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Who Was Soupy Sales, and Why We'll Miss Him
Entertainment Weekly ^
| 10/23/09
| Ken Tucker
Posted on 10/23/2009 9:57:22 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
I loved the old Soupster. One of the funniest shows ever. White Fang always arrived just in the nick of time to leave Soup pretty well mauled.
May the angels sing him home
To: nickcarraway
He could have brusquely dismissed those irritating reporters simply by saying “No Soupy for You!”
To: nickcarraway
Great post. He’s before my time, but I’ve heard the “little green pieces of paper” story and I think its fabulous. I wish I had heard about this yesterday...but I think there may have been a missing white girl somewhere in need of media attention, or something.
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posted on
10/23/2009 9:59:51 AM PDT
by
mudblood
To: nickcarraway
I remember him. He was funny
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posted on
10/23/2009 10:00:23 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else" Lucius Septimus Severus)
To: nickcarraway
He was on lots of gameshows during the 60’s, too. That’s how I seem to remember him.
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posted on
10/23/2009 10:00:47 AM PDT
by
DallasDeb
(USAFA '06 Mom)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
10/23/2009 10:01:26 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(Brave amateurs....they do their part.)
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posted on
10/23/2009 10:03:14 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(Brave amateurs....they do their part.)
To: nickcarraway
After he jokingly asked the kids to send him those little pieces of green paper, the station received thousands of dollars. To its embarrassment, the station could not send much of the money back because the little kids never put a return address on the envelope.
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posted on
10/23/2009 10:04:47 AM PDT
by
CharacterCounts
(November 4, 2008 - the day America drank the Kool-Aid)
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Soupy's sons went on to play in bands with Iggy Pop and David Bowie.
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posted on
10/23/2009 10:05:27 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all the while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
To: nickcarraway
Mrs. jimfree took a cream pie to work today as a memorial.
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posted on
10/23/2009 10:07:27 AM PDT
by
jimfree
(Freep and ye shall find! - I am Joe Wilson.)
To: nickcarraway
To his eternal and ambivalent fame, he was once suspended from the show for a New Years Day 1965 joke: he asked kids to go into their parents bedrooms and take the little green pieces of paper they found i.e., money and send them in to him. Always found it odd that they suspended him over this but not the appearance of a (largely offcamera) stripper (who was captured in her act with an unaired second "blooper" camera) while "The Stripper" played.
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posted on
10/23/2009 10:08:40 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all the while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
To: a fool in paradise
They started out by playing on Todd Rundgrens first solo album, Runt.
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posted on
10/23/2009 10:09:26 AM PDT
by
curth
To: CharacterCounts
After he jokingly asked the kids to send him those little pieces of green paper, the station received thousands of dollars. To its embarrassment, the station could not send much of the money back because the little kids never put a return address on the envelope. "Forward them to me!!!"
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posted on
10/23/2009 10:10:57 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all the while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
To: nickcarraway
I laughed at a Cinderella parody called “The Sisty Uglers” until I couldn’t breathe. My Mom threatened t turn Soupy off, but my Dad wouldn’t let her.
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posted on
10/23/2009 10:11:21 AM PDT
by
Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
To: a fool in paradise
saw Tin Machine, good show
To: curth
I think EW was wrong to refer to them as session musicians, they toured with the performers as well.
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posted on
10/23/2009 10:11:55 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all the while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
To: the long march
I remember watching the little green pieces of paper show. I was 4. I though it was dumb.
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posted on
10/23/2009 10:12:13 AM PDT
by
frithguild
(Can I drill your head now?)
To: the long march
I’d forgot about white Fang and Black Tooth.....
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posted on
10/23/2009 10:13:33 AM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(Obama's a self-made man who worships his own creator...............)
To: Deb
Netflix has a couple of Soupy Sales tv show DVD titles.
I purchased the 3 disc set years ago only to discover that it largely consisted of 1970s programming. But it does include the famous stripper blooper.
And there is a title of 1959 episodes.
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posted on
10/23/2009 10:15:39 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all the while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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