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Dang, Cheeta is still alive! I was never a Tarzan fan, but when I was growing up we didn't have cable and on the weekends there was really nothing on to watch but stuff like Tarzan or Planet of the Apes LOL. Ugg. So I watched a lot of Tarzan episodes, and apparently the monkey is still alive. He actually has outlived the actors he worked with!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1773

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That made me LOL...

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..probably on a healthier diet..

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ROTFL... he's replaced his old diet of beer and cigars... ugh. This is a cool bit of news- I watched some of those movies as a kid and probably saw Cheetah in them... that's wild! :D

Hmm.. and he is probably worth alot more than we are, too!

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You can't call Cheeta a monkey - he's an ape, dammit, an ape!

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Haven't quite fathomed this one - do you mean cable was available in the US back then and you didn't have it, or it wasn't available in the US at that time? (I feel so dumb for even asking that question)

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Well I'm not sure if cable TV existed yet in the U.S. in the 70's. And whenever it did arrive, I didn't see it for a looong time because we always lived out in the sticks away from town LOL.

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Hmmm... I think it did, actually. I remember HBO debuted around the late 70s... holy smokes! Wikipedia, that source of endless truth, states that it actually started in 1965, and first became HBO in 1972.

I remember my dad had ON-TV, which was one of the first pay channels available to your house. Some good stuff, some sleazy stuff... don't know what happened to it, other than disappearing.

*edit* Wow! Wikipedia even had records of On-TV... and that was back in 1979...

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Wow thats even older than the oil monkey :hehe:

http://www.google.com.au/images?q=tb...252520Bush.jpg

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Huzzah for wikipedia and for Bungeau bothering to check :D

I think my parents still had a 14" b&W tv up until about 1980. And we could get a grand total of 3 channels until 1982 when we got one more in the UK. Woo.