Comments on: quadrotriticale

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 14 May 2004 17:17:40 +0000

I just think it’s sad that kids today will miss out on the staticy/snowy “cherrr-ke-cherrr” you get from rotating the big channel dial (UHF of course… VHF was boring news) and hitting the frequencies where there were no channels. If nothing was on TV, you went outside to play or you read something. I almost wish we could go back to those days.

On clear days, we got channels 9 and 32 out of Chicago. That SO rocked.

Chunky commercials were great, but the Godfather’s Pizza ones trumped them every time (The pizza you can’t refuse.) The king-daddy of them all were the Empire Carpet commercials… “Five eight eight, two three hundred… Empire!”

I firmly believe the world was a better place in 1978.

By: dweebie

dweebie — Fri, 14 May 2004 13:59:37 +0000

I liked Procul Harum’s Whiter Shade of Pale, the whole CSN&Y’s black album, the Beatles White album, Beatles Come Together, Cold Turkey, Moody Blues-Tuesday Afternoon, any Joni Mitchell, OOhh…Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, the Turtles’ So Happy Together, Iron Butterfly In a Gada Da Vida,The Kinks You Really Got Me, Jerry Garcia and the Dead, Allman Brothers, Eric Clapton, Steve Windwood & Cream. In high school we were learning about Jethro Tull in European History and got tear gassed at their Red Rocks concert.

I liked grape Sweet Tarts, those licorice roll things with a red center, Bit o’Honey, and candy cigarettes. Ohh and those big red waxy lips, those were cool. Remember the commercial “Open Wide for Chunky!!!”, it used to be on during Mighty Mouse cartoons.

Sky King used to bug me because he always left Penny at home during the dangerous manuveurs but would take some visiting boy with him. I had a crush on Hoss from Bonanza.

We only had four channels too, wait we had pbs, so that makes 5. Our weird science type neighbor had devised a wire attached to a pill bottle with a switch in it that would turn the sound off during commercials, but I like your Dad’s remote, I hope it hasn’t caused permanent damage though! Maybe that’s why men like to be in charge of the remote, it’s just an outgrowth of the slapping the kid’s head routine, just kidding, I like men.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 13 May 2004 12:03:22 +0000

Hey Dweebie and TTHM, what are your favorite songs? Was, or was not, music perfected by BTO and Grand Funk Railroad?

How about your favorite television shows? (I was, in fact, the first wireless remote control: My dad would hit me in the back of my head and tell me which channel he wanted to see… which one of the 4 there were at the time.)

Also, in your youth, what was your favorite candies? The original Mars bars? The “Reggie” bar? Perhaps “Charleston Chew”?

By: dweebie

dweebie — Wed, 12 May 2004 23:48:13 +0000

Isn’t Barrilla that box of stuff the hunky pasta god brings to your door if you’re cute and make stiff spaghetti? I have a guess too about Creamette, but it may be improper, you know relating to Jodi’s euphemism–“spooj”. As it ages, it turns into Creamora.

Insofar as remembering names, when you’re the age of people like TTHM, according to a guess based on his taste in music, you’re approaching the border of short term memory loss, please have pity and compassion for us, and ask us questions about songs, television, and the candy favorites of our youth.

By: the TTHM

the TTHM — Wed, 12 May 2004 22:23:36 +0000

oh…and considering i’m just a ficticuous character in someone’s blog, how dare you rag on me for not remembering your name…who are YOU?