Other things that scared you as a child
red
BEEDEEBEEDEEBEEDEE. He was weird, in a scary way.
2) My Apple ][e used to beep at random intervals, and it was a loud
obnoxious beep that couldn't be turned off without some serious hardware
hacking. To avoid beeps, I would sit at the computer with my fingers in
my ears.
3) Likewise, when I got my first Mac (at 9), bombs scared me.
So what were your weird paranoid things?
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>
>3) Likewise, when I got my first Mac (at 9), bombs scared me.
When I was a freshman in high school, I scared the school staff by
writing something witty in the hard drive's "Description" space.
I used the word "toast" and they thought that meant some virus
was in the system.
I didn't know about bombs until I got an Amiga and some smartass
wrote a fake Mac emulator. I wonder what that teacher would have
thought about the blinking red border and "Guru Meditation"?
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>BEEDEEBEEDEEBEEDEE. He was weird, in a scary way.
But all kids love robots voiced by Mel Blanc!
Twiki (let's give the robot a name that's a hybrid of a 60's model and a
cream-or-maybe-it's-creme-filled, sponge-caked treat used to pacify
Spiderman's enemies) never scared me on Buck Rogers, although the character of
Hawk did. Especially the episode where he kept seeing his dead ghost wife in
his spaceship.
Of course, I was in kindergarten, so I probably don't remember that right.
Other "quality" "sci-fi" that "scared" "me" around kindergarten "age":
- When I was five I got to go see "Flash Gordon" in the movie theaters. The
scene where Dr. Zarkov is getting his mind erased by removing memories in
reverse chronological order gave me nightmares for weeks, filled with images
of swimming pools, fetuses, and World War II. Whenever I hear Queen on the
radio, I still feel a slight bit on edge (of course, maybe I just don't like
Queen).
- In Battlestar Galactica, there were scenes of people being kept in giant
honeycomb-like cocoons with bugs crawling all over them as they were being
tortured or digested or mocked openly by their peers. Honeycomb big... yeah
yeah yeah!
>2) My Apple ][e used to beep at random intervals, and it was a loud
>obnoxious beep that couldn't be turned off without some serious hardware
>hacking. To avoid beeps, I would sit at the computer with my fingers in
>my ears.
>
>3) Likewise, when I got my first Mac (at 9), bombs scared me.
When I was 10, I got to use a mac for the first time to type I science report.
Not only was this a new computer, but it belonged to my dad's BOSS so I had
to be extra careful. I was still nervous about the whole shutdown/startup
process, as any computer I had used before then was either an Apple II/+/e, or
something that plugged into a TV set. So... the first time I power up the
Mac on my own with no-one else around... there's a bomb and a ten-digit
number on the display. I start to sweat. Nothing is starting up. I wait ten
minutes. I turn it off and turn it on again. Same thing. Wrote the code
down, showed it to my dad, and he and his boss eventually found out that it
meant the motherboard was fried. Yay!
>So what were your weird paranoid things?
I also used to have nightmares about black helicopters, but there's nothing
interesting about that.
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Fantod
>1) There was a robot on some bad sci-fi show that went
>BEEDEEBEEDEEBEEDEE. He was weird, in a scary way.
There was a particular villian on Buck Rodgers that scared me. I don't
remember what it looked like because I could not look at it.
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Tamara
in the closet and cry.
I think I'm over that.
~T
Oh yeah, and bees. Still the bees. G-D FREAKIN' BEES!!!!!!!
ZippoNiner
>So what were your weird paranoid things?
One time I had a bad cough so my parents gave me codiene. Ever since
then I've been slightly worried that the alligators are going to come
out of the tree and make me go around into the front yard to take the
tiles off the chessboard.
Don't ask me why, but at the time this concept scared the SHIT out of
me. Even now I get a little twinge thinking about it.
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outside...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"Niner
Joseph Michael Bay
>1) There was a robot on some bad sci-fi show that went
>BEEDEEBEEDEEBEEDEE. He was weird, in a scary way.
Someone finally gave him a disgusting Indian cigarette
and then he shut up. They used to call THIS one -the bop-!
>3) Likewise, when I got my first Mac (at 9), bombs scared me.
A b---?
No, not a b---. A bomb.
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>In article <PFYw4.12986$3z.1...@newscontent-01.sprint.ca>,
>Tamara <tamara...@sprint.ca> wrote:
>>When my older brother brother played "Whole Lotta Love" by Zep, I would hide
>>in the closet and cry.
>YOU NEED KOOL-AID! AND I'M NOT FOOLIN'!!!
Oh man, when I was a kid the long "instrumental" bit
in the middle used to scare the hell out of me. My
big brother would play it when Mom and Dad weren't
around and he'd turn out the lights and you hear the
drums all around you (he had the speakers on opposite
ends of our room, for S00PER STERE0 EFF3CT!). And then
the creaky noises would start. LOOK OUT BILLY! CHARLIES
IN THE TREES! I GOT YOUR BACK! LIEUTENANT! NOOOOOOOO!
DON'T GO IN NOOOOOO IT'S TOO LATE! I should have stopped
him I should have stopped him I should have stopped him
I should have stopped him I should have stopped him it's
my fault WHY WASN'T IT ME? WHY GOD WHY?
Anyway I'd tell Mom and then they'd ground Dan for a
week or something, during which time he'd beat me up
but it was worth it because hey, I got my big brother
in trouble and it was the only way to really nail him.
Well, that and the fragmentation grenade.
Dean Lenort
> In article <8a0t4f$3nq$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, red <kip...@imap2.asu.edu> uttered:
> >1) There was a robot on some bad sci-fi show that went
> >BEEDEEBEEDEEBEEDEE. He was weird, in a scary way.
The "BEEDEEBEEDEEBEEDEE" should ALWAYS be followed by "How's it going,
Buck?" He may have occasionally uttered something else after the beddybye
bit but "How's it going, Buck?" was by far the most common utterance.
> But all kids love robots voiced by Mel Blanc!
>
> Twiki (let's give the robot a name that's a hybrid of a 60's model and a
> cream-or-maybe-it's-creme-filled, sponge-caked treat used to pacify
> Spiderman's enemies) never scared me on Buck Rogers, although the character of
> Hawk did. Especially the episode where he kept seeing his dead ghost wife in
> his spaceship.
But you've somehow overlooked the Erin Gray in a skintight suit factor!
Oh sure, the show was pretty stupid, and they added a string of Christmas
lights to a Simon game and called it a smart computer, but ERIN GRAY IN A
SKINTIGHT SUIT!
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Nick Bensema
Tamara <tamara...@sprint.ca> wrote:
>When my older brother brother played "Whole Lotta Love" by Zep, I would hide
>in the closet and cry.
YOU NEED KOOL-AID! AND I'M NOT FOOLIN'!!!
Beable van Polasm
ni...@fnord.io.com (Nick Bensema) wrote:
> In article <8a0t4f$3nq$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, red <kip...@imap2.asu.edu>
> >
> >3) Likewise, when I got my first Mac (at 9), bombs scared me.
>
> writing something witty in the hard drive's "Description" space.
When I was at university, me and my friend took a statistics
course, because YOU HAD TO! So we took a Behavioural Science
statistics course, because CHYX TAKE BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE! And
it was 120 points, and a lot easier than the Maths Statistics
course which was only 45 points.
The Faculty Of Behavioural Sciences was s00per advanced, which
means that they had MACS! The Maths department used paper. We
had to do an exam, and we had to do it on the computer. Yes,
they had a room full of Macs and we had to go in there and
do the exam. They were dreadfully afraid of people CHEATING, so
they said that nobody could leave until the exam was over. BUT!
We were using the same Macs we had used all year, and in the
tutorials (which we also did on Macs), we noticed that the Macs
were all networked and all had some sort of telnet program
installed. So we used to finish the tutorial work in ten
minutes and spend the rest of the two hours telnetted into
the Digital Unix box reading news, email, ect ect ect. I forgot
the name of Digital's Unix! DUHnix? Anyway, we told the tutor
that there was a big security hole because anybody could telnet
to anywhere in the university and CHEAT LIKE A BASTARD! He said
that "The Psychology students won't know how to do that! And
you guys are going to get 100% anyway, so there's no point YOU
cheating!". So we did the exam in thirty minutes and spent the
remaining two and a half hours reading news, sending email ect
ect ect.
We had previously got in trouble from the tutor for "breaking
the machines". I think we did something terribly naughty like
changing the sound for when you make a mistake from "EEEP!"
to "BOOooOOIIiiIiIINnnGGG!!". You know, something that WRECKS
THE MACHINE and is IMPOSSIBLE TO FIX! AND REQUIRES A $100
SERVICE CALL!
> I didn't know about bombs until I got an Amiga and some smartass
> wrote a fake Mac emulator. I wonder what that teacher would have
> thought about the blinking red border and "Guru Meditation"?
Xscreensaver has a mode called "BSOD" which emulates many
types of machines crashing. They don't have the bomb
Macintosh, but they do have the Sad Macintosh With Crosses
For Eyes.
cheers
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>kip...@imap2.asu.edu (red) wrote in <8a0t4f$3nq$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>:
>
>>1) There was a robot on some bad sci-fi show that went
>>BEEDEEBEEDEEBEEDEE. He was weird, in a scary way.
>
>There was a particular villian on Buck Rodgers that scared me. I don't
>remember what it looked like because I could not look at it.
Ah. Well I missed all the scary Buck Roger episodes and only saw the
k00l ones with the brains being inflated like balloons and little
filthy dwarves hatched from eggs and tried to undress whasshername
with telly-key-kneeses.
Brack! Deploy Spam-Away(tm)!: |"Scruffy didn't used to be
<root@[127.0.0.1]> | able to eat ham because
<MAILER-DAEMON@[127.0.0.1]> | he had this wierd idea
<abuse@[127.0.0.1]> | it was made outta monkeys."
<.@[127.0.0.1]> UNSUBSCRIBE | -Scruffy
Luther Steel
> ni...@fnord.io.com (Nick Bensema) writes:
>
> >In article <PFYw4.12986$3z.1...@newscontent-01.sprint.ca>,
> >Tamara <tamara...@sprint.ca> wrote:
> >>When my older brother brother played "Whole Lotta Love" by Zep, I would hide
> >>in the closet and cry.
>
> >YOU NEED KOOL-AID! AND I'M NOT FOOLIN'!!!
>
> Oh man, when I was a kid the long "instrumental" bit
> in the middle used to scare the hell out of me. My
> big brother would play it when Mom and Dad weren't
> around and he'd turn out the lights and you hear the
> drums all around you (he had the speakers on opposite
> ends of our room, for S00PER STERE0 EFF3CT!). And then
> the creaky noises would start. LOOK OUT BILLY! CHARLIES
> IN THE TREES! I GOT YOUR BACK! LIEUTENANT! NOOOOOOOO!
WHAT?
WHATS GOIN ON HERE?DAMMIT BOY SPEAK UP I AM NOT PLAYIN GAMES HERE!
HOT DAMN A MIGHTY I DIDNT GO GIT HALF MY TEETH KNOCKED OUT AND MY EARS SHOT OFF TO
COME BACK HERE AND TAKE SOME SHIT FROM SOME LITTLE COMMIE NEVER SERVED A DAY IN
HIS LIFE WANT TO TALK ABOUT CHARLIE IN THE TREES
YOU LIKE TO GET SOMEONE KILLED SCREAMIN LOOKOUT AT THE TREES
LAST TIME THAT HAPPENED WE LOST 6 GOOD MEN AND A DEUCE AND A HALF OVER A CLIFF
WHEN SOME WHITE NECKED STIFF ANKLE YOUNG PUNK SCREAMED SILLY STUFF LIKE THAT
WATCH YER ASS BOY
>
> DON'T GO IN NOOOOOO IT'S TOO LATE! I should have stopped
> him I should have stopped him I should have stopped him
> I should have stopped him I should have stopped him it's
> my fault WHY WASN'T IT ME? WHY GOD WHY?
>
BECAUSE YER A DAMN LILLY WHITE MOMMAS BOY COMMIE
YOU THINK YOU KIDS GOT IT TOUGH I LIKE TO TELL YOU YOU DONT KNOW THE MEANING OF
TOUGH I USED TO HAFTA EAT NAILS AND SHIT CABINS JUST TO HAVE A PLACE THAT DIDNT
FALL DOWN WHEN ME AND THE BOYS OF ALPHA COMPANY NEEDED SOME SHUTEYE
GOOD MEN THEY WERE
NOT THEM CANDY ASS F-111 PILOTS AND THUD DRIVERS
>
> Anyway I'd tell Mom and then they'd ground Dan for a
> week or something, during which time he'd beat me up
> but it was worth it because hey, I got my big brother
> in trouble and it was the only way to really nail him.
>
> Well, that and the fragmentation grenade.
>
SHEEIT
HOLY SHEEIT YOU AND YOUR PANSY ASS HANDGRENADES HELL BOY I USED TO FIRE MY XM-177
UP IN THE AIR AND WE USED TO TRY AND CATCH THE BULLETS FOR A GAME
THOSE WERE THE DAYS THAT MEN WAS MEN
>
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LUTHER STEEL
HANALEA BAY
Peter Willard
BensemaNick BensemaNick BensemaNick BensemaNick BensemaNick
Bensema!!!!!Mon, 06 Mar 2000 19:25:44 GMT???
>In article <8a0t4f$3nq$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, red
><kip...@imap2.asu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>3) Likewise, when I got my first Mac (at 9), bombs scared me.
>
>When I was a freshman in high school, I scared the school staff by
>writing something witty in the hard drive's "Description" space.
>
When I was in 7th grade, I was kicked-out of the ``after-school computer
club'', which had 5 C64's, for typing too loudly. Which is to say I was touch-
typing, instead of two-fingering it like the ``advisor''. It was more fun to
use the Vic20 at home anyway, once I got the Super Expander.
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Daoist
Beable van Polasm wrote:
>
> In article <8a10no$9a0$1...@hiram.io.com>,
> ni...@fnord.io.com (Nick Bensema) wrote:
> > In article <8a0t4f$3nq$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, red <kip...@imap2.asu.edu>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >3) Likewise, when I got my first Mac (at 9), bombs scared me.
> >
> > When I was a freshman in high school, I scared the school staff by
> > writing something witty in the hard drive's "Description" space.
>
that scarred teh hell out of me! I set it up, watched it for a while and
thought is was funny, broken mac, broken amiga, the Blue Screen of
Death, that was all funny, then I went back to my homework. Later I
looked at the screen and there was a scary UNIX crash message onscreen,
and it was like deleting /bin/* /usr/bin/*, etc. I freaked out because I
didn't want to reinstall Linux 'cause that takes like 15 minutes I dont
have bu tthen I remembered I had that screensaver running, so I jiggled
the mouse and everything came back fine, even the nude picture I had as
my desktop. The moral:
Thank goodness for nude pictures on the desktop.
>
> cheers
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> So what were your weird paranoid things?
Wild rhubarb plants. They're all hairy and furry and they look like they're
gonna chew off your leg if you get too close. Brrrrr, Rhubarb. Still gets me.
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to get by when you're smarter than your teachers:
>When I was in 7th grade, I was kicked-out of the ``after-school computer
>club'', which had 5 C64's, for typing too loudly. Which is to say I was touch-
>typing, instead of two-fingering it like the ``advisor''.
IYKWIM.
Wretch
And knowing is half the battle
Khan' over and over and over and over and over. It scared me because when I was
with other people it said 'Shaka Khan' X number of times but when I was alone
it said 'Shaka Khan' X plus a HELL OF A LOT MORE number of times.
AND ONLY YESTERDAY, I found out Shaka Khan was a real person. A female person.
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knowing is half the battleAnd knowing is half the battleAnd knowing
is half the battleAnd knowing is half the battleAnd knowing is half
the battleAnd knowing is half the battleAnd knowing is half the
battleAnd knowing is half the battleAnd knowing is half the
battle!!!!!Tue, 07 Mar 2000 20:26:58 GMT???
>There was a song played when I was young. Part of it went 'Shaka
>Khan, Shaka Khan' over and over and over and over and over. It
>scared me because when I was with other people it said 'Shaka
>Khan' X number of times but when I was alone it said 'Shaka Khan'
>X plus a HELL OF A LOT MORE number of times.
>
>AND ONLY YESTERDAY, I found out Shaka Khan was a real person. A
>female person.
>
Older readers may feel some uncertainty at this moment. Yes, it is
"Chaka Khan", not "Shaka". Maybe he(?) was thinking of the best movie
ever made, "Shaka Zulu" (1986. 300 min, yes *300*, it's all good.).
info starlight
terrified by that opening doll's eye in the credits of "The Twilight Zone."
And I say, "I am old," because I wasn't watching re-runs at the time.
Nick Bensema
And knowing is half the battle <lot...@aol.comaol.com.> wrote:
>There was a song played when I was young. Part of it went 'Shaka Khan, Shaka
>Khan' over and over and over and over and over. It scared me because when I was
>with other people it said 'Shaka Khan' X number of times but when I was alone
>it said 'Shaka Khan' X plus a HELL OF A LOT MORE number of times.
I was scared of the bass and creepy faint drums and the "shikk" sound
in "Come Together". And because I first heard it coming out of our
late-70's hi-fi stereo, I was afraid of the weird green bar that
ran across it with the little spots running on either side, just a
little though. That ended up actually just being the radio tuner.
I suppose it didn't help that "shikk" sounded like a word that my
parents use when they're angry and that I got punished for saying.
BAAAAAD WORDS.
There was also this kid I went to Montessori preschool with who would
say "wenis" and we'd all laugh.
Joseph Michael Bay
>There was also this kid I went to Montessori preschool with who would
>say "wenis" and we'd all laugh.
And that kid was ... Matthew Perry!
Joseph Michael Bay
>There was a song played when I was young. Part of it went 'Shaka Khan, Shaka
>Khan' over and over and over and over and over. It scared me because when I was
>with other people it said 'Shaka Khan' X number of times but when I was alone
>it said 'Shaka Khan' X plus a HELL OF A LOT MORE number of times.
>AND ONLY YESTERDAY, I found out Shaka Khan was a real person. A female person.
And she's the leader of an Ismaili sect in the mountains of
southern Azerbaijan. I think.
Fantod
<38c5523...@news.m.iinet.net.au>:
>On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 22:26:11 GMT, fan...@geocities.com (Fantod) wrote:
>
>>kip...@imap2.asu.edu (red) wrote in <8a0t4f$3nq$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>:
>>
>>>1) There was a robot on some bad sci-fi show that went
>>>BEEDEEBEEDEEBEEDEE. He was weird, in a scary way.
>>
>>There was a particular villian on Buck Rodgers that scared me. I don't
>>remember what it looked like because I could not look at it.
>
>Ah. Well I missed all the scary Buck Roger episodes and only saw the
>k00l ones with the brains being inflated like balloons and little
>filthy dwarves hatched from eggs and tried to undress whasshername
>with telly-key-kneeses.
All I can say is thank "Bob" I did not see that.
I have enough problems.
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Matt McIrvin
(Schwa Love) wrote:
>In article <8a0t4f$3nq$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, red <kip...@imap2.asu.edu> uttered:
>>1) There was a robot on some bad sci-fi show that went
>>BEEDEEBEEDEEBEEDEE. He was weird, in a scary way.
I was just slightly disturbed by the fact that his head looked exactly
like that of a circumcised penis, only with a face.
>Of course, I was in kindergarten, so I probably don't remember that right.
Whereas I was old enough to realize that the "Buck Rogers" series was
crappy, but not old enough to realize that it was campy.
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Matt McIrvin
<bea...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>Xscreensaver has a mode called "BSOD" which emulates many
>types of machines crashing. They don't have the bomb
>Macintosh, but they do have the Sad Macintosh With Crosses
>For Eyes.
I run this at work, and it has made my cube into a tourist attraction,
even though the program is on everybody's box.
The version I've got does, among several other things, a simulated Macsbug
screen, an Amiga guru meditation, and my personal favorite, a STRING OF
ATARI ST BOMBS! When I was teaching myself C around about 1989, those
little bombs taught me how to use malloc() properly, because on an OS as
crappy as that, the punishment for failure is BOMBS! BOMBS!! BOMBS!!!!
Anyway, back on topic... I suppose it's unnecessary even to mention being
scared of clowns, but when I was four years old, I was specifically scared
of Hojo the Clown, the mascot of the Howard Johnson's kid's menu around
1972.
Hojo the Clown frightened me in a pivotal time of my life: we had come
from Cleveland to Washington, DC to look for a new house, because my dad
was being transferred to GE's Bethesda office, and I had just gotten a new
baby sister. I had to fly on an airplane, the first time since I was a
baby, and this would have been fun except that I had a raging ear
infection that made it an excruciatingly painful experience. I screamed
the whole way and annoyed everyone on the plane. My baby sister slept
blissfully through the flight.
Then we stayed at a Howard Johnson's somewhere in Virginia, and I had to
eat yucky food that was unfamiliar to me, and Hojo the Clown was featured
prominently on the menu.
Later on, sleeping in the hotel room, I had bizarre nightmares. I seemed
to have woken up (much as in the PLEASE STAND BY dream), but the leering
head of Hojo the Clown was hovering over me, blown up to about ten times
normal scale, glowing red and blue in the dark room, saying something or
other that I could not make out. Then there was a more baffling vignette:
Hojo the Clown reclined half-submerged in a body of water, and said "Hi!
I'm Hojo, the WATER CLOWN!"
I did not like that.
I think this is the first time that I've ever described that dream in full
detail. Granted, it was not as freaky as the dream I had a few years
later, about the giant flying bar of soap with a scowling human face at
one end, which glided silently through a sunlit forest.
And knowing is half the battle
>
>>There was also this kid I went to Montessori preschool with who would
>>say "wenis" and we'd all laugh.
>
<Nelson>FART!</NELSON>
Inky the Cat
>
>1) There was a robot on some bad sci-fi show that went
>BEEDEEBEEDEEBEEDEE. He was weird, in a scary way.
>
>obnoxious beep that couldn't be turned off without some serious hardware
>hacking. To avoid beeps, I would sit at the computer with my fingers in
>my ears.
>
>
"Mr. Yuck" stickers. They were these big green stickers that
they had stuck on all the stuff you weren't supposed to eat
or drink. Basically, a little green circular paper and glue
morpheme that meant, "EAT THIS AND DIE!" I always averted
my eyes from Mr. Yuck and tried to get as much distance from
him and me as possible. Successful conditioning!
- Inky.
Dag Right-square-bracket-gren
> Later on, sleeping in the hotel room, I had bizarre nightmares. I seemed
> to have woken up (much as in the PLEASE STAND BY dream), but the leering
> head of Hojo the Clown was hovering over me, blown up to about ten times
> normal scale, glowing red and blue in the dark room, saying something or
> other that I could not make out.
That was the worst William Gibson story EVER!
--
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Dag Right-square-bracket-gren
> Other "quality" "sci-fi" that "scared" "me" around kindergarten "age":
Knight Rider. I used to be really scared by almost every episode of Knight
Rider. But I guess I was just easily excited. And I kept watching it.
Mark Hill
Wow! Geez, you don't know how bad of an idea it is to say that around Kibo.
James Kibo Parry
>
> [...] a STRING OF ATARI ST BOMBS!
I bet Matt was scared of the Atari 400's "DIVE! DIVE!" klaxon which it
made (through the _keyboard_'s buzzer) at nine million decibels whenever
it was reminding you that you had inserted a cassette before you typed
"CSAVE" to save onto the cassette you had inserted.
> Anyway, back on topic... I suppose it's unnecessary even to mention being
> scared of clowns, but when I was four years old, I was specifically scared
> of Hojo the Clown, the mascot of the Howard Johnson's kid's menu around
> 1972.
>
> Hojo the Clown frightened me in a pivotal time of my life: we had come
> from Cleveland to Washington, DC to look for a new house, because my dad
> was being transferred to GE's Bethesda office, and I had just gotten a new
> baby sister. I had to fly on an airplane, the first time since I was a
> baby, and this would have been fun except that I had a raging ear
> infection that made it an excruciatingly painful experience. I screamed
> the whole way and annoyed everyone on the plane. My baby sister slept
> blissfully through the flight.
>
> Then we stayed at a Howard Johnson's somewhere in Virginia, and I had to
> eat yucky food that was unfamiliar to me, and Hojo the Clown was featured
> prominently on the menu.
>
> Later on, sleeping in the hotel room, I had bizarre nightmares. I seemed
> to have woken up (much as in the PLEASE STAND BY dream), but the leering
> head of Hojo the Clown was hovering over me, blown up to about ten times
> normal scale, glowing red and blue in the dark room, saying something or
> other that I could not make out. Then there was a more baffling vignette:
> Hojo the Clown reclined half-submerged in a body of water, and said "Hi!
> I'm Hojo, the WATER CLOWN!"
Hi! I'm Kibo, the FIRE CLOWN!
I'm not sure who the Air and Earth Clowns are, but I suspect there are
about six billion Earth Clowns. I think Air Clown is made by Glade.
> I did not like that.
>
> I think this is the first time that I've ever described that dream in full
> detail. Granted, it was not as freaky as the dream I had a few years
> later, about the giant flying bar of soap with a scowling human face at
> one end, which glided silently through a sunlit forest.
This is because Matt's childhood nickname was "Dirty Frank".
-- K.
An' den da giant flyin' bar o' soap
built da biggest hot dog machine in
da woild an' pushed all da peoples in!
James Kibo Parry
>
> When my older brother brother played "Whole Lotta Love" by Zep, I would hide
> in the closet and cry.
>
I think you'll be very scared again if you just find an old Zep album
and play it in reverse, because ZEP BACKWARDS IS PEZ!
> Oh yeah, and bees. Still the bees. G-D FREAKIN' BEES!!!!!!!
Once when I was a kid I was lying down on the grass and there was a wasp
under me and it bit me with its pointy butt. The end.
-- K.
I think there should be a deadly
insect called a Yellow Straitjacket
whose bite makes you temporarily
insane just long enough to make
you commit horrible acts that
you're not responsible for.
James Kibo Parry
>
> When I was in 7th grade, I was kicked-out of the ``after-school computer
> club'', which had 5 C64's, for typing too loudly. Which is to say I was
Your advisor was Archimedes Plutonium?
> It was more fun to use the Vic20 at home anyway, once I got the
> Super Expander.
...from Charles Atlas.
-- K.
My high school had
Commodore Pet 2001s,
with the grid of square
keys with circular tops
that still remain a
shining example of
bad industrial design.
Chris Franks
>
> Whereas I was old enough to realize that the "Buck Rogers" series was
> crappy, but not old enough to realize that it was campy.
My huge disappointment with Buck Rogers was from the early 30's comic
strips, which showed a rocket ship crashed into the sands of Mars. On
its side were the words: "First Earth to Mars Expedition 1949". When I
got out of high school in 1948, it was obvious that it just wasn't going
to happen.
Peter Willard
FranksChris FranksChris FranksChris FranksChris FranksChris
Franks!!!!!Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:44:59 GMT???
Heh, you just haven't spent an evening with a "Nazi Saucer" nut. See,
the Krauts made contact with the Martians by '39 and established
their colony there by '42 -- AND -- after the war, it became a joint
US-Nazi base -- AND -- that means???????????????????????????????
--
Peter Willard
``25 vegetables ANYONE can grow''
***********"Thagre tyvrora tynhora tybora!"
*KCBIWIYWI*VISIT BROWSE0TRON
***********http://www.drizzle.com/~petew
Sean Smith
>
>Matt McIrvin wrote:
>>
>> Whereas I was old enough to realize that the "Buck Rogers" series was
>> crappy, but not old enough to realize that it was campy.
>
>
> My huge disappointment with Buck Rogers was from the early 30's comic
>strips, which showed a rocket ship crashed into the sands of Mars. On
>its side were the words: "First Earth to Mars Expedition 1949". When I
>got out of high school in 1948, it was obvious that it just wasn't going
>to happen.
Then you can imagine _my_ disappointment when the early '90s rolled around, and
there were absolutely no imminent signs of a eugenics war. Nor did there emerge
a muscle-bound Indian-looking Svengali fond of saying "Corinthian leather" when
he wasn't bending impressionable young female historians to his will.
Also, I was shocked, SHOCKED to learn that it was only due to the Fantastic 4's
intervention that the 1969 moon landing was able to take place in safety
(apparently, a bunch of alien fellers were going to unleash some of that Deadly
Energy stuff below the lunar surface, and it was supposed to percolate upwards
right when Neil Armstrong put his size-10s on the ground) I mean, geez, I'd
stayed up all through the evening and well past midnight just to see this damn
historical event on TV, and it was really just an anticlimax to the usual
Fantastic Four-space alien tete-a-tete.
Comic books and '60s TV shows: They created unrealistic expectations for the
future, while deconstructing our past.
Sean ("And don't get me started on the collateral damage caused by 'Voyage to
the Bottom of the Sea'") Smith
smt...@bcvms.bc.edu
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07030021...@ppp0b087.std.com>:
>In article <8a1sv3$rr7$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, Beable van Polasm
><bea...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
>>Xscreensaver has a mode called "BSOD" which emulates many
>>types of machines crashing. They don't have the bomb
>>Macintosh, but they do have the Sad Macintosh With Crosses
>>For Eyes.
>
>I run this at work, and it has made my cube into a tourist attraction,
>even though the program is on everybody's box.
>
>The version I've got does, among several other things, a simulated Macsbug
>screen, an Amiga guru meditation, and my personal favorite, a STRING OF
>ATARI ST BOMBS! When I was teaching myself C around about 1989, those
>little bombs taught me how to use malloc() properly, because on an OS as
>crappy as that, the punishment for failure is BOMBS! BOMBS!! BOMBS!!!!
The AtariBASIC has a simular problem with math and decimals.
One error would lock the machine with something like 10 cherry bombs, which
is almost as bad as the machine ripping itself free of the cables and
jumnping into the trash bin on it own.
--
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robert lindsay
Sean Smith <smt...@bcvms.bc.edu> wrote:
>
>Sean ("And don't get me started on the collateral damage caused by 'Voyage to
>the Bottom of the Sea'") Smith
The TV show, which I could stay up late enough to watch, or the movie where
they Van Allen Radition Belt caught on fire?
--
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"This whole business of killing bugs to be cool on the Internet is Grace
Hopper's legacy." -J. "Kibo" Parry, USENET, Sep 24, 1999 Why not me?
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