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Okay, how about Lurleen McDaniel? My sister always got a stack of these melodramatic piles of poo poo from the library back in the day. Every single one is about someone who is going to die. I'd read the ending and spoil it for my sister   Yeah so she started this crap in the mid '80s but whatever they were the fuckin' same anyway
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This song has been playing repeatedly in my head all day long.
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May 11, 2012 03:08
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blaarghh posted:Then someone came up with a way to make it look like there was more ink in them (not sure what the point in that was), by taking it apart and sucking the ink halfway back up the tube. I did it once and got a mouthful of pale blue ink I think you're supposed to run the gel pen down to nothing because your Social Studies notes *had* to be in neon rainbow, then suck the remaining bit up the tube to make it look like a brand new pen you're giving to the slow kid in class out of the kindness of your heart. Then when the kid tries to write with the pen and can't, you accuse them of breaking it or doing it wrong in front of all your classmates. That, or put it in your pencil bag and act like a rich rear end in a top hat whose parents can afford a ton of new gel pens all the time, when secretly you constantly have to remember which ones only look full but don't actually write. Either way, gel pens are the gateway drug to acting like a total douche in sixth grade.
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May 11, 2012 03:48
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This is a little specific and not exactly campy, but this SNL parody (sorry I couldn't find it in youtube): http://www.hulu.com/watch/279973/saturday-night-live-big-red My sister and I were watching one of those "World's Funniest Commercials" shows they would come out with every once in awhile; most of the stuff was real commercials from various places, but they had a couple of parodies thrown in too. Being 5 or 6 at the time, I HAD to have a Big Red. I asked for one at every birthday and Christmas for a couple of years, and my parents just kept telling me they didn't sell them where we lived. I don't know why I thought that thing would be so fun, but the early 90's for me involved a lot of yearning for a mess-making Viking toy. Also, I was wondering if anybody else remembered a VHS I used to have called "Dinosaurs! Dinosaurs! Dinosaurs!" It was a shortish collection of little vignettes about dinosaurs fighting or taking care of their babies or whatever, and there was a host who would be at different dinosaur-related places in between them and introduce each segment. For some reason, over the course of the video he slowly turned into a dinosaur which completely terrified me; I loving loved dinosaurs back then though so I watched it pretty much every day. I'd love to be able to watch that goofy video again. I don't think I've seen anyone mention The Box. My babysitter used to let us watch MTV and The Box but we all thought The Box was way better because you could request videos (and I think they had a "vote for the next video" show) they would play stuff MTV wouldn't. Like this video, which is completely baffling when you're 8 and have no context for any hip-hop music and think it's just another video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPsIuzobCDs
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May 11, 2012 04:43
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Did anybody else have the Disney sing along VHS tapes when they were younger? I watched the poo poo out of these when I was a kid. My parents even have a video of me singing along while bouncing in my chair. We had so many of the tapes. Even just watching the intro on youtube made me feel like a six year old again.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHwrNRIVP-o I'm also currently marathoning Star Trek TNG on Netflix which I remember watching all the time when I was little with my dad. Although now I can appreciate it much more as an adult.
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May 11, 2012 04:59
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scorpiobean posted:Did anybody else have the Disney sing along VHS tapes when they were younger? I watched the poo poo out of these when I was a kid. My parents even have a video of me singing along while bouncing in my chair. We had so many of the tapes. Even just watching the intro on youtube made me feel like a six year old again. YESSS. I can't remember if this was my favorite or if it terrified me, because it gave me a weird nostalgic fear response when I just rewatched it. I got the same thing when I recently watched the Disney version of Ichabod Crane, so I'm leaning towards my reptile brain remembering the fear while my memory center is all " ". Anyway, I remember watching this mofo a lot.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eavo08IXduQ Also, yes to The Box. I caught it toward the tail end though, I remember watching Mope by Bloodhound gang and a lot of lovely early 2000s pop. And Vengaboys. I remember embarrassingly that I had one of my first gay crushes on the guy from SoulDecision. Yeah. I know. Shut up. Frantically trying to find my Pogs tomorrow. QuickbreathFinisher has a new favorite as of 05:45 on May 11, 2012 |
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Dad Beer posted:I don't think I've seen anyone mention The Box. My babysitter used to let us watch MTV and The Box but we all thought The Box was way better because you could request videos (and I think they had a "vote for the next video" show) they would play stuff MTV wouldn't. Like this video, which is completely baffling when you're 8 and have no context for any hip-hop music and think it's just another video: Ohh man, I used to watch The Box all the time. I remember they played all kinds of hip hop and dance videos. They even played Barbie Girl before it hit MTV. Good times. Thanks for reminding me! And that video is pretty awesome.
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May 11, 2012 05:41
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Dad Beer posted:Also, I was wondering if anybody else remembered a VHS I used to have called "Dinosaurs! Dinosaurs! Dinosaurs!" It was a shortish collection of little vignettes about dinosaurs fighting or taking care of their babies or whatever, and there was a host who would be at different dinosaur-related places in between them and introduce each segment. For some reason, over the course of the video he slowly turned into a dinosaur which completely terrified me; I loving loved dinosaurs back then though so I watched it pretty much every day. I'd love to be able to watch that goofy video again. I found the name of that film thanks to SA's "Help finding pre-internet things" thread. I only saw it once and the only thing I remembered was the part where he becomes a dinosaur. Irreversibly. It was kind of messed up.
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UnculturedSwine posted:Ohh man, I used to watch The Box all the time. I remember they played all kinds of hip hop and dance videos. They even played Barbie Girl before it hit MTV. Good times. Thanks for reminding me! And that video is pretty awesome. I remember seeing Natural Born Killaz (not related to the movie, btw) on the Box. They broadcast it on UHF so it was like a peek into the magical world of cable and hardcore gangsta' rap. 
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Pick posted:I found the name of that film thanks to SA's "Help finding pre-internet things" thread. I only saw it once and the only thing I remembered was the part where he becomes a dinosaur. Irreversibly. It was kind of messed up. It gets worse: the dinosaur-man cracks a joke about anal probing when the co-host says now he can be a movie star or some such nonsense.
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May 12, 2012 02:00
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Shining Time Station. I'm probably not the only one who remembers it. It was surreal when I found out that George Carlin was a raunchy comedian, and I felt almost the same way when I found out Bob Saget was like that too, since he used to host America's Funniest Home Videos.
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May 12, 2012 02:24
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So how crazy was it when you found out Ringo Starr was a Beatle then?
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Pseudonym posted:So how crazy was it when you found out Ringo Starr was a Beatle then?
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When Mtv was great The Maxx. http://youtu.be/CGw0-gLZaMA
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Mustachioed menace posted:When Mtv was great The Maxx is awesome. And MTV did the right thing and re-hosted it better than the tubes. http://www.mtv.com/shows/the_maxx/video.jhtml Not 100% that's the best source but, either way, if you haven't seen it  and watch that poo poo.And if you have seen it, it's better than you remember, cuz that was a long rear end time ago.
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May 12, 2012 06:50
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NICE! Thanks for this, I've been telling people about The Maxx recently and was hoping it was online somewhere!
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May 12, 2012 09:32
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scorpiobean posted:Did anybody else have the Disney sing along VHS tapes when they were younger? I watched the poo poo out of these when I was a kid. My parents even have a video of me singing along while bouncing in my chair. We had so many of the tapes. Even just watching the intro on youtube made me feel like a six year old again. That reminds me of a show I used to watch called Kidsongs. I kind of feel sorry for making my parents sit through this crap. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeXpwFNLOAU
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magic pantaloons posted:Thoroughbred series motherfucker. Holy poo poo. This brings back memories. I was a creepy horse nut as a child and had every single book that had a pony picture on the cover, I'm sure.
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May 12, 2012 12:13
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I had almost 30 of those books. I stopped reading them after a big time skip and the series changed to eventing and got even stupider than it was. I read a bunch of other horse series, too, but I can't remember the names of them. One was about a ghost horse in Arizona. Another was about a girl who was paid to be friends with a disabled girl. I think I got them at a Book Fair. I pretty much bought any book there that had a horse on it. Most of them were dumb.
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coop52 posted:That reminds me of a show I used to watch called Kidsongs. I kind of feel sorry for making my parents sit through this crap. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeXpwFNLOAU Just seeing the word "Kidsongs" was enough for me to remember all of the words to the themesong.  God drat it brain.
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JustFrakkingDoIt posted:The Maxx is awesome. Something. All I can find are bootleg ones on amazon burnt onto dv-rs.
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coop52 posted:I had almost 30 of those books. I stopped reading them after a big time skip and the series changed to eventing and got even stupider than it was. I wish I could find the ghost horse one again. I know it was stupid but for some reason I wish I knew what it was.
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May 13, 2012 00:30
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magic pantaloons posted:My eyes hurt from looking through Magic Eye photos on the internet. Don't click here then! 
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Holistic Detective posted:Don't click here then! It's so 90s.
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magic pantaloons posted:
I remember when these first came out and there was a store in the mall selling large prints of them for hundreds of dollars. Then a few years there where everywhere dirt cheap. I just wonder who the hell shelled out $500+ for a poster.
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May 13, 2012 13:50
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I was the KING of Magic Eye. I could see the picture instantaneously, and would brag about it like I was hot poo poo. People used to stand around the mall trying to solve these things. I guess we were easily impressed pre-internet. It feels like it took years for the novelty to wear off.
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Goddammit, now I just recall a time in ~1994 when I saved up a bunch of Kool Aid packet points and mailed them off for a "holographic magic poster of dinosaurs in 3D!!" and the picture shown on the label was an artist's elaboration of the 'solved' image, not the real one. I was SO pissed when my poster tube finally arrived and it contained a blurry acid trip picture with some instructions to cross my eyes. I still put that thing up on my wall, but it was months before I ever saw one dinosaur on that thing. Imagine drinking gallons of pink lemonade to earn the following:  (Except in THREE DEE!!) And instead what you get is:  gently caress you, Kool Aid, gently caress you. I totally sympathize with that guy in Mallrats.
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 Star Castles. I had the one on the left. edit: All this talk reminded me of that Art Magic magazine that use to buy every week as a kid. It had a magic eye on the back of the cover. I cite it as one of my influences on studying a fine arts degree. magic pantaloons has a new favorite as of 13:06 on May 15, 2012 |
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magic pantaloons posted:
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Pseudonym posted:So how crazy was it when you found out Ringo Starr was a Beatle then?
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How is this video days old yet encapsulates the year 1999 perfectly? http://youtu.be/wmR4q_YAcZU Have you guys heard this new "Europop" album? Blue is my JAMS!
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El Estrago Bonito posted:How is this video days old yet encapsulates the year 1999 perfectly? It's even so 90's that it's basically just a pitch-shifted Vengabus with different lyrics.
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Wandering Knitter posted:I had the one on the right. I just completely forgot until I saw this picture. I had another one that was like a giant wedding castle cake and there was glitter mixed in with the plastic.
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Love Connection on steroids: STUDS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByJ-RQbDPaM
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Nerminator posted:Love Connection on steroids: My sister and I watched that show after school every day. I'd probably still enjoy it.
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Nerminator posted:Love Connection on steroids:
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Sombrerotron posted:The word "stud" itself (as a descriptive term for a good-looking man) conjures up vivid '90s imagery in my mind. Do people in the States still use it? How about "hunk"? My understanding is hunk is still used, often in the form of "He's so hunky". Stud is only used sarcastically, teasingly and by moms.
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Dr Mantis Toboggan posted:Stud is only used sarcastically, teasingly and by moms.
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Anyone remember Jellyfish? They never made it but they're basically as 90's as humanly possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkUHKYINc0A
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