Cassandra sent this, in response to the posts here and her place the last couple of days. I admit it brought a smile to my face now and again, as those images drifted by.
Speaking of images... sigh - I remember how excited I was when I made my first million. Now it seems so passe.
And don't forget to vote for Us, Big Tobacco, and The Torch, too. Not that my exhortations or endorsements seem to be having much effect...
And whenever my kids help me do something in the kitchen, I'm the first to remind them that "It's not Shake n Bake, but you did ha-yulp!" (Remember that? "It's Shake n Bake! And Ah ha-yulped!", said by a small child with a southern accent)
We had to walk five miles just to carve an ice cube out of the glacier, and it was uphill both ways...
Speedy the AlkaSeltzer Boy was the Final Jeopardy question sometime last week, and my spousal unit looked at me like i had an appendage in the middle of my forehead for knowing it.
Wish I'd kept mine instead of letting that Brythunian sorceress convince me they were nekulturny...
You got a brand new key
Ice weasels were a bigger problem -- they evolved into crapweasels and then devolved into politicians and passed laws requiring us to get a license to knock off a velociraptor. Of course, they'd all been extinct for years by then, but they added the other megafauna, so it took longer to fill out the paperwork than to actually go hunting.
I tell ya, it set us back considerably. We had originally figured it'd take us 200 years to get a working hyperdrive, but it was over a thousand before we even got the bugs out of gravity repulsors.
Then the
crapweaselspoliticians made it so hard to apply for a permit to put up a cold fusion plant, we just decided "ta hell widdit" and invented beer, instead.A lot of that stuff is still around. Check out eBay, and you'll find all sorts of Lincoln Logs, erector sets, and even Etch-a-Sketch. Reel-to-reel tape decks are also still around, used by audiophiles.
There's a drive-in theatre about 10 miles north of where I live, and a couple miles south of that there's a new Sonic burger joint. They just tore down a genuine old-school drive-in joint in my down, and replaced it with a (Feh!) Taco Bell.
And I hated those bloody stupid aluminum ice trays! Heh.
Speaking of penny candy, I sometimes think it would be interesting to just divide all values by 10, so $10 would be a dollar, a dollar becomes ten cents, and so on. That way a penny gets a little value back, and we could buy a new car for $2,000 again. :)
My Darling Chief, Don't worry about biong nekulturny.....I won't turn you out.
I love the Burma Shave ads.