My Heros!

[howdydave]

If the wording seems a bit odd...
Think of this as a poem written by a person for
whom English is a second language.

My Heros

The bestest job of which I know
Detective -- like on radio!
Jeff Regan with bad metaphores,
(He works for Lion -- Lion snores,)
Pat Novac, also Sergent Friday.
Jack Webb: he played all three in my day!

Richard Diamond, Samual Spade,
The rest of deck was seldom played.
My favorite one was Johnny Dollar,
Insurance fraud was this one's scholar.
If someone's lost, call Mr. Keene,
Adventure?... "Write to Box 13"!

Bulldog Drummond, Boston Blackie,
Charlie Chan with boy-child lackey,
Sherlock Holmes and Phillip Marloe
My heroes on the radio!
Then came TV... our degradation,
The downfall of imagination!

The Shadow on the tube was miserable,
On radio he was invisible!

-- HowdyDave 2007

[Lavandula Canadensis]

howdydave,

english is also my second language... ;)

on our tube, when i was a child, there were more fingerprints than shadows... :eek:

i try to keep my fingers off the new computer monitor, as it is not glass, but plastic... :D

[howdydave]

Howdy Lavandula!

I'm talking about:

"Who knows,
what evil...
LURKS in the hearts of men?

The Shadow knows!
(Followed by a diabolical laugh...)

But you probably already knew that, right?

For the younger set who did not see the disappointing movie...
The Shadow was a crime fighter who could make himself invisible by
clouding peoples minds. He did this with the secrets he learned in Tibet.

And NO... he was not originally a wicked man who was reformed!

[Lavandula Canadensis]

howdydave,
oops, i think i'm missing something here... not only because english is my second language, i think... :confused::p;)
could it be because i'm really not a radio/tv****ie person :confused::p;)

[howdydave]

See:
The Shadow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow)

[Lavandula Canadensis]

howdydave, thanks for the link…

as a child, I never was exposed to children stories or fairy tales, etc… except with Walt Disney movies and comics on TV that had been translated into French… btw, it reminds me that I have a black and white picture of me (I always carry it with me) at 2 ½ y.o. with a big black and white Teddy Bear in front of the TV… :D

as far as comic books are concerned, I only discovered Gaston La Gaffe (in French, from Belgium) at around 25 y.o. (never too late !!! :D ) when I had to stay in the dr’s waiting room in case I would be reacting to allergy vaccine… I just love him, still today…

Long life to a thread on heros ! *sinistercal