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Borrowing from the thread in SLC. Not sure if it will take but, here goes.
Over the last few months, we have been renting the old sit-coms through netflix. I don't know which is more fun. Watching my old childhood favorites or introducing my kids to them. They are firmly stuck on the "Star Trek's". In love with "Quincy", and head over heals for "Mork & Mindy". And naturally, "Macgyver" and "A-Team". Think I will go with "Hogan's Heroes" next. Its so much fun to watch them laughing at the same shows I did with my parents and sister.
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I know what you mean - although we don't have netflix. A few years ago I got my son totally hooked on Newhart, The Dick Van Dyke Show and Bonanza. He wasn't so enthused by The Waltons...baby steps though, baby steps
ETA. I forgot Andy Griffith, that was a show I never watched in its first run but had seen in endless re-runs when I was a teenager, anyway it's now a firm family favourite around here. Nip it nip nip it....
Now if they would only put Eight is Enough on in re-runs somewhere, I'm sure my daughter would love it as much as I did at her age.
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Goddamn SNL and Will Ferrell! Ever since that skit everytime I listen to Don't Fear the Reaper I can't not hear the damn cowbell!
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I ran home from school to watch The Waltons. I just started getting hooked on Eight is Enough when it went off. I would like to see them put it on DVD- I only get 3 channels (PBS, PAX, and ABC-9) and knowing my luck, it wouldn't be on any of those.
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I gave my 6 & 7 y.o. nephews a "Johnny Quest" DVD set for Christmas. They were apprehensive at first so I put one on - the opening has scenes of a pterodactyl, a team of dragons pulling a chariot, a walking eye and a mysterious looking black panther among other things. They immediately sat down in front of the TV for 3 hours - I was hooked, too. The dialogue is kids' stuff but the animation is pretty good and the music, a jazz score, is awesome.
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I used to enjoy the Waltons, but my mother never did. True Depression baby that she was, she insisted that any family that owned their own home, plus a saw mill, two cars, a mule and a cow, were in no way poor!
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Did anyone ever watch the show that K.I.S.S. had on for a while? We used to watch that and the Sha Na Na one (talk about opposites!). Can't forget Hee Haw.
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I love Netflix! I'm watching Father Ted, Dark Shadows, Arrested Development, and Nightstalker as far as tv series go, and am interspersing them with classic movies, documentaries, and anime.
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quote:Originally posted by Horse Chestnut: I used to enjoy the Waltons, but my mother never did. True Depression baby that she was, she insisted that any family that owned their own home, plus a saw mill, two cars, a mule and a cow, were in no way poor!
Horse "Quitcher whinin', John-Boy" Chestnut
My mom always said people who lived in the country (as opposed to the city) didn't experience the depression in the same way that cityfolk did. Assuming they were lucky enough not to be farming in the dustbowl of course.
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quote:Originally posted by Christie: My mom always said people who lived in the country (as opposed to the city) didn't experience the depression in the same way that cityfolk did. Assuming they were lucky enough not to be farming in the dustbowl of course.
My father would vehemently disagree. He was a country boy in upstate Wisconsin (well outside the dust bowl).
The were, quite literally, dirt poor. No electricity, no running water, gather winter feed for the cow and chickens by gleening. Eat lumpy oatmeal (provided by a food bank) for breakfast, eat solidified oatmeal fried in lard for dinner.
My mother, on the other hand, was a city girl.
They didn't have much money, but they had electricity, running water and heat.
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Wonder if that's the difference also between what "country" means to a girl from Nova Scotia as opposed to some other place? I must ask my mother what her definition involved. I know what she meant was that thanks to her grandparents and various aunts who all lived on farms there was always food on the table. And this was not the case for other town dwelling friends who were not so fortunate.
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Wow, from "unhijackable amusement" about old TV sitcoms to living in the city Vs. living in the country during the Depression all on one page!
Wait... what part was supposed to be "unhijackable"? Or am I missing the point? If so, allow me...
FWIW, my grandmother lived in the country (Arkansas) during the Depression. I don't think they could even afford dirt.
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quote:Originally posted by Christie: My mom always said people who lived in the country (as opposed to the city) didn't experience the depression in the same way that cityfolk did. Assuming they were lucky enough not to be farming in the dustbowl of course.
My father would vehemently disagree. He was a country boy in upstate Wisconsin (well outside the dust bowl).
The were, quite literally, dirt poor. No electricity, no running water, gather winter feed for the cow and chickens by gleening. Eat lumpy oatmeal (provided by a food bank) for breakfast, eat solidified oatmeal fried in lard for dinner.
Seaboe
And then there were the people who lost their farms during the depression, like both of my parents families in S. Dakota.
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quote:Originally posted by Joe Bentley: Goddamn SNL and Will Ferrell! Ever since that skit everytime I listen to Don't Fear the Reaper I can't not hear the damn cowbell!
Damnit, Joe, now I have Don't Fear the Reaper stuck in my head, complete with cowbell.
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And all of this stuff about the depression just shows to go that generalizations tend to have loopholes.
It's true that Daddy never went hungry, and he has some great stories to tell about his childhood. Things like exploring the plant where malted milk was made and discovering that it would get stuck at the seams of the pipe used to load the mm into the trucks. My dad and uncle got chased away by the security guards more than once for sticking their arms up the pipe to scrape out malted milk.
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Don't fear the reaper ? Cowbells? Yet another reason why I wish SNL was on over here!
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quote:Originally posted by Thordis: Don't fear the reaper ? Cowbells? Yet another reason why I wish SNL was on over here!
Now we can all savor "Don't Fear the Reaper" with cowbells, in our heads, together, forever. (Personally, only Christopher Walken could have pulled this skit off.)
Horse "City or Country cowbell?" Chestnut
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You know, years before that SNL skit, a local radio show in my hometown put together a comedy skit along the same lines. The premise was that the host's uncle, a black saxophone player named Crusty Eye Willie (or something like that) had died and unreleased tapes were found from sessions he'd played with various bands. The catch was that he only knew how to play one note. So the hosts would play something like "Stairway to Heaven" with a one-note saxophone part added in.
SNL's version was much funnier.
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quote:Originally posted by Thordis: Don't fear the reaper ? Cowbells? Yet another reason why I wish SNL was on over here!
Now we can all savor "Don't Fear the Reaper" with cowbells, in our heads, together, forever. (Personally, only Christopher Walken could have pulled this skit off.)
Horse "City or Country cowbell?" Chestnut
Dang it! I watched the skit on that link this morning, and now I can't remember if the actual song has a cowbell in it or not. I'm very close to spending the 99 cents to download the song just to find out.
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I bought the 1st season of Fraggle Rock on DVD after Thanksgiving. I found out that Jim Henson came up with the idea on a flight from London to New York while he was working on filming The Dark Crystal. The dvd box has a replica of his notebook that he wrote the idea out in.
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Every time a phone rings on tv, my son's 3 cockatiels start squacking and carrying on. Well, last night we discovered that they really go nuts over screaching tires. I swear, if someone had come to the door they would have thought the Indy500 was running in here! Lets not even get started about wolf-whistles. But they do provide some amusement. While watching an intense scene the other night with the lights out, we were getting into the movie when one decided to squack really loud. Gave me a start but Hubby nearly jumps out of his chair, cussing up a storm. We ended up laughing throught the rest of the movie. So much for the intense scenes in "Mr& Mrs. Smith" (a very funny movie anyways but still...)
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What I want to know is when season 2 of the Muppet Show is coming out on DVD.
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I can't find anything on there about the DVDs, and some of the pages require flash, which I refuse to use.
But thanks for trying.
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Recently we bought the DVDs of Where the Wild Things Are (complete with "Pierre" and "In the Night Kitchen", we got Schoolhouse Rock (I'm just a bill...), and Free To Be You and Me. I love amazon.
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I finally got it to work and now....I can't get the cowbell out of my head .
I dug my MASH DVDs out the other day. Is David Ogden Steirs atually attractive, or do I need to get out more?
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I wonder what ever happened to the marionetts used in "Sound of Music" during the "Lonely Goatheard" Song? I would kill to have 'em.
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quote:Originally posted by SirKnight: I wonder what ever happened to the marionetts used in "Sound of Music" during the "Lonely Goatheard" Song? I would kill to have 'em.
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Thanks Horse, looks like I would have to kill to get em.
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I am writing an essay on what it's like to see Rent as a synaesthetic (since I believe that's one of the reasons why I love it so much). If it comes out well, I may do it for other pieces of entertainment. Anyone remotely interested in reading it?
Synaesthesia, for those of you who don't know what it is.
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quote:Originally posted by A Guy Named Goo: I am writing an essay on what it's like to see Rent as a synaesthetic (since I believe that's one of the reasons why I love it so much).
I believe you're missing a word there. Synaesthetic is an adjective. Do you mean a synaesthetic experience?
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quote:Originally posted by A Guy Named Goo: I am writing an essay on what it's like to see Rent as a synaesthetic (since I believe that's one of the reasons why I love it so much).
I believe you're missing a word there. Synaesthetic is an adjective. Do you mean a synaesthetic experience?
Seaboe
Actually, I meant to use the noun "synaesthete", but I was half asleep when I wrote this. I've since slept a little.
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quote:Originally posted by A Guy Named Goo: I am writing an essay on what it's like to see Rent as a synaesthetic (since I believe that's one of the reasons why I love it so much). If it comes out well, I may do it for other pieces of entertainment. Anyone remotely interested in reading it?
I'm very interested, both because I love Rent and because I'm intrigued by synaesthesia.
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