I wish hotels would go back to advertising COLOR TV with those signs that had 5 different colors in the word "color". Those rocked.
Mmm. Wife soup. I must've done good.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
amych - Jun 03, 2011 11:28:25 am PDT #11164 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
sumi - Jun 03, 2011 11:31:27 am PDT #11165 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Jesse! Your family and mine: could we secretly be sisters???
Jesse - Jun 03, 2011 11:35:47 am PDT #11166 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Maybe! I didn't notice having a sister, but maybe!
§ ita § - Jun 03, 2011 11:36:52 am PDT #11167 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I remember us not getting a colour TV, despite complaining and begging and whining. And then we moved to the UK, and all the TVs were colour. Voila!
Ginger - Jun 03, 2011 11:37:09 am PDT #11168 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I remember when we first got a color TV, but it wasn't that exciting, because everyone else already had one.
Yeah, my mother has "but the old one still works" syndrome.
lisah - Jun 03, 2011 11:38:24 am PDT #11169 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
my mother has "but the old one still works" syndrome.
We have that now with our cars and non-HD tv! But no kids to bitch about it.
Amy - Jun 03, 2011 11:40:34 am PDT #11170 of 30001
Because books.
GL 4eva!!!
Some of the storylines from the late 70s, man. SO good.
I remember when we didn't have a VCR *or* cable! And when a girl whose dad was a dentist got a fancy schmancy beta tape player, and we all oohed and ahhed.
amych - Jun 03, 2011 11:41:40 am PDT #11171 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
My parents lost all their "but the old one still works" tendencies when they acquired a grandkid and a de-luxe apartment in the sky-y-y-y.
Typo Boy - Jun 03, 2011 11:43:31 am PDT #11172 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Downhill both ways: I had 15 channels growing up in the sixties. Of course lived in So. Cal, not that far from Hollywood. Plus we had great UHF reception.
Calli - Jun 03, 2011 11:44:25 am PDT #11173 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
my mother has "but the old one still works" syndrome.
My dad had that syndrome. When I was a teenager, the knob to turn the TV on and off (remote? what's a remote?) broke, so Dad took a big screw, screwed it into the stump of the knob (I swear this wasn't dirty in my head when I started typing), and we used that to turn the TV on and off.
If There, I Fixed It had existed then (or, you know, the internet), Dad would have been a regular contributor.