Kid stuff
 

Apparently they still make it, though updated for the times with the use of a mock cell phone...

http://www.hasbro.com/pl/page.viewpr...dn/default.cfm

Good News for NCS (and other people from Big D)
 

Thanks for the update. I'm reasonably sure Dallas will lose tonight anyway. I'll be at work, so I'll have to run down the the tv lounge for periodic updates.

LP, I agree that 102 crosses some weird heat threshold into the unbearable range. I will say that e/o is in a much more humid environment than Vegas. Dallas is humid now, but will be oven-like by late June.

childhood nostalgia overload
 

"Very sneaky, sis."

I loved watching the Muppet Show on Sunday night. It was a gentle reminder that the weekend was over and that I'd have to go back to school tomorrow.

I thought many of the cartoons of the late-70's and early-80's sucked. Remember the Rubik's Cube cartoon? the Pac-Man cartoon? I preferred the old Bugs Bunny or Roadrunner cartoons. I think those were the last ones that played on ABC Saturday mornings. Battle of the Planets came on weekday mornings early. I could make the spaceship out of Loc-Blocs, which was the only reason to use them instead of Legos. Did anyone else watch Battle of the Planets? Vaguely anime series with five teenagers who saved the planet and drove cool vehicles?

http://www.akdreamer.com/botp/picts/...ampan6inch.jpg

How 70's does that picture look, eh? I also liked Starblazers, which came on in the afternoons.

But most fun of all was the Mattel Football 2 game I had in third grade. Mattel had a bunch of handheld games with LED's (baseball, hockey, soccer). Football 2 was great because you could pass and run. Plus, you could play it with a friend and you could easily get a full game in during recess. I was so mad when Jason stole it. He returned it to the teacher, and to this day, I am still bitter that he wasn't expelled or spanked (our school had capital punishment back then) or set upon by wolves.

Trading Spaces Scandal!
 

Was that the one where Matthew McConnaughey was caught red-handed playing my bongos?!?!? NTTAWWT.


I figured if the court had a jury pool, then a speedo was appropriate attire, no?

Exactly, think about the deal you are getting when you only need 10K to purchase a 1M item. You should be thanking me. Not to mention for all of the men's room walls I have written your number.....er...referrals of your services I have made.

childhood nostalgia overload
 

If they were giving out capital punishment at my school, I'd have needed more than a gentle reminder to go back.

Man, are you OK? That must've been tough. But, then again, they probably had a rather low incidence of discipline problems.

:smash:

childhood nostalgia overload
 

Battle of the Planets rocked!! I saw a special somewhere a while back on anime in general and it mentioned that the entire series of Battle of the Planets (and the other variations/names it went under) were heavily edited Japanese anime which in translation bore no resemblance to what the Japanese show was in plot (or in violence level)...

The site you linked the picture from confirmed this. The villains on the Japanese series (Science Team Ninja Gatchaman -- love those Japanese names) were from Earth not from outer space, the characters were renamed and certain elements of American animation added in later to fill out the American story.

childhood nostalgia overload
 

I remember this as, "Pretty sneaky, sis." But I don't remember what it is . . . .

And I agree completely about The Muppet Show and Sunday nights.

childhood nostalgia overload
 

and i thought that my school was strict. was it a fundamentalist christian school that believes that disobediant children should be stoned? ;)

anyhow, that little mistake reminded me of a skit from "you can't do that on television" (which is apparently much too new for most of you to remember) where the school in reaction to the ban on corporal punishment in the school turned to the electric chair because capital punishment was still okay

i'd list all of my eighties memories, but what's the point, because you guys are all so old.

ms. naughty diplomat

Unwritten rule
 

Yes, this really is an unwritten rule. It's certainly not a rule for all men, but it's a useful rule for some. Having read the Salon.com article, it's a useful rule that Cary Tennis doesn't understand at all.

"If you're crazy about her, I say tell her so. What's she going to do, have you arrested?"

Having said these words in the early stages of a relationship with nearly dire consequences (ponderous relationship talk, immediate cooling of the relationship), I can tell you that the rule exists, the rule serves a purpose, and I follow the rule. Here's why.

I think men and women have different views on what the words "I love you" mean. Generally speaking, I think men see these words in the present tense and women see them in the future tense. When in the course of a relationship (or in the course of several recurring episodes of good sex, which most men see as a relationship equivalent), a man considers his lot and declares it to be good, he equates this with love. "Man, life is good. Jane's really hot. She's easy to talk to. She likes [pick any common interest] as much as me. In bed she [agrees with my version of the vanilla/chocolate list and likes all of the same flavors I do]. Jane rocks my world. I love Jane."

I think matters are more complicated for women. I think the "I love you" has a more long term meaning to women (once again, generally speaking). It's more than "I'm happy right now with you." Instead, it's closer to "I think I can be happy long term with you." So if the man says, "I love you." and it has a different meaning to the woman (even if it's a meaning that the man might not yet share himself) then it complicates things.

On the other hand, if the man waits for the woman to get to the point where she says "I love you" (where she means that she thinks she can be happy long term with you) she's already at the point where she's happy right now with the man. He can then reply "I love you too" without argument, discussion, or strife (so he'd better).

I don't recall any discussion of this rule with other men, but it's a pervasive rule designed to keep men from saying "I love you" at a time women would find irresponsibly early. As we've been talking about cartoons this afternoon, let me use an example. Beavis and Butthead are at the Stop 'n Shop, wiling away a Friday night. In comes Biker woman. She's driving Harley. She fills out her beer company T-shirt quite nicely. She starts stuffing items to shoplift down Butthead's pants. He immediately blurts out "I love you." Everyone knows this relationship won't last more than 30 minutes.

childhood nostalgia overload
 

You know, I think you're right. It's from the commerical for Connect Four, the game where you play a version of tic-tac-toe with red and black checkers.

I'd also like to change that whole reply now that rp has us getting hitched. I don't want to have to move to Arkansas.

I feel so old
 

Damn Leagl. Now granted I don't have access to the body language or other important cues and clues, but I think you got hit on and didn't even know it. If it was me, I'd be thinking that I was in.

Of course, I always think I'm in. But power of positive thinking and all that. I think that's probably helped me GET in on more than one occasion.

I feel so old
 

I never think I am being hit on. Her boyfriend was standing right behind her though, and I see no reason to believe she knew I was gay.

So, I don't think so. But like I said, I never think I am being hit on. I'm kind of dense.

I feel so old
 

Like I told you before, younger women have a far more open view of sexuality than we did at their age.

I say you go for the toaster.

I feel so old
 

As I said to someone else, I'd probably have to train her. That could be fun though.

Of course what if she gets all crazy and falls in love and decides she is a lesbian and because I was her first woman she will love me for ever and ever?* There she would be living right next to me. That would not be fun.




*This happens more than you would think. It never ends well.

childhood nostalgia overload
 

I remeber You Can't Do That On Television, with the slime and the Alanis Morrisset (slightly after my time) and the parental figure with the mustache, and the Canadian accents...

I don't remember it being all that funny unfortunately.

That show also reminded me of something that I won't miss from my teen (and maybe 20s) years -- Saved By The Bell. Yikes. And even worse, if you look on Saturday moring tv to this day there is always some Saved By The Bell-esque show taking up air time. Double Yikes.

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

Dude, I so LOVED Shazam! and Isis. Damn.

Land of the Lost.
Skate City!
Herbie the Love Bug.

BR(so does that answer the "car" question?)C

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

Ah, good catch.

Also: "We must exterminate ..."

childhood nostalgia overload
 

For all the talk of Alanis being on You Can't Do That On Television, she was only on it for a small handful of episodes. It's not as if she was Christine or Lisa (which one was Moose? Anyone remember?), or the male adult figure. I ran with a guy on my high school track team who was similarly on that show for a season.

I'll defend the funniness of the show. It was certainly better than anything else that was on at 9:30 on Saturday a.m.s, cause that's what I watched (during years when hockey or religious school wasn't at that time). Some of those locker jokes were classic. And of course, "What do you think's IN THE BURGERS."

Good times, good times.

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

Wait. You meant sex with a car?!! Now that is shocking, and non-wonderbread.

A little early 80s anecdote:

My parents took me and the kid brother to see our local pro football team play. There were wonderbread vans handing out these mini-loaves of wonderbread.

We were enthralled. We asked mom: "why can't we ever get wonderbread?" Her response to us: "we feed you real food." Her response to our father: "we need to take the kids back to new york for a while."

Even(raised in the provinces)Odds

You Oughta Know
 

Thinking about Ottawa's own Alanis, has the subject of the song "You Oughta Know" ever been definitively decided? I heard the rumors that it was Felix Potvin. Gwinchy?

childhood nostalgia overload
 

Wow, it's all coming back now. Firey phoenix and what not. It was like transformers before transformers were cool. And the superfriends. Wasn't there a moral to the story too?

Well, off to play Life.

You Oughta Know
 

I had heard it was about that other famous Canadian Dave Coulier.

Here's the scoop from the Urban Legend site:

Actor and comedian Dave Coulier, best known as Joey Gladstone on TV's Full House, whom Morissette dated for a while after they met at a hockey game in 1992. (The relationship reportedly ended because Coulier, fifteen years her senior, wanted to start a family, but Morissette felt she was too young.)

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/oughta.htm

childhood nostalgia overload
 

Connect Four if I recall.

You Oughta Know
 

She dated Joey?! Eww.

Hey, e/o, have fun watching the Spurs in the finals!

n(Mavs lost AND I'm still at work...)cs

Vanilla - poll
 

Voyeurism is super whitebread, but it can be addictive. Have you ever been on one of those "nude beach voyeur" websites? Sometimes the images are gross, but you can't help but checking out tons of them...

Watching most people have sex would not turn me on in the least.

Being watched having sex... that ain't whitebread. That's pretty ballsy. I've always wanted to be watched having sex by a panel not unlike olympic ski jumping judges. Afterward, they'd hold up cards and rate performance, technique, etc...

S(have had sex in public during the day and really dug it)D

I feel so old
 

I hope for your sake, Leagl, that that girl is gay, and hot. If a girl came up and said that to me (which is unlikely - most 22 year olds are never that open with men), I'd fix her a drink immediately and see where things went. Anyone that green to the ways of the world and hungry for companionship would probably be open to casual sex... or a clingy psychopath.

Think of hooking up with her like feeding a stray cat. If you do it, she may never leave. Then again... this is overthinking everything - just split a bottle of wine with her and see where it goes.

Yes, I'm presupposing she's a hot lil' 22 year old with a body you could bounce quarters off. If she's nasty, I've whipped myself up into a lesbian sex fantasy for no good reason. No biggie - won't be the last time I do that today.

S(22 year old chicks drink white wine)D

Vanilla - poll... The Naked Channel... Er, Poll?
 

I am not offended or freaked out by gay male porn. I've seen it before - its hard not to watch - its like seeing a really bad car wreck ("Goddamn, I should stop looking at this... those people must be in pain, but yet I can't stop looking...").

Lesbian stuff is much better because (a) I'm straight (b) its slower, (c) there are two of everything and (d) there are no dicks.

I've had a few friends who were involved in double-teaming girls. They all do the same shit - give each other high fives while one gets a hummer and the other takes the woman from behind. I asked them how they handled watching each other reach climax and view each other in an engorged state. They got quiet and accused me of asking disgusting questions. My response - "Hey man, you were walking around with a hard on in front of a friend and you're accusing me of uncomfortable behavior?"

This leads into my next point - dicks ruin porn. Sure, money shots are amusing, kinda like a dramatic peak in a movie, but do we males really need to see spewing cocks in these flicks/photos? I would like to start an "All Naked" channel where models and regular women just walk around naked all day. Each woman gets 15 minutes on screen and they run in loops like MTV runs videos. No dicks, no hard core spread shots - just naked hotties and amateurs. I think this format would be absolutely addictive. And the overhead for such a channel would be super-low. All you need is a camera and bodies who need cash.

S(anyone think this would work?)D

I feel so old
 

You can keep your fantasy. She looked pretty good.

Oh, and I agree, dicks ruin porn.


Leagl, I'm fearing the clingy psychopath, Eaze

Vanilla - poll... The Naked Channel... Er, Poll?
 

I have gay male friends who prefer straight or lesbian porn because it is "cute" and "amusing."

One of these friends was in a porno for extra money in law school, and he had the audacity to show it to me. (Then again, I did watch it). At any rate, he got paid something like $2,500 to pretend to be working out, then suddenly feel the urge to pee on his own chest while on bench press bench, then blow some faceless guy with a huge cock, who then peed on him and IN HIS FUCKING MOUTH. Then he jacked himself off and roll credits.

Talk about an uncomfortable response to, "So, what did you think of my performance?"

Vanilla - poll... The Naked Channel... Er, Poll?
 

I thought that we already had access to all the non-dick porn we could stand in all that soft core porn shit that is on tv. I say that porn serves no purpose for me at all if there are no dicks. What fun is that? Of course the male market for porn (both gay and straight) is larger than the (straight) female market, but we should get some options too...

Vanilla - poll... The Naked Channel... Er, Poll?
 

$2,500 is a lot of money to a law student, but still...that is fucking disgusting. What ever happened to selling your blood plasma?

You Oughta Know
 

I thought it was the guy on Full House. Not Bob Saget, not John Stamos. the other guy. I have no idea why I think it's him, but I do seriously think it's him.

Edited to say -d'oh! - should have read ahead

Vanilla - poll... The Naked Channel... Er, Poll?
 

It only took $2500 to let him have some guy pee in his mouth? Your friend needs some serious lessons in both self-esteem and economics.

Jeez, Demi Moore's character (well, Woody Harrelson, her husband) was offered $1 mil for simple, no-pee-in-mouth sex.

Vanilla - poll... The Naked Channel... Er, Poll?
 

I am not at all positive that he did not enjoy it.

Vanilla - poll... The Naked Channel... Er, Poll?
 

Ah. In that case, it must have been a nice bonus for a nice experience, but I hope he spent a significant portion of the money on Altoids.

Mehhhhhmories...of the way we were
 

childhood nostalgia overload
 

Speaking of Battle of the Planets and Transformers, does anyone remember Voltron, which fell between the two, chronologically?

http://images.google.com/images?q=tb.../~robertpetzel

I had one.

http://www.angelfire.com/pq/philgee/images/voltron.jpg

Much better than the cheap ass transformers that broke after transforming like 7 times.

TM

Vanilla - poll... The Naked Channel... Er, Poll?
 

That's some pretty fucked up shit there...

Your friend was grossly underpaid, whether he like dit or not.

I knew a guy who, in a really bored state, decided to videotape himself jerking off. He forgot about the tape. His sister came by months later and borrowed the video camera to tape some family event. Long story short, his mother called him later that day and asked him why he chose to put a very private moment on a video tape he gave to his family.

S(I'd never be able to look mom in the face...)D

Vanilla - poll... The Naked Channel... Er, Poll?
 

My first reaction to this is no freakin way if you are not going to include spread shots or anything remotely sexual.

But, then I remembered looking over cover art for a friend's new album. It was basically a nude woman in a provocative, not pornographic, pose. I was shocked not by the image but by the number of men who bought the album for the cover art.

Even(i know what boys like, i know what guys want)Odds

Vanilla - Another Perverted Poll
 

Since today's discussion is taking us to new depths, here's a classic - has anyone ever been caught TCBing?

I had one buddy who got caught by his mom while watching porn drunk as hell. Another was found by his mom, lubriderm in hand and porn open on bed, passed out in high school.

S(thankfully, no parent has ever snagged me - just the Mrs - which can be embarrassing, but is really no big deal)D