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Fun Forever
  • 11/13/2023

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Fun
Transcript
00:00 [music]
00:03 Hop on your pogo stick, your pogo stick, your pogo stick.
00:07 Hop on your pogo stick and hop right through the day.
00:11 Who cares if rubber's short? Just slap it off and be a sport.
00:15 Hop on your pogo stick just like a kid at play.
00:19 No stopping for red lights, no worry over headlights.
00:23 No fenders or bumpers, nor monthly notes on puddle junkers.
00:27 Who needs a limousine that's always out of gasoline?
00:31 Hop on your pogo stick and laugh your cares away.
00:38 [music]
00:39 Before the invention of the automobile, cities were of necessity confined to small congested areas.
00:45 With the advent of the motor car, cities spread out.
00:49 [music]
00:51 Engineers designed scientific highways to speed workers to and from their jobs.
00:56 Then suddenly came the gasoline and rubber shortage.
01:00 The worker was face to face with a serious transportation problem.
01:03 For instance, A lives here, but works at B, while C works at D and lives at E.
01:09 Then there's F, who must go to H. I must travel 45 miles to J and K 30 to L.
01:15 M and X to and fro from P's and Q. Y thither and hither to Z minus X over Y plus A divided by Q equals the distance traveled.
01:22 The situation is indeed a mess.
01:26 [music]
01:28 Blueprints flooded the patent office.
01:31 From every walk of life, thousands of resourceful citizens submitted solutions.
01:36 We cannot afford to overlook a single one of them.
01:39 For instance, here's an idea submitted by an animal lover of breakneck Long Island, who says, quote,
01:45 "There ain't no priorities on Tomcats." Unquote.
01:50 [music]
01:53 [chatter]
01:57 A mailman who doesn't care about walking on his day off claims,
02:01 "With this handy dandy walker cycle, I do my walking sitting down."
02:05 [music]
02:11 Necessity being the mother of invention, this ingenious hot carrier says,
02:16 "When that old quitting whistle blows, I'm giving meself a lift home in me old wheelbarrow."
02:22 [music]
02:26 Getting the children to and from their schools has always been a problem,
02:29 but now they have their play and get to school on time besides.
02:34 A Hollywood drugstore cowboy deprived of his station wagon improvised this system on the spur of the moment.
02:40 "Ah! Doggone, for a while I thought I'd have to learn how to ride a horse."
02:47 And here's one by a traveling salesman from Sitting Bull, Montana,
02:51 who spent most of his time in hotel lobbies.
02:55 "I used to suffer from arthritis, 'cause all I ever done was sit on my chair at the office.
03:04 "It gets all my exercise and keeps healthy with this patent applied for exercycle."
03:12 "Tires or no tires, I'm not giving up my golf game."
03:15 [music]
03:22 This golf enthusiast combines business with pleasure as he actually drives to work on his Model T.
03:28 [music]
03:37 Four pots and he's parked.
03:39 You'd be surprised how few golf balls he loses.
03:42 [music]
03:47 Pumping politician polls precinct in public primaries.
03:51 Pumps as he stumps.
03:53 Uh, this popular public personality predicts,
03:56 "It is a pleasure and a privilege to personally point with pride and praise
04:00 "to the perfect performance and propulsion of this pump perambulator."
04:03 [music]
04:07 While a defense worker on the swing shift devised this swinging chariot.
04:11 [music]
04:17 An air raid warden who's been staying up late nights was struck with this thought.
04:21 "Yeah, inventing's just kind of a hobby with me, see?
04:25 "So I put on these skates and my official equipment, see?
04:28 "And now it gets me a good strong magnet, see?
04:30 "And by golly, the darn thing works! Like this, see?"
04:34 [music]
04:45 [crash]
04:50 [music]
04:55 However, of the thousands of ideas submitted,
04:58 not all were as successful as those we have just witnessed.
05:01 Countless experiments were doomed to bitter failure.
05:05 Then, like a bolt from the blue, came the solution.
05:08 The answer to a nation's needs.
05:10 A simple device once discarded as a child's toy,
05:13 yet now bids fair to completely replace the automobile.
05:16 Ladies and gentlemen, the pogo stick!
05:19 [music]
05:23 Let us observe a practical demonstration by a satisfied customer,
05:27 a defense worker who lives some distance from his job.
05:30 [music]
05:44 It allows the pogoist to retain the habits to which he has grown accustomed.
05:48 [music]
05:57 Little shortcuts may be used to save valuable time.
06:01 [music]
06:03 The health of the pogoist is improved by the fresh air and exercise.
06:07 He arrives at his work all hopped up with enthusiasm,
06:10 ready to leap into his day's work.
06:13 [music]
06:23 Sunday drivers, accustomed to pleasure trips to the country,
06:26 are able to see for the first time what lies beyond the billboards
06:30 and are amazed at the beauties of nature.
06:33 [music]
06:37 Approximately 90% can be saved on highway surfacing alone.
06:41 It has been suggested this saving of concrete could be dropped on Tokyo or Berlin.
06:46 [music]
06:48 The pogo stick solves the parking problem.
06:51 Statistics show that between 30 and 40 pogo sticks may be parked in the space occupied by one automobile.
06:57 [music]
07:05 The pogo stick is an all-weather conveyance.
07:08 [music]
07:11 The modern streamlined design of the pogo stick gives smooth performance at high speed.
07:16 [music]
07:25 Hop on your pogo stick, your pogo stick, your pogo stick.
07:29 Hop on your pogo stick and hop right through the day.
07:33 Don't need a bit of gas for traffic cops to give you sass.
07:37 Hop on your pogo stick and then let come what may.
07:41 Don't slobber and blubber because you can't get rubber.
07:45 Don't act like a martyr, just smile and be your own self-starter.
07:49 Don't be a fuddy-dud, let Uncle Sam get in your blood.
07:53 Hop on your pogo stick and love your cares away.
07:58 Away!
08:02 [BLANK_AUDIO]