Can the adults please smoke?- Page 34

[beacon1]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 7:43pm

Spider...

Last names????

[beacon1]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 7:45pm

Sorry, Davy...I can just hear Goliath saying that...

Raise your hand if you ever used an Easy Bake oven and actually looked forward to eating a brownie baked by a light bulb. :o)

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 7:46pm

Oh, you meant the WHOLE name. My bad.

Davy Jones (Marsha was the President of his fan club on Brady
Bunch)

Peter Tork

Micky....Don't remember his last name.

Mike Nesmith (He created MTV and VH1)

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 7:47pm

My sister had an Easy Bake Oven and I used to eat brownies and cookies from it all the time.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 7:49pm

Mickey Dolenz

[beacon1]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 7:49pm

Mickey Dolenz...and wasn't he involved with Aida recently???

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 7:50pm

Yes he was.

But, do I get your stamp of approval?

[beacon1]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 7:51pm

Little Kiddles...do you remember this teeny dolls.

I had Florence Niddle (she was dressed like Florence Nightengale.)

Bumper pool...remember that? Pool table with little bumpers(like knobs) that deflected the balls.

And, does anyone play badminton anymore???

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 7:54pm

I used to play badmiton all the time when I was younger. I playe it at my grandparents house and had so much fun.

I also remember playing bumper pool

I don't anything about the first two though

[beacon1]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 8:10pm

Favorite episodes:

Are there favorite episodes of shows that just stuck with you?
Ya know...the ones you even get a kick out of today if you stumble across a TVLand Rerun???

Like: Marcia Brady getting hit in the nose with the football
Laurie Patridge getting radio signals in her braces
Chuckle's the Clown's funeral

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 8:12pm

Davy Jones?

Is that where the term 'Davy Jones' locker' comes from, or is that someone else?

[beacon1]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 8:15pm

No...It's a MUCH older term

This is what you find when you google it:

Dear Yahoo!:
What is the origin of the phrase "Davy Jones' Locker"?
Lost atSea


Dear Lost:
We knew that sailors used the phrase to refer to the bottom of the ocean, but we had no clue as to its origin. After entering the phrase "Davy Jones' Locker" in the Yahoo! search bar, we discovered several possibilities:
Michael Quinion's excellent World Wide Words site offers a great quote from Tobias Smollet's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751): "This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep...."

One legend suggests that a particularly fiendish pub owner named David Jones used to incapacitate hapless drinkers in his ale locker, and send them off aboard ships. Sounds like a handy way of disposing of your enemies.

Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable offers an interesting linguistic take on the issue: Davy is a bastardization of Duffy, the West Indian term for ghost. Jones comes from Jonah, the prophet who spent a few uncomfortable days lodged in the GI tract of a whale. And a locker, loosely defined, is a place to store valuable things. So the phrase "He's gone to Davy Jones' locker" (i.e., he cashed it in) loosely translates as "He's safe with Duffy Jonah now."

A random Navy Trivia page we stumbled across has some entertaining guesses: Duffer Jones was a notoriously myopic sailor who often found himself overboard. Davy could also come from the horned one himself, the Devil. The shortest sailor on board usually impersonates him during the the Crossing of the Line, a bizarre naval cross-dressing ceremony. The less said, the better.

And finally, we were happy to read that Cool Word of the Day denies a link between the phrase and Davy Jones of the Monkees. They also suggest that Davy comes from St. David, a patron saint of Welsh sailors, and reiterate the Jones/Jonah connection. That sounds reasonable enough to us.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 8:18pm

Are you talking about fav. Monkees show or any show?

If it is any show, I LOVE LOVE LOVE the "Vitametavegamen" episode from I LOVE LUCY. I can not stop laughing everytime I see that show.

[mominator]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 8:23pm

How about the old Bob Newhart Show? I loved the group sessions Mr. Carlan cracked me up.

Updated On: 7/29/04 at 08:23 PM

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 8:23pm

Thanks.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 8:26pm

I knew it was an older term. I was just harassing you elderly folk in this here smoking room.

[Nina]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 8:28pm

"My sister had an Easy Bake Oven and I used to eat brownies and cookies from it all the time."

And they tatsed horrid. At the time I loved them but, thinking back, the only thing worsew as the Creepy Crawlers machine came out with candy fluid to make edible Creepy Crawlers.

Posted: 7/29/04 at 8:42pm

Marsha Brady being hit in the nose with a football... How I loved the Brady Bunch! I actually thought that I was one of the Brady children (I was an only child with an active imagination). Updated On: 7/29/04 at 08:42 PM

[Nina]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 8:45pm

I always had a prefrence for the Partridge Family. I had such a crush on David Cassidy. Laurie Partridge was much cooler than Marsha Brady.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 9:30pm

The Partridge Family was a thousand times classier than the Brady Bunch. It just was. I think it's the Shirley Jones vs. Florence Henderson factor, but perhaps I'm simplifying.

[Nina]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 9:55pm

I liked Shirley Partridge so much more than Carol Brady. Shirley was a strong single mom dealing with raising a family alone and traveling around to gigs. I always wondered what Craol Brady did with her days. She didn't have a job and had a live in maid. Just what the hell was she doing while Alice was running the house? Is there some dark secret in the Brady household?

[NYadgal]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 10:10pm

BBoobs, Beacon, Rath...et al...

Sorry - it WAS my turn to watch, but I had to work...I owe you a couple of hours.

Ok - here's what will set the young'uns from us grown-ups...

If you took a computer to college, it's time for you to go to bed.

If you took a typewriter, carbon paper, and extra typing cartridges...please stay tuned, because the memories are going to just keep coming!!

Can you say IBM selectric??

[beacon1]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 10:21pm

Omigosh. NYadgal. That's the perfect way to weed out the youngsters! LOL!

And, oh, how we used to fight over who would get to use the IBM Selectrics in typing class. The rest were Royal Manuals that you had to really bang on to type.

The Selectrics were so cool because the little ball zipped back and forth instead of the entire carriage.

Eraseable bond...remember that. I loved it instead of correction tape...

And carbons...argh. One mistake and soooo many layers to correct. And remember re-using them and reusing them.

Updated On: 7/29/04 at 10:21 PM

[NYadgal]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 10:25pm

I hated the erasable type paper because it would smudge.

I liked my groovy 'eraser wheel' pencil, with the little brush on the end...

carbon paper was a pain if you put it in the wrong way and 'copied' the back of your own paper...

I started with a royal, too...talk about strong fingers!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 7/29/04 at 10:28pm

Who had a trimline phone?

A princess model?