I Scream
 

Ironically enough, vanilla is my favorite flavor of ice cream. It's just so damn good.

Reading DS's list of what she considers deviant and non-deviant sexual behavior is interesting to me since the way I define vanilla vs. non-vanilla sex is based on what I am willing to do, and what I am not willing to do. So, it's a pretty enlightening list.

Vanilla - poll
 

Yeah, generally if you've done it, it's wonderbread. If you haven't, it's not.

Vanilla - poll
 

Golly gee. You are just too damn C-R-A-Z-Y !!!!!

not7yS

Vanilla - poll
 

Well, I think you're a dirty whore. Now whip out those krispy kremes and let's get it on.

TM

Vanilla - poll
 

Ahhh, blow it out yer ass. I wasn't saying it was crazy, it was just funny to run into someone who watched me fuck my first husband in a car when we didn't know anyone was watching.

Crazy is fucking in a moving vehicle and not "disengaging" to stop and pay the toll to a live toll-taker. Apparently, they take pictures at toll plazas. Live and learn.

Vanilla - poll
 

Different types of drugs do different things to you that affect the sex experience. So, for example, sex while on hallucigens can be really pretty fucked up (or really pretty cool) and that is separate from the level of societal acceptance of the drug being discussed (though societal acceptance would play into the GWNC issue of whether people think you are crazy for suggesting such a thing). I can't comment from either first or second hand info on heroin, but I have a good idea about the others that DS listed and I think she probably got it right. I would put speed on the non-wonderbread list. The gist is that pot, coke and x all sort of dull sensations in one way or another, thus affecting the resulting sex. Some people really like sex on x, as we have discussed on the old boards, and to some it sucks.

Furniture in New York City
 

Thank you! I have been looking for some chairs to match an antique table I use as my dining table. I didn't want to spend a lot because sooner or later I'll just put it aside and use it as a card table or something else cause it is rather small.

I found the perfect chairs on this site. And they were incredibly inexpensive to boot.

Vanilla - poll
 

Yet another advantage of EZPass: no need to "disengage"

The Best of My Hate
 

The latest releases from Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles have finally accomplished what Richard Nixon could not --- they make me ashamed to have been born in the '70s.

Apparently, Mojo Nixon and Jeff Lebowski were right about Don Henley.

There is a reason they use 555 in the movies
 

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movi....ap/index.html

Apparently the morons who made the Bruce movie decided to use a working number so people across the country where the exchange works are getting inundated.

Above is an article.

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

I was talking to someone who is in her early 20s today and made a joke about someone looking like Grimace. She didn't know who Grimace was. She also didn't know who Mayor McCheese, The Hamburglar or the French Fry Guys were either. Blew my mind. I thought these were pillars of our society to be studied and passed down from generation to generation.

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Anyway, POLL:

Name a popular culture icon or character from your childhood that is or is soon to be thought of as passe (if thought of at all). I think we've already exhausted School House Rock conversations and Smurfs are too popular an answer.

TM

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

The Fonz
The Bandit
Weebles

Edit: For those hailing from the 1970s, check out this nifty nostalgia site http://www.inthe70s.com/index.shtml

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

Fraggles.

The kids do not respect the Fraggles.

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

Holly Hobby.

And Weebles, which wobble but don't fall down.

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

I wanted to grow up to be Agent 99, I had a big-time crush on Underdog and I really, really miss my Spirograph.

AM(flame away about my age)M

The Best of My Hate
 

The title track to the new Fleetwood Mac album - Say You Will - will simultaneously bore one to death while upseting all the neighborhood animals. Stevie Nicks drones the song in an awful, flat monotone that defies description. That they chose it to be the title track suggests that they are laughing at you - the record buyer.

Vanilla
 

Which is followed by: "Marge, we're out of chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice cream." At which point, Homer leaves to go to the store, and wacky hijinks ensue.

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

The first one that comes to mind is Mork from Ork. Man that guy was incerdibly popular when I was a young one. I remember that my Dynamite magazine (anyone remember those?) used to have full cover glossies of Mork every other week, along with Star Wars.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/mork.jpg

Nowadays, you can't even get a True Hollywood Story or Behind the Scenes type show for Mork and Mindy, while you still see them for mediocre shows like The Facts of Life.

Shazbot.

Flinty

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

I think I still have all my original Charlie's Angels trading cards.

Can we all agree that the current remake movies are an abomination against God? Or at least that every angel besides Sabrina was an idiot?

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

Dunno if these are passe, or if it's just that nobody past a certain age will ever know what they are:

Lite-Brite
The Sunshine Family
Slip n' Slide
Those toy rockets where you filled something with water and pumped it up so the rocket shot over the roof of the house

Ancient chinese secret
He never asks for a second cup at home
Crosses, lifts, and separates (why is this desirable?)
That not so fresh feeling
Please don't squeeze the charmin (that was back when TP commercials were delicate, now we just have bears taking a newspaper to read into the woods where they have TP that really cleans their asses better than anything that came before)

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

I'm pretty sure that "where's the beef" will be remembered, if at all, as Mondale's great debate line, not as the ad line uttered by that aged lady in the Wendy's ads. (if she's a cultural icon).

I think the Superfriends are pretty much gone, as an entity. Now we just have Superman vs. Batman, or whatever that battle is.

I keep thinking The Hulkster will disappear, but then he becomes world champion of "wrestling" again. The Iron Shiek and his tag team buddy (it's not Boris Karloff, but something like that) are definitely gone, as is the Macho Man, Randy Savage.

E.T.

Smarter than the average bear

Humdrum
 

I like vanilla pudding. Does that make me a perv or a gay?

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

I think my son is the only little goof wandering around going "Wonder Twin powers -- activate. Shape of.. an ape. Form of...a big fucking icicle."

You can still catch all of the "Friends" on Boomerang. Along with "Up and at'em, its Atom Ant," the Jetsons (flying cars in my lifetime my ass!), Yogi Bear and Boo Boo and all of the rest. They even show the old Laffalympics, remember those?

"Grape Ape, Grape Ape"

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

making things with lite-brite. Lite-brite! making things with lite-brite.

And sit and spin, big wheel, and the big green machine.
weren't those banned, along with "jarrow," the rubber-tipped, javelin/arrow that put eyes out?

How about Operation---"bzzt . . . butterfingers"?

And don't forget super happy fun ball*


*still legal in five states.

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

Me too. And my Light Brite. And my Shrinky Dinks. And my Great Greetings and Fashion Plates. Good times.

Tofutti
 

I do NOT like vanilla pudding made with soy milk, because the excess estrovens increase my risk of breast cancer.

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

I hated the Wonder Twins ('form of an ice cube?' how the hell is that going to help save the world from a demented megalomaniac?), but really do miss the ultracool Legion of Doom. And Tarzan was another great cartoon.

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

My parents found one of those Wham-O whirly thingies and bought it for my son -- I played with it all night. Two pieces of metal on handle and the metal curved over and you had this disc in the middle and had to keep flicking your wrist to keep the thing moving. Simple things amuse me. Oh well, maybe that explains the plainness of my sex life.

Edit: I miss the Muppet Show. You know, the real Muppet Show where they had stars of the day make guest appearances. I loved that show.

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

Bozo the Clown (yes, even in Chicago)
HR PuffnStuff
Flintstones (nothing left but the cereal)
Peanuts (just rerun comic strips and old TV specials)
Jetsons

"You sunk my battleship!"

"Here, diagonally."

And do the kids still play chinese jump rope, chinese checkers, freeze tag, TV tag?

And I wanted to be Jill Munroe. Has anybody ever looked better in a bikini than Cheryl Ladd on the first Jill episode of Charlie's Angels?

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

"They are falling to the ground like sacks of wet cement"
"I thought turkey's could fly"
WKRP "Great Turkey Give-Away"


"Cheye Cheye Rod-ri-gwy" -- Les Nessman


WKRP in Cincinnati.

Lost cultural treasures
 

Legos
lincoln logs
real metal tonka trucks


I actually had a holly hobby watch. Damn that thing was loud. I also have a peanuts watch I have had since I was a kid. Snoopy is on it, his arms are the clock hands and woodstock is the second hand.

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

OH MY GOD!!!!!! My Wham-O is at my parents' house. I am going to drive there after work and steal it back. Man, is THIS going to be a fun night. Drunk Wham-O.

Vanilla - poll
 

I just hope it isn't a sex toy.

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

Real glass promotional glasses given away at McDonalds and Burger King.
The "gotta make the donuts" guy.
A pre-Elmo Sesame Street.

Lost cultural treasures
 

Speaking of speaking of Battlestar Galactica, any word on the new version coming to a Sci-Fi channel near you? Is Starbuck still a woman?

Humdrum
 

Depends, 1) are you using it to toss a sald? 2) If yes, is it a guy's salad? If yes, you are a gay. 3) If no, you are a perv (or at least have bad breath)