Middle Aged Memories
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I will check it out. It's been driving me crazy for years. Let me tell ya, it's a short trip. haha
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Must have moved a few cobwebs in my brain...outta the blue came the thought of another old movie that I probably have not seen since the 60's, but I bet some of you remember it...BILLIE starring Patty Duke. Running track & field events better than the boys was a plot line that appealed to a tomboy like me.
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I did not see that Patty Duke movie.
I rented Vertigo this weekend Eli.....not the movie
Back to the drawing board.
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Well, look at it this way...you got to watch a classic of psychological suspense, at least.
(When I watched the whole movie of The Magic Sword, it HAD to be the same movie I saw as a kid, but it was different than I remembered in my mind's eye. I think my mind embellished a few scenes. That was really a weird sensation because I carried around those skewed images for YEARS only to find out that they were actually slightly different. I FELT THE REALITY SHIFT, and what a weird feeling that is!)
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So true Eli. I guess it's not always how we remember. I am going to watch the movie again though. I spent so much time comparing the movie to what was in my mind, I don't think I really followed the movie too well. I'm wondering if I've seen it on the Twilight Zone. I used to watch that show a lot.
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Ahh, The Twilight Zone. Still love that show. My favorite episode is To Serve Man.
Our local guy that hosted horror movies was Bestoink Dooley. He was quite the star in Atlanta!
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Remember banana clips???
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Oh, my, Yes!
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I thought it was Avon, because they did have their own line too, but what I was just remembering was called "Soaky" bath soap that had those character decanters. I remembering coveting the Snow White one my best friend had. It was Colgate-Palmolive.
Haven't really looked for anything similar lately, but we did have an Elmo one when my kids were little.
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Don't know what made me think of this today...
My college dorm was right by the Student Union and many a day, a friend and I would go play pinball after dinner. We liked to play one called Star Pool because we got so good on it, that we could take one quarter and win a bunch of credits so that we could play an hour and then we'd have to abandon the game with credits still left on it in order to get our studies done.
Ah, the sense of accomplishment once we became masters of this game.
I guess college was o.k. too.
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Elimar, I can't tell you the hours I spent playing pinball. If we tilted the machine just right, we would get extra balls. Another one of my favorite arcade games.... Missle Command and Astroids.
"I guess college was o.k. too" hahahaha
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Loved Missile Command and Astroids. I still play them anytime I am near a retro game somewhere! I grew up in So. Cal and spent many hours at the Westwood arcade near UCLA.
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Well, we are the last of that arcade breed. That was the generation before all the home game consoles.
I do remember when a friend got the Atari system, but I was already grown and Pong was a little boring, imo.
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I miss the simplicity of the old days. I imagine my Grandmother had those same thoughts.
Edited to add: Don't get me wrong, I've fully embraced new technology....but there are times I long for simplicity.
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SlowDeepBreaths--AMEN!
I love techy toys, hate when the tech doesn't work. Sometimes a pencil and paper is the best way to manage things!
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I spent 20 minutes downloading a form, converting it to an editable form and then tried to type in my information. The formatting was effed up and the whole thing was a pain in the butt. Ended up printing it and filling it out by hand :-). Fast and efficient. I'm typically a computer wiz, but really.
By the way, my son is almost 17 and the other day he says, "I wish there was a place we could go and play pinball and games with other kids." My response... It was called an arcade! I do miss that for my kids. A place to play and gather where you could show off your gaming skills without being hidden behind a computer or console with a gamer name playing mostly people you don't know and will never meet.
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I so agree Rocky. Yesterday I spend half the day troubleshooting a laptop. It turned out the virus protection was causing the problem. I had to uninstall and reinstall. Sure wish I had those four hours back!!
Bring back the arcades!!!
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System restore is our friend :-). I used a DOS based system for years, then moved to Windows 95, then to Windows XP and of course now Windows 7 and 8. I did 10 year jumps between my tech as I never wanted to let go of what worked for me. I do have to say that in the past 5 years the system restore has saved my butt soooo many times. It never worked with XP, but with 7 and 8 it's a beautiful thing.
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Rocky, it took me a long time to transition from XP to Windows 7. I held out for as long as I could. I don't like Windows 8 and will stick with 7 until I see something better. I've been fortunate that I've never had to use system restore. But it sure is nice knowing it's there if I need it!!
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SlowDeep, Windows 8 is fine if you have a laptop and get in the groove of touching the screen. It's kinda like an over sized phone :-) I primarily use a desktop and was lucky I could order it with Windows 7. What a pain to have to reach across the desk (and get smudgy fingerprints) to touch my screen. Don't be afraid to use system restore. It's an easy way to have your computer go back to a previous date when you knew everything was working or perhaps back before you installed a program that may have caused a problem. It was scary at first, but now it's the best thing since arcade games :-).
Edited for poor spell checking!
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hahahahaha.....I don't know....I'm kinda partial to arcade games!!!
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Anyone remember bubble writing??
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Haha, I remember that! I didn't even know it had a name! Now wouldn't that be a great 70's style font to have on computers? My son would HATE it! I would like to use it to annoy him
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OH MY, YES! Balloon writing!!!!
For me that goes hand-in-hand with my favorite pens of all-time...the LINDY PEN. It came in about 1,000 colors...I had a dozen myself...and besides the ones I found pictured, it had a short stubby model (which were so handy for writing notes during class without being too conspicuous!) I distinctly remember practicing my name in balloon writing with my small purple Lindy pen, and also that eye-poping turqoise one. Thanks for the memory!!!!
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Oh Eli....I remember Lindy pens too!! I loved them.
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One summer, my mom took me to see The Cowsills at the State Fair.
The "boy" in the middle is their sister. Ha! I thought Barry Cowsill, below in purple, was cute. Much later, at age 50, he drowned in Hurricane Katrina.
Even tho' this pic only has four of the Cowsills, I had to put that one because remember how all the teeny-bop boys (and this pic was from 16 Magazine--remember it--which catered to 12-year-olds. Ahahaha!) would wear neck scarves back then and it was a fad that even boys in my school adopted; and I think I even had a couple too, but we did not knot the scarves...we had those little slide thingies to hold them.
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Good one eli!
I do remember hearing the songs, but I don't remember the people in the band. When I played their songs on YouTube, my DH knew all the words to every song, and remembered them very well. Seemed like a really good memory for him. lol
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Oh goodness Eli, I didn't remember the name of the group but I remember the songs. I thought "The Rain, The Park & Other Things" was called the 'Flower Girl' so I learned something new. Wow - almost 50 years ago. Are we having fun yet?
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Bubble writing, YES!
I don't remember the Lindy pen, but they look like fun!
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I loved the Cowsills....I think the Partridge Family was a rip off of the whole concept. Sad about the one drowning in Katrina.
Remember Sajid Kahn?
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