Bob Newhart Show - Oct. 11, 1961 (private fire dept part 2)

[mucifer]

Run time: 09:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDYZupag4Uo   Posted on YouTube: July 16, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: July 18, 2009 By DU Member: mucifer Views on DU: 1200

 
too funny!

[dipsydoodle]

1. We used to get these and other clips

as radio requests on Sunday mornings back then in the UK on the good ol' BBC Light Program - Forces Favorites.

[ScottLand]

2. That's hilarious!

If we really did have privately owned fire departments, the Conservatives would still try to keep it from being government-run, until their own houses caught on fire.:rofl:

[Ian David]

3. We *do* have privately owned fire departments.

Experiment in Private Fire Protection Fails for a Westchester Village
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
Published: Friday, March 13, 1998
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/13/nyregion/experiment-in-private-fire-protection-fails-for-a-westchester-village.html?pagewanted=all

Private vs. Public Fire Department?
http://rushvilletruth.typepad.com/rushville_truth/2008/06/private-vs-public-fire-department.html

AIG's Fire Trucks Save Homes of Wealthy Californians (Update1)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=af3wCbWHvK4w&refer=home

FIRE DEPARTMENT PRIVTIZATION: PUBLIC SAFETY VS. PUBLIC FINANCES?...
http://www.emergency.com/nyprivit.htm

Some tired of paying for private fire department
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4191/is_20070712/ai_n19376073/

[ScottLand]

4. Oops!

[Berry Cool]

5. This is also worth watching for the Four Preps and their imitations of popular vocal groups

from the era (even though the sound on the "Dion and the Belmonts" part is bad--you can barely hear the lead singer). I'd heard their recording of this before, but not seen them perform it.