Stupid Guest Tricks

Zazu wrote:Damn, that was cold!

What do you have against Samuel Jackson that you want to see him dead?

Has nothing to do with Samuel Jackson. It is the teasing joke of an opposite to what he said. Samuel Jackson is a great actor. Just was teasing.

mechurchlady wrote:Has nothing to do with Samuel Jackson. It is the teasing joke of an opposite to what he said. Samuel Jackson is a great actor. Just was teasing.

Oh, okay then. Just hit me wrong is all. Sam and I are both from Chattanooga, and folks there tend to look out for one another (sorta like CMs). And you're right, the kid can act!

CBeilby wrote:Based on what I'm hearing, I'm guessing Paul Newman. Apparently, he's in end stage cancer. :(

Don't know if any of you on the West Coast heard, especially if you're a Baby Boomer like me, but William Stulla, AKA "Engineer Bill" , host of the 1954-1966 "Cartoon Express" show, passed away in his sleep at age 97 last Tuesday eveing. The obit was in the Friday L.A. Times. Zazu, did you get my PM?

felinefan wrote:Don't know if any of you on the West Coast heard, especially if you're a Baby Boomer like me, but William Stulla, AKA "Engineer Bill" , host of the 1954-1966 "Cartoon Express" show, passed away in his sleep at age 97 last Tuesday eveing. The obit was in the Friday L.A. Times. Zazu, did you get my PM?

Red light, Green Light

Got a lot of kids to drink their milk.

Sheriff John was my idol.

Yeah, I liked Sheriff John, too. Do you remember Hobo Kelly and Baby Daphne?
http://www.tvacres.com/child_sheriff_john.htm
http://www.tvparty.com/lostlasheriff.html
http://www.tvparty.com/lostlahobo
http://www.tvparty.com/lostlabill

I also used to watch a show that had a pirate host, this guy looked like Blackbeard, frequently pointed an epee (with a small metal ball on the tip so he wouldn't hurt anyone) at the viewer, as well as another show with a beachcomber type dude as host. Can't remember the names of either host or show. Basically the same format as Engineer Bill. Both shows were in the mid-late 60s.

*Sigh* We're losing so many good kid show hosts. I'm positive Baby Daphne is gone; I assume "Sheriff" John Rovick and Hobo Kelly are still alive.

felinefan wrote:Yeah, I liked Sheriff John, too. Do you remember Hobo Kelly and Baby Daphne?
http://www.tvacres.com/child_sheriff_john.htm
http://www.tvparty.com/lostlasheriff.html
http://www.tvparty.com/lostlahobo
http://www.tvparty.com/lostlabill

I also used to watch a show that had a pirate host, this guy looked like Blackbeard, frequently pointed an epee (with a small metal ball on the tip so he wouldn't hurt anyone) at the viewer, as well as another show with a beachcomber type dude as host. Can't remember the names of either host or show. Basically the same format as Engineer Bill. Both shows were in the mid-late 60s.

*Sigh* We're losing so many good kid show hosts. I'm positive Baby Daphne is gone; I assume "Sheriff" John Rovick and Hobo Kelly are still alive.

Don't remember a Pirate, but remember a Cap't Bill (or Cap't Bob?) that hosted the Popeye cartoons!

GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:Don't remember a Pirate, but remember a Cap't Bill (or Cap't Bob?) that hosted the Popeye cartoons!

I don't know about that, but I remember Tom Hatten when he was at KTLA for years, dressing as a sailor to host Popeye cartoons on weekend mornings, and also doing the weekend Family Film Festival hosting duties.

On the cartoon show hosted by the beachcomber type guy, the camera would go slowly along an improvised jungle path, where there was a parrot sitting on a perch eating a grape. It stopped at a grass shack, from which the host emerged, usually carrying another parrot, and between cartoons he'd interact with the parrot a bit, feeding it grapes or whatever he had.

The pirate one, I remember him saying once he went someplace, and it showed him in a swordfight with another, similarly dressed pirate. Don't know if he won or not. Ever wish you could go back in time and save everything to tape?

felinefan wrote:Don't know if any of you on the West Coast heard, especially if you're a Baby Boomer like me, but William Stulla, AKA "Engineer Bill" , host of the 1954-1966 "Cartoon Express" show, passed away in his sleep at age 97 last Tuesday eveing. The obit was in the Friday L.A. Times.

Ah, I remember him well. Nice guy, to all reports, and not at all prone to high-speed operation when the cameras weren't on.

My father did a guest spot on his show once. I forget what he was talking about (other than trains), and nobody else remembers either because it was the evening that the news of Sputnik hit the airwaves. His one big shot at fame and he gets eclipsed by a beeping satellite.

Zazu, did you get my PM?

No, I didn't. Care to send it again?

It was basically the post you quoted. I just put the clipping away in my file, but I believe there's a memorial service on Aug. 27--let me dig it out. The obit was in the L.A. Times, Aug. 15, and though the picture shows him at 90, he looked pretty good for 97. His only immediate survivor is his daughter. Memorial service is 11 a.m., Aug. 27, at Westlake Village Inn, 32001 Agoura Rd., Westlake Village. After he stopped being Engineer Bill, he became a stockbroker. The article was written by Dennis McClellan, [email protected] . I cut a letter to the editor out today, by Lon M. Burns of Manhattan Beach, titled, "Heavenly Station. "

I was trying to post a new subject on this, titled "Engineer Bill will not be down for breakfast", but there's no post new topic button on here. That's why I PM'ed you.