TrafficChick
Blueblood
Immagonnaeatyou!
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Mar 7, 2005 9:30:05 GMT -4
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Post by TrafficChick on Oct 22, 2012 10:17:20 GMT -4
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. I actually had to leave the room when Rat & P were watching it. I *still* get freaked out by him. He's like a creepy cross between Stevie Ray Vaughn and Little Steven. And not in a particularly good way.
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Post by Mutagen on Oct 22, 2012 10:20:22 GMT -4
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. This reminds me, I remember when the only place you could reliably watch anime was on the public access channel late at night. Fist of the North Star and Akira. It felt like watching something secret and illegal. There was also one single shelf of it at the local independent video store, made up of an absolute hodgepodge of whatever VHS tapes people had donated. Good times.
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Oct 4, 2024 19:33:54 GMT -4
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2012 10:38:02 GMT -4
I don't have kids, both of my parents are still alive, and my dad would rather watch paint dry than touch a computer. But that Google Chrome commercial gets me every damn time.
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Inkyblott
Lady in Waiting
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Mar 12, 2005 8:33:36 GMT -4
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Post by Inkyblott on Oct 22, 2012 12:51:08 GMT -4
I was just thinking how much I miss the holiday cartoons that used to show on network TV. Not just at Christmas but Halloween, Thanksgiving, Valentine's, and Easter. Not just Charlie Brown or the Rankin-Bass Christmas cartoons, either. There were Garfield holiday specials, Looney Toons, and even Smurfs and Pac Man had Christmas specials. Those were always the lead up to the big holidays. The Christmas ones would start airing right after Thanksgiving so the whole month of December there always seemed to be a Christmas cartoon special on. This was also before you started seeing Christmas stuff in stores in September.
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Post by Shalamar on Oct 22, 2012 17:04:58 GMT -4
When I was your age ... stores had the decency to wait until Halloween was over before putting out the Christmas stuff. I saw both holidays' merchandise side-by-side in WalMart the other day, and I thought "Oh COME ON." Then I saw the same thing in two other stores. I give up.
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Post by mrspickles on Oct 22, 2012 18:01:52 GMT -4
Preach it, Shalamar!
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Post by kostgard on Oct 22, 2012 19:09:18 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. Oh, man, I loved that too. We also went for the creative folds and I loved it when you were bored in class and spent it writing notes to your friends and exchange them when you passed in the hallway or dropped them in their locker. I also have a box of notes somewhere - I think at my mom's house with the rest of my high school crap.
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Post by FotoStoreSheila on Oct 22, 2012 19:43:37 GMT -4
My friend saved a note I wrote her in 19th century lit class that says, "I think OJ killed his wife". It was the Monday after the bodies had been discovered. Before the broncho chase and all of the media craziness.
I also have lots of high school boyfriend drama notes from 20 years ago, and one from my Chem lab partner who told me that she stuffed some paper into the nozzle of the gas burner on our desk, out of boredom, and was now afraid of blowing up the school.
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Post by satellite on Oct 22, 2012 22:56:36 GMT -4
And writing letters to friends who were away at camp or who had moved, because I didn't dare run up the phone bill making a long distance call. Or later, waiting until after 11 pm when it was cheap. My grandma talked to her sister early every morning to get the night rate, and everyone else out of the area could wait for the weekend.
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Post by chonies on Oct 23, 2012 12:16:29 GMT -4
When I was your age, fewer groceries were packaged in plastic. Candy bars were wrapped in two layers of paper, cereal boxes were lined with waxed paper, peanut butter jars were glass. I have faded memories of yogurt coming in waxed cardboard containers. I'm not a total anti-plastic conspiracist, but I miss the variety of textures.
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