A Crummy Commercial

 I saw this interesting post by Larry Zdeb on the Radio Premiums group on face: It occurred to me that if someone was to find a huge cache of shake up mugs in the 21st century (maybe in an abandoned storage locker?) instead of using them to promote Ovaltine, pivot as the Wander folks did when they used Orphan Annie mugs as Captain Midnight premiums.  Since the old time radio fans are mostly older folks, promote the shake up mug for Metamucil or maybe a competing brand of dietary fiber.   Just spoon the fiber into the mug, add water, shake  it and chug it down (because if you wait too long, yikes !) - then chase the fiber by adding more water to the mug and shaking and chugging that. I'm still the idea man !   source:      https://youtu.be/4tT3rAo2s4s?t=69 Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm               

 One of the translators on the translator subreddit suggested that the characters on the Terryscope https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2022/05/terryscope-translated-from-chinese-to.html   could just as well be Japanese Kanji characters.  So I tried Kanji and got this: did this preview 21st century people being tattooed with language characters they don't understand ? They are all basically the same except for Akira which means discernment in English rather than bright as Ming does in Chinese.  OTOH, the Google translator (I usually use the Bing translator) says that Akira means Ming in English :)   Basically they were just decorative characters ! Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm

Good for us but why didn't the owner put the Terryscope together ? Did most of the translation by using a very nice site:   https://learnchineseez.com   I was able to figure out all of the characters except for the top flap, I had missed it  while scanning the character tables.  The character is Ming which is Bright in English: the original is on the right in red This was revealed to me via the subreddit: translator, https://reddit.com/r/translator/new/  a very nice person did the translation in just a few hours !  Amazing ! As I found out on my starting attempt:   https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-big-but-fun-waste-of-time.html    machine translation is kinda hit and miss.  I did find a slightly better scan on the Hakes auction site but it still didn't seem to work with the Yandex translator.  Also as is true with what we used to called script versus printing in English, a similar difference exists between hand written calligra...

I saw this   tally of initials   for an Orphan Annie radio premium posted by Larry Zdeb to the radio Premiums group on Face: https://www.facebook.com/groups/907249652996436 Wondering if this has any use as far as something like Morse code ?  Or more probably for Wordle ?  Maybe not since the words in question are names but still it's interesting. Is there a tally of the most common first letters of English words ? Did a little sorting on a spreadsheet: someone in the Chicago area had a job fulfilling premiums for a kids radio show, wonderful ! I need to look into this :) Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm

 I was listening to some episodes of Terry and the Pirates on Yesterday USA's re-stream of Max Schmid's "Golden Age of Radio".  This 1941 kids show was out of Chicago and sponsored by Libby's canned Tomato and Pineapple juices. Libby's was trying to get kids to drink Tomato and Pineapple juice in 1941   One way for Libby to gauge interest in the show and also sell some juice was to offer premiums.  The "Terryscope", a periscope was offered: half of a Terryscope the other half of the Terryscope The idea was to attach a mirror to each half of the Terryscope, then fold it up and fit the two halves together, trombone style.  The kid could use it as a periscope to look around something.  Or by turning one of the halves 180 degrees the kid could use it to see behind them.  I found those pictures on a web page for Hake's auctions: auction for a Terryscope Anyway, the radio ad mentions that there are real Chinese characters on the Terryscope  so I tried...