Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[ThurgreedMarshall]

I was talking to someone who is in her early 20s today and made a joke about someone looking like Grimace. She didn't know who Grimace was. She also didn't know who Mayor McCheese, The Hamburglar or the French Fry Guys were either. Blew my mind. I thought these were pillars of our society to be studied and passed down from generation to generation.



Anyway, POLL:

Name a popular culture icon or character from your childhood that is or is soon to be thought of as passe (if thought of at all). I think we've already exhausted School House Rock conversations and Smurfs are too popular an answer.

TM

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Anyway, POLL:

Name a popular culture icon or character from your childhood that is or is soon to be thought of as passe (if thought of at all). I think we've already exhausted School House Rock conversations and Smurfs are too popular an answer.

TM

The Fonz
The Bandit
Weebles

Edit: For those hailing from the 1970s, check out this nifty nostalgia site http://www.inthe70s.com/index.shtml

[evenodds]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Anyway, POLL:

Name a popular culture icon or character from your childhood that is or is soon to be thought of as passe (if thought of at all). I think we've already exhausted School House Rock conversations and Smurfs are too popular an answer.

Fraggles.

The kids do not respect the Fraggles.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Anyway, POLL:

Name a popular culture icon or character from your childhood that is or is soon to be thought of as passe (if thought of at all). I think we've already exhausted School House Rock conversations and Smurfs are too popular an answer.

TM

Holly Hobby.

And Weebles, which wobble but don't fall down.

[AngryMulletMan]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I was talking to someone who is in her early 20s today and made a joke about someone looking like Grimace. She didn't know who Grimace was. She also didn't know who Mayor McCheese, The Hamburglar or the French Fry Guys were either. Blew my mind. I thought these were pillars of our society to be studied and passed down from generation to generation.



Anyway, POLL:

Name a popular culture icon or character from your childhood that is or is soon to be thought of as passe (if thought of at all). I think we've already exhausted School House Rock conversations and Smurfs are too popular an answer.

TM

I wanted to grow up to be Agent 99, I had a big-time crush on Underdog and I really, really miss my Spirograph.

AM(flame away about my age)M

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
The latest releases from Fleetwood Mac ... make me ashamed to have been born in the '70s.

The title track to the new Fleetwood Mac album - Say You Will - will simultaneously bore one to death while upseting all the neighborhood animals. Stevie Nicks drones the song in an awful, flat monotone that defies description. That they chose it to be the title track suggests that they are laughing at you - the record buyer.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Reminding me of one of my (many) favorite snippets in the Simpsons, where home goes through the freezer: "Mmmm, chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream. D'Oh! [noticing all the chocolate is gone] [Picks up another carton:] Mmmm, chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream. D'Oh! [noticing all the chocolate is gone] [Picks up another carton:] Mmmm, chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream. D'Oh! [and so on]."

Which is followed by: "Marge, we're out of chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice cream." At which point, Homer leaves to go to the store, and wacky hijinks ensue.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Name a popular culture icon or character from your childhood that is or is soon to be thought of as passe (if thought of at all). I think we've already exhausted School House Rock conversations and Smurfs are too popular an answer.

TM

The first one that comes to mind is Mork from Ork. Man that guy was incerdibly popular when I was a young one. I remember that my Dynamite magazine (anyone remember those?) used to have full cover glossies of Mork every other week, along with Star Wars.



Nowadays, you can't even get a True Hollywood Story or Behind the Scenes type show for Mork and Mindy, while you still see them for mediocre shows like The Facts of Life.

Shazbot.

Flinty

[purse junkie]

I think I still have all my original Charlie's Angels trading cards.

Can we all agree that the current remake movies are an abomination against God? Or at least that every angel besides Sabrina was an idiot?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by AngryMulletMan
I wanted to grow up to be Agent 99, I had a big-time crush on Underdog and I really, really miss my Spirograph.

AM(flame away about my age)M

Dunno if these are passe, or if it's just that nobody past a certain age will ever know what they are:

Lite-Brite
The Sunshine Family
Slip n' Slide
Those toy rockets where you filled something with water and pumped it up so the rocket shot over the roof of the house

Ancient chinese secret
He never asks for a second cup at home
Crosses, lifts, and separates (why is this desirable?)
That not so fresh feeling
Please don't squeeze the charmin (that was back when TP commercials were delicate, now we just have bears taking a newspaper to read into the woods where they have TP that really cleans their asses better than anything that came before)

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Name a popular culture icon or character from your childhood that is or is soon to be thought of as passe (if thought of at all). I think we've already exhausted School House Rock conversations and Smurfs are too popular an answer.

TM

I'm pretty sure that "where's the beef" will be remembered, if at all, as Mondale's great debate line, not as the ad line uttered by that aged lady in the Wendy's ads. (if she's a cultural icon).

I think the Superfriends are pretty much gone, as an entity. Now we just have Superman vs. Batman, or whatever that battle is.

I keep thinking The Hulkster will disappear, but then he becomes world champion of "wrestling" again. The Iron Shiek and his tag team buddy (it's not Boris Karloff, but something like that) are definitely gone, as is the Macho Man, Randy Savage.

E.T.

[leagleaze]

Smarter than the average bear

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Actually, I think we were looking at vanilla-ality which apparently is everything sexual done between consenting adults that does not involve a man fucking a woman's ass (or vice versa) and the addition of toys, other people, etc. Which in turn makes me boring and vanilla -- I don't eat ice cream so I guess vanilla is just as good as any other.

Saying I would not want to be ass-fucked and find it weird is not judging. I did not label ass-fuckers as deviants or criminals (although I did say that people should wonder why they want to do that but then later said that after considering everything everyone had said here I had been convinced otherwise which, in my opinion, shows that I do in fact have an open mind about things), I just think it is not for me and thus, in my little world, weird. I think people who drive Fords are weird because I wouldn't drive one, that doesn't mean I am judging those people. I still associate with Ford-drivers and, more than likely, ass-fuckers.

That being said, I find pedophilia not normal and thus, in violation of your no-judgment rule above, I am more than willing to judge the adults who engage in it. Same thing with rapists and people who make snuff flicks. I would also judge animal-fuckers because, well, I could not stand to have my kitties taking it in the ass from someone like TM.

I like vanilla pudding. Does that make me a perv or a gay?

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I think the Superfriends are pretty much gone, as an entity. Now we just have Superman vs. Batman, or whatever that battle is.

I think my son is the only little goof wandering around going "Wonder Twin powers -- activate. Shape of.. an ape. Form of...a big fucking icicle."

You can still catch all of the "Friends" on Boomerang. Along with "Up and at'em, its Atom Ant," the Jetsons (flying cars in my lifetime my ass!), Yogi Bear and Boo Boo and all of the rest. They even show the old Laffalympics, remember those?

"Grape Ape, Grape Ape"

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by robustpuppy

Lite-Brite

making things with lite-brite. Lite-brite! making things with lite-brite.

Slip n' Slide

And sit and spin, big wheel, and the big green machine.

Those toy rockets where you filled something with water and pumped it up so the rocket shot over the roof of the house

weren't those banned, along with "jarrow," the rubber-tipped, javelin/arrow that put eyes out?

How about Operation---"bzzt . . . butterfingers"?

And don't forget super happy fun ball*


*still legal in five states.