has discovered several more questionable titles and excerpts from other works intended for readers twelve and under.
The Lonely Little Moonbeam made me do my embarassing loud donkey laugh.
I think the book with the word scrotum got so much attention because it was a either a Newbury winner or a Newbury medalist.
Hey, how many people grew up with five-eight-eight two-three-hundred... empiiire?
Me!! That, and "Just call NAtional-two-nine-hundreeeeed." The Chicago market seems to specialize in catchy carpet-store jingles--the latest is "Luuuu-naaaaa."
Hey, how many people grew up with five-eight-eight two-three-hundred... empiiire?
Didn't grow up with it, but since living in Chicago it's burned into my brain until the moment I die.
Just three blocks west of the Kennedy expressway....
I heard it was local to Chicago, but ISTR hearing it all through the 1980s in Phoenix and it's still a jingle in New York.
Hey, how many people grew up with five-eight-eight two-three-hundred... empiiire?
I swear to god, I've heard that recently. But I could be mad.
It's featured in Wayne's World, so if you've seen that recently, you're not mad.
I've heard it here in OH, bon bon. No idea where the closest store might be, though.
Such a good example of how advertising sometimes misses the mark. You remember the commercial, not the product.
Haven't. However this [link] suggests it is entirely possible that I am not mad.