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And now if I may present the Turn Signal Story (a short novella)

When I was a kid, I used to play around with electromagnetism, as in winding magnet wire around random metal things, nails, screws, whatever I could find, and I ran across this thing in a can in my parents' basement that seemed suitable. I dunno, after watching Star Trek after school I was trying to design a forcefield or tractor beam or some sort of bullshit like that. Anyway, I was wrapping my wire around this rod (no homo) and my dad caught me after he got home from work and slapped me down and told me to never touch that item again. And I didn't.

Flash forward about ten years, and my parents are celebrating their 25th anniversary with another couple of friends of theirs who happened to be down from Minnesota. And I got home from school and my dad asked me to go downstairs and retrieve the thing he told me not to touch. And I'm like, uhh okay. So I went down to get it and gave it to him, and he presented it to his friend there. And they just started laughing their asses off, and I'm going what's the deal?

Turns out his friend George there had bought a brand new Pontiac back in 1950-something and he and my dad had gone out and gotten drunk one night and rolled it into a ditch the same weekend George bought it. My dad kept the turn signal lever. That was all that was left of the car. And that was it. My dad kept it for more than 25 years to give it back to him eventually. lmao.

THE END.
 
Volpone said:
Liz Phair, Supernova. Veruca Salt, Seether. No Doubt, Spiderwebs. The Saturday Mornings cover album. The Carpenters cover album.
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Hole - Live Through This
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Cranberries - No Need To Argue
NIN - Downward Spiral
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Sam Phillips - Martinis & Bikinis
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Luscious Jackson - Natural Ingredients
Pretenders - Last Of The Independents
Sarah MacLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

yup, good year...
 
Seriously. The "FRIENDS" era. Say from the end of the first Gulf War to 9-11. You've got most of the comforts of the modern era but still the familiarity of the Olden Dayes. Newspapers. Phone books. Shopping Malls. Land lines. Answering machines. Dial-up Internet. Primitive cell phones. "The Matrix" was eerily prescient. The Matrix is a representation of the 1990s for obvious practical reasons but, over a quarter century later, we realize it really was the peak of human civilization.

Oh, on the music front you had the swing resurgence with Brian Setzer Orchestra and you had ska. The '99-'04 Mustang isn't as good as the '05-'09 Mustang, but other than that, it's all good.
 
M*A*S*H was on Movies! tonight. It's a neat movie. It's kind of a sketch comedy movie, where there really isn't a plot, per se, just a series of little vignettes, but it is nicely done. And it's interesting because...IMO the TV show was crap. It started out OK but it very quickly got preachy and woke. But watching the movie stirred up memories of how some of the early episodes stayed pretty close to the movie.

Wild, how many people are in this. It was also a demonstration of why I can no longer be a "Jeopardy!" contestant. Because my brain is too slow. Donald Sutherland as Hawkeye. Elliot Gould as Trapper John. I got the Frank Burns actor, but it escapes me now. Colors. The Great Santini. The original True Grit. --Robert Duvall! (Had to look it up this time). Recognized Duke but couldn't place him. Tom Skerritt. Probably first saw him in Top Gun, so it was a little like looking at a "Deliverance" era Burt Reynolds--"where do I know this guy from?! [checks Wiki] Ah, that's it." Odo as Father Mulcahey. I think I might have eventually came...no, I wouldn't have gotten Tom Skerritt. But as much as I knew it was Odo, I never would've gotten Rene Auberjonois.

Also interesting that, apparently you now need to bleep "spearchucker" when referring to a black person--even if they competed in the javelin. Mods, please #### out "spearchucker."
 
Suzanne Vega, "Tom's Diner." That's the one I couldn't remember. "Doot-doot-doo-doo, doot-doot doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doot-doot-doo-doo..." That said,
 
Volpone said:
M*A*S*H was on Movies! tonight. It's a neat movie. It's kind of a sketch comedy movie, where there really isn't a plot, per se, just a series of little vignettes, but it is nicely done. And it's interesting because...IMO the TV show was crap. It started out OK but it very quickly got preachy and woke. But watching the movie stirred up memories of how some of the early episodes stayed pretty close to the movie.

Wild, how many people are in this. It was also a demonstration of why I can no longer be a "Jeopardy!" contestant. Because my brain is too slow. Donald Sutherland as Hawkeye. Elliot Gould as Trapper John. I got the Frank Burns actor, but it escapes me now. Colors. The Great Santini. The original True Grit. --Robert Duvall! (Had to look it up this time). Recognized Duke but couldn't place him. Tom Skerritt. Probably first saw him in Top Gun, so it was a little like looking at a "Deliverance" era Burt Reynolds--"where do I know this guy from?! [checks Wiki] Ah, that's it." Odo as Father Mulcahey. I think I might have eventually came...no, I wouldn't have gotten Tom Skerritt. But as much as I knew it was Odo, I never would've gotten Rene Auberjonois.

Also interesting that, apparently you now need to bleep "spearchucker" when referring to a black person--even if they competed in the javelin. Mods, please #### out "spearchucker."
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Odo, I mean Dago Red agrees.
 
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