Stockholmer

“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. ” Billy Bob Shakespeare

Surely your friends teased you with this quote after your display of childhood cowardice.

@homerramone

I just saw this. Your story beats Jan’s.

I was 10 and had recently moved to a neighborhood with a couple of mental hospitals nearby. I was in a tent in a neighbor’s yard for a campout, and they were trying to scare me by saying there was a “nut alarm” out because a patient had escaped. Then I heard Napoleon XIV for the first time on the transistor radio. I ran home…

Thank you for that touching childhood memory.

The Russians did it!  That’s why Hillary went crazy!

The B-side

I remember my mom telling my dad to turn this song off when we were in the car driving to Canada.   I did a brat protest as a little kid to keep it playing.…. to no avail.

I think Porter Wagoner ripped off the theme and “countryfied” it in his song “Rubber Room”.