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Flag Counter started April 3, 2008

These great questions and answers are from the days when the Hollywood Squares game show responses were spontaneous, not scripted, as they are now.

Peter Marshall was the host asking the questions, of course.

Q. Paul, what is a good reason for pounding meat?
A. Paul Lynde:   Loneliness!
(The audience laughed so long and so hard it took up almost 15 minutes of the show!)

Q. Do female frogs croak?
A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.

Q. If you’re going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be?
A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.

Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years.
A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.

Q. You’ve been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?
A.  Don Knotts: That’s what’s been keeping me awake.

Q. According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he’s married?
A. Rose Marie: No wait until morning.

Q. In Hawaiian, does it take more than three words to say ‘I Love You’?
A. Vincent Price: No, you can say it with a pineapple and a twenty.

Q. What are ‘Do It,’ ‘I Can Help,’ and ‘I Can’t Get Enough’?
A. George Gobel: I don’t know, but it’s coming from the next apartment.

Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while talking?
A.  Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and I’ll give you a gesture you’ll never  forget.

Q. Paul, why do Hell’s Angels wear leather?
A. Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.

Q. Charley, you’ve just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during  the first year?
A.. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I’m too busy growing  strawberries.

Q. In bowling, what’s a perfect score?
A.  Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.

Q. It is considered in bad taste to discuss two subjects at nudist camps. One is politics, what is the other?
A. Paul Lynde: Tape measures.

Q. During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?
A. Rose Marie:  Unfortunately Peter, I’m always safe in the bedroom.

Q. Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?
A. Marty Allen: Only after lights out.

Q. When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose  do?
A. Paul Lynde: Make him bark?

Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?
A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark.

Q. According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?
A. Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.

Q. It is the most abused and neglected part of your body, what is it?
A. Paul  Lynde: Mine may be abused, but it certainly isn’t neglected..

Q. Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he  trying to do?
A. George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.

Q. Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your elephant?
A.  Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant?

Q. When a couple have a baby, who is responsible for its sex?
A. Charley Weaver: I’ll lend him the car, the rest is up to him

Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are  they?
A.  Charley Weaver: His feet.

Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?
A. Paul Lynde: Point and laugh

Richard and I had a fun drive home from a meeting an hour north of here in the snow, sleet, and ice. We saw 11 vehicles either in the ditch, being pulled from the ditch (in this photo), or where they had very recently been pulled from the ditch. We were very thankful that we didn’t wind up in the ditch! We are now enjoying the wood stove and just look out now and again to see the snow/ice piling up! Will see what tomorrow brings in the way of snow accumulation! I just felt the need to add some spring flowers to this photo since it is the first day of Spring!

Matt, Forrest, Richard, Garland and I went to a game ranch where you can buy quail and pheasant, they set them out in a field, and then you go hunt them. I know, it isn’t totally like doing the real thing, but this winter was so harsh they just didn’t have much chance to hunt the wild birds. And, even in the areas where they used to find lots of birds, the numbers are steadily declining. This was my first opportunity to be along in a quail hunt, and it was great fun. I took a lot of photos, some even turned out pretty good. The boys shot 15 of the 20 quail set out for them and also shot a pheasant the morning hunt people didn’t find!

Click here for many more photos from the day.