I am OLD....
bet...@earthlink.net
night.
And I finally had to get up and leave the room, because it made me feel so
OLD.
The show is about these teens during the 70's. And this particular episode
dealt with them going to see 'Star Wars' for the first time.
Fellow Patrons, I *remember* when Star Wars first came out. And standing in
line FOREVER to see it.
You know when you are old when sitcoms start doing episodes about events that
you actually remember....
Sheesh!
BetN -- NEVER parry with your head
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dion.m...@pobox.com
bet...@earthlink.net wrote:
...
> Fellow Patrons, I *remember* when Star Wars first came out. And standing in
> line FOREVER to see it.
>
> You know when you are old when sitcoms start doing episodes about events that
> you actually remember....
>
Dion walks over to the bar and put down a couple of bucks. Mike makes him put
them back in the pen where they belong. Mike then gives Dion a tray with a
teapot in the shape of a witch and two cups. Dion carries the tray over to
where BetNoir is sitting, puts it down and sits in the rocker next to her's.
"Shall I pour? I remember it too...
...and we had to walk both ways in the snow to get to the line...
...even though it was July...
(all together now!)
...AND WE WERE GLAD TO DO IT!"
You're not getting any older than I am.
Dion
(What's this grey hair doing in my teacup?)
Alison Murray
>We were watching that silly show on Fox called 'That 70's Show' the other
>night.
>
>And I finally had to get up and leave the room, because it made me feel so
>OLD.
I'm *ever* so glad I don't get network television <g>.
>The show is about these teens during the 70's. And this particular episode
>dealt with them going to see 'Star Wars' for the first time.
>
>Fellow Patrons, I *remember* when Star Wars first came out. And standing in
>line FOREVER to see it.
Yup - we stood in line so long, we almost sent out for pizza and
sodas.
>You know when you are old when sitcoms start doing episodes about events that
>you actually remember....
>
>Sheesh!
>
Not old, darlin' - we're getting *better* <g>
Ali ;-) (That's *my* mantra, and it's working so far <g>.)
p&e
Madeupagin
>>The show is about these teens during the 70's. And this particular episode
>>dealt with them going to see 'Star Wars' for the first time.
I saw this for the first time, too. EGADS, I thought. That's it, exactly!
THat's exactly the look on all of the faces in the theater with me! WOWZA!
Nothing impresses us anymore. BUT -- I remember, vividly, seeing that movie
and being thrilled. I remember the theater in town where it opened -- FIVE
SCREENS! WOWZA! Sadly, there is a Circuit City there now. Now, that's
passing a milestone. You remember vividly the grand opening, you remember
vividly the times you've been there (Police Academy, Rocky Horror, Animal
House, not in any particular order) and NOW -- it's gone. And, my kids will
never remember it.
That's OLD.
~~ Tere ~~ <---Happy Mom
Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson): "The surest sign that intelligent life
exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."
To reply: remove HappyMom
John Vinson
>We were watching that silly show on Fox called 'That 70's Show' the other
>night.
>
>And I finally had to get up and leave the room, because it made me feel so
>OLD.
>
>The show is about these teens during the 70's. And this particular episode
>dealt with them going to see 'Star Wars' for the first time.
John the Wysard, who was out of grad school and in his Real Job when
Star Wars came out, grins a bit wryly. "Don't worry about it
youngster... it gets better... eventually!"
jhe...@my-dejanews.com
> line FOREVER to see it.
>
> you actually remember....
>
> Sheesh!
>
You think _you_ have a problem? I remember the same scene, but I had both my
sons with me in line...so _they_ remember it.
Jim
"Build a better mousetrap and the world will build a better mouse."
Anon.
Madeupagin
>...even though it was July...
>
>
>(all together now!)
>
>...AND WE WERE GLAD TO DO IT!"
>
Oh, Dion. You forgot the MOST IMPORTANT PART!!!
You walked UPHILL in the snow in July!!! Both ways . . .
Ari Baronofsky
Madeupagin wrote in message
<19990316141038...@ng-fy1.aol.com>...
>>...and we had to walk both ways in the snow to get to the line...
>
>>...even though it was July...
>>
>>
>>(all together now!)
>>
>>...AND WE WERE GLAD TO DO IT!"
>>
>
>Oh, Dion. You forgot the MOST IMPORTANT PART!!!
>
>You walked UPHILL in the snow in July!!! Both ways . . .
>
Ari Baronofsky
bet...@earthlink.net wrote in message <7clu47$9n3$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>We were watching that silly show on Fox called 'That 70's Show' the other
>night.
>
>And I finally had to get up and leave the room, because it made me feel so
>OLD.
>
>The show is about these teens during the 70's. And this particular episode
>dealt with them going to see 'Star Wars' for the first time.
>
in
>line FOREVER to see it.
>
>You know when you are old when sitcoms start doing episodes about events
that
>you actually remember....
I can remember seeing Empire and ROTJ in the theaters (I was four or five at
the time)
-Ari B.
(who just downloaded the second trailer of the Phantom Menace. Yummy!)
AFol...@webtv.net
> night.
>
> And I finally had to get up and leave the room, because it made me feel so
> OLD.
>
> The show is about these teens during the 70's. And this particular episode
> dealt with them going to see 'Star Wars' for the first time.
>
> Fellow Patrons, I *remember* when Star Wars first came out. And standing in
> line FOREVER to see it.
>
> You know when you are old when sitcoms start doing episodes about events that
> you actually remember....
>
>
Betnoir, if it makes you feel any younger, some of us remember when
Destination Moon first came out. BOYC?
Alan Follett
Timothy Lechowicz
We were watching that silly show on Fox called 'That 70's Show' the
other night.
And I finally had to get up and leave the room, because it made me feel
so OLD.
The show is about these teens during the 70's. And this particular
episode dealt with them going to see 'Star Wars' for the first time.
Fellow Patrons, I *remember* when Star Wars first came out. And standing
in line FOREVER to see it.
You know when you are old when sitcoms start doing episodes about events
that you actually remember....
Sheesh!
Me:
Don't feel bad, BetN. When Star Wars FIRST came out, I hadn't even
entered kindergarten. :-)
bet...@earthlink.net
madeu...@aol.comHappyMom (Madeupagin) wrote:
> Nothing impresses us anymore. BUT -- I remember, vividly, seeing that movie
> and being thrilled. I remember the theater in town where it opened -- FIVE
> SCREENS! WOWZA!
Yanno, yeah, by today's standards the original Star Wars looks pretty damn
primitive. But the key is less the special effects than the story-telling.
You can have a whiz-bang special effects movie, but if the story....the
characters...don't hold up, people won't come back again and again.
The fact is (and seeing the new trailer brought it home again), the key to the
success of Star Wars is in the story. Lucas' universe was so vivid, so
complete, that there is an endless well to draw from.
And as for being impressed:
When I saw the re-digitized 'Empire Strikes Back,' we had Dr.Bill's son with
us. Since he had not yet seen the movie, we all were asked not to give away
the Big Plot Complication. And lo and behold, when it revealed itself, the
look of shock on the StefUnit's face brought it all back to me when I first
learned the BPC.
*That's* how you measure the success of something like 'Star Wars.'
BetN -- NEVER parry with your head
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Madeupagin
>all we had was a charcoal sketch done by an unknown street artist.
>
>
Hey! Even Mary Poppins, Bert and the kids could afford colored chalk! What
was the matter, no imagination in your neighborhood? No penguins for tea? You
were deprived, my friend!
Susan Davis
>
> We were watching that silly show on Fox called 'That 70's Show'
> the other night. And I finally had to get up and leave the room,
> because it made me feel so OLD.
I had the same sort of moment when the Special Edition was released,
and some of the teenage kids in our martial arts school mentioned
that they had never seen it in the theater before....
C-Hawk
(who spent the rest of her childhood from 8+ playing Princess Leia)
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> Fellow Patrons, I *remember* when Star Wars first came out. And standing in
> line FOREVER to see it.
I remember seeing it at a drive in, and falling asleep.
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Erick Vermillion-Salsbury
bet...@earthlink.net wrote:
> Fellow Patrons, I *remember* when Star Wars first came out.
> And standing in line FOREVER to see it.
Uh, I saw _Star Wars_ in the theater, first time out ...and
I'm not yet thirty.
Geez, who's the oldest regular here? (Hope Fast Eddie
doesn't get defensive over generally-addressed inquiries...)
I gather we've got folx in their fifties at least... and I'd
be interested in hearing from regular lurkers, as well.
Regards,
--
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Dan Goodman
Erick Vermillion-Salsbury <er...@pop3.concentric.net> wrote:
>(posted and e-mailed)
>
>bet...@earthlink.net wrote:
>
>> Fellow Patrons, I *remember* when Star Wars first came out.
>> And standing in line FOREVER to see it.
>
>Uh, I saw _Star Wars_ in the theater, first time out ...and
>I'm not yet thirty.
>
>Geez, who's the oldest regular here? (Hope Fast Eddie
>doesn't get defensive over generally-addressed inquiries...)
>
>I gather we've got folx in their fifties at least... and I'd
>be interested in hearing from regular lurkers, as well.
I'm 56; born the year of the first LSD trip.
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Whatever you wish for me, may you have twice as much.
bet...@earthlink.net
"Ari Baronofsky" <aba...@erols.com> wrote:
> I can remember seeing Empire and ROTJ in the theaters (I was four or five at
> the time)
ROTJ opened on 'Senior Ditch Day' at my high school. This was supposed to be
a ditch day for us seniors. In reality, they herded us onto buses to go to
Knott's Berry Farm and took roll as we got on.
So my friends and I decided we were gonna have a REAL Ditch Day and piled
into Kari's car and drove up to the old and long-gone UA Egyptian in
Hollywood to see the movie instead.
We had a BLAST, and all of our friends who went to Knott's Berry Farm were SOO
jealous.
We did get an 'unexcused absence' for that day -- the only one any of us had
in four years. And when my dad was called, he basically told the school that
his daughter was a honor roll student with a 3.8 GPA, and she had her
acceptance letter from her college, and it was the only time in four years
she had been truant, so what was the big deal anyway?
> (who just downloaded the second trailer of the Phantom Menace. Yummy!)
Tasty, or what??? :P
BetN, who, at least if she was gonna be a juvenile deliquent chose something
worth being one for
---
faxpa...@my-dejanews.com
bet...@earthlink.net wrote:
> We were watching that silly show on Fox called 'That 70's Show' the other
> night.
>
> And I finally had to get up and leave the room, because it made me feel so
> OLD.
>
> dealt with them going to see 'Star Wars' for the first time.
>
> line FOREVER to see it.
>
> you actually remember....
>
> Sheesh!
>
"Oh, Lord..." Fax starts, looking rueful. "I actually refused to see it at
first, simply because everyone else WAS seeing it. (I'm afraid I still get
snooty like that from time to time...)"
He brightens. "But when I did see it for the first time -- perhaps a year
after it first came out -- it was in *precisely* the right place. The Twin
Cities Drive-In, North Little Rock, Ark., with my sister and her kids while we
were visiting for the summer. Driving back home to West Texas, I remember
looking out the back window and seeing C-3P0's head on another drive-in screen
between Toyahvale and Balmorhea. I'd've been 11..."
A sigh escapes his lips. "Of course, neither drive-in exists anymore..."
Fax
"It'll all work out." "HOW?!"
"I don't know -- it's a mystery."
Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman, "Shakespeare in Love"
mae...@merlot.enteract.com
> <OldFogey>
> Yes, I remember it well. When I drove home from the theater I went through a
> construction zone on the freeway -- you know, narrow lanes and little concrete
> walls -- and I did it "just like Luke Skywalker." <grin> Of course the fact that
> I was 16 contributed.
> </OldFogey>
I hate those! Hate 'em, hate 'em, hate 'em! Especially when they have the
stripey hazard markers up. I *cannot* drive through one of those without
running commentary from The Voices along the lines of "You have never made
it through Road Race without having at least one horrible crash."
maenad, did I mention I hate those?
remove grape to reply.
WareWolf
bet...@earthlink.net wrote in message
>When I saw the re-digitized 'Empire Strikes Back,' we had Dr.Bill's son
with
>us. Since he had not yet seen the movie, we all were asked not to give
away
>the Big Plot Complication. And lo and behold, when it revealed itself, the
>look of shock on the StefUnit's face brought it all back to me when I first
>learned the BPC.
>
>*That's* how you measure the success of something like 'Star Wars.'
yep. And I remember vividly the ongoing arguemnt I had with my friend Gray,
in which I insisted that the BPC was a lie, just an attempt on Vader's part
to screw with Luke's mind. My capacity for self-delusion was awesome at that
age.
Dusty
(Posted and e-mailed)
Please feel free to regard "smart-ass" as my Default mode, i.e., if you
wonder whether I'm putting you on, I probably am. Thank you, and God bless.
WareWolf's columns and other writings are archived at:
http://www.angelfire.com/nc/dustyr/index.html
Susan Davis
>
> bet...@earthlink.net wrote in message
> >Since he had not yet seen the movie, we all were asked not to give
> > away the Big Plot Complication. And lo and behold, when it
> > revealed itself, the look of shock on the StefUnit's face brought
> > it all back to me when I first learned the BPC.
>
> Gray, in which I insisted that the BPC was a lie, just an attempt on
> Vader's part to screw with Luke's mind.
Well, the "Heroic Siegfried" motif playing in the background near
the beginning of Episode IV as Luke looks out on the two setting
suns sort of gives it away... but I didn't believe it either, at
age 11....
C-Hawk
(of course, the way that I assumed that Luke and Leia's relationship
would develop is a better match for the _Ring_ than what actually
happened....)
Margaret Whittleton
>
> Oh, Dion. You forgot the MOST IMPORTANT PART!!!
>
> You walked UPHILL in the snow in July!!! Both ways . . .
>
>
> ~~ Tere ~~ <---Happy Mom
Hey, laugh - my Mom actually DID have to walk uphill both ways to school.
There was a little creek halfway there, so down the hill they went and
back up the other side.
Marg
ji...@baum.com.au
> And I finally had to get up and leave the room, because it made me feel
> so OLD.
"A couple of weeks back, I was talking about viruses with someone, and
asked her if she knew what a signature virus was (so I could explain my sig
at an appropriate level). And her answer was `Yes, I am that old.'
"You need to be *old* to remember signature viruses?"
Jiri, semper fugit irreparabile tempus
--
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Hi, I'm the Good Times signature virus. Copy me into your .sig file!
Jimmy M. Pierce
: "You need to be *old* to remember signature viruses?"
wowsers. I don't think so !
DJ.
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Eleri
was rumoured to have said:
:-o >>...and we had to walk both ways in the snow to get to the line...
:-o >
:-o >>...even though it was July...
:-o >>
:-o >>
:-o >>(all together now!)
:-o >>
:-o >>...AND WE WERE GLAD TO DO IT!"
:-o >>
:-o >
:-o >Oh, Dion. You forgot the MOST IMPORTANT PART!!!
:-o >
:-o >You walked UPHILL in the snow in July!!! Both ways . . .
:-o >
El is having visions of a routine her OSO and his friend do...
"These kids these days, with their Smashing Pumpkins..."
"In our day we listened to Ozzy!"
"While he still bit the heads off of bats..."
"And we were glad to see it!"
~~Eleri~~
It's these little times, that helps to remind
It's nothing without love...
-Jewel-
Eleri
rumoured to have said:
:-o >>Huh! You were lucky to have an unknown street artist! Fifty of us had
:-o >>to live in a child's finger painting!
:-o >>
:-o >>Jacob
:-o >>;-)
:-o >
:-o >
:-o >Fifty?! You lucky sod! There was over four hundred of us living on a postage
:-o >stamp! And all we had to eat was the glue!And your tongue would get all
:-o >nasty-tasting and stick to the roof of your mouth, but it was all we had!
:-o >
Your stamp had GLUE??? the 500 of us lived on a USED stamp, and if we
were lucky we could scrape off some of the postmark to eat!
j.w.
Q'vaD <qv...@cdc.net> wrote
>. .
> >>
> >Uphill, both ways, we lived in an M.C. Escher painting, and we liked it!
> >
> Awww, *pffffft* (giving a dismissive wave of the hand).
>
> When *I* was a boy we couldn't afford to live in an Escher painting;
> all we had was a charcoal sketch done by an unknown street artist.
>
ROFL. Bless you - I was hoping someone would start that. May I buy you a
BOYC?
j.w. (sitting back to enjoy the thread)
Christopher Jahn
>
> bet...@earthlink.net wrote:
>
> > Fellow Patrons, I *remember* when Star Wars first came out. And standing in
> > line FOREVER to see it.
>
> Yes, I remember it well. When I drove home from the theater I went through a
> construction zone on the freeway -- you know, narrow lanes and little concrete
> walls -- and I did it "just like Luke Skywalker." <grin> Of course the fact that
> I was 16 contributed.
> </OldFogey>
Xjahn grins. "I remebemr getting the soundtrack on vinyl (a
two-record set!) and recording it onto a cassette ( I had
finally contrived to kill the 8-track I got for christmas
and talked dad into a proper tape deck) Man, crank up the
fighter sequence for traffic weaving! It was ans is
awesome!"
Xjahn
not so much in touch with his inner child,
as the inner child has a stranglehold on the Outer Elf.
> --
> Dr.Rob
> rham...@wfubmc.edu
>
> The Law of 90's: "The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time,
> the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time."
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"Of course the game is rigged! But don't let that stop
you from playing - you can't win if you don't play!"
Robert A. Heinlein
Alun Jones
> Yanno, yeah, by today's standards the original Star Wars looks pretty damn
> primitive. But the key is less the special effects than the story-telling.
> You can have a whiz-bang special effects movie, but if the story....the
> characters...don't hold up, people won't come back again and again.
Anyone remember "Battle Beyond the Stars"? Heh.
Gombo.
~~~~~
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}> of the Yukon and his Wonder Dog King.
}
}Quote: Bart Simpson drove by in a green Hornet.
Stab in the dark --
_Snow Crash_, Stephenson.
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of justice is no virtue."
mae...@merlot.enteract.com
> }Quote: Bart Simpson drove by in a green Hornet.
> Stab in the dark --
> _Snow Crash_, Stephenson.
You missed!
maenad places a dollar on the bar for Matthew's BOHC for trying.
maenad
remove grape to reply.
jmi...@usit.net
> Anyone remember "Battle Beyond the Stars"? Heh.
Urk. You mean "Spaced Out John Boy"? Yeah, I remember it, now that you've
reminded me (thanks ever so much).
Now I must remind you of "Hawk the Slayer".
Serves you right.
JanetM
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}
}
}yep. And I remember vividly the ongoing arguemnt I had with my friend Gray,
}in which I insisted that the BPC was a lie, just an attempt on Vader's part
}age.
Search your feelings, Dusty, you know it is true. :-)
Timothy Lechowicz
We couldn't afford to imagine anything in our neighborhood; it was too
expensive. Forthat matter, we didn't have a neighborhood, either.
We did have penguins for tea, but gave them up because it was too hard
to stuff them into the cups...they kept squawking and struggling and
pecking and so on.
Josh:
Oh, you had it lucky, then. Lap of luxury and all that. We didn't have a
neighborhood either. And we didn't have tea cups either - and hard as it
is to have the penguins with the cups, can you imagine how hard it is
without them?
And we only had penguins when we were lucky - when the tide came in from
Antarctica just right and all.
Me:
That's nothing. When my parents were young, they didn't even have
penguins! They were stuck using seagulls, as they were relatively easy
to get. Instead of teacups, they had to use teaspoons.
Timothy Lechowicz
Xjahn grins. "I remebemr getting the soundtrack on vinyl (a two-record
set!) and recording it onto a cassette ( I had finally contrived to kill
the 8-track I got for christmas and talked dad into a proper tape deck)
Man, crank up the fighter sequence for traffic weaving! It was ans is
awesome!"
What's a record?
Susan Cohen
jmi...@usit.net wrote:
> Alun Jones <al...@texis.com> wrote:
>
> > Anyone remember "Battle Beyond the Stars"? Heh.
>
> Urk. You mean "Spaced Out John Boy"? Yeah, I remember it, now that you've
> reminded me (thanks ever so much).
>
> Now I must remind you of "Hawk the Slayer".
"The Ice Pirates."
Susan, who has more....
Rick Davis
>Rick Davis wrote:
>: I saw Star Wars for the first time in Gulfport, Mississippi, on July 3,
>: 1977. A group of us walked there from Biloxi, where we'd arrived at
>: Keesler Air Force Base the day before straight out of basic training.
>
> I wasn't in this area in 1977, but I returned the following year.
>I got to watch the movie over in Texas, while standing out in
>some very hot weather and no clouds.
During Basic, at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, we actually got to skip
exercises one day because the temp went over 120.
> Hmm. I'll guess that the movie theater you went to was at
> Edgewater Mall.
Don't remember, but you're probably right. I -do- remember that we
walked along the beach between Biloxi and Gulfport, which is -not- a
good thing to do in smooth-soled civi shoes.
> By 1977, I had spent 2 years in the junior college and 6 years in the
> Navy.
Okay, I'm old, you're ancient. ;-)
> The first time the boot camp compant I was in was allowed to
> listen to the radio, we left it on past the noon news. That
> being what we were allowed to listen to. The song the played
> was 'Strawberry Fields' by The Beatles. THe line where they
> sing 'nothing is real !'. Then the company commander walked in
> and caught us. I forget how many pushups he made us do, besides
> losing our radio privaleges. It was worth it, the disk jockey
> was a woman. We hadn't heard a female voice for about 8 weeks at
> that point.
We had a female barracks right across the exercise pad from ours. One
of my flight-mates married a girl from that barracks on our day-pass
into San Antonio during our last week of Basic. We didn't keep in
touch, so I don't know if that marriage lasted more than a week.
>: ways" and we wanted to see a movie. The line was long and the place was
>: packed, but we all managed to get in. I remember all of us popping to
>: attention when they played the national anthem before the movie started
>: (right out of basic training, remember) and the locals having a laugh
>
> And a requirement on military bases.
Right. And the locals knew it. But they still got a laugh out of six
guys in civis jumping up and saluting when the music started.
>: It's worse when The History Channel does them ...
>
> Yup, I tend to not watch 'The Year that Was' on there.
I don't blame you.
--
Rick Davis rdd...@rica.net
"You've got to find what you like and let it kill you."
Kathleen Coburn
>Alun Jones <al...@texis.com> wrote:
>Anyone remember "Battle Beyond the
>Stars"? Heh.
>Urk. You mean "Spaced Out John Boy"?
>Yeah, I remember it, now that you've
>reminded me (thanks ever so much).
>Now I must remind you of "Hawk the
>Slayer".
>Serves you right.
>JanetM
Try "Laser Blast 2000". On record as one of the absolutely worst SF
movies ever made.
The gang I was with at the time could at least have fun with 'John Boy
In Space' and "Hawk the Slayer". There is nothing in 'Laser Blast 2000"
to make even tearing it to shreds fun.
Lady Q
There is a limited amount of intelligence in the universe.....
and the population keeps GROWING!
Kathleen Coburn
Okay, I got one for you. It was a Saturday, summer 1977, I had just
finished overtime at work, went home to my little mobile home south of
Moffet Field (San Jose, Cal. area), put the vinyl records on the player
and listened to "Star Wars" as the Blue Angels were performing for the
airshow. In time to the music. Flying overhead. Low. (I was across
the freeway from the field.) Total rapture.
BTW - I remember the original "Dr. Who". So there. Got ya all beat.
(BG)
Bookwyrm
>
> Flounder is also 52, will be 53 this year. Your not alone, O Wizardly One.
>
> Flounder
>
Bookwyrm will be 53 this year also!
Bookwyrm
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Bob Clevenger
>In article <36EEFE4B...@pop3.concentric.net>,
>Erick Vermillion-Salsbury <er...@pop3.concentric.net> wrote:
>>(posted and e-mailed)
>>
>>bet...@earthlink.net wrote:
>>Geez, who's the oldest regular here? (Hope Fast Eddie
>>doesn't get defensive over generally-addressed inquiries...)
>>
>>I gather we've got folx in their fifties at least... and I'd
>>be interested in hearing from regular lurkers, as well.
>
>I'm 56; born the year of the first LSD trip.
Same here.
Jeanne Burton
bet...@earthlink.net wrote in message <7clu47$9n3$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>We were watching that silly show on Fox called 'That 70's Show' the other
>night.
>And I finally had to get up and leave the room, because it made me feel so
>OLD.
>The show is about these teens during the 70's. And this particular episode
>dealt with them going to see 'Star Wars' for the first time.
>
>Fellow Patrons, I *remember* when Star Wars first came out. And standing
in
>line FOREVER to see it.
I was one of those teens who stood in line, Bet, and I think I mentioned
this before, but when it was re-released, I was very excited and couldn't
wait to go with Ron. We were driving over to the theatre, with 2 of his
friends, and I asked if they remembered the theater release, and they all
turned around and said, "Uh. We were either 3 or 4 years old. We didn't see
it.".
Right then I knew I was old.
Sympathetic BOYC?
Jeanne
Alison Murray
Lechowicz) wrote:
>Xjahn:
>
>Xjahn grins. "I remebemr getting the soundtrack on vinyl (a two-record
>set!) and recording it onto a cassette ( I had finally contrived to kill
>the 8-track I got for christmas and talked dad into a proper tape deck)
>Man, crank up the fighter sequence for traffic weaving! It was ans is
>awesome!"
>
>What's a record?
Ali groans and reaches for the Automatic Peanut Throwing Machine, but
her arthritic fingers can't quite grasp the handle.
Ali ;-) (Thanks so much for the reminder, Yankee <g>)
Nerak
two-record set!) and recording it onto a cassette ( I had
finally contrived to kill the 8-track I got for christmas
and talked dad into a proper tape deck) Man, crank up the
fighter sequence for traffic weaving! It was ans is
awesome!"
>>
Yep, did phaser runs on semi's with that music. Also DO NOT drive on curving
roads after dark listening to the Blue Danube section of "2001, Space Odessy"
Jim M. Pierce
Rick Davis wrote:
[]During Basic, at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, we actually got to skip
[]exercises one day because the temp went over 120.
That happens at Fort Hood, Texas army base as well.
DJ wrote:
[]> Hmm. I'll guess that the movie theater you went to was at
[]> Edgewater Mall.
[]
[]Don't remember, but you're probably right. I -do- remember that we
[]walked along the beach between Biloxi and Gulfport, which is -not- a
[]good thing to do in smooth-soled civi shoes.
Yup, that was it. Its the only theater between Keesler sand
Gulfport, if you head down the beach towards Gulfport. It had two
screens inside the mall, and two out back of it in a separate
building. Gone now. On a side road nearby is a new 12-plex .
[]> By 1977, I had spent 2 years in the junior college and 6 years in the
[]> Navy.
[]
[]Okay, I'm old, you're ancient. ;-)
:-P
[]Right. And the locals knew it. But they still got a laugh out of six
[]guys in civis jumping up and saluting when the music started.
Yup. I did that a couple of times after boot camp.
DJ.
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> Rick Davis wrote:
>[]During Basic, at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, we actually got to skip
>[]exercises one day because the temp went over 120.
>
> That happens at Fort Hood, Texas army base as well.
I don't doubt it a bit.
I haven't been to Texas since 1977, but I -would- like to go back
someday and take the River Walk in San Antonio again. That was nice.
Especially the restaurants. I'd hate to be there in August, though.
>DJ wrote:
>[]> Hmm. I'll guess that the movie theater you went to was at
>[]> Edgewater Mall.
>[]
>[]Don't remember, but you're probably right. I -do- remember that we
>[]walked along the beach between Biloxi and Gulfport, which is -not- a
>[]good thing to do in smooth-soled civi shoes.
>
> Yup, that was it. Its the only theater between Keesler sand
>Gulfport, if you head down the beach towards Gulfport. It had two
>screens inside the mall, and two out back of it in a separate
>building. Gone now. On a side road nearby is a new 12-plex .
This may have been in the separate building. I remember we stood in
line outside in the parking lot to get into the theater.
I also spent a couple nights in a Best Western motel somewhere near
there. My wife (the first) came down the next day, July 4th, and we
stayed in the motel until I found a little two-room cabin to rent just
off-base (right outside Gate 7).
>[]> By 1977, I had spent 2 years in the junior college and 6 years in the
>[]> Navy.
>[]
>[]Okay, I'm old, you're ancient. ;-)
>
> :-P
I -did- have a teenage girl tell me recently that I wasn't old because I
was younger than her mother. Turned out her mother was only about a
year older than me. :-/
Dane R. Anderson
>
> On 16 Mar 1999, Madeupagin wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> Hey, laugh - my Mom actually DID have to walk uphill both ways to school.
>
> There was a little creek halfway there, so down the hill they went and
> back up the other side.
I have seen it snow in the middle of July (northern hemisphere, middle
of
the Rocky Mountains)
--
Sometimes my wife wakes up grumpy.
The rest of the time she lets me sleep in.
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Dane R. Anderson
>
> On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:55:42 -0500, "WareWolf" <dus...@ac.net> was
> rumoured to have said:
>
> :-o >>Huh! You were lucky to have an unknown street artist! Fifty of us had
> :-o >>to live in a child's finger painting!
> :-o >>
> :-o >>Jacob
> :-o >>;-)
> :-o >
> :-o >
> :-o >Fifty?! You lucky sod! There was over four hundred of us living on a postage
> :-o >stamp! And all we had to eat was the glue!And your tongue would get all
> :-o >nasty-tasting and stick to the roof of your mouth, but it was all we had!
> :-o >
> Your stamp had GLUE??? the 500 of us lived on a USED stamp, and if we
> were lucky we could scrape off some of the postmark to eat!
Gee, I'd have loved to have had a stamp of any kind. We had to live on a
dust mote. That was all we had to eat too.
Dane R. Anderson
>
> In article <7cmiqu$tvn$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, bet...@earthlink.net wrote:
> > Yanno, yeah, by today's standards the original Star Wars looks pretty damn
> > primitive. But the key is less the special effects than the story-telling.
> > You can have a whiz-bang special effects movie, but if the story....the
> > characters...don't hold up, people won't come back again and again.
>
Yes, a BAD Si-Fi remake of "The Magnificent Seven." They even borrowed
most
of the dialog.
dion.m...@pobox.com
el...@aracnet.com (Eleri) wrote:
...
> Your stamp had GLUE??? the 500 of us lived on a USED stamp, and if we
> were lucky we could scrape off some of the postmark to eat!
>
Postage stamp? Hah! All 1024 of us had to live in an old e-mail. And we
only had a little bit to eat...
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Ali
>Eleri wrote:
>...
>> Your stamp had GLUE??? the 500 of us lived on a USED stamp, and if we
>> were lucky we could scrape off some of the postmark to eat!
>>
>> ~~Eleri~~
>
>Postage stamp? Hah! All 1024 of us had to live in an old e-mail. And we
>only had a little bit to eat...
>
>Dion
>
Ali ;-)
In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird.
Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.
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Jacob Sommer
>
> On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:55:42 -0500, "WareWolf" <dus...@ac.net> was
> rumoured to have said:
>
> :-o >>Huh! You were lucky to have an unknown street artist! Fifty of us had
> :-o >>to live in a child's finger painting!
> :-o >>
> :-o >>Jacob
> :-o >>;-)
> :-o >
> :-o >
> :-o >Fifty?! You lucky sod! There was over four hundred of us living on a postage
> :-o >stamp! And all we had to eat was the glue!And your tongue would get all
> :-o >nasty-tasting and stick to the roof of your mouth, but it was all we had!
> :-o >
> were lucky we could scrape off some of the postmark to eat!
Well, when I said child's finger painting I meant it was just a scrap of
paper with a splatter of lead based paint on it; but it was a child's
finger
painting to us...
Jacob
whose family couldn't afford the glue and government permits to make the
finger painting into a stamp!
Jim M. Pierce
Rick Davis wrote:
[]I haven't been to Texas since 1977, but I -would- like to go back
[]someday and take the River Walk in San Antonio again. That was nice.
[]Especially the restaurants. I'd hate to be there in August, though.
A sf WorldCon was held there recently. I presume the sidewalks
merely got hot, instead of melting...
[]This may have been in the separate building. I remember we stood in
[]line outside in the parking lot to get into the theater.
Yup, that would be typical of that one.
[]I also spent a couple nights in a Best Western motel somewhere near
[]there. My wife (the first) came down the next day, July 4th, and we
[]stayed in the motel until I found a little two-room cabin to rent just
[]off-base (right outside Gate 7).
I know where the best western is, but the cabin I don't know of.
But I rarely go over that way.
Jacque
Alison Murray <amu...@pdq.net> wrote:
>On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:42:01 GMT, bet...@earthlink.net wrote:
>
>>The show is about these teens during the 70's. And this particular episode
>>dealt with them going to see 'Star Wars' for the first time.
Drat! I meant to watch that, and I forgot. <pout> (Oh well, this is
why ghod gave us reruns, I suppose.)
>>Fellow Patrons, I *remember* when Star Wars first came out. And standing in
>>line FOREVER to see it.
>
>Yup - we stood in line so long, we almost sent out for pizza and
>sodas.
What? *Almost*!? Heck, we sorked that into the plan! Arrive at the
theater (the big one with the fancy sound system) n hours early,
immediately send runners for MacDonalds, and settle down to party with
the other line-waiters. Where else do you get a mini-convention for the
price of a movie and a burger? Ah, those were the days...
--jm
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Dave Kifer
>
>Larry&Wendy Andrews wrote:
>>
>> Flounder is also 52, will be 53 this year. Your not alone, O Wizardly One.
>>
>> Flounder
>>
>
>Bookwyrm will be 53 this year also!
Old Pharts!
Me?
I'm just approaching middle age, turning 52 later this year.
Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]
Droewyn
Timothy Lechowicz wrote:
>
>
> Don't feel bad, BetN. When Star Wars FIRST came out, I hadn't even
> entered kindergarten. :-)
Oh yeah, well some of us had to watch it in utero!
Droewyn, born three months after Star Wars
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>
>Same here.
>
<<<>>>
And what a long stange trip it's been.
j.w.
Q'vaD <qv...@cdc.net> wrote
>
> Please, and thank you. Make it something non-alcoholic and cool,
> please; after last night's festivities I've got Uncle Joe
> Syndrome...that is to say, I'm "movin' kinda slow."
>
No problem. Mike, some iced-tea for the invalid here :-)
j.w.
Rick Davis
> Rick Davis wrote:
>[]I haven't been to Texas since 1977, but I -would- like to go back
>[]someday and take the River Walk in San Antonio again. That was nice.
>[]Especially the restaurants. I'd hate to be there in August, though.
>
> A sf WorldCon was held there recently. I presume the sidewalks
>merely got hot, instead of melting...
Heeheehee
>[]I also spent a couple nights in a Best Western motel somewhere near
>[]there. My wife (the first) came down the next day, July 4th, and we
>[]stayed in the motel until I found a little two-room cabin to rent just
>[]off-base (right outside Gate 7).
>
> I know where the best western is, but the cabin I don't know of.
>But I rarely go over that way.
It most likely isn't even there any more. It was about ready to fall
down when I lived in it. It was one of three cabins in the middle of a
trailer park fronting on the street that ran into Gate 7 at Keesler. I
forget the name of the street, but it's one block up from the highway
that runs along the beach. US 90? Anyway, the trailer park was a block
or two from the gate.
Of course, for all I know, the whole town is completely changed by now.
I haven't been there since 1977.
Timothy Lechowicz
The Yendi phases through:
"Hey, I liked 'Ice Pirates'..."
Me:
Hey, no one's perfect. :-P
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The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe)
>
> Somewhere in the newsfeed, Susan Cohen said:> >"The Ice Pirates."
>
> The Yendi phases through:
> "Hey, I liked 'Ice Pirates'..."
Me too. I also liked "Battle Beyond the Stars." But then, I also like "Hudson
Hawk" and "Toys."
For sheer vileness, try "Addams Family Reunion." To paraphrase Dorothy Parker:
This is not a film to be lightly cast aside. It should be thrown with great
force!
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>jmi...@usit.net wrote:
>>
>> Now I must remind you of "Hawk the Slayer".
>
>"The Ice Pirates."
The Yendi phases through:
"Hey, I liked 'Ice Pirates'..."
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Jimmy M. Pierce
: It most likely isn't even there any more. It was about ready to fall
: down when I lived in it. It was one of three cabins in the middle of a
: trailer park fronting on the street that ran into Gate 7 at Keesler. I
: forget the name of the street, but it's one block up from the highway
: that runs along the beach. US 90? Anyway, the trailer park was a block
: or two from the gate.
Yup, the highway is US-90.
The cabin location still doesn't ring any bells...
: Of course, for all I know, the whole town is completely changed by now.
: I haven't been there since 1977.
No major changes until the casinos starting coming in this decade.
Beau Rivage opened this week. I think its 30 stories tall.
10 was about the tallest thing around here until then.
Hmmm. I think the Imperial Palace Casino is also about that tall.
There are still many areas with the houses and stores that have
been there for many years.
The one-lane in each direction roads from Interstate-10 down into
the towns are going to require widening. ...
Oh yeah, USM, my employer has now gone 4 year. Its been a long
struggle, but it got done. Excuse, the gulf coast campuses have
now gone four year. Freshmen start class in August.
DJ.
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Kevin Cheek
>Anyone remember "Battle Beyond the Stars"? Heh.
You mean "John-Boy in Outer Space?" Ouch!
But remember when "Star Wars" set the mark for special effects? Kind of
like the original "King Kong?"
The hype was just about gone when I went to see "Star Wars." The
Atlanta-Journal Constitution ran the novelized version serial fashion
(remember when newspapers serialized books?), and I wound up buying a copy.
When I actually saw the movie, I was . . . disappointed. I enjoyed it, but
it didn't compare to the mental images conjured up by the book.
- Kevin Cheek
Kevin Cheek
>
>What? You don't believe me? Hey, lemme tell you about my old friend,
>Mister Ed. Wait, come back! <BG>
If you don't mention "Mister Ed," I won't mention "My Mother The Car."
- Kevin Cheek
Amy Hawkinson
Droewyn wrote in message <36F14B5E...@pilot.msu.edu>...
>
>Timothy Lechowicz wrote:
>
>> Don't feel bad, BetN. When Star Wars FIRST came out, I hadn't even
>> entered kindergarten. :-)
>
>Oh yeah, well some of us had to watch it in utero!
>
>Droewyn, born three months after Star Wars
"I was born in 1977, so i have no memory of watching Star Wars in the
theater, but when The Empire Strikes Back came out, i remember
going to see it. I must have been 4 or so, and when we got home, i
absolutely insisted that my mom put my hair up in those goofy braids that
Leia had looped on the sides of her head in Cloud City.
"Later on, in high school when i drove the USS Elspeth (a grand old lady of
a
1977 Impala station wagon), my SO at the time said something like:
'You're going to park -this car- in -that little bitty parking spot-?
That's
impossible!'
"and i said:
'It's not impossible-- we used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back
home.
They're not much bigger than 2 meters.'"
Amy, rambling a bit after a long night of work : )
Erick Vermillion-Salsbury
Amy Hawkinson wrote:
> "Later on, in high school when i drove the USS Elspeth
^^^^^^^
Uh, is that by any chance a reference to the princess with
the hyperdeveloped sense of duty from _Dragonslayer_? I
notice it's in your e-mail address also...
Regards,
--
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mae...@merlot.enteract.com
> But then, I also like "Hudson
> Hawk" and "Toys."
Oh yes! I loved both of those. Except for the swoopy camerawork in the
fight scene at the end of Toys.
maenad
remove grape to reply.
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Or,
virtually ANY of those films UPN shows of a Thursday night.
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Liana Olear
: Me too. I also liked "Battle Beyond the Stars." But then, I also like
"Hudson
: Hawk" and "Toys."
Haven't seem "battle Beyond the Stars" but I am with you on the other two,
and on Ice Pirates.
: For sheer vileness, try "Addams Family Reunion." To paraphrase Dorothy
Parker:
: This is not a film to be lightly cast aside. It should be thrown with great
: force!
And I am with you here as well.
Liana
dion.m...@pobox.com
valk...@ihavepms.com (Ali ) wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 15:24:40 GMT, Dion might have said:
> >Eleri wrote:
> >...
> >> were lucky we could scrape off some of the postmark to eat!
> >>
> >
> >Postage stamp? Hah! All 1024 of us had to live in an old e-mail. And we
> >only had a little bit to eat...
> >
> >Dion
> >
> Errr, don't you mean byte?
>
> Ali ;-)
>
Sanford E. Walke IV
> Deathstalker II
> Or,
> virtually ANY of those films UPN shows of a Thursday night.
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<Bookwyrm will be 53 this year also!
1946 was a very good year, don't you think? That makes at least 3 of us -
you, me, and John the Wysard. Anyone else born in 1946?
Flounder
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<Bookwyrm will be 53 this year also!
1946 was a very good year, don't you think?
Flounder:
That makes at least 3 of us - you, me, and John the Wysard. Anyone else
born in 1946?
Flounder
Me:
Yankee says, cheerily, "My dad was!" <vbeg>
Yankee-When I was young, we studied WWII in ancient history class...
Madeupagin
>For sheer vileness, try "Addams Family Reunion." To paraphrase Dorothy
>Parker:
>This is not a film to be lightly cast aside. It should be thrown with great
>force!
My DH and I adore BOMBS. This movie, however. ICK!
Three letters say it all. ICK!
Does an exclamation point count as a letter? It should in this case! That
would make this movie a FOUR LETTER WORD. ICK!
!!!!
There, just for emphasis. Raul Julia is . . . well, whatever . . .
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Chris and Elisabeth Zakes
>We were watching that silly show on Fox called 'That 70's Show' the other
>night.
>
>And I finally had to get up and leave the room, because it made me feel so
>OLD.
>
>The show is about these teens during the 70's. And this particular episode
>dealt with them going to see 'Star Wars' for the first time.
>
>Fellow Patrons, I *remember* when Star Wars first came out. And standing in
>line FOREVER to see it.
Ah yes... I remember *not* going to see "Star Wars" for a month or
more, in hopes that the lines would decrease (they didn't). I remember
a few weeks later, watching "Star Wars" and then going to another
theatre and watching "Fantasia". Reality was *very* strange for the
rest of the evening.
>You know when you are old when sitcoms start doing episodes about events that
>you actually remember....
Do you know the difference between history and politics? If you
remember it happening, it's politics. If you have to read about it,
it's history. For me, the 1960 presidential election is *just barely*
politics, but Eisenhower's presidency is history.
-Chris Zakes
Texas
C and E Zakes
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and Aethelyan Moondragon (Decadence is its own reward)
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Chris and Elisabeth Zakes
(Madeupagin) to write:
>The Polymath stated:
>
>>For sheer vileness, try "Addams Family Reunion." To paraphrase Dorothy
>>Parker:
>>This is not a film to be lightly cast aside. It should be thrown with great
>>force!
>
>My DH and I adore BOMBS. This movie, however. ICK!
>
>Three letters say it all. ICK!
>
>Does an exclamation point count as a letter? It should in this case! That
>would make this movie a FOUR LETTER WORD. ICK!
>
>!!!!
"Five exclamation marks. The sure sign of a deranged mind."
-Terry Pratchett, "Maskerade" or perhaps "Jingo"
Kevin Cheek
>
>Now I must remind you of "Hawk the Slayer".
Heh.
I'll see your "Hawk the Slayer" with "Plan Nine from Outer Space." And let
us not forget "Krull."
- Kevin Cheek
Kevin Cheek
>
>"The Ice Pirates."
One of my favorite movies. Makes a huge difference when it's supposed to
be funny.
- Kevin Cheek
Rick Davis
>Rick Davis (rdd...@rica.net) wrote:
>: It most likely isn't even there any more. It was about ready to fall
>: down when I lived in it. It was one of three cabins in the middle of a
>: trailer park fronting on the street that ran into Gate 7 at Keesler. I
>: forget the name of the street, but it's one block up from the highway
>: that runs along the beach. US 90? Anyway, the trailer park was a block
>: or two from the gate.
>
> Yup, the highway is US-90.
>
> The cabin location still doesn't ring any bells...
Like I said, it could well be long gone. I can't really give any other
landmarks as I don't remember what was there anymore. I vaguely
remember a putt-putt golf place and a steak and surf restaurant close
by, both of them down on the beach. And directly outside the base gate
on the street I lived were a couple "modeling agencies" that supplied
cheap porn to the airmen.
>: Of course, for all I know, the whole town is completely changed by now.
>: I haven't been there since 1977.
>
> No major changes until the casinos starting coming in this decade.
Oh yeah. I forgot about the casinos. The only ones I've been to are in
the upper part of the state. We drove down from Memphis when I was
there a couple years ago.
> Beau Rivage opened this week. I think its 30 stories tall.
> 10 was about the tallest thing around here until then.
> Hmmm. I think the Imperial Palace Casino is also about that tall.
Tallest building I remember in Biloxi was 5 or 6 stories. I think it
was a bank.
> There are still many areas with the houses and stores that have
> been there for many years.
>
> The one-lane in each direction roads from Interstate-10 down into
> the towns are going to require widening. ...
The ones I remember driving were only two-lane, but didn't have that
much traffic. I remember US 90 flooding every time it rained hard. I
had to pull over more than once because the rental car I had for the
first couple of weeks after I got there would stall whenever I tried to
drive it through a foot of water.
That's another thing I remember -- daily 12 noon rains. Since I was in
tech school there, I was marching to the chow hall every weekday at that
time and it rained on us almost every day, often while the sun was
shining.
> Oh yeah, USM, my employer has now gone 4 year. Its been a long
> struggle, but it got done. Excuse, the gulf coast campuses have
> now gone four year. Freshmen start class in August.
Er, what was it before? I can't picture a university being only 2 year.
Bookwyrm
>
> Bookwyrm said:
> <Bookwyrm will be 53 this year also!
>
> you, me, and John the Wysard. Anyone else born in 1946?
>
> Flounder
>
Actually, Bookwyrm is *SO OLD* that she forgot that she already *is* 53
years old! Will be 54 this year.
Sheesh!!! Alzheimers here I come!
Bookwyrm (whose Daddy was stationed state-side during the War)
--
Night is drawing nigh. How long the road is. But, for all the time
journey has already taken, how you have needed every second of it.
Dag Hammarskjold
Home page -- http://www1.minn.net/~3jay1kay
The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe)
> The Polymath stated:
>
> >For sheer vileness, try "Addams Family Reunion." To paraphrase Dorothy
> >Parker:
> >This is not a film to be lightly cast aside. It should be thrown with great
> >force!
>
> My DH and I adore BOMBS. This movie, however. ICK!
>
> Three letters say it all. ICK!
>
> Does an exclamation point count as a letter? It should in this case! That
> would make this movie a FOUR LETTER WORD. ICK!
>
> !!!!
Probably spinning in his grave. This film doesn't even have the redeeming
quality of being so bad it could become a cult classic on that ground. The
world would be done a great favor if the negative and every last print and tape,
save one, were hunted down and destroyed. The last tape could be kept in a
vault, sort of like the last smallpox pathogen, as an example to film students
of what _not_ to do.
Susan Cohen
"The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe)" wrote:
> Madeupagin wrote:
> > The Polymath stated:
> >
> > >For sheer vileness, try "Addams Family Reunion."
Wait a minute - so you mean
"Addams Family" or "Addams Family Values"?
> >
> > My DH and I adore BOMBS. This movie, however. ICK!
> >
> > !!!!
> > There, just for emphasis. Raul Julia is . . . well, whatever . . .
>
> Probably spinning in his grave. This film doesn't even have the redeeming
> quality of being so bad it could become a cult classic on that ground. The
> world would be done a great favor if the negative and every last print and tape,
> save one, were hunted down and destroyed. The last tape could be kept in a
> vault, sort of like the last smallpox pathogen, as an example to film students
> of what _not_ to do.
Even if you all mean "Addams Family values," there are tons
of movies that were worse.
Then again, Gary & I *howled* through the wedding -
but that's because it had personal significance for us.
Susan
The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe)
> "The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe)" wrote:
> > Madeupagin wrote:
> > > The Polymath stated:
> > >
> > > >For sheer vileness, try "Addams Family Reunion."
>
> Wait a minute - so you mean
> "Addams Family" or "Addams Family Values"?
No, I mean "Addams Family Reunion," the one they completely (and horribly)
recast after Raul Julia died. It's out on tape. Don't know if it was ever in
theaters.
Bad direction, bad casting, bad acting, bad writing, bad plot, bad makeup, bad
music ...
The film has but one redeeming feature: Eventually, it ends.
Erick Vermillion-Salsbury
Susan Cohen wrote:
> Wait a minute - so you mean
> "Addams Family" or "Addams Family Values"?
_Addams Family Reunion_ is a made-for-video film that came
out in 1998. It stars Tim Curry as Gomez, Daryl Hannah as
Morticia ...and Carel Struycken returns as Lurch. I haven't
seen it yet -- but wish to, in a deer-in-the-headlights sort
of way.
Regards,
Erick Vermillion-Salsbury
Susan Cohen
Erick Vermillion-Salsbury wrote:
Ah! I had *heard* of that, but thought
that it simply didn't get made.
I'm getting shudders just thinking of it.
Susan
Slywlf
<ka7...@earthlink.net> writes:
>1946 was a very good year, don't you think? That makes at least 3 of us -
>you, me, and John the Wysard. Anyone else born in 1946?
1954, myself - you figger it out ;-)
PhoenixWench
There are two means of refuge from **
the miseries of life: music and cats.**
Albert Schweitzer **
(remove 'spamless' to reply!!!!!)
Slywlf
>When I saw the re-digitized 'Empire Strikes Back,' we had Dr.Bill's son with
>us. Since he had not yet seen the movie, we all were asked not to give away
>the Big Plot Complication. And lo and behold, when it revealed itself, the
>look of shock on the StefUnit's face brought it all back to me when I first
>learned the BPC.
>
>*That's* how you measure the success of something like 'Star Wars.'
>
Oh yeah ;-).... Just re-watched our copy (not the re-dig, the original),
and were reminded all over again how much fun it was, how _young_ the
actors looked, how old it made us feel, and how many ludicrous-speed
cross references we had accumulated over the years ;-) It was worth it!
Slywlf
writes:
>Yep, did phaser runs on semi's with that music. Also DO NOT drive on curving
>roads after dark listening to the Blue Danube section of "2001, Space Odessy"
>
<BG> I keep a tape of waltzes in my car, and get a big kick out
of doing 'docking manuevers' with my garage to "Blue Danube" ;-)
Slywlf
writes:
>>Yup - we stood in line so long, we almost sent out for pizza and
>>sodas.
>
>What? *Almost*!? Heck, we sorked that into the plan! Arrive at the
>theater (the big one with the fancy sound system) n hours early,
>immediately send runners for MacDonalds, and settle down to party with
>the other line-waiters. Where else do you get a mini-convention for the
>price of a movie and a burger? Ah, those were the days...
>
That sounds about like what I remember. It was my day off from work,
and I went to NYC, as usual, (had tickets for the ballet at Lincoln Center
for the evening), and instead of going to the Museum of Natural History, as
was my original game plan, I stopped in and bought tickets to the _next_
available showing of SW. That meant a 2+ hour wait, but there were scads
of folks sitting on the floor of the 'waiting area' set aside for ticket
holders.
It wasn't the premier, but only missed by a few days, IIRC, and the intensity
of anticipation was thicker than the smoke (no anti-smoking laws then). A
whole bunch of folks had either ordered in, or brought along, and the mood
being what it was, a sort of 'share and share alike' cameraderie broke out,
and everyone got something. I still associate the smell of tobacco smoke,
popcorn, french fries, bubblegum (Bazooka) and pizza with the first movie.
What blew me away, though, was the presentation. This was a _BIG_
theater, of a type already extinct around here. The front center third of
this theater was bigger than my local place. That was just the middle third
of the first section! There were 4 more regions, each three sections across,
behind that. Then, when the opening sequence started, there were six
banks of speakers along each side of the theater. There was a wave of
people ducking, back to front, as the sound of the Imperial warship
passed overhead ;-)
sigh.... good memories... never mind the visceral shock when Vader
spoke with _that_ voice ;-)....
Slywlf
<xj...@bellsouth.nett> writes:
>Xjahn grins. "I remebemr getting the soundtrack on vinyl (a
>two-record set!) and recording it onto a cassette ( I had
>finally contrived to kill the 8-track I got for christmas
>and talked dad into a proper tape deck) Man, crank up the
>fighter sequence for traffic weaving! It was ans is
>awesome!"
>
>Xjahn
>not so much in touch with his inner child,
>as the inner child has a stranglehold on the Outer Elf.
<BEG> I had it too, right up to a couple years ago when we had
to sell most of our vinyl (not _all_, just most) - BOYC for a fond
rememory? I used to sit and replay certain bits, where the music
would swell.... never mind. About that drink???? ;-)
djohnson
>That's another thing I remember -- daily 12 noon rains. Since I was in
>tech school there, I was marching to the chow hall every weekday at that
>time and it rained on us almost every day, often while the sun was
>shining.
We had a commander's call at the base theater. We could see rain
moving down the street, so we started to run. I made it without
getting wet at all, but someone who was only 10 seconds behind was
soaked through.
I also remember Bobbie's Bikinis, along the beach, just past the
Fiesta. The saleswomen used the product, what little there was of it.
Supposed to be an extremely high accident area...
coppers
Not to mention all those godawful ripoffs of Star Wars that came
and died!
Jacob Sommer
>
> In article <19990317203516...@ng100.aol.com>, ne...@aol.com (Nerak)
> writes:
>
> >Yep, did phaser runs on semi's with that music. Also DO NOT drive on curving
> >roads after dark listening to the Blue Danube section of "2001, Space Odessy"
> >
> <BG> I keep a tape of waltzes in my car, and get a big kick out
> of doing 'docking manuevers' with my garage to "Blue Danube" ;-)
Ah, but do you have the Black and Blue Danube Waltz? <grins evilly>
And if not, do you want to know where to get it?
Jacob
Rick Davis
>On 20 Mar 1999 09:04:01 -0600, rdd...@rica.net (Rick Davis) wrote:
>
>>That's another thing I remember -- daily 12 noon rains. Since I was in
>>tech school there, I was marching to the chow hall every weekday at that
>>time and it rained on us almost every day, often while the sun was
>>shining.
>
>We had a commander's call at the base theater. We could see rain
>moving down the street, so we started to run. I made it without
>getting wet at all, but someone who was only 10 seconds behind was
>soaked through.
We were in formation and not allowed to run. The noon rains -usually-
weren't that heavy, luckily, and since they were as regular as clockwork
we always had our AF-issue raincoats. (Which caused another problem, as
they were so hot we got soaked from sweat by the time we reached the
chow hall.)
I do remember outrunning the rain once, but it was when I was six years
old. Dad and I walked the half-mile to the mailbox and saw the rain
front move in on us about half way back. We ran like hell and made it
to the back porch about a second before the rain did.
>I also remember Bobbie's Bikinis, along the beach, just past the
>Fiesta. The saleswomen used the product, what little there was of it.
>Supposed to be an extremely high accident area...
I don't remember either of those places. My memory is odd, though. I
tend to remember the bad stuff that happened to me and forget the good.
Kerry J. Renaissance
5.25" floppy disk -- maybe more than one, but not many, as I recall.
Now I've got games that come on 5-6 CDs, and packaged, they look like
small books.
That is just the outer appearance. The very first game I ever played
involved running a spaceship through 12 levels, picking up useful
things, docking periodically for a recharge, and blowing enemies and
asteroids into explosions of pixels.
Now, I haven't purchased a shoot-em-up game in some time; those I do
generally buy have a lot more plot, intense visuals, and much more
interesting use of pixels, even when blowing up something.
I'm only 24. I started computing when I was about eight. It doesn't
seem that long ago -- but my, how things have changed!
-- Kerry J. Renaissance
Master Fireweaver
http://www.mills.edu/PEOPLE/ug.pages/kerryren.public.html/kerryren.homepage.html
"Are people basically good?" - Susan Calvin, "I, Robot"
(Asimov and Ellison, screenplay)
barbara trumpinski-roberts
> night.
>
> And I finally had to get up and leave the room, because it made me feel so
> OLD.
>
> The show is about these teens during the 70's. And this particular episode
> dealt with them going to see 'Star Wars' for the first time.
>
> Fellow Patrons, I *remember* when Star Wars first came out. And standing in
> line FOREVER to see it.
>
> you actually remember....
>
"HHHHMMMMMPPPPPHHHHHHH!!!!!!" kitten hmphs! "i watch that show and i feel
older, cause i was halfway through college in the mid-seventies. i
remember kids like this IRL(tm) and thinking that they were silly
teenagers and i was too mature!"
/\ /\ 'my life is [still] a soap opera. isn't yours?
{=.=} blessed be.
~ kit...@uiuc.edu barbara trumpinski-roberts
http://members.tripod.com/~barbarakitten
WareWolf
The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe) wrote in message
<36F3FE5F...@pacbell.net>...
RE: "Addams Family Reunion":
> This film doesn't even have the redeeming
>quality of being so bad it could become a cult classic on that ground. The
>world would be done a great favor if the negative and every last print and
tape,
>save one, were hunted down and destroyed. The last tape could be kept in a
>vault, sort of like the last smallpox pathogen, as an example to film
students
>of what _not_ to do.
>
Don't hold back, Jerry. Tell us how you REALLY feel.
Dusty, who has never even
HEARD of the movie in question.