View Full Version : A little HAL trivia
Vicar
September 10th, 2004, 12:23 PM
Don't ask me why this suddenly popped into my head *LOL*
But I just remembered a jingle on an old HAL commercial from years ago, when I was a kid.
It was to the tune of 'Lets Call the Whole Thing off'
It went something like this:
"You say Rotterdam, and I say Amsterdam"
"You say Statendam, and I say Westerdam "
"Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Statendam, Westerdam"
"Lets take a Holland America Cruise"
Please tell me that someone remembers this jingle and that I am not crazy *LOL*
Orcrone
September 10th, 2004, 12:36 PM
Please tell me that someone remembers this jingle and that I am not crazy *LOL*Vicar,
Just because someone remembers the jingle, it doesn't mean you're not crazy.:D
Vicar
September 10th, 2004, 12:41 PM
*LOL*
I admit that I am crazy, i just wanted to make sure that I wasn't the only one hearing the Jingle in my head.
See I hear voices , but they sound like Sir John Geilgud and Ethel Merman
You try and live with Satanic Messages that are both dramatic and play to the back row *LOL*
dakrewser
September 10th, 2004, 01:24 PM
Please tell me that someone remembers this jingle and that I am not crazy *LOL*Sorry, but it sparks no memories. Of course, I was in college in the 60's and some of those experiences wiped out all previous memory. :)
-dave
If you can remember the 60's then you weren't there - Robin Williams
bepsf
September 10th, 2004, 01:51 PM
Yousa beeso Kwazy!!!
tomc
September 10th, 2004, 01:59 PM
It could well be during the time HAL was known as Holland America Cruises. I just ran across a matchbook with that name and I have one of their canvas bags with the same name on it.
You say Amster
And I say Rotter.
You like 'Laska
Carib is hotter.
Prinsen, Volen, Zuider, Ooster,
Let's call our TA now.
Slinkiecat
September 10th, 2004, 08:59 PM
Ah yes -- I remember it well (as Maurice Chevalier would sing).
You say eether, and I say it's eIther, you say neether and I say neIther...
tomaytoes, tomahtoes, potaytoes, potahtoes, let's call the whole thing off.
Slinkie (not really crazy, yet, but old enough to know that song)
Himself
September 11th, 2004, 09:52 AM
VICAR:
I don't remember it but in the Midwest HAL probably wasn't advertising in those days. It doesn't mean you are crazy but blessed with a good memory.
By the way, whose Vicar are you? Are you an urban vicar, a parochial vicar, a rural vicar, a suburban vicar?
Slainte!
Himself