Watching CHiPs
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Topic: Watching CHiPs
Posted By: thendrix
Subject: Watching CHiPs
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2023 at 6:54am
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Does anybody remember a CHiPs episode that didn't involve a wreck with a cabover? Usually a C series Ford? ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
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Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2023 at 7:12am
Stunt truck. Patch it up and wreck it again  Kinda like the General Lee cars from Dukes of Hazzard |
Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2023 at 7:16am
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Never watched very often, years ago. Watched a time or two nowadays, still not my cup of tea. Have a watched the show about the firefighters that are kinda sorta paramedic’s, that always call in to the hospital on a phone in a box. Both shows are kinda ‘campy’ although better than most crap on the Tell-lie-vision these days. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2023 at 7:28am
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Yeah it's cheesey. It's more of a nostalgia thing for me. Me and my brother watched a LOT of CHiPs reruns when we were growing up ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2023 at 7:54am
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Yeah it's cheesey. Wife goes to bed at 10 PM and i stay up another hour.. Normally go to ROKU and watch a couple 30 minute shows from the 1950 - 1980... have found that about 80% of them are "cheesey"..... some are just hard to watch... too slow moving. Didnt make it 5 minutes thru 6 Million Dollar Man or Bionic Woman... Watched full series of Magnum, Sharkey CPO... now doing Car 54 Where are you.....Cheesey as you said, but at least not WOKE or pushing some agenda.
------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2023 at 11:09pm
| might be cheessy but iwould rather watch any of them over the new stuff , so how many guys on here have never used a rotory phone ? |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2023 at 12:38am
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I used one in my grandparents bedroom to call my first girlfriend at the ripe old age of 6. My girls played with it up until a few years ago so they at least know what one is ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2023 at 7:12am
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rotary phone, yes... 8 party line, our phone number was 502-j1 ------------- Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die |
Posted By: Kansas99
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2023 at 12:55pm
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Yep, rotary phones and party lines, those were the days.  I've even used the old crank phones in my day, however, it wasn't to talk to people, unless they had gills. Currently our local cooperative phone co. is plowing fiber everywhere, and I mean everywhere, 35 miles of fiber for 3 houses.  For something that's going to be obsolete in a few years, I guess it's free money they're using.------------- "Thank you for your service Joe & the Ho"-----Joseph Stalin |
Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2023 at 10:39pm
| i forgot about the party line that kind of whent away when i was about eight or ten years old , chips is on one of the channels i watch , i get a kick out of ponch and john one week they are roller derby the next week they are surfers and the next week they are dirt track racers , and i love how 4500 lb cadilacs can just fly right over the rest of the ten car pileup . but on the A team they all can shoot 200,000,000 rounds and blow things up and no gets hit they just give up |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2023 at 10:54pm
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Rotary phones - dang must be real old as I remember the phone setting in living room is a small space on the plaster wall just big enough to hold a phone - but no dial on it - You picked up the hand set and heard Number Please from live operator on other end of line . Then my mother had a news clipping from my grandparents who lived on farm right out of Ellsworth WI - they were note worthy as they just got their new phone 1,000 th phone in Pierce co , wood box , crank on side , hand held ear piece hanging on hook on side and microphone mounted on the front with flexible arm to raise or lower it . Then remember when the phone would ring but you had to count the rinds to see if it was for them - count long and short rings and number of each to see it the call was for them ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel. |