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

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I dunno about that. Apache Chief was a pretty fucking big stereotype. No pun, as paigow might say.

Other contenders for least PC would have to be the Go-Go Gophers (Indian stereotypes) and Speedy Gonzalez and his lazy relatives.

Slo-poke Rodriguez... "He pack a gun..."

Originally posted by robustpuppy
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)

Excellent list. Especially lite brite. Remmeber that ulitmately nervewracking game, Operation? And Hungry Hungry Hippos, which was also a great commercial
and speaking of commercials, could someone explains Jane Russell's 18 hour bras? Like, do they crap out after 18 hours? What happens if you hav a long day at the office? Do things just crash?

I still say I have that not so fresh feeling after a workout, but apparently no longer can say, ancient chinesse secret as it aint pc

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I loved those hoppy ball things.

Hippity Hop. My family had two. No t.v., mind you, but two hippity-hops.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I loved those hoppy ball things. We, of course, didn't have any. And my parents wondered why I always wanted to go over to friends' houses to play instead of having them at my house . . .

We were not permitted to have big wheels, the theory being that they were so noisy that you could not hear cars coming. So I quickly learned to ride a bike (no training wheels - my mother was Lutheran) and of course clothes-pinned a baseball card to the frame. Go speed racer, go!

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
There was a DVD of the Battlestar Galactica pilot episodes put out a few years ago. It's available on Amazon but the quality doesn't look to be very good. A quick search of a couple of fansites seems to suggest that the new set will be 8 DVD's (apparently all 22 episodes that aired), will retail for $99 and will be out in time for Christmas.

Interesting note I picked up from one site... the show was a top 25 rated series in 1978 but was cancelled the next year because of the then-high production costs of $1 million an episode... These days $1 million doesn't even buy one of the "Friends" for a half-hour episode.

The quality sucked....so I hear. And there were NO special features. But, it's available for rent at my local Hollywood Video, so it wouldn't be THAT much of an investment for the Battlestar Galactica enthusiest who can't wait for the next Sci-Fi channel marathon.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Seven of Nine
If it weren't for the ass-backwards tendencies of the Mormon church, half of my high school friends might have graduated before becoming impregnated.

I also remember (by heart) this ludicrous bit of advice from another LDS PSA:

My teacher told me . . . I should never tell a lie
'Cause a lie will bring you . . . trouble, by and by.
It's an awful thing to do
And it's true as true is true
You'll feel bad and then you'll start to cry.
You'll feel a painful awful pounding in your head.
Your face will get all hot and turn bright red.
Your heart will start to thump
In your throat you'll get a lump
And you'll feel so bad you'll wish that you could
Lie right down and die!
Just remember never never tell a lie
(Even a small one)
{Big finish, chorus line style}
Just remember, never never tell a liiiiiiIIIIIIIIE!

I don't remember experiencing any of those somatic symptoms on the frequent occasions I engaged in juvenile mendacity.

[Anne Elk]

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.

Land of the Lost with Marshall, Will and Holly
Cousin Brucie on AM radio (didn't know FM existed)
Wacky Packs
Magilla Gorilla
The New Zoo Review
Macrame
Chutes and Ladders
SPUD
Miss Mary Mack, all dressed in black

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by ltl/fb

Do kids have trampolines these days? I was so jealous of my friends with trampolines back when I was a kid.

I think insurance companies have eliminated this joy of childhood (the Homer Simpson strategy of placing a "danger" sign notwithstanding).

A propos of this very thing, the Wall St. J. last Friday(?) had an article about a variety of uninsurable things, including certain breeds of dogs, including, to my surprise, Chows (as well as Rotts, pit bulls, and some other breeds). Next up on the list for elimination is, apparently, diving boards in your backyard pool. And when I say uninsurable I ought to say (so RP doesn't start up again) that insurance cos. refuse to insure a house at which any of these items are present.

[soup sandwich]

Originally posted by soup sandwich
I swear the "Really Rottens" did win one time.

Correction, they won twice:

http://members.aol.com/howard217/epgs/laffalympics.html

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
making things with lite-brite. Lite-brite! making things with lite-brite.


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

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.

Whoa. Are you Jeffrey my nextdoor neighbor from FL by any chance?

Pretty sneaky, sis.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
speaking of commercials, could someone explains Jane Russell's 18 hour bras? Like, do they crap out after 18 hours? What happens if you hav a long day at the office? Do things just crash?

Your rack droops down to your knees and you have to toss 'em around your neck like a scarf to hold them up.

Now that would be a fashion statement.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Land of the Lost with Marshall, Will and Holly
Cousin Brucie on AM radio (didn't know FM existed)
Wacky Packs
Magilla Gorilla
The New Zoo Review
Macrame
Chutes and Ladders
SPUD
Miss Mary Mack, all dressed in black

We must be exactly the same age. Did you grow up on LI?

This header and this thread beg the question- isnt the purpose of the Smithosonian to house all this shit from my childhood? Is it all there? If so, FINALLY! SOmething killer about DC. I am going this weekend. Someone say it is so. RP, wanna come with?

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
We must be exactly the same age. Did you grow up on LI?

Nope. NJ.

[ThrashersFan]

[i]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.

And the ultimate disappearing culture icon from the 1970s is........Michael Jackson - at least in his natural form and color.