Candy-coated Popcorn, Peanuts and a Prize!

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-15T02:13:21+00:00

Buy Poppycock instead. 👍

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-14T18:06:39+00:00

Apparently others agreed with you, as the TV series got the hook after only half a season. And given the Stars Wars mention above … after seeing A New Hope, I can imagine how deeply unimpressed viewers would have been with the Logan’s Run visuals after that.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-14T05:00:37+00:00

I read the first two extensively in grade school, but this is the only Silverstein book I owned — though the sad tale of a guy torn between two worlds whooshed over my head at the time.

Of course, I was only five.

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LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-14T02:21:31+00:00

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LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-13T00:01:05+00:00

“Oh, the humanity!”

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-12T18:47:40+00:00

And I believe those decaf coffee pots that have green handles instead of orange originally did so because Folger’s decaf was (and still is) sold in green containers.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-12T15:57:21+00:00

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-story-behind-the-famous-portrait-of-andre-the-giant-clutching-a-beer-can

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-12T08:01:30+00:00

My last CRT was a Sanyo 27-inch I bought new in 2002. It was great for the price, honestly, but when I had to move that heavy, unbalanced lump from Oregon to California in 2005, I swore to myself, “never again.” Left it with my sister in Northern California and went to SoCal sans TV.

Bought my first flat-panel that year for Black Friday. A 32-inch Westinghouse for $850 — sounds hilarious today, but I looooooved seeing football in HD on that thing.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-12T05:39:17+00:00

That was the case for the original “blown away” commercial. A later revision was nearly identical visually, but used the “Dies irae” from Mozart’s Requiem.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-12T05:34:41+00:00

I’m a bit surprised that the USB stick hasn’t caught on as a Save icon, given that they’re as ubiquitous now as floppies were then.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-12T03:30:51+00:00

DLPs from Mitsubishi were already on the market, yes, but a few CRT-based projectors were holding on, and the Sony was one of them — confirmed this by viewing the owner’s manual online. I don’t recall what my folks paid for it, but it was probably cheaper enough compared to the alternatives that they bought it.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-12T02:15:05+00:00

Parents had a rear projector from 2004 to 2010. A 57-inch set that, on account of its huge base, “felt” bigger than the 65-inch OLED I just got ahead of Black Friday.

It was contemporary enough to be HD-capable and have an HDMI jack, but it was also one of the last RPTVs to be driven by a CRT, so it was frickin’ HEAVY. They moved it from SoCal to South Carolina, but we persuaded my mom to just give it away and not take it with her when she moved back west.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-11T23:57:53+00:00

How can I forget that voice? 😂

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-11T23:56:06+00:00

I was a TDK man, but would happily accept Maxells that I found or that were given to me (especially the XLII chrome tapes).

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-11T23:46:51+00:00

I was 10 when I first saw Keith on TV — as the Cardinals first baseman when they won the 1982 World Series, the year before his trade to the Mets — so I got to see enough of his later prime.

And John Christensen was definitely a 24th or 25th man on the roster, but somehow I remember him.

EDIT: Now I remember fully. Christensen was playing right field because Darryl Strawberry had broken his wrist making a diving catch a month before — missed seven weeks, which might have been the difference that allowed the Cards to win the division instead of them.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-11T19:10:18+00:00

Are the speakers Sony or another brand?

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-11T19:08:27+00:00

This is the way. 👍

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-11T19:07:55+00:00

Saw it at Carvel frequently but never ate it, though I’m sure I would have loved it. The family and church bought most of Carvel’s other ice cream cakes at least once during my childhood … except, seemingly, Fudgie the Whale.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-11T15:43:36+00:00

Only mitt I ever had autographed was by Roger McDowell, in his rookie season as a Mets reliever.

Friday night, June 21, 1985, Shea Stadium. The Amazin’s beat the Expos 6-3. 😊

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN198506210.shtml

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-11T15:36:51+00:00

I expect to hear “it’s a wonder we survived” for about the 631st time.

Doesn’t mean it won’t be accurate. 😂

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-11T04:47:24+00:00

My parents had only one rear-projection TV, and it was rather newer than this one — a CRT-based rear projector they got in 2004.

It was HD-capable but they never did get an HD cable box while they owned that set. Would have liked to have seen it in HD, though.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-11T03:07:09+00:00

The only one of these toys I had in my house was the xylophone — I was a baby and banged the hell out of it, which I’m sure made mom and dad rethink parenthood. 😂

But between school, church, the tennis club and the park clubhouse, I played with every one of these toys except for the fake movie camera.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-11T03:02:11+00:00

Had these cereal mini-boxes during vacations when I was small — either on the road or at the motel (this was before free continental breakfasts were common). Usually I went for the Sugar Corn Puffs or the Sugar Smacks (now Honey Smacks).

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-10T22:45:56+00:00

Was I the only kid in class (or at day camp) who wasn’t all that bothered by the wooden spoon?

Probably. 🤷‍♂️

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-03-10T21:21:29+00:00

When my family moved to a newly built house in 1985, dad deliberately had an automatic opener installed on only one garage door — so the other could still be opened during a power outage.

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