One-Liner Wednesday is brought to you each week by Linda Hill and this station. Now a word about Cracker Jack. Candy-coated popcorn, peanuts and a prize — that’s what you get in Cracker Jack!
The commercials with Jack Gilford were classics!
#1LinerWeds From Niels Bohr
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But predicting the past, that’s easy 🤣. I definitely remember jacks. I’d practice for hours. I was never very good but I kept trying.
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Maybe not as easy as you think…
We got into jacks for a while. I wasn’t very good either.
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I remember the commercial. I always liked Cracker Jacks. Still do though maybe not as much as Fiddle-Faddle, Poppycock, or some of the other brands of similar popcorn products.
When I was very young living in Cleveland OH I had a teenage babysitter who had a brown lunch bag filled with the Crackerjack toys like they had in the fifties. Sometimes she would bring her collection with her to entertain me and my sister. I envied her collection and wished it was mine. She let us look at her prizes, but never let go of them. If she kept them until now they might be worth something.
Arlee Bird
Tossing It Out
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Remember Screaming Yellow Zonkers? Dad liked Karmelkorn, as I recall. Seems like somehing that would be easy to make, not that I’m going to try.
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I do remember the Screaming Yellow Zonkers though I don’t recall that I ever tried them. Karmelkorn is also good. Kettle corn can be pretty good too when it’s made fresh. The prebagged varieties that I’ve tried were not all that good–not sweet enough for me.
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Gourmet popcorn can be variable at times…
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And yet we keep on trying, don’t we. You’d think I’d remember that my predictions often mess with my head more often than predict the future!
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I should have been a weatherman like I wanted to when I was 7.
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Sometimes I don’t even get the past right.
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I did poorly in history, too.
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I love that commercial. Niels caused me more than enough trouble in science classes. I guess he didn’t predict that either.
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I never got far enough in Physics to learn about him. I wasn’t especially motivated…
Jack Gilford was in a bunch of Cracker Jack commercials, all of which are classics today. He was kind of like a big kid himself.
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Great commercial!
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We all need more Jack Gilford in our lives…
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Yes, indeed we do.
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Agreed. Even more so I love cracker jacks.
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Grandma Holton used to buy it for us. Never thought to buy it ourselves, but it is (or was, anyway) a mite tasty…
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Very true, even though I do like to play around with tarot cards.
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I had a friend that played solitaire with a tarot deck and three people died…
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Your not wrong ! 🧐
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Almost sounds like something Yogi Berra would say…
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Lol 😆
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