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Real life Simpsons intro

Mar 5, 2006 1:26PM PST

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That was AWWWWW-SUM!!
Mar 5, 2006 2:10PM PST

That definitely made my favorites playlist.

-Terry

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Not surprised it was made in the UK...
Mar 5, 2006 2:53PM PST

EXCELLENT! One of the best ever.

Figures it was made in the UK. A few years ago, they voted Homer Simpson as their favorite (oops... favourite) American by far. The next closest were Lincoln and MLK, Jr at a distant 2nd and 3rd.

Homer: 40%
Lincoln: 10%
Martin Luther King: 10%

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2985728.stm

-Kevin S.

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that and....
Mar 6, 2006 1:30AM PST

.... the British are funny... in a cooky way Grin


btw - I'm a Brit now living in Canada.

Canuckmakem = CANUCK (Canadian) + Makem (person from Sunderland UK)

Simon in Medicine Hat

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Ahhhh ..
Mar 6, 2006 3:20AM PST

I had been wondering what the meaning was behind your alias.

-Terry

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(NT) (NT) Now you know
Mar 6, 2006 12:41PM PST
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(NT) (NT) and knowing is half the battle!
Mar 6, 2006 12:42PM PST
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Dang, you beat me to it!
Mar 6, 2006 9:54PM PST

That's EXACTLY the same thing I was thinking of.

Yo Joe!!

-Terry

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Children of the 80's Unite!
Mar 6, 2006 11:31PM PST

I thought I was the only one who had been programmed with that Answer-Reponse...

Was I alone in wondering why millions of rounds were expended and just by running and doing flips no one ever got hit?

Sigh. Good memories!

- Micah

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Have to remember Micah ...
Mar 7, 2006 3:14AM PST

.. They didn't have bullets, per se ... They had lasers .. G.I. Joe had red ones, and Cobra had blue ones.

Ahhh, the memories of the 80's .. G.I. Joe, Transformers, Thundercats, He Man ... Happy

-Terry

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Lasers!
Mar 7, 2006 3:26AM PST

Heh. Yes, they had lasers. All very sterile. No messy trauma with lAAAAsers. Happy

The only other cartoon that comes immediately to mind that you didn't mention is Scooby Doo.

I can actually remember playing Barnstorm on an Atari 2600 before and after our favourite cartoons.

Did you do any "programming" in Logo? Own an Apple IIe clone? Play Joust, Lode Runner, Zork, Wizardry, Dino Eggs, Karateka, World Championship Karate, Decathlon, Test Drive...

But I digress. Badly. Oh! The Humanity!

- Micah

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I love the 80's ..
Mar 7, 2006 11:15AM PST

I had forgotten to mention Scooby Doo, but it's been around LONG before the 80's, however, A Pup Named Scooby Doo was part of my Saturday Morning ritual.

How could I forget Logo programming on the Apple IIe .. I remember that in middle school, the school had an actual remote control turtle that operated via IR any program you made in Logo ..

That was THE coolest thing!!

-Terry

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Pong and Paddles
Mar 7, 2006 11:27PM PST

So maybe you had paddles for playing Pong and its variants as well. You know with the thumb button and the wheel-on-a-spring.

Good times!

- Micah

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Also
Mar 7, 2006 12:53PM PST

As long as somebody was in a vehicle, it couldn't explode.

-Ryan

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That's right ..
Mar 7, 2006 12:56PM PST

.. they ALWAYS seemed to eject just before the vehicle exploded into tiny bits.

-Terry