Whether your Sabbath be spent pruning the topiary, attending to your stamp collection, or simply [wait for it - Ed.] rimming an amputee in the local morgue, let Lalo n' Dizzy lend it a swing!
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Saturday, February 13, 2021
Something For Sunday Dept. - Lalo n' Dizzy!
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Technically speaking, it probably ain't Sunday yet in your part of the world. So while we wait for the calendar to turn with its ineluctable momentum, bringing us every one closer to death's chill embrace, let's take time out to talk about gum. Chewing or bubble, or indeed Cow (for a certain generation of graphic arts workers) - what be gum and cards of treasured memory for youse bums?
ReplyDeleteMe, I had a complete set of Beatles gum cards, the B/W ones that made a giant poster jigsaw if you flipped them over. And a near-complete set of Civil War cards, which were the best ever.
Collected baseball cards until '65, then along came Mary.....
DeleteAlways liked the smell of a freshly opened pack of cards, not to mention a freshly opened can of Best-Test brand rubber cement. Cow Gum brings back memories of my time in London ('85-'95).
Very nice cover, much better than the banal original.
"....or simply [wait for it - Ed.] rimming an amputee in the local morgue....."
You magnificent bastard.
Gum? You mean like chewing gum imitating hood ornaments???
ReplyDeleteThat album cover says it all. Who needs the cards?
I have always assumed that bubblegum cards were an American weakness. I had a Batman card collection in kindergarten. A bully took them from me after school one day. It didn't matter... The professional football cards were a much larger challenge to collect. Nevertheless, Lalo Schifrin was probably responsible for more tooth decay since his music scored about half of the subculture to ever identify baby boomers with their own insecurities. Why wasn't there ever a series of collectable Dentist Gum Cards? Amalgam of Mercury, anyone???
Good to see you paddling in th' surf, Kwai! What always puzzled me was the low quality of most bubble gum contrasted with the high value of the card. You were actually buying a card, with the gum thrown in free. Chewing gum was a better quality product, but they didn't give you a card. Chewing gum - boring. Bubble gum - fun.
Delete"Dubble Bubble" and "Swell" were my favorite bubble gum.
DeleteYou're right! The 'gum' pictured in the photo has always been BUBBLEGUM in the correct vernacular. As for the packs of cards...that might have been bark from a rubber tree. Some of it was extremely low grade. The chewable orange wax harmonica was a superior grade of gum. There was a product that hit the racks around 1970...called Mouthful. I'm pretty sure it was only available in sour grape flavor. It was a 2" X 3" X 1/2" slab of the highest quality bubblegum that I know of...SO GOOD that there were no cards required to turn on the fiend-element in the buyer. It was 10 cents... and the equivalent of primary school heroin. It could extract money, teeth, fillings, etc. from the user. It was good enough to make you chew the cards in any other product by comparison.
ReplyDeleteMy research team came up with this mouthwatering link:
Deletehttp://www.inthe70s.com/food/bigmouthbubblegum0.shtml
That's probably what I'm thinking of. I think the wrapper was yellow...
ReplyDeletebut so is the smiley face. I remember two things about using the product:
1. Blowing huge bubbles
2. Aching jaw muscles!
If you read the comments, Mouthful is brought up (so to speak) further down.
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ReplyDeleteshows the box for the Mouth Full apple flavored bubblegum.
There was also grape and fruit favored. So, if it destroyed tooth enamel...
it had no apparent effects on long term memory.
The product was made by Donruss Company...
which manufactured (you guessed it) trading cards!
It has been a source of lifelong despair for me that I cannot chew my cud like a contented cow does, and instead I have to spend money on gum.
ReplyDeleteI have lurked around dairy farms hoping to develop a rumen: the largest pouch of a cow’s stomach, praying to learn the art of swallowing, un-swallowing, re-chewing and re-swallowing.
Perhaps it’s because I don’t like grass (of the hay variety.)
It’s heart-breaking and bad for the digestion that you would bring up such a sensitive subject.
I think elective surgery, rather than suspiciously "lurking around dairy farms", may bring you the satisfaction you crave, Bob. If you ask me, way too much attention has been granted folk in want of a penis or vagina (in the absence thereof) while the taboo issue of the rumen-denied has been largely ignored. Can you not "come out" on social media to highlight this issue? Start a metoo@rumen hashtag? Perhaps crochet yourself a pink rumen hat?
DeleteThe Four Or Five Guys© are here for your moral support, if you need to chat, confide, or just have a manly weep into your milk!
My favorites aside from the "Batman" and Green Hornet" series.... "Mars Attacks", "Outer Limits", and one series with some really gruesome WWII artwork when I was between 7 and 10.
ReplyDeleteI remember the powdery texture of the dry gum inside and the smell it would leave on the cards more than the actual flavor.
DeleteCheers
ObeyGravity
Are you certain about the WW2 cards? The Civil War cards were so gruesome there was public outcry in the U. of K. for their banning. Only made them more desirable.
DeleteOh yeah. The one that has stuck with me all these years is of a tank rolling through the rubble of a building, with a soldier being crushed under the tracks......
DeleteAll for a nickel. For sure, different times.
https://www.pinterest.com/zamda68/world-war-ii-topps-cards/
DeleteCivil war ones are there too I think I remember them as well..
https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=bubble%20gum%20cards%20civil%20war&rs=typed&term_meta[]=bubble%7Ctyped&term_meta[]=gum%7Ctyped&term_meta[]=cards%7Ctyped&term_meta[]=civil%7Ctyped&term_meta[]=war%7Ctyped
Cheers
obEygraVity
The card I remember the most fondly is of a soldier impaled on a stake, bent backwards in agony under a red sky. Jeez - dem wus th' days, eh, pals? Kids today ...
DeleteAll I can say is that happiness is a warm gum.
ReplyDeleteAlmost went with "worn gum" but times are hard, as you know.
DeleteNot as hard as that pink strip of gum, thoughbut.
DeleteWrigley's Spearmint is perhaps one of the most disappointing of life's experiences. As a desirable product, it's right up there with a Lamborghini Miura, or a sack of sour cream n' onion chips, but as an experience it's a heartbreaker. You have that beautiful package - the snowy white, the fireplug crimson, the verdant Robin Hood arrow, the gleam of silver foil - you slip out the soft strip of gum - slide it between your teeth - and that's when the whole deal falls apart. After the initial exhilarating rush of mint the harsh, bitter reality sinks in. You are chewing some indigestible by-product of the rubber industry. WHY?
ReplyDeleteThat wrapper was originally designed in 1893.
DeleteGood lawd, this thread brought life to a drary and extremely cold morning over here in NO.
ReplyDeleteHAd a babseball card collection as a kid that included what I was later to discover, rare and expensive Mantle, Cobb, Aaron cards. When I dinally doscovered how much they were worth, I also discovered that they no longer were stored in my parents' attic and had been thrown into the proverbial trashpile of history.
Now, where's that amputee????
Nice job on the new artwork Farq, and no Cow Gum or Spray Mount used in its creation. I worked in a graphics department in the 80's, Cow Gum was on its way out, Spray Mount was useful, but awful when combined with the cigarette smoke smell from all the paste-up artists.
ReplyDeleteAnyway I look forward to dancing to Lalo n' Dizzy on Sunday whilst celebrating tomorrows impeachment result.
I had my mouth full of food as I read the text about rimming. A mistake.
ReplyDeleteIt's a mistake while rimming, too. I am told.
DeleteBTW - would really appreciate a link to Diz.
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ReplyDeleteThis is Pmac's personal link, and anyone not Pmac (or Mrs. Mac) clcicking it - or EVEN LOOKING FOR IT - will be subject to th' CURSE of FOAM™, today manifest as a slight but nagging rash in the hollow of the chest.
Thank you for this great 'funky' little disc, I downloaded Pmac's personal link after waiting for my link to turn up to no avail. Just noticed you used the pablo logo on your new improved artwork, bravo. Great music to dance to, in my new MAWA tee. Twistin' an a froogin' here on a Monday morning. Great stuff.
DeleteThanks. The logo should be reversed out bottom right, but I did this before I learned how to make .png images, which is stupidly easy on a Mac.
DeleteIn addition to selling furniture, I now have a certain Gillespie album for sale.
ReplyDelete;-)
Thanks, Farq.
Bazooka was my bubblegum of choice, sans cards. I wonder if anyone has compiled all of the Bazooka Joe comics that were included with said gum.
ReplyDeleteWhen my parents divorced and my sister and I were sent to live with our maternal grandparents in Louisiana, while the rents sorted things out, my mother invited my cousins to pillage and plunder my not inconsiderable baseball and football card collection. I was bigly pissed.
My favorite cards & gum product was the Wacky Packages of the 1970's. Some talented cartoonists drew those product parodies.
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