A Riddle: What did mothers ....

**mjahn** · May 6th, 2011, 23:07

... tell their daughters in 1956?

No further clues will be given. First one to get it right will be rewarded with a WIP Screenie. Oh, that's another clue.

**Naismith** · May 6th, 2011, 23:10

Keep yer hand on yer ha'penny.

**mjahn** · May 6th, 2011, 23:13

Good advice but No.

***huub vink*** · May 7th, 2011, 00:02

Be aware of the guy singing heart break hotel?

***jankees*** · May 7th, 2011, 03:13

have you tried those new style swimsuits yet?

**Dain Arns** · May 7th, 2011, 03:31

That any woman can grow up, find their 'Prince Charming', and become a Princess too?
Look at Grace Kelly.

**OleBoy** · May 7th, 2011, 05:39

What did mothers

Originally Posted by mjahn

... tell their daughters in 1956?

Not even going to try and guess. A good riddle but, what part of the world is your riddle based in?

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**Bjoern** · May 7th, 2011, 07:34

"Is that United DC-7 coming closer, honey?"
- "I don't know, mom. Oh, look! The Grand Canyon!"

First aviation-related thing in 1956 I could think of.

If it's a *real* mother-daughter thing...

"Stay away from that hip-swinging singer from TV! If I find one of his albums in your bedroom, you're off to the convent!"

**mjahn** · May 7th, 2011, 07:37

Grace Kelly ... not so bad, also answers the question what part of the world ... in a sense. Otherwise you're getting fairly cold, around -45°.

**Bjoern** · May 7th, 2011, 07:44

Originally Posted by mjahn

Otherwise you're getting fairly cold, around -45°.

31. Oktober: Das erste Flugzeug landet am Südpol. Die Expeditionsgruppe der US Navy um Admiral George Dufek hat den Auftrag, den Bau der Amundsen-Scott-Südpolstation vorzubereiten.

But then again...no family issues there.

**HvyEng** · May 9th, 2011, 08:46

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**vora** · May 9th, 2011, 10:39

"What do you call this tiny piece of cloth??? Beekeenee?"

May 21, 1956. First air drop of an H-bomb by a B-52 on Bikini Atoll.

Cookie? :naturesm:

**mjahn** · May 9th, 2011, 11:11

Any further hint would immediately give it away, I think. Believe me, I took great pains not to make this google-able either.

**Chris Sykes** · May 9th, 2011, 12:41

Originally Posted by mjahn

Otherwise you're getting fairly cold, around -45°.

Hmmm is that hint at degrees south???

I would guess something in AUS but then again the Bell X was being used in 1956???

**diegoxs** · May 9th, 2011, 12:54

Candy bomber?

**kilo delta** · May 9th, 2011, 13:16

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**mjahn** · May 9th, 2011, 14:05

All I can say is once the cat's out of the bag there will be a chorus of "I knew that!"

Candy bomber I like, obviously, but it's not 1956 is it?

**myles** · May 9th, 2011, 14:55

Roger Vadim is a very perceptive man?

Myles

***srgalahad*** · May 9th, 2011, 19:28

In 1956 mothers ( according to Doris Day) said:

Que sera, sera.
Whatever will be, will be.
The future's not ours to see.
Que sera, sera.
What will be, will be.

From "The Man Who Knew Too Much"
Hmmmm.. I sense a Jimmy Stewart connection here...

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***srgalahad*** · May 9th, 2011, 19:49

Which leads us to Jimmy Stewart....

Hmmm... a number of choices in his 'life'

B-17's, B-24's, B-36's, X-15's, a "Reindeer", a Ryan NYP, a certain 'bush' single... a resurrection in the desert....

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**jpmouse** · May 9th, 2011, 21:02

Originally Posted by mjahn

... tell their daughters in 1956?

No further clues will be given. First one to get it right will be rewarded with a WIP Screenie. Oh, that's another clue.

Men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses?

**mjahn** · May 9th, 2011, 21:19

Spot on Sir Galahad! You've got it ... part of it.

When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother what will I be
Will I be pretty will I be rich
Here's what she said to me ...

Now "only connect", as E. M. Forster said, and the one remaining piece will fall into place.

***srgalahad*** · May 10th, 2011, 06:41

Slightly off-topic, but Forster (in 1909) frighteningly described social media, internet forums and a particularly unpleasant end in The Machine Stops:

"The clumsy system of public gatherings had been long since abandoned; neither Vashti nor her audience stirred from their rooms. Seated in her armchair she spoke, while they in their armchairs heard her, fairly well, and saw her, fairly well. She opened with a humorous account of music in the pre Mongolian epoch, and went on to describe the great outburst of song that followed the Chinese conquest. Remote and primæval as were the methods of I-San-So and the Brisbane school, she yet felt (she said) that study of them might repay the musicians of today: they had freshness; they had, above all, ideas. Her lecture, which lasted ten minutes, was well received, and at its conclusion she and many of her audience listened to a lecture on the sea; there were ideas to be got from the sea; the speaker had donned a respirator and visited it lately. Then she fed, talked to many friends, had a bath, talked again, and summoned her bed."

http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html

Now, should we book A Passage to India?

***huub vink*** · May 10th, 2011, 07:29

When it is a James Stewart connection it could be a Boxcar in colours of the movie Flight of the Phoenix.

A still puzzled,
Huub

**Bjoern** · May 10th, 2011, 08:12

Originally Posted by diegoxs

Candy bomber?

Eight years too late for that.

Originally Posted by mjahn

Candy bomber I like, obviously, but it's not 1956 is it?

Been there recently. The C-54 sits there without control surfaces and looks pretty sad in general.

The VFW-614 doesn't look any better and the Nord 262...well, it's been derelict for ages.

I'd rate Tempelhof my personal saddest place on earth.
Sure, my foot on the very same concrete that has seen planes of all sizes and ages has something great, but I just miss the action at "Berlin City"...

Originally Posted by jpmouse

Men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses?

Depends on what's underneath the glasses...