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22. Soupy Sales' 'Green Pieces of Paper' Scandal

Reply to buzzycrumbhunger (Original post)

Wed Jan 14, 2026, 12:17 AM

Yesterday

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/greenmail/

In January 1965 on his morning children's show, the performer Soupy Sales suggested to his young viewers that they find the wallets of their sleeping fathers and take out "some of those funny green pieces of paper with all those nice pictures of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Hamilton, and send them along to your old pal, Soupy, care of WNEW, New York."

"Hey kids, last night was New Year's Eve, and your mother and dad were out having a great time. They are probably still sleeping and what I want you to do is tiptoe in their bedroom and go in your mom's pocketbook and your dad's pants, which are probably on the floor. You'll see a lot of green pieces of paper with pictures of guys in beards. Put them in an envelope and send them to me at Soupy Sales, Channel 5, New York, New York. And you know what I'm going to send you? A post card from Puerto Rico!"

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WTAF, Google?! [View all] buzzycrumbhunger Tuesday OP

Perhaps it's time to follow Australia's lead, banning children under 16 from having social media accounts. sop Tuesday #1

corporate profits trump parental decisions Skittles Tuesday #2

Busy standing guard over school bathrooms.... Jack Valentino Tuesday #9

you got it Skittles Tuesday #10

but on the bright side, the same sort of people have been getting voted off of school boards! Jack Valentino Tuesday #12

I think people have had it with these judgmental fuckwads Skittles Tuesday #13

And, a story I just recently read about a very recent poll showed that a majority of voters Jack Valentino Tuesday #16

that's a good example Skittles Tuesday #19

Sadly not fake Tasmanian Devil Tuesday #3

Google just reversed its policy: Celerity Tuesday #6

because they were caught Maru Kitteh Yesterday #23

It's COPPA compliant TheProle Tuesday #4

Google reverses key parental control policy. Teens will now need to get explicit permission to remove a parental Celerity Tuesday #5

so they avoided a class action lawsuit -- except for the kids who already followed their directions and turned off orleans Tuesday #11

Translation: "we got scared by the backlash"! Jack Valentino Tuesday #17

Hey Google canetoad Tuesday #7

Hey, they just want to make money!--- Jack Valentino Tuesday #14

They could have been well loved and still very very rich, but, at least they got rid of the motto vanlassie Tuesday #18

DISGUSTIPATING Faux pas Tuesday #8

How many Google execs are in those Epstein files? USS_Dauntless Tuesday #15

Groomgle anyone? Montauk6 Tuesday #20

Add another company to the boycott list! BTW, anyone know of any gmail alternatives? Crowman2009 Yesterday #21

Soupy Sales' 'Green Pieces of Paper' Scandal Xipe Totec Yesterday #22

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