Official: Southgate Crew Romper Room

[Fry]

Here you go guys. Chat it up in here, not in the meet section.

(Non-SG crew, please do not taunt the monkeys.)

[LZ1]

I would like to sum up 2008 and start the thread off with the first post…

speedped :tdown:

[justa4door]

you know most of them are still sleeping … what will they do when they wake up?

[LZ1]

@justa4door

you know most of them are still sleeping … what will they do when they wake up?

Collect unemployment?

[justa4door]

lol i dont even think they worked a job for the 6months to even do it

CAN I be Granny Cat FRY you can be Mr. Do-Bee

[97_B18b1]

wait so whyd they move it? i havent been around in a while

[justa4door]

you must be a quality control manager

EDIT: b/c the org was bad

[justa4door]

I am sent here to educate

Romper Room

@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romper_Room

[edit] A typical episode
Each program would open with a greeting from the hostess and the Pledge of Allegiance. Then the hostess and her group of children would embark on an hour (or half hour) of games, exercises, songs and moral lessons, which were regularly accompanied by background music. The young cast was rotated every two months and ranged from four to five years old.

Romper Room tried to teach its young charges to be polite. For instance, the hostesses were always addressed as “Miss.” Many of the hostesses had prior experience in dealing with small children, as many were former kindergarten teachers.

A recurring character was Mr. Do-Bee, an oversized bumblebee who came to teach the children how to be well-behaved; he was noted for always starting his sentence with “Do Bee,” as in the imperative “Do be”; for example, “Do Bee good boys and girls for your parents!” There was also a “Mr. Don’t Bee” to show children exactly what they should not do.

The show used the then-popular Mattel Jack-in-the-box for its opening and closing titles, with its Pop Goes the Weasel theme song.

At the end of each broadcast, the hostess would look through a “magic mirror” (actually a face-sized open hoop with a handle) and name the children she saw in “televisionland”, then recite the rhyme, “Romper, bomper, stomper boo. Tell me, tell me, tell me, do. Magic mirror, tell me today. Have all my friends had fun at play?” She would then lead into, “I can see Scotty and Kimberly and Julie and Jimmy and Kelly and all of you boys and girls out there!” Kids were encouraged to mail in their names, which would be read on the air.

[edit] Romper Room and Friends
In 1981, the name of the program was changed to Romper Room and Friends, and new characters were introduced: a large puppet named Kimble, Granny Cat, and a clown puppet called Up-Up. The new format of the series allowed these new characters to be seen in vignettes on the stations that still ran their own versions of Romper Room.

The new incarnation of the series aired over 100 episodes, which were rerun into the next decade (shows were frequently recycled as the audience to which the show was geared “grew out” of the show within two or three years, not unlike skits reused on Sesame Street).

[edit] Hostesses
The first Romper Room hostess was Nancy Claster, who helped produce the series with her husband under the Claster Television banner. Miss Nancy hosted the show, located in Baltimore, MD, from the first episode in 1953 until 1963, when she was replaced with Sally Claster Gelbard, Miss Nancy’s daughter. Miss Sally hosted the show, in Baltimore and the surrounding area, until 1981 when it was retitled.

In New York City, the show aired on WNEW-TV (now WNYW) until the fall of 1966 when it moved to WOR-TV (now WWOR). Romper Room was locally produced in New York on and by WOR-TV Channel 9. “Miss Louise” was the hostess until 1975 followed by “Miss Mary Ann”. During these years, Romper Room aired at 10 a.m. in order not to conflict with PBS’s Sesame Street. Molly McCloskey took over as the hostess in New York in 1980. She hosted the syndicated version as well until the late 1980s, when Nancy Terrell took that one over. WOR-TV continued to produce the show moving it to 9 a.m. in the fall of 1981 and then back to 10 a.m. a month later. It would remain there until the summer of 1985 when the show was pushed up to 8:30 am. A few months after WOR-TV was sold and renamed WWOR, Romper Room was reduced to 30 minutes and moved to 6 a.m. in September 1987. A year later it discontinued production in the New York area. While many local versions ended in the late 1980s and early 1990s, nationally syndicated episodes of Romper Room and Friends with Miss Nancy stopped airing in 1994.

Another early Romper Room hostess was Claire Coleman, who was the original “Miss Claire” at the Romper Room debut in Philadelphia in 1954. Miss Claire hosted the show at WFIL TV from 1954 until 1956. During this time she shared an office with Dick Clark from American Bandstand. Claire Coleman is married to former U.S. Senator Richard Schweiker.

One host would find some measure of success in music. Margaret Jones, who hosted the Little Rock show as “Miss Peggy” between 1963 and 1966, went on to sing and to play tabla and keyboards for a locally popular psychedelic rock band called Campbell’s Lavender Circus (or sometimes simply Lavender Circus). The sextet would sell a respectable 2,000 copies statewide of their single, “I Have No Time for Time”/“Mr. N. Bourbaki’s Multicoloured Jam”.

[edit] Controversy
Two controversial events were connected with Romper Room:

[edit] Miss Sherri
In 1962, the hostess of the Phoenix franchise of Romper Room linked her own name with that of the ongoing controversies over abortion. Sherri Finkbine, known to television viewers as “Miss Sherri”, sought hospital approval for abortion on the ground that she had been taking thalidomide and believed her child would be born deformed. Being a community-minded woman, Finkbine made a public announcement about the dangers of thalidomide.

The hospital refused to allow an abortion, apparently because of her announcement and its own fear of publicity. Finkbine traveled to Sweden for the abortion. Upon completion, it was confirmed that the fetus had no legs and only one arm.

The incident became a made-for-TV movie in 1992, A Private Matter, with Sissy Spacek as Finkbine.

[edit] Action For Children’s Television vs. Romper Room
After the Children’s television group Action for Children’s Television was organised in 1968, ACT’s first target was Boston’s version of Romper Room at WHDH-TV (today’s WCVB-TV), which at the time was a children’s show that focused on the promotion of its branded line of toys to its viewers. Threatened with referral to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), WHDH scaled back the host’s role in pitching the program’s products (“host-selling”).

Through the 1980s, Hasbro (which would later acquire Claster Television) sold branded Romper Room toys and products, but since ACT’s intervention, ads and promotions for the items were not seen in the Romper Room program.

[deebo]

@Fry

#1 - 95ls1lt - You were given an infraction for multiple off topic posts in someone’s build thread. I simply chose that one to hit the infraction button.

#2 - The forum guidelines about staying on topic apply to the whole thread, not just the first post.

#3 - We would love it if the idiots who are constantly shitting up threads left.

#4 - This thread is done. This is not a chat room.

Here you go, you may resume your bench racing and tire kicking here.
http://nyspeed.com/forums/showthread...00#post1180000

#1 Then atleast use something relevant to giving me infraction points, how many times did i tell people to stop shitting up the thread? I know matt in real life and i felt bad for what happened to his thread. And i believe the “<?” post was the only offtopic post i made. everything else was about matt picking a turbo. Which you don’t understand anyways.

#2 Understandable

#3 Constantly? Sorry you left the cave of your offtopic thread section and decided to venture into the automotive section for once in your life. Why dont you hand out infractions for everyone else who goes offtopic in the general automotive section and every other section on the board? Oh yeah… because they’re all your offtopic friends :tup:

#4 Everything that goes on at meets we talk about after, maybe you should go to the meets once in a while to see? Sure anyone else who hasn’t gone would consider that offtopic. Of course some of it was, but a lot was relevant to the meets at sg.

Don’t be mad that you can’t be involved with our tire kicking and bench racing just because you dont have a car. I personally do not know why you exist on a automotive forum.

[jkucz28]

oh shit ^^^^^^^

[Bacon]

Oh look a train wreck already.

[mickdad246]

yay, highschool drama on a forum!

[justa4door]

@95LS1t

Don’t be mad that you can’t be involved with our tire kicking and bench racing just because you dont have a car. I personally do not know why you exist on a automotive forum.

his truck can spin second gear more then most cars on this fourm

@mickdad246

yay, highschool drama on a forum!

it will get better once they all get wind of it

[sureshot]

HAHAHA OH SHIT

I fucking love when noobs step up to the plate!

[jkucz28]

love this winter drama

[Fry]

@95LS1t

#1 Then atleast use something relevant to giving me infraction points, how many times did i tell people to stop shitting up the thread? I know matt in real life and i felt bad for what happened to his thread. And i believe the “<?” post was the only offtopic post i made. everything else was about matt picking a turbo. Which you don’t understand anyways.

#2 Understandable

#3 Constantly? Sorry you left the cave of your offtopic thread section and decided to venture into the automotive section for once in your life. Why dont you hand out infractions for everyone else who goes offtopic in the general automotive section and every other section on the board? Oh yeah… because they’re all your offtopic friends :tup:

#4 Everything that goes on at meets we talk about after, maybe you should go to the meets once in a while to see? Sure anyone else who hasn’t gone would consider that offtopic. Of course some of it was, but a lot was relevant to the meets at sg.

Don’t be mad that you can’t be involved with our tire kicking and bench racing just because you dont have a car. I personally do not know why you exist on a automotive forum.

Dude the depth of your insight wouldn’t make a frisbee insecure.

#1 - "is that like the keyboard version of a lisp lol? " "
speedped ur car didnt make it down the track and it was rwd?

guess the 20s and transformers fighter hood didnt help it " “fuck it im going for 500 n plan on dying” “LoLz @ posts 179-182”

All that certainly has a lot to do with the build being presented in the thread doesn’t it. Granted, you weren’t bad. That’s why you only got one little infraction instead of some time off like a couple of other real winners in that thread. Don’t get so huffy.

#2 - :highfive:

#3 - That was a general statement. There are members who add nothing here and drive away those of us who aren’t retarded. Hence the NYSpeed brain drain of 2008.

#4 - We have guidelines for a reason. Why should someone have to sift through pages and pages of crap to find out if there is going to be a meet? That is why we have a designated meet thread. And now you have a designated chat room.

As for why I exist on an automotive forum, it’s purely a gloriously satisfying power trip that fulfills a desire for a self image of authority and respect that I am too weak to achieve in real life.

[TurdBlown_Teg]

oh noes sg crew come to take jobs over on the fourmz

[tpgsr]

^^ GOD DAMN Fry beat me to answering… His is more relevant than the BS below since it was directed toward him. Instead of reading my post you may be better off re-reading Fry’s. He is more smarter than I be.

@95LS1t

#1 Then atleast use something relevant to giving me infraction points, how many times did i tell people to stop shitting up the thread? I know matt in real life and i felt bad for what happened to his thread. And i believe the “<?” post was the only offtopic post i made. everything else was about matt picking a turbo. Which you don’t understand anyways.

I cleaned up that whole post and it is really hard when wading through 2 pages of shit to pick a specific post that is the most relevant to the infraction. You delete a section then click the names. it takes whatever name you click and voila. This is not a paid job so spending more of my time or any of our time than necessary to clean up crap that shouldn’t be there just so you can feel warm and fuzzy about your infraction isn’t going to happen.

@95LS1t

#2 Understandable

Thank you.

@95LS1t

#3 Constantly? Sorry you left the cave of your offtopic thread section and decided to venture into the automotive section for once in your life. Why dont you hand out infractions for everyone else who goes offtopic in the general automotive section and every other section on the board? Oh yeah… because they’re all your offtopic friends :tup:

I doubt that this was directed specifically to you in any way. It was a generalization. It was a generalization against your southgate friends. You are the number 4 poster in that thread with 275 posts. I can bet that 85-90% of them do not have to do with discussing the meet but rather mindless bantering that should be conducted in offtopic somewhere like here.

@95LS1t

#4 Everything that goes on at meets we talk about after, maybe you should go to the meets once in a while to see? Sure anyone else who hasn’t gone would consider that offtopic. Of course some of it was, but a lot was relevant to the meets at sg.

Don’t be mad that you can’t be involved with our tire kicking and bench racing just because you dont have a car. I personally do not know why you exist on a automotive forum.

I will wait for him to answer cause this was funny

[dirtye30]

dont really know whats going on here but im in on one

[Fry]

Oh, and in closing: