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Post by ratscabies on Oct 15, 2012 15:42:08 GMT -4
Our band couldn't survive without our travel agent!
Over and above: once, our guitarist missed a flight. There was NO WAY he was gonna make the show that night. The rest of us were on another flight ( we are in Ohio, he lived in LA), and knew nothing about it.
Charlotte unilaterally found a sub guitarist, called him, booked him a flight, and he was waiting at the gate when we landed.
Use your travel agents, people!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2012 16:20:31 GMT -4
My mom used a travel agent for our trips to Disney World, but otherwise has always booked everything herself. She actually enjoys doing that kind of stuff though (she's weird like that.) Myself I book my own trips. So far though, I'm either going somewhere where I know someone who lives there or I've gone somewhere I could get a train to get home from if needs be. I've not yet traveled overseas by myself, when I do though I plan to use an agency.
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Post by LAX on Oct 15, 2012 16:22:33 GMT -4
I And the Friendly Giant (and I loved, loved, loved all the miniature scenes they would pan over until "there’s a boot, now look up, waaaaaaay up". It was only a 15-minute show and after a bit of chat with Jerome and Rusty, the Giant read a book. That was it. Sometimes there would be other puppets of the vermin variety (squirrel, badger, raccoon?) who played music. I didn’t like them.. I loved that show, it was a huge part of my childhood. The first song I downloaded off Napster (way back when...) was the theme to the Friendly Giant.
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Post by Shalamar on Oct 15, 2012 17:15:28 GMT -4
I have a bit of a grudge against travel agents because of the really dumb one who handled our honeymoon. For starters, she didn't confirm our seats on our plane, so when we arrived at the airport to fly to Vancouver, we were told that the flight was full and we'd have to wait for standby. Considering that the whole point about flying to Vancouver was to meet our cruise ship and embark on our honeymoon cruise, we were shitting bricks thinking that we were going to miss it. We didn't, fortunately.
Then she forgot to mention the teensy little detail about the cabin she'd booked us on the ship - it had two single beds that were anchored to the floor. Have I mentioned this was our honeymoon?
Finally, she promised that she'd "spread the word" about us being newlyweds so that we'd get the royal treatment. She didn't.
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Post by carrier76 on Oct 20, 2012 9:58:46 GMT -4
Re: Weird Al. In the '80s my dad taped some bizarre mockumentary about Al called "The Compleat Al." It may have been on Showtime??? I don't know. It was one of the funniest things I remember repeat-watching in my youth (along with "Duck Soup" and "Ferris Bueller" every single weekend we went to Dad's). The only concrete thing I can remember from it right now was this "filmed" version of him going to ask Michael Jackson for permission to make "Eat It." It was totally bizarre.
I was a really weird, overly sentimental child at times, because there were two segments on Sesame Street that would make me cry EVERY TIME they came on. I'm not talking about Mr. Hooper. One of them was the bit where the little girls are building their dollhouse, and the kitties come in and knock it all down. I love kitties! And I love dolls. I should have laughed like the little girls in the segment, but I would bawl. The second one was the milk delivery film? The baby is crying in the crib waiting for the milk and they show how it gets there. SOBBING, every time. My parents were completely confused.
Recently a friend of mine made me a really fun CD of a bunch of old Sesame Street songs. I copied it for my niece, and Husband and I were listening to it on the way to their house. The milk song was on there. I wanted to skip it, but he insisted, and I started bawling AGAIN. This was like, two years ago. WTF?
Anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2012 11:26:53 GMT -4
I remember "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon" filling me with a great sense of melancholy, though I don't think it ever made me cry when I was a kid watching Sesame Street. It does make me misty-eyed now whenever it comes up on the car mix my mom made for my nephews. But that's more I think because of Jim Henson.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2012 11:29:11 GMT -4
Whoa. I remember that. I don't know where I saw it, but it would've been in the 80s. A the time; however, I did not understand the concept of parody and thought Weird Al was a jerk for just redoing Beat It with a different word. The whole thing made me feel so uneasy for some reason. OK, I just looked it up on wikipedia, and after reading this, I clearly remember it:
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Post by Shalamar on Oct 20, 2012 16:31:09 GMT -4
"Give you a permanent wedgie! Legally change your name to 'Reggie'!"
Speaking of Sesame Street, Cracked had a link to Kermit singing "The Rainbow Connection" this morning, and oh man. Tears.
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Post by Ripley on Oct 20, 2012 18:24:00 GMT -4
I remember The Compleat Al! I think, but I couldn't swear to it, that it had the video for "One More Minute" on it. I remember watching that with the neighbor boy and laughing until we both cried.
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Post by ratscabies on Oct 20, 2012 23:41:21 GMT -4
"Give you a permanent wedgie! Legally change your name to 'Reggie'!" Speaking of Sesame Street, Cracked had a link to Kermit singing "The Rainbow Connection" this morning, and oh man. Tears. Paul Williams is a genius. This song is so good, I get something in my eye every damn time I hear it. Even if it's the wife banging it out on our outta tune piano while I'm cooking. I blame the onions. We watched "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" w/ MissP last night. She fought tooth and nail not to, but we insisted. She was totally sucked in by the time the cooking contraption came on. Zonked out during the beach scene. I had a surprise "dead sister" moment when I realized the last time I watched it was probably when I was 10 or 11 years old and watched it on TV with her. No onions, so it must have been a whiff of chemicals wafting in from the darkroom. Stupid eyes....
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