I doubt the secretaries were all liquored up....if the truth were known, that is probably what kept these places afloat (pardon the pun). Can you tell, by the way, that I was, once upon a time, a secretary? I was a darn good one, too, if I do say so as shouldn't.

I have a Mad Men mug, too, and I just love it.

Congrats you two on your mug winning. I'm jealous. I myself am and "Admin Asst" as they call us now. I consider myself a darn good one too!
Anyway I remember back in the 80's there were lots of partying at my job. In fact one time my boss, for my birthday, invited me to lunch with the rest of the department. He said he took the liberty of ordering everyone Ice teas..... But they were Long Island Ice teas!! We had a couple of those AND went back to work. But I don't think we got anything done after that. I agree I couldn't do that today ... whew!

Another mug recipient here, love mine, too, but, like you've posted before, z, I don't use it as much as I'd like to for fear of breakage...

I was an Executive Secretary/Office Manager (the olden-days term for it) a-waaaaay back there....ran the place, just like it sounds like you did, z....I agree, "we" (The Liquid Paper Sisterhood) did keep the business world of the '60's and '70's from going under. No doubt about it. And we can state that as fact, because we are eye witnesses/firsthand participants, right? I was a lot like Saunders (Jean Arthur) in "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" ~~ on the inside track of everything and knowing more than I really cared to know about things...and threatening to quit nearly every day...but, hanging on because I needed the $$....same with you? And yes, sober all the way....somebody had to be!!

Ha?

Hidey, Chelsea...our posts crossed....I bet you run the place, too! Most Amin. Assts. do...the term for it might have changed, but not the hard work involved!

Long Island Iced Teas....talk about lethal...those things taste like the most innocent of beverages...to be as potent as they are....head-swimmers deluxe...but oh so refreshing and tasty...

....Burp....

Oh man, you guys are killing me with your mugs!!! I just got my pen in the mail... I don't want to sound greedy but I would much rather have gotten the mug...

Yes, we "Admin.Assts." really did keep things going. Back in the late sixties and early seventies I was in a one-girl office situation for several years as bookkeeper, receptionist, gopher, typist and anything else that was required. There was no drinking in our little office, but my boss and a friend of his used to go to the schvitz (sp) - steambath -after eating a huge steak with tons of garlic. Two days afterwards I would still get the scent of garlic whenever I was near my boss. We did do the after work for drinks, though. Happy times!!

SCFan, believe it or not, I didn't become acquainted with Long Island iced tea until I moved South. One was plenty enough for me!

Congrats to all you mug winners and to Double Don on his pen. I got a Zippo lighter in a beautiful velvet case. I keep it with my MadMen "notepad" - with is a bunch of actual cocktail napkins with the MadMen logo. It's spiral bound and clever. Keep posting DD, you may still get you mug - ya' never know.

.....We seem to have a lot in common!

I had a Long Island Iced Tea once.....I think.....

No idea what happened after that.

.....Has anyone ever been called "The Admin?"

That would be a worst-case scenario.....

....I love my mug.

Makes my pens look "hot."

I got the pen, too and the cool thing is, if you look very closely, there's a teensy little guy falling in some liquid, just like the guy falling off the building in the credits. Very cool! Thanks, AMC!!

....You got a pen?

You got the "Don Draper trapped in Glycerin and Baby Oil" pen??!!

Dammit!!

Dry, Dry, Dry....what are we going to do with you....?

......the grass is always greener with you! If they offered a pattie of plastic Roger Puke you'd want that!

.....eeeeeewwwwwwww.......

LOL

.....You think so?

I think even my worst critics have made bigger exceptions and concessions than THAT!!

Don't make me break out my rap playlist on your BEE-hind

.....Kathey.....It's beneath you.

XOXOXO

~Dry

.....SCfan got an e-mail....

.....And I know from who.....

Who Who Who???

I don't even know who it was! Was it Matt????

"Kathey"....that was in that ancient "Meet the Reader" column of Clayton's, right?

Well, it's not "Kathey"! It's Hepsibah Obelzer McGillacuddy....uh...or somethin'.....(

....(CRS)

And all this time I thought you were sportin' the moniker, "Erda Mae."

Is that right?

Well, I heard "Dry" is just an anagram for Doolah Rae Yokum....

heeeeeeeee haawwww

....Erda Mae Bean Blossom....."

Actually.....

....Oh you wench.....I'm going to give you the "Lisa Lubner" treatment.

Yeah!

Then you'll be my pizza b***h!

"Yeah, Taaaaahhd (Todd) -- that's so funny, I forgot to laaaaugh, pizza face!" -- Lisa L.

Now, how about some Tang and egg salad sandwiches -- fresh from the good ol' Norge??!!

.....Salmonella Junie-Bugg Possum Toes Hambone Jones.....!"

And who who who WHO did I get an e-mail from?

Please tell me, Dry....I'm begging...

SILENCE, Pizza Wench!

Now get me my cocktail - yeah - shaken, not stirred - YEAH!!

.....(OMG.....How far has THIS deteriorated???)

I'm sorry, ras....we are beyond help...

...Dry, uh, I mean, Doolah, Salmonella, etc. etc...I gotta go to bed...

S-n-o-o-o-r-e.....SKNNXXXXSSS (as in Dagwood Bumstead)

It's been fun...uh, or somethin'....

....Love, Doolah Rae (and yo' mama.)

I know some great Yo Mama jokes, Dry...shall we?

.....Who's "ras?"

Pepperoni dreams!!

....I would, but I'm worried someone will call the police.....

....We are SO on the edge.....

.....What ras is really trying to say here, is,

DON'T DRINK AND BLOG, LITTLE KIDDLES!!!

Good God, girls, don't you ever go to bed? 2:00 o'clock in the morning and you are carrying on like this?!?!? Have you no dignity, no self-respect. What will the other members of this Forum think of you. You must show a little more decorum, please, or you are gonna get such a reputation. Wait, that is not alcohol I am smelling?!? Young ladies, you are in big trouble now! There better not have been any boys involved in this - you are so grounded!

zerelda, I guess the answer to my original question was "Yes!"

(-:

.....[Slink, slink.....]

.....She started it!!

.....And pretty sure I don't have a reputation to save.....

Sigh.

Baa aa aahh!

Okay, I'm sorry. I'll behave. Thanks for not throwing hydrochloric acid or something.

...Can I come out of the corner now, Mama Z????

ha

I'll be good, I'll be good....pleeeeaaase don't fling me in da briar patch!

A word to the wise:

Don't ever drink a Frozen Mocha after 6 PM...there must be close to seventeen times the amount of caffeine in a "cup of coffee" in one of those things.

I thought I was going to be bug eyed til dawn...and nearly was....

Oh no, here they come again....fidget....TWITCH....fidget.....fidget...FIDGET...sigh....

Uh, and z....I do believe there was a nice sized bonfire (my reputation) quite a while back...we all broke out the marshmallows and weenies, remember? I think some even made a few smores....

Well, Dry...at least they didn't hose us down....hhmmmmmmmmm....that day is probably coming, though....

P.S.

To Dry:

"Tattle Tale -- Tattle Tale--
Hang Your Britches On A Nail"!!!!

...and Yes, ras, you are right....

and, sorry about your nice topic....it started out nice anyway....Please find it in your heart to forgive us....we're not responsible for our actions....MMD syndrome (Mad Men Deprivation) it's a medically recognized condition....

Eight weeks to go......give me strength......

heeeee

Funny thing is, I couldn't sleep last night, and along about 1:30 a.m. I considered getting up and getting on the computer. I must have somehow sensed a party was going on without me, but I stayed in bed and tossed and turned like a good girl, and missed all the fun.

Erda Mae and Doolah Rae, you remind me of those "fun girls" that showed up at the jail and gave Andy and Barney such a time.

Oh boy, the "Fun Girls From Mount Pilot"!!!

I'd like to be the one with the voice deeper than Don Draper's who called Andy "Doll" all the time!

Let's see, z, since you missed all the nonsense....uh...I mean....party (!) we'll have to think you up an honorary name....

How about......Jethrene Hanipoke

???

.....Like Don Draper, I'm burning my britches behind me.

Those are some pretty funny names you're coming up with!!! "Salmonella!"

Anyway, z, it wasn't really 2 in the morning for me, since I'm on the west coast..... just past my bedtime is all.....

All this talk makes me recall an old joke told by Minnie Pearl:

An old woman lived to see her 100th birthday and a newspaper reporter interviewed her for the occasion...

"What do you recommend to be able to live such a long life?"

"Clean living and no smoking or liquor."

"Have you ever been bedridden?"

"Oh yes, many times! ... and once in a buggy!"

Jethrene? Are you still here? ...or did you go down to the creek for a washin'????

Yes, Erda Mae, I am here.....just went down to the grocery store to fetch some vittals....

Ya know, I think I can hear Polar Bear off in the distance somewhere yellin' something about "off topic". Ras is being an awfully good sport about his thread being hi-jacked, or else he is silently fuming.

Loved that old lady joke!

Yes, I do feel sorry for ras...he was well-intentioned and on topic and look what happened....I meant it when I said I was sorry above, ras...please don't be upset...we're harmless...and it truly is MMD (see above), we've stood all we can stand (THE WAITING!!!) and are just trying to get through the last few months....

...and, Jethrene....I hope you remembered the possum belly and turnip greens, and a good many bars of lye soap...the road might wash out again, and you know how peevish you get when you have to make do with fried buzz-aaarrd!

And yes, still off-topic....but sort of on-topic, since we're talking about this sort of stuff:

Shopping time!....oh look, is that Barney Fife in the fishing outfit posing as a mannequin??

And here's a link to make the above LESS off-topic, back when we were all waxing nostalgic about Andy and Co.:

http://www.weaversdepartmentstore.com/index.php

http://blogs.amctv.com/mad-men/talk/2009/04/1964.php

...."Dance Til Your Stockings Are Hot And Raveling" (probably one of Earnest T.'s favorites, I bet!)

.....You're pretty good at that - very imaginative. Very funny.

Also, in addition to your "country-isms," you are pretty good with the obscure retro musical titles.

I'm sure when there are more people and plenty to talk about, I'm sure we will get back on topic, and back to better behavior too.

The thought occurred to me yesterday we might be scarred for life. Standing up for something takes a lot.

I for one can't seem to be serious about anything here anymore.....terrible, I know.

Back at ya, Dry....uh....I mean....Doolah....

Signed,

Erda Mae

P.S. Did you like the Matt Munro (sp?) clip? (another talented "Matt"!) I think he sounds a lot like Frankie...maybe just as good ~~ or even better...very mellow and one of THE most evocative singers of the '60's....one of the few I've heard that you can still hear his British accent when he sings....there's another clip on YT of him that labels him the "singing bus driver".... reminds me of how Perry was called the "singing barber"
I just still love all the '60's music...so classic and emotional and plain old beautiful!

...the above referenced Matt Munro clip is over in the "1964" thread...he does have a gorgeous voice and was kind of lost in the shuffle of the Beatles/whole British Invasion bit,....but very talented....

Nope, it's on the "Win a Trip to LA" thread....CRS again.....sigh

...and it's Matt MOnro....gotta learn to spell someday.....

There are some cool comments below that clip, too...kinda sad to read some of them from younger folk who post about him being so good and how they wish there was great music like that now...(Jonas Bros. crowd)

Anyway, the comments below the Walk Away clip are interesting/moving.....the clip got thousands upon thousands of hits and the poster is in desbelief that it did. Testimony to the fact that people love the "old" music....that was "real" music.

.....sigh

.....Sigh.....I've looked and looked and can't find it - could you post again?

You know, I kind of like the name Doolah Rae.

Doolah Rae Salmonella Yokum.

Has a nice ring, don't it??

Hmmmmm......(preen, preen)......(hee)

It's the "Salmonella" part that really gives it that certain ooomph, no?

You know, "Erda Mae" is starting to grow on me, too!

Z...are you getting attached to "Jethrene"?

Here's the link again for Matt Monro's "Walk Away"...he sounds like a cross between Frankie S. and Steve Lawrence...only better than both. He also had "Portrait of My Love" (whether before Steve L.'s version, I don't know).... Frank S. called him the best singer he'd ever heard....high praise from "The Voice" I'd say! Poor guy died at 54.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbS_-biZ_P4&feature=related

.....I should have told you that "Beanblossom" is really one word. And I love Jethrene, but it's up to z, of course.

(That whole thing made me laugh so hard!)

Thank you for the link - my speakers are unplugged, so I'll take a look later this afternoon.....

Thanks also for the tidbits, too. Love those!