Most of you are too young to know about a TV show that played last century in the mid-50s. Sad to say, I recall this show well and not from Hulu or something.
I was there sitting cross-legged in T-shirt, shrug and my pedal-pushers in front of that large wooden box standing on legs with a curved glass screen set in the front of it that only displayed a sometimes fuzzy black and white image, depending on the weather. A 1/2" wide flat, brown cable snaked out from the back of the set through a hole in the exterior wall up to the antenna anchored to the roof. This is what brought the picture into the house from the TV waves zipping through the L.A. smog.
The Honeymooners was one of many great shows in semi-early TV and Ed Norton was ranked number 20 on a list of 50 of all time best TV characters by TV Guide in 1999.
I only bring all of this up because one of the characters, Ed Norton (played by Art Carney) was a sewer worker (for 17 years) and he had some pretty memorable quotes, which can be found on this link.
http://www.sewerhistory.org/misc/honey.htm
The show ran from October 1, 1955 to September 22. 1956. Ed worked in the New York Sewer Department and said that he was, "Sub-supervisor in the sub-division of the department of sub-terranian sanitation, I just keep things moving along."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY_q_dlOCDU
Take a look. Ed gets fired from his sewer job!
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