" In My Merry Oldsmobile" - (1931)

I ran across this little promotional cartoon for the 1931 Oldsmobile. It has all the elements of a melodrama, with a villainous landlord and a lady in distress. She is rescued by a virtuous young man who then takes her for a spin in his new automobile. The ending not shown is when he runs out of gas and pulls over to the side of the road, collecting his reward for saving her virtue. And if that’s not funny enough for you, it’s a Fleischer creation from the days when he was still doing advertisements, while cranking out the early Popeye and Betty Boop cartoons.

Watching this cartoon shows two things which have not changed; you need money to make money; and the guy with the coolest car usually gets the girl!

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Fall Back!

Don’t forget to set the clocks back at 2 AM tonight and enjoy the extra hour out, or in the morning, when you can simply sleep in. I don’t mind the fall set back – it’s the springing forward that hurts me more with each passing year! But, the fall set back, with its extra hour of night time is all right by me!

Don't Forget To Fall Back......

Don't forget to set your clocks back an hour tonite before you go to bed. Wouldn't want to cheat yourself out of an extra hour of whatever you might be doing at 2 AM! I actually waited up one year to see how the TV stations handled it. I fell asleep in front of the TV at about 1:30 AM, so that falls under the "Failed Research - To Be Retried at a Later Date" category. That list gets longer every year. I'm going to try and enjoy staying up a little bit later, and then also waking up a little bit later, which will still really be a little bit earlier, so the whole thing will even out in the end.