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Subject:Re: Official Vanagon CB Channel Trivia Question(s)
From:phil stanhope
Date:Fri, 19 Apr 2002 16:09:57 -0700

Heres a short vocab test of the forgotten(?) 70's CB
lingo taken from my dusty old Big Rig Hits record. Ill
post the answers later. Good luck Rubber Duck.

Chicken coop-
county mounty-
Flip-flop-
Beavers:)-
four wheeler-
green stamps-
hammer-
plain wrapper-
picture taker-
reefer-
shakespeare-
suicide jockey-
swindle sheet/comic books-
threes and eights-
tijuana taxi-
woodchuck-
bubble gum machine-
threes on you-
double nickels-
bear in the air
bear

--- Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET> wrote:
> >Those of you old dogs that were caught up in the
> late 70's CB craze, will
> >remember the infamous CW McCall CB song on the
> radio airways, well that
> >was none other than Chip Davis of Manheim
> SteamRoller fame
> >currently.  Who'dathunkit?  He was quite the
> advertising guru before they
> >made it as an eclectic band.
>
> I distinctly remember his voice doing a series of TV
> commercials in Iowa
> for Old Home bread where a truck driver(thinkit
> might have been and old
> home bread truck driver) would stop in a truck stop
> and converse/flirt with
> the waitress named Mavis all the while Mr.
> McCall(Davis's) was doing his
> voiceover singing of some story line that vaguely
> involved Old Home
> Bread.  They were classic commercials in their day.
>
> Dimwitted Moose and Flying
> Squirrel

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