Today is Soupy Sales' [1] 79^th birthday.
Happy Birthday Soupy!
Oddly enough, although I like his work, I'm too young to have ever seen his children's show live, and his asking kids to send him little green pieces of paper from their parents' wallets [2] was several years before my time.
And for some odd reason, I find this joke he never told [3] to be really funny:
What starts with “F” and ends with ”UCK?”
A “firetruck.”
[1] http://www.tcacres.com/child_soupysales.htm
[2] http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/soupy1.htm