Guess Who's Birthday its Today?

[Marty]

If you said it was the Old Man of the River – you are correct
If you said it was the jig man himself – you are correct
If you said it was Cooch – you are correct

Happy Birthday Cooch!

[Skeeterman]

Happy Birthday Cooch.

[RichThiel]

Again, Coochie has more birthdays a year than we've had Presidents.

Happy Birthday Cooch, I know Im older than Dirty. But atleast Im around givin you hell and being able to see yours still. HAR HAR HAR!!!!!!

Rich

[Hollywood]

happy bday cooch

[Stretch1]

a bday smashed between good friday and easter...looks like a sign to me of a great fishing year...happy bday stay off those fish in the mound...lol...

[Hipster]

Happy Birthday Cooch!!!!!!!!!

[sethook]

was there color TV when cooch was born ?
was the wheel invented?
did they have to scratch symbols on stone to communicate ?

[TEAMDEADMONEY]

Scientists dug up Cooches birth certificate!!!!



Pete

[sethook]

bwahahahahahahahhahahahaha now thats what im talkin bout !!!!!!!!!

[george]

Happy B-Day Cooch! I know ya gotta be approaching that big 5-0 within the next year or two!
Man; I meant your best five, not your age! LOL
You've been around longer then the delta I think...

Wish you the best and many, many more!

George

[Wally]

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Happy Birthday Cooch

Are You Older than Dirt ?



'Someone asked the other day,

'What was your favorite fastfood when you were growing up?'

'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up, all the food was slow.'

'C'mon, seriously . Where did you eat?'

'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained. !

'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'


By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.

But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it :

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis , set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card.

In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears & Roebuck.

Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.


My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).

We didn't have a television in our house until I was 5.

It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people.


I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.'

When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.


We didn't have a car until I was 4. It was an old black Dodge.


I never had a telephone in my room.

The only phone in the house was in the kitchen and it was on a party line.. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.

Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.

All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at 6AM

every morning.

On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.

Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.


If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

MEMORIES from a friend :

My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.

How many do you remember?



Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.

Older Than Dirt Quiz :

Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about

Ratings at the bottom.

1 Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines on the telephone
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels [if you were fortunate])
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S& H greenstamps ;
16 Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19 Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!


0A

I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.





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[Sean Graf]

Happy Birthday Cooch.

When and where is the party?

[Glenn]

Happy Birthday Cooch!

I hope you catch teener!

[Dom]

Happy B-Day Coochie!

PS April 11th ! Thats my ex-wifes B-Day

[mac (Doyle McEwen)]

Dang Wally, I remember everything on your lest and some that aren't..I was six before we lived in a house with running water in the kitchen and eight before we lived in a house with an indoor bathroom..Believe it or not we got electricity the year before we got the running water in the kitchen..I remember listening to The Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke and The Shadow on radio, what the heck was this thing called television..Oh, yeah, we finally got one when I was 12..I never owned a bicycle, didn't lear to ride one until I was in my teens, but I could get around pretty good on my own two feet or by horseback..There wasn't a farm pond within 10 miles I hadn't had a hook in..Yep, those were the days..Sure glad I lived through them..

mac

[tunaman]

Well, it certainly was Andy's birthday on Friday, and we were privileged to be able to share it with him along with many of his friends.

Here's a slideshow from the event:

http://www.tunaman.org/pics/Cooch_Bday_09/

Happy birthday once again my friend!
Roger

[Terry Smith]

Ya Happy Birthday Cooch!!!!!! and thanks for the phone call guys about the party REAL PALS YOU GUYS ARE

[L Dub]

Happy Belated Cooch!

[Todd Dunlap]

We sure had a great time!It was cool to meet everyone there.You guy's kill me.HAR!!!Good people and food!It don't get any better than that Thanks again Cooch and see you guy's soon. Todd

[JustinD]

It was nice to meet ya to Todd.....Cooch's was a blast and glad ya and Mona made it home safe......Kirk you to man....Sorry ya couldn't get them but thats fishing.....Just remember to come back soon ya'll the topwater bite is just around the corner.

[Team ngc]

Happy Birthday Cooch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[macinckirk]

Lewis
your the man

[Greg_Cornish]

Happy B'Day