dougP, Darn you. It entered my head. "I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener...Everyone would be in love with me."
I am attacking back. "A horse is a horse, of course, of course, And no one can talk to a horse of course That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed. " Just try and get that out of your head. So there! In the late 1950's, "Little Oscar" and "Engineer Bill" (a local, Los Angeles children's show persona with cartoons and model railroad trains on his show) teamed up for an event at our local Safeway (Mar Vista, California). They gave hot dogs in buns to kids and had a line to sit on Engineer Bill's lap (suspicious about that) and, based on a random timer, potentially win a HO train set component. Eight year old me rode my maroon Bianchi 3 speed to the event. Somehow, I managed to win a Varney boxcar kit when the timer went off at a time when my parents could never have afforded a railroad set of us kids. Looking back, the Bianchi 3 speed, which my mother obtained at a May Company outlet store sale, was a Rivish bike. "On the red light you stop, on the green light you go, because no engineer would ever run a red light". In the green light intervals, Engineer Bill exhorted TV audience children to gulp milk. On the red light, you had to put it down. The powdered milk and whole milk mixture my depression era mother concocted for the "Engineer Bill Show" was not that pleasant. Little Oscar was a mean looking runt and his only attraction to me was that he traveled around in the Wienermobile. Liesl, you do seem to have the most interesting encounters with the out of the ordinary with that very cool bike. Please continue. Best regards, Tom On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 4:21:50 PM UTC-7, Liesl wrote: > > it's like the wildlife thread—only different! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
