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Post by divasahm on Oct 21, 2012 8:57:07 GMT -4
I used to be pretty stoic--and then I had kids. I'm a veritable waterworks now. For instance, I got teary while driving yesterday when "Daydream Believer" came on, even as I sang the chorus at the top of my lungs.
I had the comedy station on later and nearly wrecked the car laughing to a fifteen-minute album cut of Lily Tomlin talking to Edith Ann. Lily was my absolute favorite Laugh-In regular.
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ladytrentham
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Post by ladytrentham on Oct 21, 2012 11:52:34 GMT -4
Edith Ann!!! "I spat in my sister's cocoa and tried to make it look like an accident."
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Post by Shalamar on Oct 21, 2012 15:30:23 GMT -4
Ooh, "One More Minute"! "I'd rather clean the toilets in Grand Central Station - with my TONGUE - than spend one more minute with youuu."
Speaking of teary moments, there's an ad for - Google Chrome, I think - in which a dad is talking to his daughter at university. The daughter is lonely and feeling out of place. It made both my husband and me cry, especially when the dad shared a picture of his (presumably dead) wife with the daughter and said "She did it, and so can you."
The fact that our daughters will be in that boat sooner than we like to admit probably has something to do with it ...
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Post by Gigiree on Oct 21, 2012 22:11:28 GMT -4
I used to be pretty stoic--and then I had kids. I'm a veritable waterworks now. Yes! It seems that sharing any of those touchstones from my childhood really seems to bring on the sniffles/teary eyes. I showed my girls The Land Before Time this weekend, and I just sobbed and sobbed when Littlefoot was separated from his mother. My oldest daughter Lulu asked me why I was crying, and when I tried to explain it to her she looked at me like I was mentally unstable. Well, maybe I am. Having children can do that do a person.
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Post by carrier76 on Oct 21, 2012 23:59:32 GMT -4
And the video had a bunch of Weird Al heads going around in a circle at that part? Correct?
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Post by chonies on Oct 22, 2012 0:21:11 GMT -4
Just for the sake of scientific control, I don't have any spawn but I have also gotten incredibly teary and sensitive as I've trudged through my 30s. I've chalked it up to more life experience and the decreased importance of shit-giving.
The Google chrome commercial about the girl and her dad make me teary, too. My dad died before the web really took off, and he was both a technophobe and a technophile, so I often wonder what he would have made of things now.
But enough of that. When I was your age, K pop and J pop was largely inaccessible to people outside the community. Bollywood films available at the Indian groceries were grainy multi-generation VHS copies and were only infrequently subtitled.
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Post by mrspickles on Oct 22, 2012 1:01:29 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.... I still think the Kid Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is one of the most terrifying characters from any film. Ever. "Caaandy! Loooool-i-pops!" ugh.
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Post by Coffeecakes on Oct 22, 2012 5:26:36 GMT -4
Another thing that just cannot be duplicated, notes between friends. Remember the creative little folds we would do? I just found a box full of notes between my friends and me from high school. I love texting and all, but that has replaced all of that. Waiting until break between classes to exchange them? Ahh memories.
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Post by chonies on Oct 22, 2012 8:46:13 GMT -4
Another thing that just cannot be duplicated, notes between friends. Remember the creative little folds we would do? I just found a box full of notes between my friends and me from high school. I love texting and all, but that has replaced all of that. Waiting until break between classes to exchange them? Ahh memories. Me too! Ours had cartoons of each other and everything, and I remember trying to think of lots of things to say to fill up the page. And the thrill of an unexpected note plopping to the floor when you opened your locker? Bliss.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2012 9:46:44 GMT -4
I've always been a "soft touch," as my BFF and her mom call me.
Oy vey, that Google Chrome commercial... Kill. Er.
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