The local Ice Cream truck just passed my house...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

It always plays a little melody...

Today?

"Jingle Bells."


:eyes:

[LeftyFingerPop]

1. You're lucky. Mine always plays "White Punks on Dope".

:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear LeftyFingerPop!

Oh really?

Can you hum a few bars?

I don't know this one!

:hug:

:rofl:

[LeftyFingerPop]

10. Here you go Peg...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP8nGNbk7oQ

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

13. That wasn't an ice cream truck

dumb shit. :hide:

[LeftyFingerPop]

15. Yes it was, sizzle.

:D

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

18. You're finally taking my proposal seriously?

I love you twinkle toes. :rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. ROFLMAO!

I can just see the crowds following the truck, forcing it to stop and getting the ice cream out!

:rofl:

[LeftyFingerPop]

16. Please don't mock the neighborhood kids, Peg

:rofl:

[WCGreen]

22. I seen the Tubes live back in 1975 in the Kent State Gym...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. I'll bet they weren't singing about ice cream!

[WCGreen]

24. Just asking us What Do You Want From Life....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbt2chabdbw


Checvk out the last few seconds....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. Oh, that was cool!

Thanks!

I loved it when he was asking the audience what they wanted from life...

He even mentioned Obama...

[madeline_con]

31. Tubes

:rofl:

[WinkyDink]

2. LOVE the ice-cream truck! Ah, youth, and Dreamsicles.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear WinkyDink!

Ah, I love it too!

When my daughter was about 3, I used to tell her it was the "music truck"...

We laugh about it now!

:hi:

[WinkyDink]

9. There are too few 100% smile-inducing parts of life, but this is one!

[liberaltrucker]

4. A freaking MONTH before Halloween?

Sheesh!!

I can assume the ice cream was yummy, eh?


:hug:

:loveya:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My dear liberaltrucker!

Exactly!

Maybe he figured it would get people's attention?

It sure did mine!

Nah, didn't buy any...don't need the calories!

:hug:

:loveya:

[Auggie]

6. Ours has been playing "The Entertainer" -- ragtime

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. My dear Auggie!

I would love to hear that!

Very cool.

I love ragtime!

:hi:

[TK421]

8. The ice cream truck around here plays "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. My dear TK41!

I'm having a hard time believing this!

Tell me you're kidding!


How's the wasp(?) bite doing, sweetie?


:hug:

[TK421]

17. I'm kidding Peggy!

Oh, the sting is well beyond healed now....no more encounters since the cooler weather has set in ( thank the goddess ) I worked today with zero interruptions and there was a cool breeze blowing off the Delaware ( which is about forty feet away from me there ). Hope you are doing well! :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. I did think you were!

Glad to hear you're healed and doing well in the cooler weather!

I am well, thanks...

Just started a six week poetry workshop (every Tuesday night) and am on fire with it!

:hug:

[TK421]

20. When you put your next poem out, let me know!

my computer is functional again!!!!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. I will do that!

Glad to hear it!

[azmouse]

26. We're getting "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"

I'll trade with ya! :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

27. My dear azmouse!

I would if I could!

Maybe...

;)

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

28. ours used to play the theme from "the godfather"

[CaliforniaPeggy]

29. My dear GreatCaesarsGhost!

How did the kids react to that?

I would think something a bit more cheerful would be preferable...

:shrug:

:hi:

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

30. no kids in the neighborhood anymore, so it just drives by

a little surreal. but once in awhile i'll flag it down and get a toasted almond.

[Lionel Mandrake]

32. which theme?

There are several.

[EastTennesseeDem]

33. Less than three months

They're trying to get you into the spirit.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

34. My dear EastTennesseeDem!

Ha!

And all it did was piss me off!

:rofl:

[EastTennesseeDem]

38. Maybe next time they'll play God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Would you be in the spirit then?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

40. Ah,it's not the song!

It's the timing...

I like "Jingle Bells" just fine...just not now!

November would be soon enough...

I love "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" too!

:hi:

[Lionel Mandrake]

35. Bah, humbug! (n/t)

[Forkboy]

36. Ours plays "Where The Buffalo Roam".

I suppose Cannibal Corpse's song Five Nails To The Neck is right out. x(

[CaliforniaPeggy]

42. My dear Forkboy!

Now "Where the Buffalo Roam" is a perfectly fine song!

The other one? Um...not so much, sweetie...

Sorry!

:hug:

[Forkboy]

46. yeah, but you got to admit...

there is a certain comedy factor in a Good Humor man tooling around with that blasting from the speakers. How many kids run FROM the ice cream man?

Clearly, this is one career option I can rule out. ;)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

48. LOL!

I think you're right about the career option, sweetie!

:rofl:

[NNadir]

37. They HAVE ice cream trucks in Manhattan Beach?

We had one come to our local park this summer and it felt so nostalgic, as I hadn't seen one in years.

It brought back such memories. One summer, while he was on strike, to put food on the table my father became the ice cream man.

Bungalo bar...

He was such a good father. The last stop was always his kid's house, and the ice cream man always bought his sons an ice cream.

Mind you he was on strike and he didn't have a dime.

Sigh...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

43. My dear NNadir!

We have ALWAYS had them here!

When we moved into this town, back in 1968, we had them!

There's a fair number of families with kids here...

And I love your poignant story...

Good on your dad. What a sweetheart he was for you...

Thank you for sharing that, sweetie...

:hug:

[NNadir]

56. Well Peg, I left Hermosa for good in the 1980's, but I don't know that they ever came down

our way. Or maybe I was missing something.

I lived on 10th Street, and before that Beach Dr. I can't recall an ice cream truck, but maybe I wasn't paying attention.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

57. You left in the 80's?

Do you remember the Easy Reader newspaper?

I used to write for them...;)

I don't know if the ice cream trucks went into Hermosa...

Maybe there were too many renters without kids then.

[NNadir]

62. I remember it. I assume from your use of the past tense, it is no more.

We were renters as you say.

I can't say I knew anyone with kids.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

64. I no longer write for it, but it still exists...

I get it every week!

Here's a link for info and for the paper itself:

http://www.easyreader.info/

[NNadir]

69. There's a part of me that misses the Beach Cities still, but truth be told,

since moving to New Jersey, I've become a New Jersey fascist.

(I did time in San Diego after leaving Hermosa/Redondo)

I wouldn't want to live in any other place other than New Jersey. It's heaven.

[Lionel Mandrake]

39. I'm waiting for an ice cream truck to play Chopin's Piano Sonata #2.

You know, the one with the funeral march.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

44. My dear Lionel Mandrake!

LOL!

That would never, ever do!

:rofl:

[Lionel Mandrake]

47. Well, how about Haydn's "emperor" quartet, 2nd movement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc34Jr9udlU

[CaliforniaPeggy]

49. Yes, that's very pretty, lol!

The kids wouldn't get it, but the grownups would!

And they would object...

Besides, it's not perky and funny enough for ice cream trucks!

;)

[Lionel Mandrake]

50. Mom and Dad probably wouldn't get it either.

Grandma and Grandpa would get it. But they don't live in the neighborhood.

[Swede]

41. At least it wasn't playing Orff's "Carmina Burana"...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=7916998#7917011

[CaliforniaPeggy]

45. My dear Swede!

How did I miss that one?

It's hilarious!

Thanks for that great thread!

:hug:

[NewJeffCT]

67. Here ya go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9eEwsGPf3s&feature=PlayList&p=374D3C3BC050F551

[Kat45]

51. Ours alwyas plays "Turkey in the Straw." Always.

And I live across the street from a school, so I hear it constantly.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

52. My dear Kat45!

That's a good song...

But I hope that being across the street from a school doesn't make you crazy!

:hi:

[Iggo]

53. My local ice cream truck plays Happy Birthday.

Pied Piper knows his clientele, yes?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

54. My dear Iggo!

Oh, absolutely!

If he didn't, he'd be out of business...

And that's a very appropriate song!

:hi:

[Sebastian Doyle]

55. Is it a rock n roll night tonight?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygXefDRoBts

[CaliforniaPeggy]

59. My dear Sebastian Doyle!

I think it is!

Thanks for David...I used to love him, back in the day...

:toast:

[gmoney]

58. It should have been playing this song...

"Ice Cream Man" by Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu3TvC9CH18

[CaliforniaPeggy]

60. My dear gmoney!

That's really cute!

Thanks, sweetie!

:hi:

[UrbScotty]

61. My dear CaliforniaPeggy!

I listen to Christmas music year-round!

:D

[CaliforniaPeggy]

65. My dear UrbScotty!

You do?

How come?

Or are you teasing me?

:D

[elocs]

63. I wonder how successful ice cream trucks are anymore

since kids don't seem to be allowed to play outside anymore? Seems like they are either indoors and taken by their parents to some organized event.

I've got to say, I wouldn't want to be a kid today.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

66. My dear elocs!

Well, in my neighborhood, the kids play outside quite a lot...

And they also have lots of organized things to do too...

The ice cream guy must be having some success...he keeps showing up!

:hi:

[elocs]

68. Actually where I live I did hear one go by this past summer and there are no children around here.

Kids don't seem to be outside all day the way they were when I was a kid. Back then in the summer we would be outside all day long until it was dark and we were called to come home or the curfew whistle sounded. As a boy I seemed to spend a lot of time with my friends looking for boards to make a fort or a go-cart or for a big refrigerator box to roll in down the hill in front of the house. And hearing the ice cream truck was a big deal, with lots of kids trailing along. (We also used to follow on our bikes behind the city truck that was fogging for mosquitoes in the summer as gassed birds fell out of the trees along the way.)

[elshiva]

70. Why did you hurt that poor ice cream truck driver?

I just saw it on tv. :scared:

[txwhitedove]

71. Good evening, CalPeggy. Our ice cream truck comes around almost

every evening, and it plays The Entertainer - theme from movie The Sting.
When we first moved to Houston 26-years ago, I was so tickled that the
ice cream trucks run all year round.

:)

[Odin2005]

72. That's the secret signal to start the Liberal War on Christmas!

Oops, did I say that out loud? :yoiks:

[Dystopian]

73. Brings back memories....

For some reason, we knew it as the 'Ding Dong Truck'...
When my children were little....oh the joy!
It was great....my children got their ice cream, and I got to speak with the 'Ding Dong' man..
A really cute young guy with a long beautiful pony tail...
Ah ...those were the days, my friend...:hug:


peace~