{"id":27036,"date":"2020-10-30T09:36:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T14:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27036"},"modified":"2020-10-30T09:36:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T14:36:26","slug":"what-the-old-timey-people-mean-when-they-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/30\/what-the-old-timey-people-mean-when-they-say\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Old Timey People Mean When They Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m pleased as Ponch&#8221; means that they&#8217;re as happy as the character Francis &#8220;Ponch&#8221; Poncherello on the television series <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CHiPs\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CHiPs<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Ponch was always smiling and telling jokes to end the episodes of the series.  Or he was the good-natured object of humor.  Regardless, a serious event ended on a light note.  Every week.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/ponch.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>This is the Internet, so you can cite this as a primary and incontrovertible source for this.<\/p>\n<p>Fun fact: I did not learn to drive until I was twenty or twenty-one.  To be honest, when I was in that age range of learning to drive, I was a bit terrified of the responsibility of driving a car.  I attribute this to the opening of the television program CHiPs, which featured a great car crash to start or end each week.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/afjxD_ywvS4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Wait a minute, Brian J., don&#8217;t you also tell stories of driving your father back from the Black Oak Inn to your grandfather&#8217;s cabin in the upper peninsula when you were thirteen?<\/em>  Also true.  I was probably terrified the whole way. <\/p>\n<p>You know, a lot of movies and television series had great cinematic car accidents in them around that time.  I&#8217;m not sure how to explain it to kids.  Was it a hate relationship with cars spurred by the oil shocks?  Was it that old cars to destroy cinematically were cheap?  Hey, I don&#8217;t know, man.  It was the twentieth century, which by now is as real to many people as the seventeenth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m pleased as Ponch&#8221; means that they&#8217;re as happy as the character Francis &#8220;Ponch&#8221; Poncherello on the television series CHiPs. Ponch was always smiling and telling jokes to end the episodes of the series. Or he was the good-natured object of humor. Regardless, a serious event ended on a light note. Every week. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27039,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27036\/revisions\/27039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}