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On 8/2/2022 at 4:32 PM, OoohMaggie said:

Monkey pox 🙄🙄🙄

I could have sex with monkeys. You don’t know. But I don’t. I was barfy all week. No foid from Sunday til Thursday. Today is the first day I’ve felt better. And I broke my shower! I was gonna rinse a shirt and soaked it with detergent going for the super sprayer and I snapped the booger off In my hand. So it’s baths til Sunday when I can get a replacement. And co worker with the work at home job just tested positive for the corona. She works at home! She’s 25 but she’s like an elderly woman trapped I. A young body she goes to get groceries Every morning at 7 am! Im sure someone breathed on her. 

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nachomama

nachomama

Oh yes, ONJ gets me in the feels. We have the whole christmas where my sister got the soundtrack to Grease and a record player. My dad had a movie camera going and my mom popped in a cassette tape to record. So we have 8 seconds of film and 45 minutes of my sister and I "oohing and aahhing" over stupid stuff like " a WHOLE dollar! and TOOOOOOOOTHPASTE" ( I also stepped on my sister's dollar, got yelled at and cried and sent to my room and my father yells "you better dry it up before I give you something to cry about) ** and she's got grease playing the whole time in the background. Several weeks later she played for me the dirty words and I was in denial. Technically knew the entire soundtrack except for what I got wrong. "Beauty School Dropout" for years I thought it was "MR. McTurmsin flunked shampoo" which was "missed your midterms and flunked shampoo" I think it was popup video decades later where they showed John Travolta running around with cling wrap and I remember being sooooo confused, like was the budget on the movie so small that the only prop they could give him was cling wrap??? and pop up video explained to me that if you couldn't get a condom you'd wrap it up in cling film and I remember being super grossed out. While I liked Sandy, I was definitely a Rizzo girl. I do not know what the hell it is with Stockard Channing, I love her with every bit of my soul.

**meanwhile, in my room, I'm laying next to the door and doing the ugly cry under the door crack hoping someone would come take pity on me. I feel like there's a whole "christmas story" like Ralphies in this one particular christmas.

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nachomama

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45 minutes ago, OoohMaggie said:

I was rather taken with Frenchie, but I always was a strange child 🥺

That is kinda hilarious. I liked DeeDee Conn...but this is weird too I like Stockard Channing's mouth. I'm a weird mouth person. I like a quirk. I do not generally make out with girls but if I was gonna, Stockard Channing is it.

I did not know this, Jeff Conaway (Kanickie?) from Grease was married to ONJ's sister. briefly.

So many things from Grease I absolutely did not understand until many, many years later. I did not recall owning any Olivia Newton John records but I now know that I did. They played clips and and I had flashbacks of my walkman and listening repeatedly.

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Mr. Sparkle

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2 hours ago, OoohMaggie said:

I was rather taken with Frenchie, but I always was a strange child 🥺

Did I ever tell you about the time I was in an elevator with Didi Conn??? 

Well, I just did, because that's the entirety of the story. She was very nice for the 20 seconds we spent together. 

2 hours ago, nachomama said:

I do not generally make out with girls but if I was gonna, Stockard Channing is it.

I totally had a thing for Stockard Channing. Being that Grease came out when I was in 5th grade, it wasn't much of a thing, but still. She was about 33 when she did Grease if I'm not mistaken. 

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nachomama

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17 minutes ago, Superclam said:

I totally had a thing for Stockard Channing. Being that Grease came out when I was in 5th grade, it wasn't much of a thing, but still. She was about 33 when she did Grease if I'm not mistaken. 

Oh yeah they were massively too old to play high school. ONJ was about 5 years older than John Travolta. I didn't care. My guess is that it came out when I was 6 ish, I'm sure we weren't too current with the times for when my sister got the record ...78-79?

By my timeline abraham lincoln and JFK were both assassinated roughly the same time. I thought Elvis had been dead for decades. First thing I ever saw in a paper was Elvis' funeral and asking my mom why they were going back to his grave so long after he died? And it was his original funeral.

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Nashville

Nashville

6 hours ago, nachomama said:

While I liked Sandy, I was definitely a Rizzo girl. I do not know what the hell it is with Stockard Channing, I love her with every bit of my soul.

I first saw Stockard Channing in the early’70s in one of her very first roles, a made-for-TV movie called The Girl Most Likely To…. 
Fell in love with her on the spot, and have been ever since.

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OoohMaggie

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6 hours ago, nachomama said:

I'm a weird mouth person.

Same here, I had a thing about Beverly D’Angelo in the ‘vacation’ movies, she’s got this overbite / underbite (not sure which it is)  thing going on, I do like a mouth with a quirk 😛

4 hours ago, Superclam said:

Did I ever tell you about the time I was in an elevator with Didi Conn??? 

Did you get that lovely smile? 

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Mr. Sparkle

Mr. Sparkle

1 hour ago, OoohMaggie said:

Did you get that lovely smile? 

It happened sometime before 2008, so I don't recall that well, but I do remember her voice. 

2 hours ago, Nashville said:

I first saw Stockard Channing in the early’70s in one of her very first roles, a made-for-TV movie called The Girl Most Likely To…. 
Fell in love with her on the spot, and have been ever since.

YES!! Such a strange classic that very few people have seen. Featuring Fred "Gopher" Grandy. 

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nachomama

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Wrap Stockard Channing in some bubble wrap because she's 78! and we gonna kill talking about how much we love her.

I went to see Bullet Train last night, first I'm angry because it wasn't $5! rude! no passes on this one. It was aiite, lots of blood and gore. I'm personally on an anti Brad Pitt thing but I had to put that behind me for some of the others in the movie. Brian Tyree Henry, LOVE, dear sweet lord in heaven I love this guy. He's in Atlanta and initially I didn't think much, I'm fully camp Paper Boi now.

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On 8/13/2022 at 12:53 PM, Nashville said:

I was 13 then.  Bite me.

I was alive, maybe still drooling and peeing on myself which I'm almost back to the same stage now... I just wasn't here.

Went to Brazillian steakhouse, LOVE THE MEAT SWEATS. It was good, not cheap but a lovely event for all. We did all the jokes, "we're here for the brazilian, can we get porked (have the pork guy come around) "just the tip" because we are consumate adults.

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nachomama

nachomama

Any afficianados of "Dinty Moore Beef Stew?" it's changed. I know this in 2 ways, I distinctly remember you used to get a glob of grease and I used to scrape it off and I remember hating the meat because it was dry. As a child I spit the meat out. I was just so precious. Most of my adult life I've been eating imitation dinty moore (store brand) and I always knew the meat was the cost-cutting measure because it was more of a hamburger than a "steak" but I've recenty come into the genuine article and their meat is now like the store brand.

As many westerns as my dad forced us to watch I was fascinated by how cowboys ate food. It was always a hearty stew or chili in those enamel blue speckled bowls or tin plates and they'd shovel that crap in. Just a "chomp, chomp, glorp" noises like it was the best thing ever. And I used to believe it was Dinty Moore beef stew.

Meanwhile, I have a point, they're filming something behind us and just asked to rent our back parking lot for the weekends when we aren't here. I said 10% finders fee to me but I'm sure I'll get nothing. It's a series for apple+ about the assasination of Abraham Lincoln. old timey so I'm sure there's plenty of dinty moore beef stew on set. :D

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Mr. Sparkle

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4 minutes ago, nachomama said:

Any afficianados of "Dinty Moore Beef Stew?"

I had it in Cub Scout camp years ago, and loved it. The last time I had it, it was pretty vile. 

I had a can of Hormel chili for the first time in years a few weeks ago, and it was still delicious. 

But my favorite garbage food? Campell's Chunky Sirloin Burger soup. 

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Nashville

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9 minutes ago, nachomama said:

Any afficianados of "Dinty Moore Beef Stew?"

3 minutes ago, Superclam said:

I had a can of Hormel chili for the first time in years a few weeks ago, and it was still delicious. 

But my favorite garbage food? Campell's Chunky Sirloin Burger soup. 

All of the above; I am a successful carnivore.

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nachomama

nachomama

I tried spaghettios as an adult. and chef boyardee ravioli. Let's just hope the apocalypse doesn't come to that.

11 minutes ago, Superclam said:

I had it in Cub Scout camp years ago, and loved it. The last time I had it, it was pretty vile.

I can't imagine dinty moore being an affordable cub scout meal. however my absolute favorite cub scout story in the whole wide world...my friend becky's kid was massively into scouting. became an eagle scout like he's ride or die scouting. anywho on some solo quest they stick the scouts out there they have tasks they must complete such as catching their own dinner etc. I believe there is a lookout that watches them but it's a "silent" weekend, they can't talk and not supposed to get help. They give them breakfast which is usually like half a banana and a hard boiled egg or grapes, something like that. He was starving dunno if he didn't get his fish the night before but son shovels in his banana ....and ate the entire hard boiled egg, as in shell and all. He didn't know he had to peel it. he's all "well that was super crunchy and not pleasant" but it never occurred to him to stop! OMG makes me laugh every time. How did this kid get to 12-13 without peeling an egg? One of my cute memories in my baby book that my mom wrote down was that I was helping her peel eggs when I was 3 and I said "taking the tag off" the eggs. I also asked "how did god put the blood in us? with a spoon?" always referred to the "towel" of babel instead of tower and was utterly confused what they needed all them towels for. But I was 3 not 13

Mr. Sparkle

Mr. Sparkle

19 minutes ago, nachomama said:

I tried spaghettios as an adult. and chef boyardee ravioli.

Me & my brother used to eat a lot of that stuff, especially the ravioli. I couldn't imagine eating that now. 

19 minutes ago, nachomama said:

my friend becky's kid was massively into scouting. became an eagle scout like he's ride or die scouting.

I did one year and decided that it was no fun. 

nachomama

nachomama

1 hour ago, Superclam said:

I did one year and decided that it was no fun. 

I wasn't given an option, no extracurriculars. Then as an adult I find out my parents did stuff with my eldest sister but were too tired by the time the second batch of kids came along. My mom was Sunday school teacher and brownie/girl scouts leader. My dad played basket ball with boys at some little league camp but he had never played with us. I never saw my dad play football etc. 

1 hour ago, Nashville said:

Agreed; back in the day Dinty Moore was the Cadillac of canned meats and stews - and priced accordingly.

It still aint cheap and spam? SPAM. I tried that again after about 20 years and it was salty af. I remembered it as a child and remembered the key thing to get it open and recalling it was my job to "help" my dad with the key. Which I'm sure many children bled out due to the sharp edge. But I was protecting my dad. hahahahhaha and Hawaii and the navajo reservation are big on spam because, being remote, meat is sometimes hard to come by so they relied on it but I'm thinking how could they afford it?

Nashville

Nashville

1 hour ago, nachomama said:

 spam? SPAM. I tried that again after about 20 years and it was salty af. I remembered it as a child and remembered the key thing to get it open and recalling it was my job to "help" my dad with the key. Which I'm sure many children bled out due to the sharp edge. But I was protecting my dad. hahahahhaha and Hawaii and the navajo reservation are big on spam because, being remote, meat is sometimes hard to come by so they relied on it but I'm thinking how could they afford it?

Hmmm… IIRC Spam was pretty cheap back in the ‘60s-‘70s, especially if you bought it in bulk - which worked, because the stuff had a shelf life of something like 40 or 50 years.  That also made it ideal for rural and/or impoverished regions, where a flaky power grid might screw with your ability to keep your refrigerator running reliably.

nachomama

nachomama

Just now, Nashville said:

Hmmm… IIRC Spam was pretty cheap back in the ‘60s-‘70s, especially if you bought it in bulk - which worked, because the stuff had a shelf life of something like 40 or 50 years.  That also made it ideal for rural and/or impoverished regions, where a flaky power grid might screw with your ability to keep your refrigerator running reliably.

I know it became big in hawaii with ww2 and yes it does have shelf life of a gazillion years. If it was once affordable it's like $4 a pop now. Lots of navajos have no electricy or running water so it makes it ideal for them.

I'm trying to think of other youthful foods. cheese toast, slap a slice of cheese on some bread and put it under the broiler. I loved when it made a bubble I'd pop the bubble off and eat it.

One time my mom went on a diet and I'm guessing this was some kind of "no carb" thing. She made "egg" bread. which essentially was whipping egg whites and mixing with I don't know what and supposedly making bread. IT WAS NASTY! I recently saw something on tiktok which sounds similar "cloud bread" dunno if it's the same thing. and get this...this was a TREAT. My mother would give us baloney and ketchup and we made our own personal "pizzas" baloney was our crust, ketchup the sauce, cheese, olives, veggies, maybe pepperoni but I'm thinking whatever meat was in the fridge and this woman had the alldacity to call that pizza! I can't believe I didn't grow up to be a serial killer from that nonsense.

Her favorite treat, and please sit down for this and possibly have a bucket ready. You have been warned. Peanut butter and mayo on a cracker. OH THE HUMANITY.

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nachomama

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1 hour ago, Superclam said:

Ugh, my parents would periodically go on Weight Watchers, and then I'd get spaghetti squash or some other crap that I hated. 

When my dad became a diabetic we all had to switch to sugar free drinks ice cream etc. it was like punishment. It all sucked back then. WHY DIDNT I THINK IF THAT WITH THE CHEESE TOAST PIZZA? How dumb was my mom with the baloney????????? 

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Nashville

Nashville

10 hours ago, nachomama said:

I know it became big in hawaii with ww2 and yes it does have shelf life of a gazillion years. If it was once affordable it's like $4 a pop now. Lots of navajos have no electricy or running water so it makes it ideal for them.

Back around 2009 my job had me working in Honolulu for 2-3 weeks with a group at U of H, and it tickled me to no end to see the spam musubi right alongside the sushi in the student cafeterias.  😄

(Note: want to learn how to live cheap in Honolulu?  Hang with a bunch of college kids for a couple of weeks).

10 hours ago, nachomama said:

I'm trying to think of other youthful foods. 

My parents were both born on TN dirt farms in the middle (father) and end (mother) of the Depression; neither my sister nor I knew it at the time, but most of what we ate growing up fit most folks’ definition of “poor food”.  My father’s favorite was to get a stick of bologna (remember when bologna came in the humongous tube sticks and you sliced it yourself?) and a box of sheet crackers (remember the foursquare sheets?), chop off a thick slice of the bologna, put it between two cracker sheets, and whabam - a bologna & cracker sandwich.

AND Vienna sausages.

AND the fish we caught - bass, bluegill, catfish, and crappie mainly.

We may have been eating poor by other people’s standards, but not by our own.

nachomama

nachomama

6 hours ago, Nashville said:

My parents were both born on TN dirt farms in the middle (father) and end (mother) of the Depression; neither my sister nor I knew it at the time, but most of what we ate growing up fit most folks’ definition of “poor food”.  My father’s favorite was to get a stick of bologna (remember when bologna came in the humongous tube sticks and you sliced it yourself?) and a box of sheet crackers (remember the foursquare sheets?), chop off a thick slice of the bologna, put it between two cracker sheets, and whabam - a bologna & cracker sandwich.

AND Vienna sausages.

AND the fish we caught - bass, bluegill, catfish, and crappie mainly.

We may have been eating poor by other people’s standards, but not by our own.

When I worked at the deli we had the big ass tube of german baloney and people would come in and get it sliced half an inch thick and grill it. It was good baloney. Ate plenty of vienna sausages. My father grew up like that, near Shreveport. Fishing and hunting, caught their own crawdads and his version of "cornbread" was just cornmeal with hot water, slap it into a patty and fry it. It was a gd hockeypuck! He loved it. I didn't touch the stuff, if pressed, I'd tear it in half and scoop the stuff out of the middle but the outside would crack your teeth. He ate tripe and liver and frog legs

I googled my mom's house where she grew up. zillow says it's worth $105,000. built 1916. Do not know if she lived there from the time she was born but I know she graduated high school and lived there in 1952. Mason City Iowa seems very affordable living-standard wise. Much cheaper houses there than here.

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oh no. NONONONONOOONONONOONONOOOOOOOOONO

My niece was trying to get a hold of me last week and I figured it was news. this is prison niece. She finally got me Saturday...she's being moved. She was in Phoenix and she was calling from Oklahoma where she'll be for 2 weeks but her final destination is Tallahasee. 4 hours from me which is much much too close. I will visit her, I have no problem with that. But if she's out in 2 years I don't want her to come live with me. The plan better stay with her sponsor in New Mexico. I don't have a huge fear because she has her daughter in New Mexico but if the daughter gets locked up....NO. NO LIVING WITH ME. Go see your other crazy aunt in Texas.

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Nashville

Nashville

6 hours ago, nachomama said:

Over the weekend I taste tested She-Hulk (I like Tatiana Maslany) it's meh. And Sandman. Yes also the damn dragons. At the moment I could take or leave any of them. Nothing grabbed me. I'll probably watch a few more just to see if it's worth sticking with.

Want to hear something funny?  I purely loved GoT when it was in production - right up to that abortion of a series finale, at least - but try as I might, I can’t seem to get worked up about this upcoming prequel.  I’m wondering if TPTB may have seriously underestimated how much their mishandling of the GoT closeout poisoned their fan well….

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17 minutes ago, Nashville said:

Want to hear something funny?  I purely loved GoT when it was in production - right up to that abortion of a series finale, at least - but try as I might, I can’t seem to get worked up about this upcoming prequel.  I’m wondering if TPTB may have seriously underestimated how much their mishandling of the GoT closeout poisoned their fan well….

You might be right. I wAnted dragon lady to die but damn they sure screwed that up. And there’s nobody in this cast that I love. I like paddy considine but they don’t let him have his Irish accent. There is no hound or other standout that grabbed me from the beginning. 

Mr. Sparkle

Mr. Sparkle

On 8/29/2022 at 10:14 AM, nachomama said:

Over the weekend I taste tested She-Hulk (I like Tatiana Maslany) it's meh. And Sandman. Yes also the damn dragons. At the moment I could take or leave any of them. Nothing grabbed me. I'll probably watch a few more just to see if it's worth sticking with.

I like She-Hulk. I take it as the silly sitcom it's supposed to be. After all, it's called "She-Hulk" which is just a ridiculous name. 

I'm not at all interested in Sandman. 

I tried a few times to watch Game of Dragons. Each time, the thought of sitting for an hour made me give up before I started. The blonde dragon people were always my least favorite part of GoT. 

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nachomama

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18 hours ago, Superclam said:

I tried a few times to watch Game of Dragons. Each time, the thought of sitting for an hour made me give up before I started. The blonde dragon people were always my least favorite part of GoT. 

The blonde wig was bad enough when it was just kaleesi now the whole group is inflicted with this wig.

I'm getting used to Acorn tv. The police dramas are mini movies, they're 2 hours each so they take a lot to sit and watch. But they're good. I'm rewatching AbFab and I'm seriously loving it. I get more british jokes now. I love every single thing thats wrong about it.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/54-Navarre-Blvd-E-Thoreau-NM-87323/2077357973_zpid/

Check it out, I lived in this house in high school. somebody has seriously glammed it up. We had no hardwood floors, all those doors and cabinets are new. We had no shower doors just curtains. We did not have a kiva fireplace we just had a wood burning stove and I smelled like a campfire throughout high school. I think it was listed for $139,900 in 2020. My parents paid $65k in 1985.

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OoohMaggie

OoohMaggie

On 8/29/2022 at 9:52 PM, nachomama said:

And there’s nobody in this cast that I love. I like paddy considine but they don’t let him have his Irish accent. There is no hound or other standout that grabbed me from the beginning

I still haven’t seen the show so far, yet even with the main show it took a while for us to accept the characters for what they were, it took even longer for us to bond with or care about any particular character, The Hound being my particular favourite took some time for me to feel the way i did about him for the majority of the show. If and when I manage to see the show I hope I can give an honest appraisal of it. The original took some time to get under our skin so I feel it only fair that any off shoot should be given a fair chance.

OoohMaggie

OoohMaggie

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24 minutes ago, nachomama said:

IS THE QUEEN DEAD????????

Yup, now’s the perfect time to stop this antiquated nonsense, unfortunately we’ve now got the jug eared philanderer / murderer just itching to take over, you people don’t realise how lucky you are only having to deal with corrupt politicians 🤬

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nachomama

nachomama

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11 minutes ago, OoohMaggie said:

Yup, now’s the perfect time to stop this antiquated nonsense, unfortunately we’ve now got the jug eared philanderer / murderer just itching to take over, you people don’t realise how lucky you are only having to deal with corrupt politicians 🤬

I thought she was skippng Charles?

I don't know why my grandma was so interested but I do know there were many conversations about Charles from way back and my grandma had the coin and stamp thing issued when Charles and Diana got married which I still have. I got a huge chuckle when I rewatched " An Officer and a Gentlemen" and the factory the girls worked at was making either plates or trays with Charles and Diana on them. heelarious.

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OoohMaggie

OoohMaggie

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1 hour ago, nachomama said:

I thought she was skippng Charles?

If only, the whole damn lot need skipping, jug ears will become King, although he is really now, I think it’s officially after his coronation, I’m unsurprisingly no great expert, which has to be carried out whilst he is sat on the stone of scone, pronounced scoon, unfortunately said stone was stolen from Westminster Abbey in the 1950’s by the Scottish Nationalists, they still have the original and a copy was returned to the abbey, being passed off as the original. The whole coronation of Elizabeth and therefore Charlie is open to much debate as to whether hers and his is actually legal. It’s a very big and deep subject, not to be entered lightly 😱

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