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Flick's Tongue

On Saturday January 27th, 1968 Shep inroduced his audience to the story of Flick's tongue getting stuck to an iron telephone pole which was a sub-plot in the movie "A Christmas Story" where it was a Flag pole. Although the movie was based on the book "In God We Trust All Others Pay Cash" this storyline was not part of the book and it appears that this show was the introduction for this story.

Where Shep Makes Reference To This Subject:

Time	Date	Category	Title
	November 18, 1983	Movies	A Christmas Story
	January 27, 1968	Radio	Flick's Tongue
	April 7, 1972	Radio	Flick's Tongue
	January 3, 1974	Radio	Flick's Tounge Stuck To Pole (Repeat)
• 2:05	January 18, 1974	Radio	Running Out Of Gas In The Lincoln Tunnel
• 02:18	January 22, 1974	Radio	The Underground Fire
• 02:22	February 22, 1974	Radio	Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster
• 18:23	May 8, 1975	Radio	Words to Marches
	January 15, 1976	Radio	Robert Service Poems, Winter, Flick's Tongue
	1970	Radio	Underground Fires
	January 12, 1977	Radio	Kid Myths - Flicks Tongue

Photos:

January 27,1965
The Portsmouth

Courtesy: Ryan Priest

"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
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