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The Hobbit Hole VII - But not yet weary are our feet...

Posted on 03/15/2004 1:45:41 PM PST by HairOfTheDog

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To: msdrby; JenB; RosieCotton
I am not sure you *can* see these cartoons anymore. I don't think my brother (age 24) even knows about half of the ones I listed, and he was a TV fiend.

They're on the Boomerang affiliate of Nickelodeon. They're on all week, and then every weekend will showcase a different year of cartoons, including many of the more obscure Hanna-Barbera ones. Like this weekend Valley of the Dinosaurs was on. They show some stuff I saw when I was very little that I never thought I'd see again, as well as a lot of stuff I never saw because I was born after it was on and it never made it to syndication.

1,061 posted on 03/17/2004 7:48:32 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Wneighbor
Sorta been there done that, except at night, on the flightline, in subzero WX. Didja know that a steel toe combet boot fits quite nicely in the tailpipe of a refueling truck? Well, it does.
1,062 posted on 03/17/2004 7:49:26 PM PST by Professional Engineer (3/11/04 saw the launching of the Moorish reconquest of Spain.)
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To: Wneighbor
I can't believe ya'll haven't had a major public outcry over that! If I understand correctly, this is a route that *must* be used regularly. No real other option? Somebody should be taken to task for this!

Well... we DID have a vote on it. Among the people that live there and would use it every day it was polling about 80% NO on a the new bridge. SOOO... they expanded the counties for the vote to include voters all the way up to Seattle (The Soviet of Seattle) and all the way down to Olympia (remember Rachel Corrie and Evergreen State College???) and even though they decided to make it NON-Binding at the last minute, it barely passed anyway. But on MY side of the bridge the vote was still 80/20 toward NO new bridge.

It's like dropping a toll booth onto my driveway.

The vote didn't really matter. They had already started construction on it, so it was clear that it didn't matter how the vote was going to go.

But am I BITTER about it? Well... yes. :-)

Gonna have to go meet up with the Peninsula Militia. We got stuff to do. :-) Shame about how they're gonna have to rebuild those toll booths every week or so...

1,063 posted on 03/17/2004 7:50:43 PM PST by Ramius
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To: Professional Engineer
I know them steel toe boots get awful cold with the wind comin' at 'em at 70-80MPH too! And when you do a gas-stop, proppin' your foot on the heads can sure help that steel absorb some o' the heat! LOL... you gotta do what you gotta do huh?
1,064 posted on 03/17/2004 7:51:19 PM PST by Wneighbor (Well the view looks better from ahead than it looks behind)
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To: Ramius
The vote didn't really matter. They had already started construction on it, so it was clear that it didn't matter how the vote was going to go.

Aww man... that just makes ya sick to your stomach!

I've gone through a really *wrong* vote on a new building project but it sure didn't amount to something as major as that! Pretty similar overall circumstances ... course, we were in a rural county... there weren't as many of us and the tax hit was bad... but nothin' like what you're talking about there!

Gees, I'd be goin' with the militia too.

1,065 posted on 03/17/2004 7:56:13 PM PST by Wneighbor (Well the view looks better from ahead than it looks behind)
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To: Wneighbor
Gonna run... might check in later... :-)
1,066 posted on 03/17/2004 7:57:31 PM PST by Ramius
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To: Fedora
Boomerang channel? Never heard of it. Then again, we don't have cable. I watched Superfriends religiously. Space ghost was cool too, but I wasn't as fond of Birdman or Johnny Quest.

What gets me is that nowadays it isn't Saturday morning cartoons anymore. One network channel has Nick-toons and the other Disney-toons, and that is it. Plus, what toons there are, don't come on TV until 8:30?? IS that right? I remember getting up at 6:30am to watch cartoons. The good ones were on early.

OH yeah, and Sooouuull Train! (that came on at noon)
1,067 posted on 03/17/2004 7:57:48 PM PST by msdrby (US Veterans: All give some, but some give all.)
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To: Ramius
Might huh? LOL... Goodnight if I don't see ya... :-)

(((Ramius)))
1,068 posted on 03/17/2004 7:58:54 PM PST by Wneighbor (Well the view looks better from ahead than it looks behind)
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To: Fedora
I also REALLY liked watching Land of the Lost. That was such a cool show! Poor acting, but to a kid, it was vey cool.
1,069 posted on 03/17/2004 8:00:53 PM PST by msdrby (US Veterans: All give some, but some give all.)
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To: Wneighbor
In our area, we voted on funding new stadiums. Voted it down. But what do the voters know? So we've got new stadiums.

Admitedly, I like PNC Park, but the Pirates haven't won since 1997, so... (not quite that bad, but close).

I'm goin' to bed too.
1,070 posted on 03/17/2004 8:01:30 PM PST by JenB
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To: Ramius; RosieCotton
but OS X was a Godsend

They don't play nice with DHCP

Of course, because OS X is based on a flavor of Unix.

(Unix likes static IPs.)

1,071 posted on 03/17/2004 8:06:14 PM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear (Cough.)
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To: JenB
Inneresting reading material I've got here. Huh.

You've got more.

1,072 posted on 03/17/2004 8:06:30 PM PST by Fedora
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To: RosieCotton
Odd to cry over a cartoon, I guess

The Iron Giant does it for me...

1,073 posted on 03/17/2004 8:07:49 PM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear (Cough.)
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To: msdrby
What gets me is that nowadays it isn't Saturday morning cartoons anymore. One network channel has Nick-toons and the other Disney-toons, and that is it. Plus, what toons there are, don't come on TV until 8:30?? IS that right? I remember getting up at 6:30am to watch cartoons. The good ones were on early.

Yeah, I hate the way they've ruined the Saturday morning cartoon tradition. But some of the cable stations seem to be trying to revive it, I've noticed. The best new cartoons I've seen are the superhero ones they show on the Cartoon Network--X-Men and Justice League and others--but usually those are on at night rather than Saturday mornings like they used to.

And yeah, I remember how Souuuuullll Train used to come on at noon--LOL! Also American Bandstand and Love American Style :) When those came on I knew the cartoons were over and it was time to run outside and play :)

1,074 posted on 03/17/2004 8:10:07 PM PST by Fedora
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To: msdrby
I also REALLY liked watching Land of the Lost. That was such a cool show! Poor acting, but to a kid, it was vey cool.

Land of the Lost was awesome! The acting was bad but the writing and fx were great--they'd actually get sf writers for the writing.

BTW, here's the LotL fan site, where DVDs of the original episodes are now available:

Land of the Lost dot com

I've heard a remake of LotL is in the works, but don't know the current status--there's probably news on the site.

I also liked the other Krofft shows, esp. Sigmund the Sea Monster and Electra Woman and Dynagirl.

1,075 posted on 03/17/2004 8:13:49 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Fedora
Oh mighty Isis!
1,076 posted on 03/17/2004 8:15:55 PM PST by msdrby (US Veterans: All give some, but some give all.)
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To: msdrby
LOL! I loved the Shazam-Isis Hour, too--have pictures of me and my little brother where I'm dressed as Superman and he's dressed as Shazam :)
1,077 posted on 03/17/2004 8:29:21 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Fedora
PE and I were just talking about Fat Albert and the Cosby kids. That was a good one too.
1,078 posted on 03/17/2004 8:35:02 PM PST by msdrby (US Veterans: All give some, but some give all.)
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To: Fedora
It's a classic!
1,079 posted on 03/17/2004 8:35:56 PM PST by msdrby (US Veterans: All give some, but some give all.)
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To: Fedora
LOL, elf-boy is still sleeping with the Spiderman action figure, and has ousted me from my spot. Not room enough for all three of us in the same bed.

Ah well, I will probably end up on the couch anyway since I get up every night around 1:00am with a backache (only 6 more weeks till babydue!!!).
1,080 posted on 03/17/2004 8:39:48 PM PST by msdrby (US Veterans: All give some, but some give all.)
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