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Tue, 14 July 2009 22:13   |
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Originally posted by: Scorpio42
The Day the "Wienermobile" Came To Town.
And what a day it was in the little town where I grew up long ago. The
Wienermobile showed up in all its bizarre glory at the local Acme market
for some sort of promotion. On board was the famous "Little Oscar" the
little person who was a sort of goodwill mascot for the company. To us
kids, he was famous (he appeared in TV commercials), and for all we knew
was actually "Oscar Mayer." Soon, he began to offer us "wiener
whistles," the much-desired little prizes. Ah, but getting one wouldn't
be easy! First, he would only give one if you could reach your arm
behind your back and bring your hand all the way up and grasp one of
your earlobes. He could do it easily, to taunt us, but few kids could.
Then he made it a bit easier. He started asking us some kind of quiz
questions. The wiener whistles started to flow a little bit. Then,
finally, after he'd had his fun with us, all us kids finally got a
whistle. As I remember, he hung around for quite a while talking with us
about just about anything anyone wanted to talk about. I remember being
impressed by his range of knowledge. He seemed to be able to say
something intelligent about any subject someone would throw at him.
Quite a little guy.
Yeah, I know, Little Oscar wasn't the REAL Oscar Mayer, but he was the
one we saw on TV, so that was good enough for us.
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