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Subject:Re: Official Vanagon CB Channel Trivia Question(s)
From:Max Wellhouse
Date:Sat, 20 Apr 2002 05:46:44 -0500

Can't believe I'm stooping to fill in the missing answers here!!

DM&FSAt 04:35 PM 4/19/2002 -0700, Aristotle Sagan wrote:
>>post the answers later. Good luck Rubber Duck.
>>
>>
>>Chicken coop- ?    WEIGH STATION
>>county mounty- local cop
>>  Beavers:)- women      Flip flop was usually used thusly  "I'll catch
>> you on the flip flop"  meaning I'll talk to youafter I've made my
>> dleivery and am headed back home"
>>four wheeler- PU truck or van
>>green stamps-  MONEY
>>hammer- gas pedal
>>plain wrapper- unmarked cop
>>picture taker- cop with a radar gun
>>reefer- refrigerated truck
>>shakespeare- CB ANTANNAE  ie" ma foot warmer(illegal high powered
>>transmitter) is fixin' ta melt down my Shakespeare"
>>suicide jockey- gasoline hauler
>>swindle sheet/comic books- logbook
>>threes and eights-  short for 10-3 and 10-8 which basically was away to
>>end a conversation on a positive note.
>>tijuana taxi-  A Mescan truck fixin to fall apart.
>>woodchuck-  This one has me stumped(couldn't resist)
>>bubble gum machine- marked cop
>>threes on you-  See above
>>double nickels- 55 speedlimit
>>bear in the air - helicopter or plane doing speed tracking
>>bear - cop
>>
>>
>>My primary CB handle back then was Kingpin, cuz I found out no one wanted
>>to talk to the "bearded clam"

DM&FS

>>--- 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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