Readers who aren’t geezers didn’t watch the Howdy Doody Show Monday through Friday from their TV dinner trays.
I was never a big fan of Uncle Bob, the emcee, or the mindless Peanut Gallery that broke into frenzies of foolish applause, but I always chuckled when Mr. Bluster appeared.
In this episode Mr. Bluster insists on the impossible — a ROUND mailing envelope to contestants in the “Bluster Contest.”
All these years later, I wonder whether another Howdy Doody fan in Queens sat like the rest of my generation in front of his television, eating a Swanson’s TV dinner on a TV dinner tray.
–Gordon C. Stewart, Chaska, MN, Jan. 10, 2018, the 20th day of the federal government shutdown.
Views from the Edge 
Garry has reached a point where he can’t watch or listen to Trump, so after whatever he does, he catches a post live roundup. I just take pictures of birds.
I’ll Fly Away/
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O Lordy, I’ll fly away To where no fake blond blusterer Ruins my Swanson’s TV dinner!
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😉 …ya
❤
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Glad you got a kick out of it, Nancy. Some days I can’t decide whether we’re dealing with Mr. Bluster with Clarabel (sp.?). At least Clarabel was funny!
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And silent.
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Yes. Never spoke a word.
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