Here at Improbable Animal Rescue, we rehabilitate helpless creatures with highly unlikely problems. This otter, for example, swallowed a small transistor radio, but with lots of love and cuddles, we should be able to tune in the ball game.
https://twitter.com/planetepics/status/895099325033979905
Found on Twitter by Madame X.
I think it’s a ballgame from 1937.
Hahaha!
Actually .. it was May 25, 1941 – Dodgers vs. the Phillies
(Waits for anyone else to get that reference .. LOL)
I have no idea what the reference is, but here’s the box score.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=194105250BRO
*GRINS* Yup .. That’s the game .. Steve Rogers was there watching it
(CA:TFA)
That is an impressive range of sounds comping from that cute little fellow.
What’s a transistor radio?!?!?!
Gah! I’m not really that old correct?!?
Radios used to have dials that were used to tune into a station. No digital screens like today to show the numbers for the station. If you were off a station there would be static. As you were getting closer to the station sometimes there would be a beeeoooh sound of which some of this cute guy’s sounds were reminiscent. Someone else can give a more technical answer, but I think that got to the gist of the joke.
I am pretty sure he didn’t really swallow one. 😉 But I wouldn’t mind squiggling his belly to try to tune him in 😀
I guess we are that old. Here Julie, this is a small transistor radio.
So did these run on batteries? How long have household batteries been around? Hmmm. To wikipedia!
They had batteries. No digital signals in those days. Now radio and tv are digital signals. I don’t think you can receive on these anymore.
Yes, you can. I still have and use a radio from the ’70’s. Analog.
Oh wow! Contemplates hunting one down as Vintage. I’m pretty vintage myself now!
OK, this makes me feel like I’m 100.
Here’s what they sounded like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im1NQ-R1RbA
This brings back memories of when I was a kid and my parents were trying to listen to the weather report when a tornado or severe snowstorm was coming through because the TV lost it’s picture (no cable, satellite, internet in those days).
Anywho…..adorable otter!
Oh yes – we got three channels – 3, 6 and 8 (the 3 broadcast networks) – all in black & white. And they went off the air late at night, with the National Anthem, followed by the tone and test pattern – nothing was 24/7!
(editing to add – Oops, I’m referring to TV channels b/c Dana mentioned TV)
“Late” at night? I think our stations were off the air by 11:00 at the latest! And my husband says they only got *two* channels, both of which went off the air at 10:00. Yup, we had to find other ways to get in trouble late at night in those days! 😀
Television? We lived in the lap of luxury NYC: We had channels 2 (WCBS), 4 (WNBC), 5 (WNEW), 7 (WABC), 9 (WWOR), 11 (WPIX), and 13 (WNET (public broadcasting)). We also had UHF, not that we were ever able to tune anything in. I don’t know when the signal went off; I was still pretty young when broadcasting went to 24/7, I think. But I do remember test patterns, so when I was little there was definitely down-time.
I believed that that was the way of all the world – everyone had exactly those channels. Now I want to remember the radio stations we had – WINS, WNEW, WABC, WQXR – and the rest escape me.
WMCA (Fabulous 57, with the Good Guys)
WABC (77)
WOR
WNEW was 1130 (on AM) – WNEW FM had a completely different format
WINS was originally not all-news—Murray the K was a DJ there for a stint
WCBS I remember, I think. CBS-FM later had an oldies format.
If there was a WNBC I don’t remember it at all.
I listened mostly to WMCA on my transistor (yes, under my pillow at night). During the day, a few years later, my mom had WNEW-AM on all the time (William B. Williams and the Chairman of the Board—Frank Sinatra). A few years after that, I learned to appreciate WQXR, which was owned by the New York Times and played classical music.
Yes! WMCA! The other station – me and my junior high aged friends listened to WINS with Murray the K. We even went to his shows at the Brooklyn Paramount. Saw, most memorably, the Ronettes.
Murray the K. And Allison Steel The Night Bird. She had some voice.
I think the sound Mike had in mind is more like this one (which I remember well): https://youtu.be/JdPlUyMW6NQ
Bebeh otter sounds more like haunted house creaking door, methinks. But do we care? No, we do not! The Qte Rules Over All!
I think the sounds like the whistling in this post are from older tube radios, before the (then Teensy!) transistors were invented. Think old monster movies, people caught in a house waiting for word from the outside, listening to the radio.
Little did we know that R2D2 was not actually a droid, but a bebeh otter in a robot suit.
I could live with that notion.
Youre so right,he does sound like R2D2!
Alien. Cute one, though. Obviously the origin of the “WOW Signal”.
I had one of those tiny transistor radios as a 8 year old kid. Used it at the beach. Thought I was the coolest kid ever. Those radios were the first portables.
I remember getting one. I think I was 10. I remember exactly what it looked like. It came in a brown leather case and it had a strap for carrying it. It was Japanese. I thought it was the coolest thing there ever was on the planet earth.
Mine had a Dodgers logo on it! I remember wondering why everyone made such a fuss over the first Walkman …
And I used to put mine under my pillow and listen to it at night. Or use the single-ear earbuds, which was as cheap and tinny as the sound out of the speaker. But it was so cool, a small portable radio! And my grandfather, in his failing years, used to sit by the bedroom window and listen to baseball games on his radio. He loved baseball so much. I still miss him!
The adorable face, belly and squeaks were precious but the big yawns did me in– dedly cute!
Yes, the yawns were my fav part! ? So many teeth you have, youngster!
(Some of the squeaky was too screechy for me, tho.)
I’ve had a few transistors. I still have this one, which I bought as an adult when I was going through my ladybug everything phase. Mine is orange:
I got one as a graduation present from 8th grade and my mother was still using it ’til a a couple of years before her death which was about 11 years ago. I, too, felt very cool to be able to have my music with me wherever I went.
CUTE, Brouhaha!
That is soooo cute!
Are you sure that’s not a miniature theremin?
Oooo.
Transistors .. BAH .. All young pups and your new tech stuff ..
Try one of these !!
(Elder Otter: Young pucks .. get off my pond !)