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« Reply #300 on: May 07, 2007, 12:30:43 PM »

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« Reply #301 on: May 07, 2007, 12:31:28 PM »

I knew it.....
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« Reply #302 on: May 07, 2007, 12:32:09 PM »

Talk about bizarre crap that lingers in the head:  to this day, probably forty years after it last aired, I can recite, word for word, a commercial that Dear Abby did for a food snack called Piccadilly Circles.
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« Reply #303 on: May 07, 2007, 12:32:23 PM »

NOT a good tag line for Soylent Green products!

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No....but it's a great motto for ZPG.
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Re:BUT FIRST, A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR
« Reply #304 on: May 07, 2007, 12:33:50 PM »

Remember the Alka Seltzer "No Matter What Shape Your Stomach's In" commercial?
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« Reply #305 on: May 07, 2007, 12:34:29 PM »

"It's a happy Fizzies party..."
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« Reply #306 on: May 07, 2007, 12:35:53 PM »

"Helps build strong bodies eight ways"  What was that from?  Do I have it right?  Some multiple vitamin tablets, right?
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« Reply #307 on: May 07, 2007, 12:36:12 PM »

Will we never get to page twelve?
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Re:BUT FIRST, A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR
« Reply #308 on: May 07, 2007, 12:36:31 PM »

I'm currently thinking about food and mail.
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« Reply #309 on: May 07, 2007, 12:37:17 PM »

Perhaps I'll go out and get something to eatski and whilst doing so perhaps I'll stop at my mail place.
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Re:BUT FIRST, A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR
« Reply #310 on: May 07, 2007, 12:37:19 PM »

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« Reply #311 on: May 07, 2007, 12:39:37 PM »

"Helps build strong bodies eight ways"  What was that from?  Do I have it right?  Some multiple vitamin tablets, right?

Nope, it was Wonder Bread. 8 was the original slogan but it was upgraded to 12 later in the campaign and then they ran into trouble with the FTC after adding calcium (the 13th way) and making unsubstantiated claims about brain function and memory.
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« Reply #312 on: May 07, 2007, 12:42:23 PM »

Did anyone else used to smoosh up a slice of Wonder Bread into a big ball?

I only used be able to do it with bread borrowed from friend's sandwiches, as my mother wouldn't allow the stuff in the house.
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« Reply #313 on: May 07, 2007, 12:44:36 PM »

I have found it is very easy for animals to learn to use pet doors. We have two neighborhood cats that just walk right in and make themselves at home.

After my dog died neighborhood opossums were coming in the doggie door and eating the cat food. Opossums LIKE cat food. So much for leaving food out for the cats!
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« Reply #314 on: May 07, 2007, 12:48:54 PM »

Imagine, if you dare, and uncensored (and uncensered) tour through my noggin :o

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No, thank you.
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« Reply #315 on: May 07, 2007, 12:49:09 PM »

After my dog died neighborhood opossums were coming in the doggie door and eating the cat food. Opossums LIKE cat food. So much for leaving food out for the cats!

Which truly BEGS the question....did you ever walk in and startle them...and find they'd flop over and "play possum"?
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« Reply #316 on: May 07, 2007, 12:52:06 PM »

"Helps build strong bodies eight ways"  What was that from?  Do I have it right?  Some multiple vitamin tablets, right?

Wonder Bread!

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Spoo - Ben got there first!
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« Reply #317 on: May 07, 2007, 12:54:05 PM »

Which truly BEGS the question....did you ever walk in and startle them...and find they'd flop over and "play possum"?

No, they were maddeningly undisturbed at my presence--just kept on eating the cat food, licking the empty cans. I, however, well...
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Re:BUT FIRST, A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR
« Reply #318 on: May 07, 2007, 12:55:28 PM »

For Danise:

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« Reply #319 on: May 07, 2007, 01:01:58 PM »

After my dog died neighborhood opossums were coming in the doggie door and eating the cat food. Opossums LIKE cat food. So much for leaving food out for the cats!

Rodents like dog/cat food.
Rodents can learn to use a doggie door.
In Southern CA fruit rats live in Avacado trees.
We had an Avacado tree in Long Beach.
Dogs can learn to hunt rodents!

We used to put out those glue traps (which, after some unpleasant run-ins, the dogs learned to avoid); you'd hear loud screeching when a critter got caught - Marty (the Lab) would dash to the trap and "very carefully" pick up the critter and give it a good "be quiet" crunch!

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« Reply #320 on: May 07, 2007, 01:06:56 PM »

For Danise:


Ooh, Pretty baloons - rising high into the sky.
Ooh, Pretty baloons - losing air and falling to the earth.
Ooh, Pretty baloons eaten by pretty birds.
Ooh, no more pictures for Laura

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« Reply #321 on: May 07, 2007, 01:10:11 PM »

...and also "uncensured"?

And I avoid inviting Legislators to keep it that way!

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Re:BUT FIRST, A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR
« Reply #322 on: May 07, 2007, 01:17:27 PM »

Good Afternoon!

Well, at least I didn't fall!  WHEW!!!!!!!!!!

Once I found a little stretch of pavement with a set of benches, I went ahead and donned my gear: LandRollers, knee-pads, elbow pads, wrist guards(!), and helmet(!!!).  And then I proceeded to figure out how the heck to brake properly, if at all, for the next hour or so.

I haven't put on these thing since I got them this past Christmas, and, even then, the only place I used them was in the hallway of the apartment building I was staying in down in DC.  Well, there's a big difference between a carpeted hallway and asphalt.  A fast difference.  Wheeeeeee!!!!

But, again, I didn't fall.

I just went a few feet at a time.  Then eventually turned myself around, and traveled back to where I came from.  Sometimes I initiated the traveling, sometimes I did not initiate the traveling.  Eventually, I did get to the point where I left the immediate area of the benches, and started "rolling" from Point A to Point B.  Point A being this lamppost, Point B being that lamppost.

But, again, I didn't fall.

There were a few moments here and there where I did feel comfortable. I remember roller-skating as a child, and I remember picking it up very fast.  I have a feeling the learning and comfortability curve for these things is going to a bit steeper.

But, again, I did not fall.

WHEW!!!!!!

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« Reply #323 on: May 07, 2007, 01:18:53 PM »

I wonder if Paul and Joanne spotted that on the news, DR singdaw?


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« Reply #324 on: May 07, 2007, 01:19:24 PM »

I was able to watch three shows this afternoon once I got in from lunch.

I began with last night's COLD CASE which began going in one direction and ended up in a very tense hostage situation that had me in tears at the end. What a powerful season finale!
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« Reply #325 on: May 07, 2007, 01:19:36 PM »

My favorite commercial line was "Hi I'm Carmelita Pope," which was spoken with authority and seemed to suggest that we were somehow deficient if we didn't know who she was.  :)
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« Reply #326 on: May 07, 2007, 01:20:47 PM »

BREAKING NEWS!!

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« Reply #327 on: May 07, 2007, 01:20:48 PM »

Will we never get to page twelve?

Eventually . . . .
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« Reply #328 on: May 07, 2007, 01:20:51 PM »

Oh... And as was/is mentioned on the LandRoller website, the skates can be quite the attention-getter.  In fact, on the subway ride home, a very handsome guy came over to me and started asking me about my LandRollers.  Alas, his girlfriend was interested in them too.  ::)
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« Reply #329 on: May 07, 2007, 01:22:03 PM »

DR Jose, may I suggest to you that as a person who makes his living using his hands, DO NOT ROLLER SKATE.

I broke my wrist doing so, and as such, was unable to work as a court reporter again.
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