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The Tube Bar prank calls are arguably the most famous series of prank calls ever recorded. A prank call also known as a hoax call, phone scam or phony phone call, is a form of Practical joke committed over the Telephone

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In the mid-1970s, two young men, John Elmo and Jim Davidson, began calling a bar named the Tube Bar which was located in Jersey City, New Jersey in Journal Square. A bar (also called a Pub or Tavern) is a business that serves drinks especially Alcoholic beverages such as beer liquor and mixed drinks for consumption Jersey City is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. Journal Square is an area of Jersey City, New Jersey near the offices of the Jersey Journal newspaper The Tube Bar was owned by Louis "Red" Deutsch, and most of the time, Deutsch was the person who answered the calls. Louis "Red" Deutsch ( September 16, 1895 – September 11, 1983) was a heavyweight boxer and later the owner of the "Tube During each call, the callers would ask Deutsch to call out fictitious names, which, when said aloud, sounded like something else entirely (for example, "Al Coholic" = alcoholic, or "Cole Kutz" = cold cuts). [1] Most of the time, Deutsch would call out the names, unaware that he was being subjected to a prank. A prank is defined as "acting like a clown or buffoon" or "dressing showily" or alternatively "a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement" Sometimes, however, Deutsch would catch on to the prank, and when he did, he responded with extreme hostility, shouting at the caller with profanity, obscene sexual references, usually involving the caller's mother, and threats of physical harm. The original meaning of the adjective profane (from the Latin for "in front of or outside the Temple " was to refer to items not belonging to the church Obscenity (in Latin obscenus, meaning "foul repulsive detestable" is a term that is most often used in a legal context to

In an act of apparent desperation, Red also claimed that he would reward the caller with $100 if they would "come on down" to the bar and show his face, or meet Red at a place of their choosing. Red eventually raised the reward to $500, in hopes of enticing the young men, however it is widely believed that the callers never collected their reward because of fears of having their "prick cut off", or their "belly cut open". The penis (plural penises, penes

Although Elmo and Davidson initially said that they had picked the Tube Bar at random out of a phone book, they later admitted that they had passed by the bar several times while still in high school, and had developed a fascination with Red ever since they saw him yelling at his patrons. They recorded the calls that they made on tape. Magnetic tape is a medium for Magnetic recording generally consisting of a thin magnetizable coating on a long and narrow strip of Plastic. Unbeknownst to Elmo and Davidson, the tapes they had made were beginning to circulate among their friends, and their friends' friends, becoming an underground sensation. Underground culture, or just underground, is a term to describe various Alternative cultures which either consider themselves different from the Mainstream

By the 1980s, the equipment managers of several Major League Baseball teams had shared copies of the tapes, which had become known unofficially as the Red Tapes or Tube Bar Tapes. The tapes' popularity spread throughout the league, branching out to other professional sports leagues, and then to sports reporters and into the media. Professional sports, as opposed to amateur Sports are those in which athletes receive payment for their performance By 1981, one of the Bastards' gags ("Mike Hunt") was incorporated into the movie Porky's. Events January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. A gag name is a false name used to elicit humor through its simultaneous resemblance to a real name on the one hand and to a term or phrase that is funny strange or vulgar on the other Porky's is a Comedy film about the escapades of teenagers at the fictional Angel Beach high school in Florida in 1954. Animator Matt Groening had obtained a copy and incorporated the phone hijinx into a running gag on The Simpsons with barkeeper Moe Szyslak, who is based on Deutsch. The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames Matthew Abram Groening (ˈɡreɪnɪŋ GRAY-ning) (born February 15 1954 is an American Cartoonist, television producer and writer from Portland Moe Szyslak (ˈsɪzlæk is a fictional character in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons. Several New York City alternative rock record labels released various edits of the tapes on vinyl, before the Bum Bar Bastards came forward in the 1990s to copyright the tapes. The City of New York The Bastards later released their own "official" version on CD which is now available for purchase on iTunes. A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an Optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application introduced by Apple Inc [2]

Fictitious names used

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References

  1. ^ Sisario, Ben. Alka-Seltzer is a name owned by the German Bayer Corporation for a line of Medications sold over the counter and taken by means of rapidly Bologna (boloɲa from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in Bolognese dialect is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy Cold cuts is a US term that refers to cheeses or precooked or cured meat often Sausages or meat loaves, that are sliced and usually served cold on Sandwiches Cunnilingus is the act of using the Mouth, Lips and Tongue to stimulate the female Genitals. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a Novel written by the British author Mary Shelley The word γυμνάσιον (gymnasion was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual Education of young men (see Gymnasium A mother insult is a reference to a person's Mother through the use of phrases such as "your mother" Cunt ( IPA:/kʌnt/ is an English language Vulgarism referring generally to the Female genitalia. Pepperoni is a spicy Italian-American variety of Salami usually made from pork and beef It is a descendant of the spicy salamis of Southern Italy Fellatio, also called fellation, is Oral sex performed upon the Penis. For other uses see Salama and Salameh. Salami is cured Sausage, fermented and air-dried Fuck is an English Word that as a Verb, means "to have Sexual intercourse " Louis "Red" Deutsch ( September 16, 1895 – September 11, 1983) was a heavyweight boxer and later the owner of the "Tube Moe Szyslak (ˈsɪzlæk is a fictional character in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons. "POP MUSIC; Giving Jerseyana A Voice", The New York Times, March 7, 1999. Events 161 - Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Accessed October 14, 2007. Events 1066 - Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings - In England on Senlac Hill seven miles from Hastings, the forces Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. "Mr. Sceurman and Mr. Moran also scattered excerpts from The Tube Bar Tapes throughout the CD. These legendary prank-call recordings -- containing classics like Can I speak to Al Coholic? and Is this the party to whom I am speaking? (borrowed from Lily Tomlin) -- have circulated on bootleg tapes for years. "
  2. ^ Weird NJ Vol. 2 Tube Bar Interview
  3. ^ "The Tube Bar Tapes" - sau, "Înregistrările din cârciuma "La Ţeavă"
  4. ^ The Official Bum Bar Bastards Website

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