Missed Things

[Maksutov]

For example, I really miss "Calvin and Hobbes". Bill Watterson's wit is wonderful. Here's an example (http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2008/01/20/). It figures he's from Ohio.

How many other comic strips would have "dialectical metaphysics" as part of the humor?

Any other BAUTers got things they miss?

[torque of the town]

I miss 1967.

[Noclevername]

My youth, my health, my hair, being able to stand up straight and still see my feet.

[KaiYeves]

I miss Calvin and Hobbes and Captain Planet.

[Gillianren]

My dad, who died before some of my friends were born. (25 years ago on 8 February.)

College.

My daughter.

Having a good relationship with my older sister.

Quantum Leap. You can get seasons on DVD, but it's not the same.

Good Saturday morning cartoons. (Ditto, actually; we have some of the Carmen Sandiego cartoon on DVD, likewise The Tick.)

Mr. Hooper.

Actually being interested in new music.

KROQ.

[Paul Beardsley]

Quantum Leap.
Have you seen Journeyman? Slightly similar, but much more interesting IMO. In QL, there was very little continuity; many episodes could be shown out of order, although there were occasional "runs" of stories that really hit the spot - the trilogy, the evil leaper, the leap home and so on.

But in Journeyman, minor, seemingly throwaway events in early episodes take on significance in later episodes. Which is nice.

Meanwhile, I miss...

Slim science fiction novels.
My dog Emmy.
Text adventure games.
Logger bars. (Delicious chocolate bars that featured a version of the Lumberjack Sketch when they were advertised.)

[Silly String Theory]

Seinfeld :(

[KaiYeves]

I loved Carmen Sandiego! (The show, that is. I hated the character.)

[weatherc]

Gillian, I also miss the animated version of The Tick.

And Mak, I have nothing but the highest respect for Watterson. He left at the top of his game, and didn't license out his characters to anyone for a quick buck. The same can't be said of many, many other artists who should have retired long ago (or long before they died: Charles Schultz, Jim Davis, I'm looking directly at you).

I miss being able to see the real Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry cartoons. You know, the ones that used to exist before they edited all of the funny stuff out so they could show them to kids.

I miss the bakery that used to be in Chester, NJ. They made a mean raspberry mousse cake with whipped cream icing. It wasn't overly sweet or heavy, and it was delicious.

I miss my dad. Oh, he's still alive, and I still see him once in a while, but he's just a different person than I remember. He used to smile more, and we used to have more to talk about. Now, he's a bit of a grump and there's just an uncomfortable silence between us, and I'm not sure why.

I miss being excited about science fiction movies and novels. Now, I go to the bookstore and look over the books once in a while, but nothing seems to capture my imagination like it used to. And whenever I see a trailer for a science fiction movie, it just looks like more of the same CG junk (not that I'm against CGI when it's used well; I'm just tired of seeing the same old stars in movies that I know will suck that use CG for no other reason than they can). The last time I was excited about a science fiction movie was before the new Star Wars films came out, and then I saw them. I feel like I was sold a false bill of goods and a portion of my childhood was robbed from me.

I miss my grandparents' house on Long Beach Island. It was right on the beach, and had huge windows looking over the ocean, and had a wraparound deck. I miss riding Big Wheels on that deck, seeing lightning strike the ocean during a storm, being lulled to sleep by the waves at night, and the smell of salt air. My grandparents moved out of that house over twenty years ago, but I still miss it.

Wow. I came up with a lot more here than I thought I would. I suppose next you'll ask me to tell you about my relationship with my mother...

[The Supreme Canuck]

Text adventure games.

Well...

http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page

That should do you - freeware IF.

[KaiYeves]

I miss the 90's.

[Occam]

I miss...
Being lean, fit and young
Being on stage
The promise of the future
Lost friends
Staying out in the sun all day
Having more to look forward to than look back on
Not being a cynic
Being excited about new music and movies instead of bored with the same banal dross.

[Gillianren]

Have you seen Journeyman? Slightly similar, but much more interesting IMO. In QL, there was very little continuity; many episodes could be shown out of order, although there were occasional "runs" of stories that really hit the spot - the trilogy, the evil leaper, the leap home and so on.

But in Journeyman, minor, seemingly throwaway events in early episodes take on significance in later episodes. Which is nice.

Graham watches it, but I'm having a hard time getting into it.

[Hydro]

I miss parking in a huge lot and walking for what seemed like miles in the summer heat, finally arriving and admiring the huge cooling towers just outside the building. Opening the doors to a cold rush of air and entering the humongous facility where the professional baseball team named after the astronauts played for 35 years.

Oh, and I miss the old scoreboard, too.

[mfumbesi]

The Outer Limits, The Pinky and the Brain, The Smoggies.
My hair.
Having no responsibilities.

[Graybeard6]

"Prince Valiant", which turned me on to history so many years ago.
Saturday morning serials in a real theater.
Summer sunsets over Lake Erie. (Although I still get to see a few each year.)
My right lung.
Getting through the day with no more drugs that a couple of aspirin for my hangover.
The thrill of meeting, for the first time, the girl who is now my wife of 42 years.

[clop]

I miss real ale, fish and chips, Shreddies, and proper bacon.

clop

[Paul Beardsley]

Well...

http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page

That should do you - freeware IF.

Thanks for that, Supreme.

Now I just have to wait till July when I've finished my teacher training and I can play 'em to my heart's content!

[hhEb09'1]

Kneeling down and drinking at a remote mountain stream, without worrying about giardia etc.

People on other celestial bodies

6 cent overnight delivery

global cooling

[Donnie B.]

I miss the warm, contented feeling I had before I read this thread! :lol:

[torque of the town]

I miss the warm, contented feeling I had before I read this thread! :lol:



Sit cross legged on the floor close eyes your and say Ommmmm.. drink a large vodka and say Ommmmm, again followed by another large vodka.
I call it my Absolut mantra:cool:

[Fazor]

Well, as far as comic strips go, I miss Foxtrot being a daily feature. Sure, it's still around on Sundays. And "reruns" the rest of the week. But something about Foxtrot...perhaps his knowlege of all things new and geeky, made it my favorite.

I'm pretty good at making myself unpopular as is, so I don't often bother to mention that I never really cared for Calvin and Hobbs.

As far as television, I just miss the old, afterschool lineup. Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, Tail Spin, etc. etc. But mostly for the nostalgic feeling of "I don't have any responsability, just play, eat and watch cartoons!"

[Jim]

... The same can't be said of many, many other artists who should have retired long ago (or long before they died: Charles Schultz, Jim Davis, I'm looking directly at you). ...

Uh, Charles Schulz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Schulz) died in 2000; the Peanuts strips are being rerun.

[Jim]

For example, I really miss "Calvin and Hobbes". ...

Sadly, their end has finally been explained.

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/lio/2008/lio080120.gif

[Noclevername]

Saturday afternoon matinees with back-to-back Japanese monster movies. Let's hear it for Godzilla and Gamera!

Schoolhouse Rock. Taught me more than school, actually.
"Conjunction junction, what's your function!"

[KaiYeves]

I miss not having to wake up before sunrise for school.
I miss Australia.
I miss peacetime.

[Trebuchet]

I'm really surprised nobody mentioned Walt Kelly's Pogo.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

I'd also say "my hair" but it's been gone so long I've forgotten what it was like.

[Gillianren]

Saturday afternoon matinees with back-to-back Japanese monster movies. Let's hear it for Godzilla and Gamera!

Which reminds me--being able to catch MST3K on TV every Saturday morning--or Sunday, as they were on Comedy Central. (Oh, Joel, how I miss you.)

I kind of miss Afterschool Specials. (Hey, Fazor, if you're ever in town, I have a Tailspin board game and a Darkwing Duck board game. They're both very bad.)

[Moose]

Schoolhouse Rock. Taught me more than school, actually.

YouTube is your friend. Do a search for Schoolhouse Rock. A bunch of them are up. Conjunction Junction, I'm Just a Bill, most of the good ones.

[KaiYeves]

I miss my Beta fish, Aquamarine, who has been dead for two years, rest her soul.

[Paul Beardsley]

Sadly, their end has finally been explained.

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/lio/2008/lio080120.gif

Well that's made me miserable.

I've just shown it to Clare so she's miserable too.

[weatherc]

Uh, Charles Schulz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Schulz) died in 2000; the Peanuts strips are being rerun.Upon re-reading the sentence you quoted, I see that it was poorly constructed. It should have said:

"The same can't be said of many, many other artists who should have retired long ago, or who should have retired long before they died: Jim Davis, Charles Schultz, I'm looking directly at you."

I knew Schultz passed away some time ago, but he should have retired about 25 years before that. And Jim Davis should have packed it up and started doing something else starting around 1985. And then don't even get me started on the comics whose original authors died years ago, but are still carried on (as unfunny as ever) by their spawn or proteges.

Oh yes, I should also mention that I miss The Far Side. Apparently, so do many others, because you can still see its influence today in one-panel strips that try to be bizarre.

[weatherc]

Sadly, their end has finally been explained.

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/lio/2008/lio080120.gifIs it wrong that I actually found myself laughing at that? :shifty:

[The Supreme Canuck]

Thanks for that, Supreme.

Now I just have to wait till July when I've finished my teacher training and I can play 'em to my heart's content!

Hey, sure thing. I came across th whole modern IF thing a while back, and loved it. Not being old enough for actual text adventures, that's something.

[Moose]

Is it wrong that I actually found myself laughing at that? :shifty:

Yes, yes it is. Wrong and somewhat reprehensible. Now we just have to flip for who gets the window seat to hell, unless you prefer aisle?

[weatherc]

Yes, yes it is. Wrong and somewhat reprehensible. Now we just have to flip for who gets the window seat to hell, unless you prefer aisle?I've heard the view out the window on that trip isn't anything to write home about. I'll take the aisle.

[Noclevername]

YouTube is your friend. Do a search for Schoolhouse Rock. A bunch of them are up. Conjunction Junction, I'm Just a Bill, most of the good ones.

Thanks. I even liked some of the bad ones. ;)

[Van Rijn]

Yes, yes it is. Wrong and somewhat reprehensible. Now we just have to flip for who gets the window seat to hell, unless you prefer aisle?

According to Robot Chicken, here's what really happened to Calvin and Hobbes. For folks with low bandwidth, note that this is a video - and, like the above, it is "wrong and somewhat reprehensible" so don't watch if you're going to take it seriously:

http://www.noob.us/humor/robot-chicken-calvin-and-hobbes-the-untold-story/

[Noclevername]

Those are just cover stories. He's really got a job posing for car-window stickers where he pees on logos.

[Maksutov]

[edit]I'm pretty good at making myself unpopular as is, so I don't often bother to mention that I never really cared for Calvin and Hobbs....Neither did I.

However, I was always a big fan of Calvin and Hobbes.

Other things that are missed:

My paternal grandmother. One of the most astute business women I've ever known. Ran three multifamily rental properties as well as a couple of retail businesses. Also had more yummy ways to fix eggplant than I could count. Made her own sauerkraut, sausage, ice cream (I got to turn the crank for hours and hours), rhubarb pie, dandelion wine, and many other tasty treats. Plus she loved Frank Zappa's music and sense of humor. All this by a woman who emigrated from Lithuania and never attended school.

My Dalmatian Obie.

The original MAD magazine, both the comic book and the magazine format, when it was run by Harvey Kutzman, William S. Gaines, and Al Feldman. The humor was trenchant and topical. My Fair Adman (based on the play "You're a Pig, Mallion!" by George Bernard Schwartz) was a high point. Acquiring and retaining them was always a challenge since my mother was a subscriber to the Dr. Frederick Wertham school of comics criticism, which claimed that one glance at the contents of a publication such as MAD would corrupt my young innocent soul forever. He was probably right, but I didn't care. My sweet mom triumphantly sent me the newspaper obituary when Gaines died in 2002.

Moxie

Thanksgiving dinner at my maternal grandparents' house, the oldest in Danbury. Meine Großmutter was a straight-laced hausfrau for whom sex didn't exist and therefore was not to be ever mentioned. One of her sons (how did they happen?), my Uncle Dick, would always loosen up the Norman Rockwellesque proceedings with some off-color joke or ribald comment, which would have everyone laughing except his mother and her two daughters (how did they happen?).

25¢ after 1 AM bowling night. This was good training for those later late-night observing sessions.

Ernie Kovacs. A perpetual battle to watch it since my maternal TV control unit didn't find him funny and also objected to his being a non-WASP.

Groucho Marx. Same ordeal as above, except the objection was his being Jewish.

The old Hayden Planetarium.

[The Supreme Canuck]

Neither did I.

However, I was always a big fan of Calvin and Hobbes.

I didn't like Calvin and Hobbs nor Calvin and Hobbes.

[Maksutov]

I didn't like Calvin and Hobbs nor Calvin and Hobbes.Well, that's just something you'll have to deal with personally. Fortunately such problems can be worked out successfully, especially if one has the appropriate cardboard box.

[GeorgeLeRoyTirebiter]

I miss my old hand-cranked pencil sharpener.

No, really. The house I grew up in had a wall-mounted sharpener that was almost as old as the house itself. It was the standard twin-cylinder planetary kind, but it was the best one I've ever used. There was no slop or play in the gearing. The cutting edges were still sharp enough to put a needle point on even the cheapest pencil. It never jammed.

It spoiled me enough that I now use a mechanical pencil rather than have to suffer an inferior sharpener.

[Gillianren]

YouTube is your friend. Do a search for Schoolhouse Rock. A bunch of them are up. Conjunction Junction, I'm Just a Bill, most of the good ones.

I have the complete set on DVD. (I think I'm one of the youngest people out there to have actually seen it on TV when I was a kid.)

I miss Jim Henson. Yeah, sure, Brian's still plugging along, but the Muppets aren't as good. Since my aunt was a professional puppeteer, we've got a few family stories about Jim Henson, and he was also just a really cool guy.

I miss Life. They're doing what I consider coffee table pamphlets of photo essays these days, but not the magazine. No more Year in Pictures, which was always one of the best parts of December when I was a kid. I still remember the best line of their Raul Julia tribute. ("We'll always regret never having seen his Lear.")

[Ilya]

My youth, my health, my hair, being able to stand up straight and still see my feet.

Really? I thought you were fairly young -- as in mid to late 20's.

[Fazor]

I kind of miss Afterschool Specials. (Hey, Fazor, if you're ever in town, I have a Tailspin board game and a Darkwing Duck board game. They're both very bad.)
Excellent; I wasn't aware there were such bored games. You know, the shows were pretty awfull aswell, but I still loved them.

[torque of the town]

All the friends I have lost over the years, especially
DJ who was killed in 1968 during the Tet Offensive.

[Noclevername]

Really? I thought you were fairly young -- as in mid to late 20's.

38. I was born the same year as they faked the Moon landing. :D (I always thought my posts made me sound like a crotchety* old man, myself.)

The confusion may come because I kept watching kid's cartoons and reading comic books well into my 30s, so some of my pop-culture references may be anachronistic. ;)


*I just looked the word up. It comes from the it comes from the Old French which comes from the Old Norse word for "hook" or "crooked", and has nothing to do with the crotch.

[Argos]

Calvin and Hobbes... One of the top 5 comic strips of all times, IMO. I just learned (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes) that it ended in 1995 in the US. It is still featured on our local newspaper [I wouldn´t have noticed its demise - it is still new to me]

[Noclevername]

I do miss both C&H and The Far Side. I miss being able to eat as much as I could shovel in of whatever I wanted. I miss smoking (but my body doesn't, and it has veto power). I miss living in New England. I miss the Smurfs and the Snorks, Speed Buggy, Josie and the Pussycats In Space, the Muppet Show, the Gong Show (they might bring it back, but without Chuck Barris it just wouldn't be the same). I miss having Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show. I miss when Saturday Night Live was still funny. I miss not needing glasses. I miss the excitement and enthusiasm of being a kid.

[Ilya]

Any other BAUTers got things they miss?

Now that I gave it a thought, surprisingly little. I miss Dungeons & Dragons (do not have time for it), and I miss a few things that can not be mentioned on family website, but that's about it. Mostly I am satisfied with what I have.

[Jim]

Rhubarb pie. Boy, that brings back memories. Not the strawberry rhubarb you can buy today, but real rhubarb pie.

My grandmother (well, step... my father's stepmother) used to make them for me. She would cook up enough food to cover a very long kitchen table using food she'd grown in her farm out back, including the fried chicken. I remember visiting one time when she served me a rhubarb pie, and admitted guiltily that she had bought the rhubarb at the store.

Still tasted great.

[Fazor]

Rhubarb pie.
I'll second that. I stop and look at the rhubarb in the veggie isle every time I walk by, and think "How do you make that into pie?" :-P

I consider myself a decent cook, but never used rhubarb for anything.

[Donnie B.]

The first house I owned had well-established rhubarb plants in the back yard (as I discovered to my surprise and delight). There are none at my current house, and the supermarket variety just isn't the same. I miss good rhubarb pie too.

Fazor, rhubarb is one of those plants that contains poisonous chemicals in certain parts. You can't eat the leaves, but the young stalks that come up in the spring are delicious. It's quite sour, though, and needs lots of sugar.

[mike alexander]

Fishing off the breakwall with my Uncle Joe, early Saturday morning with a bag of Royal Castle hamburgers, the Coleman lamp glowing and the sun coming up in half an hour.

[Fazor]

Fazor, rhubarb is one of those plants that contains poisonous chemicals in certain parts. You can't eat the leaves, but the young stalks that come up in the spring are delicious. It's quite sour, though, and needs lots of sugar.

Hmm..wonder if I could use some with some kind of citrus to make a sweet/sour glaze or dip for tempura'd fish or chicken

[Ilya]

Oh yes, I should also mention that I miss The Far Side. Apparently, so do many others, because you can still see its influence today in one-panel strips that try to be bizarre.

Brevity (http://www.comics.com/comics/brevity) is close enough to Far Side, as far as I am concerned. Disclaimer: I know that to a real Far Side purist nothing is close enough.

[Van Rijn]

Fazor, rhubarb is one of those plants that contains poisonous chemicals in certain parts. You can't eat the leaves, but the young stalks that come up in the spring are delicious. It's quite sour, though, and needs lots of sugar.

Oxalic acid, the stuff that helps make calcium oxalate stones, especially plentiful in the leaves. I don't know if the stalks are much worse than some other sources in the diet, but I've tended to avoid rhubarb for that reason. I do miss it.

[Hydro]

I miss the old Acrophobia game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrophobia_%28game%29) on the internet back in the 90's. I wish there was another good version of it.

[KaiYeves]

I miss my mother allowing me to watch Scooby Doo and not tell me I'm too old for it.
I miss NASA getting headlines.
I miss Primary School.

[toejam]

The first house I owned had well-established rhubarb plants in the back yard (as I discovered to my surprise and delight). There are none at my current house, and the supermarket variety just isn't the same. I miss good rhubarb pie too.

Fazor, rhubarb is one of those plants that contains poisonous chemicals in certain parts. You can't eat the leaves, but the young stalks that come up in the spring are delicious. It's quite sour, though, and needs lots of sugar.

Strawberry & rhubarb pie is better than straight rhubarb IMO. Available here in a corner shop 2 miles away, home cooked. YUMMMMMMM.....

What I really miss is Arapaho ski area in Colorado & being able to herring-bone fast the 50 yards or so, from the top of the chairlift to the ridge, at just over 12,000 ft, for the view, without passing out. :)

[Noclevername]

I miss my first car. Comfy, easy to drive, easy to park, fantastic gas milage and low maintanance.

[Spock Jenkins]

I miss having the opportunity to do some things right the first time.

[torque of the town]

I miss my first car. Comfy, easy to drive, easy to park, fantastic gas milage and low maintanance.




Those model T Ford's were great :D

[KaiYeves]

I miss not being in pueberty.

[mike alexander]

I miss the Space Race, from Frank McGee covering the three foot flight of Vanguard to staying up all night and day with Walter Cronkite and Apollo 11.

I miss those X-planes like the Douglas Skyrocket (the loveliest airplane ever built). Even the X-3 (One test pilot upon seeing it for the first time is supposed to have remarked "She's a beautiful mockup, but where are the wings?"). The Century series fighter jets. Contemporary planes may be fantastic, but they look like they were built in a high school metal shop class, angular, bulky and ugly. Compare to an F102 Delta Dagger or an F104 Starfighter.

I also miss Walnettoes.

[KaiYeves]

I miss standing under SpaceShipOne in the Smithsonian and spouting everything I knew about it, prompting strange looks from the people around.

[mike alexander]

Yeah, I did the same thing under the D-558-2, with strange looks from my wife.

[Occam]

Rhubarb, mmmmmmm delicious. I have heaps growing in my veggie garden.
Rhubarb tart
Rhubarb pie
Rhubarb and custard
Rhubarb on muesli for breakfast
Rhubarb muffins

Mmmmmm

[Trebuchet]

My '64 Corvair. And my '79 RX-7.

[KaiYeves]

Australia.

[Noclevername]

Hawaii. I've been there three times, and each time I had to force myself to come home.

[Noclevername]

Old-school arcade videogames.

[Noclevername]

Oh, and I kinda miss when Michael Jackson was famous for being a child star, not a star who was infamous for children. He also didn't look like a freak back then.

[Nadme]

I miss trick-or-treating. :)

Ringing/knocking at doors, shouting "trick or treat!" ... and the incomparable scent of a plastic pail filled with all sorts of yummy candies and homemade treats.

[Doodler]

Anna Maria Island, Florida. Just south of Tampa Bay. My family used to go there every couple years for a few weeks at a time.

Discovering girls.

Unedited Tom & Jerry cartoons.

Garfield compilations.

[Gillianren]

Hawaii. I've been there three times, and each time I had to force myself to come home.

My best friend is from there. Imagine how she feels--and she's moving back to her dad's in Ohio soon.

[SkepticJ]

I miss my car. It got about 43-45 MPG, was small on the outside, but big enough on the inside; and something very wonderful, but not family-friendly, happened for the first time in it.

I miss when the kiddie cartoons on Cartoon Network weren't dumb.

I miss when Adult Swim only played cartoons, and by in large they were funny, or were good anime.

I miss Batman: The Animated Series being on the Boomerang Channel.

I miss TechTV.

[Fazor]

I miss Batman: The Animated Series being on the Boomerang Channel.
It was on one of the disney channels last night.

[Ilya]

Old-school arcade videogames.

Miss no more!

http://www.arcade-history.com

Oh, and there is also eBay.

[Ilya]

Discovering girls.

That is something I emphatically do not miss. Years of making complete fool of myself are not a fond memory.

[Noclevername]

I miss Batman: The Animated Series being on the Boomerang Channel.

Heck yeah. Batman TAS and the first couple of seasons of Gargoyles. Why can't they do that anymore instead of lame attempts at ripping off Anime?

[Donnie B.]

I have never known
The like of this, I've been alone
And I have missed things
And kept out of sight
But other girls were never quite
Like this, di-di-di-di'n'di.

-- Paul McCartney (I've Just Seen a Face)

[Gillianren]

I miss when the Disney Channel played good stuff. I like Kim Possible, and they will--very rarely--play one of the older animated films, but they don't play the old cartoons anymore. House of Mouse plays new, lame ones, but I want to see Jiminy Cricket tell me that he's no fool. I want to see Donald Duck learning about the geometry of billiards. (Even though chaos theory has now taught us that it's not that simple.) I want to see Goofy learn how to fly and ski and ride a horse. (They've made new Goofy "how to" cartoons, but they're very bad.) I miss DTV, their in-house AMV show. (AMV is "anime music video," in which people take music they like, and hopefully is appropriate to the clips they're using, and make music videos using anime clips. Disney stuff isn't technically AMV, but the expression gets used to cover all clip videos in my circle of friends.)

Heck, I even miss a lot of the bad stuff they play. I shouldn't have to hope that the Hallmark Channel will do one of their mornings of The Apple Dumpling Gang or even The Ugly Dachshund in order to see live-action Disney. The version of The Parent Trap the Disney Channel plays should, at least occasionally, be the one with Hayley Mills; the version of Freaky Friday they play should have Jodie Foster.

[Trebuchet]

That would be Hayley Mills, I think.

Wow, I got to correct Gillian! That's not going to be a common event.

[KaiYeves]

I miss being on school vacation.
I miss the days when my friends cared about my interests.

[Gillianren]

That would be Hayley Mills, I think.

Wow, I got to correct Gillian! That's not going to be a common event.

Quite right; I'll go back and change it. On the other hand, I spelled "Gyllenhaal" right earlier, so that's something.

[Paul Beardsley]

I miss the exciting, lush, rich and deep Hammer Horror films that made me tingle with fear.

Okay, so they're not exciting, lush, rich and deep, and they certainly don't make me tingle with fear. But that is how I remember them!

I did miss my sense of wonder. A few years ago I tried to read Stephen Baxter's Ring, but gave up in boredom. Now I've started it again, and I'm awed by the cinematic vividness of it. So I think I've got it back!

ETA I miss double posts!

[Paul Beardsley]

I miss the exciting, lush, rich and deep Hammer Horror films that made me tingle with fear.

Okay, so they're not exciting, lush, rich and deep, and they certainly don't make me tingle with fear. But that is how I remember them!

I did miss my sense of wonder. A few years ago I tried to read Stephen Baxter's Ring, but gave up in boredom. Now I've started it again, and I'm awed by the cinematic vividness of it. So I think I've got it back!

[Noclevername]

The first time I saw the first Star Wars.

[Nadme]

People not yapping on cellphones in checkout lines, store aisles and everywhere else I don't care to overhear their conversations.

Yeah, I have a cellphone...but I'm responsible with it and don't presume I'm a celebrity whom everyone around me wants to hear.

[Tucson_Tim]

I really miss my great-aunt's home cooking. Especially her homemade pickles. My favorite meal was one she was very proud of: Boiled bunker fish with a side order of fried skank. Delicious. But her pickles really topped off the meal. Foregoing the more common recipes, she would pickle the cucumbers in Windex. I fondly remember sitting in her living room after dinner and thinking how lucky I was.

[Noclevername]

I missed a lot of opportunities.

[mike alexander]

Tucson Tim wrote:
I really miss my great-aunt's home cooking. Especially her homemade pickles. My favorite meal was one she was very proud of: Boiled bunker fish with a side order of fried skank. Delicious. But her pickles really topped off the meal. Foregoing the more common recipes, she would pickle the cucumbers in Windex. I fondly remember sitting in her living room after dinner and thinking how lucky I was.

Indeed, how lucky you were. My grandmother used Glass Wax instead of Windex. You had to rub it off before eating the pickles. On the other hand, those were the shiniest pickles I've ever seen.

[Gillianren]

"Fried skank" means something very different back home.

[KaiYeves]

I miss the two years of my life that weren't among the hottest on record.

[Van Rijn]

I miss the exciting, lush, rich and deep Hammer Horror films that made me tingle with fear.

Okay, so they're not exciting, lush, rich and deep, and they certainly don't make me tingle with fear. But that is how I remember them!


That reminds me: Creature Features (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature_Features) night, where there were lots of B movies, Hammer films were common, along with lots of '50s and '60s science fiction and horror films. The host was Bob Wilkins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Wilkins) who was seen in the Bay Area and Sacramento. He had a very distinctive voice, a dry wit, and often had interesting interviews. The movies were never great, but there was something about them, and I was fond of the Hammer films.

[Van Rijn]

Oh, another thread reminded me of this one: Building spacecraft models as a kid. I especially liked the models of things that could be real, or were based on proposed ideas, like Von Braun's ferry rocket, an interplanetary manned nuclear rocket (it had the nuclear thermal rocket up front, with the crew section trailing by cables), or an orbital space taxi/cargo transport. And of course, there were other models like my my not so realistic Leif Ericson cruiser, ones from Star Trek, The Invaders, Land of The Giants, and so forth. I miss the whole process of a new find in the store, building them, and letting my imagination soar with the new model.

I could still build models, I suppose, but it wouldn't be the same.

[Jim]

Yeah, Creature Features, or whatever the local stations' names for them were. It seems that every market used to have at least one station showing the horror and scifi flicks from the 30s-40s-50s on Saturday night, usually hosted by a person in some cheap costume.

(This was the basis for Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, though she took it in a different direction.)

And, Miss Kitirik.

Houston station Channel 13 was just getting started in the early 50s and wanted an afternoon kids' program. They hired a young woman and dressed her like a cat (I think her mom made the costume). They named her after the station's call sign, KTRK... KiTiRiK. The show aired for about 15-17 years, every weekday afternoon.

She ran the program like a fairly typical kids' show, but that costume... think a slightly toned down Catwoman. I'm sure she was responsible for many fathers happily watching the show with their kids, but for vastly different reasons. And for many boys continung to watch well into puberty, for those same reasons.

(I wonder if Elvira ever watched it?)

[Moose]

(This was the basis for Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, though she took it in a different direction.)

A recent photo of Elvira, in normal street clothes, showed up on Fark last week. She was gorgeous then, she's amazing now. (I don't have time to run this down, not before tonight, anyway.)

[SeanF]

And, Miss Kitirik.

Houston station Channel 13 was just getting started in the early 50s and wanted an afternoon kids' program. They hired a young woman and dressed her like a cat (I think her mom made the costume). They named her after the station's call sign, KTRK... KiTiRiK. The show aired for about 15-17 years, every weekday afternoon.

She ran the program like a fairly typical kids' show, but that costume... think a slightly toned down Catwoman. I'm sure she was responsible for many fathers happily watching the show with their kids, but for vastly different reasons. And for many boys continung to watch well into puberty, for those same reasons.

(I wonder if Elvira ever watched it?)
I see what you mean (http://matlockjames.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D0340C73D48340F!3613.entry), Jim. :)

[Gillianren]

Yeah, Creature Features, or whatever the local stations' names for them were. It seems that every market used to have at least one station showing the horror and scifi flicks from the 30s-40s-50s on Saturday night, usually hosted by a person in some cheap costume.

(This was the basis for Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, though she took it in a different direction.)

The woman considered the basis for the Elvira character (who also did Plan 9, among others), died this month. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maila_Nurmi

[SkepticJ]

I miss Batman: The Animated Series being on the Boomerang Channel.
It was on one of the disney channels last night.

I know, but Boomerang is commercial-free. Toon Disney has not only commecials, but commercials designed to appeal to kids--which annoy me even more than normal commercials*.




*Normal commercials being those that don't trigger the autonomic reflex of muting the TV or changing the channel in disgust.

[Noclevername]

I always mute the commercials. It's become a reflex. But yeah, the kid's commercials have become mind-warpingly bad over the last few years.

[SkepticJ]

People not yapping on cellphones in checkout lines, store aisles and everywhere else I don't care to overhear their conversations.

Amen.

It gets worse than that, I'm afraid. People can't remember to turn them off--or don't care--during funerals and when at church. I'm an agnostic and the latter one grates me!

[KaiYeves]

I miss summer vacation, because I could stay up until ten thirty every night. Now I can only stay up until nine thirty, and some genius at The Science Channel thought it was a good idea to show Cosmos on Tuesday nights starting at Nine.

[Fazor]

Amen.

It gets worse than that, I'm afraid. People can't remember to turn them off--or don't care--during funerals and when at church. I'm an agnostic and the latter one grates me!

People talking on cell phones don't bother me as much as it seems to bother others. The exception is when it's extreemely rude to do so (i.e. situations where you would be expected to be quiet otherwise, like Church, movies, funeral, etc). Or the other case; when someone comes into my office because they need something (usually when they're starting a policy), and while I'm trying to help them, they're talking on their phone. Then they have the attitude like I'm being slow and taking up too much of their time. Get of the *#!@!**& phone, and it won't take so long, genious.

Anyway, as for people forgetting to turn off their ringers...that's why I keep mine on vibrate 100% of the time. Even at home. If I don't have my phone on my person, it means I don't want to be contacted (that's actually most of the time while I'm at home). Yes, friends/family complaine because "they can never reach me", but why should the expect me to be available 100% of the time? I mean, I do call people back.

[Noclevername]

People talking on cell phones don't bother me as much as it seems to bother others. The exception is when it's extreemely rude to do so (i.e. situations where you would be expected to be quiet otherwise, like Church, movies, funeral, etc). Or the other case; when someone comes into my office because they need something (usually when they're starting a policy), and while I'm trying to help them, they're talking on their phone. Then they have the attitude like I'm being slow and taking up too much of their time. Get of the *#!@!**& phone, and it won't take so long, genious.


What gets me are the people who make calls in the middle of a conversation. It's one thing to answer the phone while talking, but if you already know you're talking to someone, asking or answering a question, etc, don't call someone else in the middle of it!

Yes, friends/family complaine because "they can never reach me", but why should the expect me to be available 100% of the time? I mean, I do call people back.

But then they have to wait! Cell phones have destroyed our sense of patience. (along with TV remotes, microwave popcorn, credit card sliders, easypass, etc.)

[Nadme]

Princess phones (particularly the powder-blue ones) with rotary dials in the receiver. I always wanted one of those...

[SkepticJ]

Cell phones have destroyed our sense of patience. (along with TV remotes, microwave popcorn, credit card sliders, easypass, etc.)

I'm sure the wheel, bow and arrow and lots of other inventons have done likewise. People still have patience--it's just measured in minutes now. ;)

[Noclevername]

I'm sure the wheel, bow and arrow and lots of other inventons have done likewise. People still have patience--it's just measured in minutes now. ;)

Seconds, for most people I encounter. (I'm as guilty as they are, I suppose.)

[closetgeek]

It's on the following morning at 10ish. Wait! I am assuming that bedtime means school the next morning...skip that. You can magically get sick every Wednesday. Check Sundays, they usually replay the whole Tuesday night space lineup on Sundays.

I miss summer vacation, because I could stay up until ten thirty every night. Now I can only stay up until nine thirty, and some genius at The Science Channel thought it was a good idea to show Cosmos on Tuesday nights starting at Nine.

[ABR.]

Today, during the 2.5 km hike through heavy snow to my son's school and the 2.5 km hike back home, I missed having a working 4-wheel drive.

[Jim]

Of course, that was uphill both ways, right?

[ABR.]

Not both ways. Just on the way there. But it was into a driving wind. I had to take my glasses off because they were completely fogged. And there were wolves...

Actually, the trip back reminded me of similar walks I had with my father. He was a botanist at a small state university and in charge of the greenhouse. On really cold snowy/icy nights, we would wait until after dark and then walk nearly 5km to the school to tend to the greenhouse. It was usually well after midnight on our return. The crunch of the snow, sometimes seeing only by moonlight or starlight, checking on the cars in the ditch, watching for nocturnal animals, stepping out of the chilly night air into the balmy greenhouse -- now those are things I really miss...

[closetgeek]

Two feet. alright only people that know me would laugh at that. I miss that show Wings, the sitcom. Above all else I miss being 16 and knowing everything.

[Robinson]

Any other BAUTers got things they miss?

Yes. And right now, I am missing you.

It's not often while meandering around in the archives, the old stuff nobody looks at anymore, that I run across a topic that makes me sniffle.

I never knew you, but because your words still live on, I am starting to.

And this is a good topic.

I miss my left hand.

[mahesh]

You nice Robinson!