Small Talk: Ughngnggh! Ugghhnnn!

[AngelaHunter]

1 hour ago, AngelKitty said:

Good news from my scan!

Best news ever! So happy for you. 😀

[AngelaHunter]

9 hours ago, Nashville said:

 but it was assumed all the fun stuff was happening offscreen.  Kinda like Ricky and Lucy.  ;> 

If you watch those old shows, where married couples sleep in twin beds with a night table between them and they wear full pajamas buttoned up to the neck you really wonder how they ever managed to make a kid. I guess married couples sleeping together was too risque for the general population who might faint at such a notion.

[Mr. Sparkle]

3 hours ago, AngelKitty said:

Good news from my scan! Cancer is not back! I am doing my happy dance! Thank you for letting me vent.😍

Great news, AK. I'm happy for you. 

[nachomama]

Very good news! Cancer can suck a dick from behind. 

Someone recently watched the first ever episode of Gilligans island and yes it’s the only time they read the full names of the professor and skipper. Gilligans name is never said. Gilligan could be first or last. Just like penny on Big Bang never had a last name. 

Even up until the Brady bunch they didn’t have husbands and wives sleeping in the same bed. I know they later got a big bed cuz I remember episodes where they talk but I think pilot they were separate. I used to think it was because tv people were rich. Poor people like us watching tv had sleep in same beds but if you were rich on tv you got separate. 

[OoohMaggie]

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Way to go AK!

[nachomama]

The debate would be settled if we ever saw Miss Kitty and Matt Dillon in a room with separate beds...no boots knocking.

Here's how deranged I was as a child. I once heard a joke...Whats the dirtiest thing ever said on television? "Ward, I think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night"

but because I'm twisted and yes, I was very young when I heard this, I didn't know "beaver" was you know. So instead I thought it meant Ward was doing butt stuff with his kid. It's one thing to completely not get it cuz you're young and naive but no one ever twisted my brain to go there....it just goes there. I was like, that joke sucks, not even funny.

[AngelKitty]

I just reacted with a laugh to the above, Nacho, but maybe it should have been a sad. 😁

As for this:

1 hour ago, nachomama said:

The debate would be settled if we ever saw Miss Kitty and Matt Dillon in a room with separate beds...no boots knocking.

Did they ever even kiss?

[Nashville]

1 hour ago, AngelKitty said:

Did they ever even kiss?

There’s supposed to be one Christmas-special episode at the end of which Miss Kitty gives Matt a kiss in the cheek, but I don’t immediately recall it.  Frankly I always thought when it came to personal romantic relationships, Matt Dillon was about as sharp as a sack full of bowling balls - me, I’d have been after Miss Kitty so fast you’d get windburn from my passing by. 😉 

https://youtu.be/slq518MTwsE

[nachomama]

hahahaha I never realized her saloon was called "long branch" we have a long branch here in town.

[Nashville]

8 minutes ago, nachomama said:

hahahaha I never realized her saloon was called "long branch" we have a long branch here in town.

 Miss Kitty’s “Long Branch Saloon” was the Queen Mother of them all.  😄

Edited August 1, 2019 by Nashville

[AngelaHunter]

On 8/1/2019 at 9:44 AM, AngelKitty said:

Did they ever even kiss?

Nope. Apparently, the only kiss Matt bestowed on anyone was on Michael Learned, and not Miss Kitty, who hung in there for 30 years for nada.

https://www.tulsaworld.com/archive/gunsmoke-ii-tells-full-story-of-matt-dillon-s-single/article_65bd8c9e-a724-5d01-9eed-ee3f642f61b9.html

That music vid is just brilliant! Loved it, thanks!

[AngelaHunter]

Okay, I'm sitting here thinking about the fact that we are discussing, researching and involved in finding out if Miss Kitty was ever a soiled dove and if Matt ever kissed her. I don't know what it all means, but I freaking love it!🤣

[AngelaHunter]

On 7/31/2019 at 11:18 PM, nachomama said:

Even up until the Brady bunch they didn’t have husbands and wives sleeping in the same bed.

I just watched an ep of the Twilight Zone, with Richard Long. It was filmed in 1962 and I was shocked to see the couple shared a double bed, although she is under the covers and he's passed out on top of them, fully dressed. But still - how naughty. 

Sorry for the serial posting. Had a crummy day and this is my therapy. 😀

[nachomama]

I often spend too much of my time wondering stupid stuff about tv shows. Like everybody’s jobs. I know they’ve discussed how the “friends” could never have afforded to live in New York. Mike Brady was an Architect. What we’re sitcom dads jobs? Danny tanner morning tv host. What makes a good tv “job” ? Ricky was the nightclub dude. The honeymooners were bus drivers. Sheriff Andy, bewitched was advertising. What was the dad on Alf? Ward cleaver was just  in “business”. What did Herman Munster do? WHAT DID HE DO?? 

[AngelKitty]

9 hours ago, nachomama said:

What did Herman Munster do? WHAT DID HE DO?? 

Didn't he work for an undertaker?

[AngelaHunter]

6 hours ago, AngelKitty said:

Didn't he work for an undertaker?

Very good!

Quote

Herman Munster worked as a gravedigger for the Gateman Goodbury and Graves Funeral parlour. His boss is Mr. Gateman. Occupation: Employee at funeral home, Gateman Goodbury & Graves. (His boss, Mr. Gateman, says: "He's one of the few people at the parlor who don't lie down on the job.")

Makes sense. 🤣

[nachomama]

That's information I did not know, probably because when I was a kid I didn't care what Herman Munster did, I do recall him leaving the house with a lunchbox like my dad's and once or twice a hard hat which was just comical because his head was so big. What did the dad on the Adams family do? I know they were very wealthy and they flung out crazy purchases. I think the Keatons were documentary film makers or worked for PBS? something that Alex P Keaton found very hippy ish. I know Ross was a paleontologist, what was chandler? Monica-chef, Joey-actor, Phoebe - random weird things, Rachel also weird things (later coffee shop) because when she showed up she didn't know how to do anything, thus the laundry lesson with the uber-weiss detergent.

What did Uncle Jesse do? Uncle Joey was a comic? Mr. Winslow (urkel) was a cop.

I did not watch "30 Something" in its orginal run, I watched it in college for some odd reason and the funniest thing that struck me was that the 2 dudes were in advertising and there's a whole schpiel about how helvetica revolutionized "fonts" like it was a huuuuge deal. I'm a graphic designer and I'm all "Helvetica?????" the most boring font on the planet? It was about kerning and such and having a universal "code" for computers because that was the early days. Helvetica was a trailblazer. hahahaha

What was dawson's dad? did he work on the crik? hee! OR or or or the Walsh's on 90210? what was it that Mr Walsh did that brought them to Cali and left the beautiful winters of Minnesota?

[Nashville]

23 minutes ago, nachomama said:

What did the dad on the Adams family do? I know they were very wealthy and they flung out crazy purchases. I think the Keatons were documentary film makers or worked for PBS? something that Alex P Keaton found very hippy

Stephen Keaton was a manager at the local PBS station.

23 minutes ago, nachomama said:

I know Ross was a paleontologist, what was chandler?

Chandler worked in "statistical analysis and data reconfiguration”.

23 minutes ago, nachomama said:

What did Uncle Jesse do?

Farmer/moonshiner - or Uncle Jesse was a moonshiner, at least, until Bo and Luke got busted doing a run for him.  To keep his nephews out of federal prison, Uncle Jesse had to cut a deal which involved him swearing to never produce moonshine again.

23 minutes ago, nachomama said:

Uncle Joey was a comic?

Opinions vary on that - greatly.

[OoohMaggie]

2 hours ago, Nashville said:

Farmer/moonshiner - or Uncle Jesse was a moonshiner, at least, until Bo and Luke got busted doing a run for him.  To keep his nephews out of federal prison, Uncle Jesse had to cut a deal which involved him swearing to never produce moonshine again.

My adolescent memories of the period, were mainly about just how far up the crack of her arse Daisy could have possibly pulled those cut down denims! 😝

Edited August 5, 2019 by OoohMaggie

[AngelKitty]

17 hours ago, nachomama said:

What did the dad on the Adams family do? I know they were very wealthy

Yeah, I don't think Gomez had a job. He just managed his money. Where the money came from, I have no idea.

I didn't really watch the other shows mentioned except "30 Something". But thinking about these family shows reminds me of "Picket Fences". I loved that show.

[nachomama]

I never watched too much Picket Fences, I always said I should check it out and I love, love, love, Alicia Witt who was a kid on that show. (Later one of Negan's chicks that I think Maggie killed??) <-- Lookee there, I actually rolled around to topic, der.

I actually meant Uncle Jesse Katsopolis on Full House but I'll take Uncle Jesse from Hazard county. I remember loving the Duke boys and tried to watch an episode a couple of years ago and it was unwatchable. Oh yeah, we wanted to grow up to be Daisy and I watched an episode of the Graham Norton show a couple of years ago where apparently the show still has a humongous following, Catherine Bach was over there for some con and she doesn't quite look like she used to did but they had a marvelous time.

[Nashville]

1 hour ago, icemiser69 said:

Nashville said: "So, I was out all last night - Motionless In White, Halestorm and Alice Cooper were all playing the Grand Ole Opry House..."

-----

So, how was the concert?  

Did Alice Cooper's voice hold up?

How long did he perform?

ETA: I didn't know if it was possible to drag a quote box from one forum thread  to another, so I half-assed it and moved it to where I thought you might see it here.

Alice was tremendous - he (and his show) have held up well over the years.  And I was at yet another concert last night (I Prevail), and now my body is cheerfully reminding me that it’s just barely possible I’m TOO DAMN OLD to be doing this shit on back-to-back nights.

But yeah, Alice was great.

[Mr. Sparkle]

I saw Iron Maiden a few weeks ago, and that's it for me for concerts for a while. I just don't have the energy, not to mention the money. Plus all the beer I drank... 

[AngelaHunter]

2 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

Gunsmoke was much better preFestus.   Those half hour episodes were awesome.

They really were. Post-Festus, the show turned into a kind of comedy for the most part. Sam Peckinpah wrote the scripts for quite a few of half-hour eps,  and those ones were surprisingly edgy and violent, often with no happy ending. He also did eps of "The Rifleman", another great and violent oldie.

Out of curiosity, I checked to see how many men were killed in these shows. Marshall Dillon killed about 300.

Peace-loving rancher, Lucas McCain, gunned down many as well.

Someone put them all together. 🤣

[Mr. Sparkle]

It's more of a "drank too much beer" issue, although they did sell special Iron Maiden beer! At $15 a pop, of course. The peeing wasn't a problem this time, but coming home from another concert and walking from the train, I really thought it was going to be the first time I pissed my pants since I was 4. 

Maiden put on a great show, and were kind enough to put in 3 songs I didn't like so I could pee and take a break. 

[AngelaHunter]

2 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:

I have always found the "Rainbow Bridge" comforting.

Yes, it's a lovely thought. There's a little quote I found many years ago, and it helps me to make sense of all these losses. I've passed it on quite a few times and it seems to have brought comfort to others as well.

Fragile Circle

"We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own. live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached.
Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way.
We cherish memory as the only certain immortality,
never fully understanding the necessary plan."

~Irving Townsend.

[nachomama]

I have the worst luck with concerts, always somebody goofy near me that puts a damper on things. Seriously, I paid money to be there so sit your ass down and watch the show, buy your shit at intermission or before/after. I always get the dumbass that has to get up 14 times during the show or who has to dance right in front of you. I have one friend who I've attended most concerts with and there was some dude who was clearly wasted, had been up and down and had to go smoke 47 bazillion times and we were not the only ones annoyed, finally someone came to escort him out and I loved my little tiny friend egging him on. She puts her hands on her hips and waved him "buh-bye.....buuuuuuh -bye" I didn't catch most of any exchange but I look up and to me she looks like a chicken clucking with her elbows out and I was thinking my days of bailing people out of jams are over, I aint fighting that dude nor am I dragging your ass back to the car.

[nachomama]

I binged Veronica Mars and now Glow is up on Netflix. Otherwise not too much happening.

[OoohMaggie]

21 hours ago, nachomama said:

I have the worst luck with concerts, always somebody goofy near me that puts a damper on things. Seriously, I paid money to be there so sit your ass down and watch the show, buy your shit at intermission or before/after.

Unless a movie is literally gunfire, explosions and mayhem from start to finish, I cannot go to a normal movie, every time some asshole slurps on a drink, chomps down on a dog or wing, or rustles the fuck out of a gallon bucket of sweets, and on top of it all, starts describing to their equally fucking idiot friend  what they've just seen on screen, loud enough for everyone to hear, it makes me want to beat the living hell out of them both. 

[nachomama]

^ ditto but I'm a cheap bastard so I go to the $5 movie where you can't complain too much. but I just don't go opening week. Wait a minute and then when there's only 3 of you in the theater.

Wouldn't logic dictate to theater owners that $7 for a soda and $15 for popcorn is nuts? That you'd sell 5000% more if it weren't an abomination? I understand people pay and I think they're crazy. I love movie theater popcorn but I'm apparently 87 years old and only want to pay a quarter. I'll make that shit at home.

[AngelaHunter]

8 hours ago, OoohMaggie said:

I cannot go to a normal movie, every time some asshole slurps on a drink, chomps down on a dog or wing, or rustles the fuck out of a gallon bucket of sweets, and on top of it all, starts describing to their equally fucking idiot friend  what they've just seen on screen, loud enough for everyone to hear,

Aren't they all on their phones, texting, updating their FB page, taking selfies and texting? I have no idea. I haven't any intention to ever set foot in one of those cinderblock bunkers to watch comic book movies ever again.

[OoohMaggie]

7 hours ago, AngelaHunter said:

Aren't they all on their phones, texting, updating their FB page, taking selfies and texting? I have no idea. I haven't any intention to ever set foot in one of those cinderblock bunkers to watch comic book movies ever again.

On holiday in Portugal one year I went to see a movie, they trotted in with the usual buckets of food and drink and I thought here we go again, but from the second the film started there was complete silence, not a slurp, chew or rustle and no talking either. Half way through they had an intermission, remember those, a lady came in with an ice cream tray, they all ate and drank, the lights went down and with that total silence again, it was Heaven.

[OoohMaggie]

On ‎8‎/‎6‎/‎2019 at 2:43 PM, AngelaHunter said:

Peace-loving rancher, Lucas McCain, gunned down many as well.

i love the death at 5:54, does he say "Ow" as he hits the floor?

[OoohMaggie]

1 hour ago, icemiser69 said:

I would imagine that somewhere around 15% to 20% of any generation are pretty much friendless,  

Sure as hell's why i'm here! 😊

[AngelaHunter]

1 hour ago, icemiser69 said:

There was a recent news story in which Millennials were polled, and the results were that 20% of Millennials acknowledged that they didn't have any friends.

I'd say the number is way higher. Millennials annoy and exasperate the hell out of me. They're strident and demanding while having little knowledge about anything except what social media tells them as they merely parrot Tumblr bullshit ("My orientation is VERY complicated!")but they make me sad too, for a whole bunch of reasons.

My fondest memories are of hanging out with my friends, laughing and talking and getting into wacky hijinks, of meeting boys whose full-frontal pics I had not seen, going to school carnivals, movies, swimming pools, etc. No one sat staring at any screens all day, had only virtual friends or spent their lives in their rooms online, diligently tracking down anything that could possibly be construed as offensive to any entity. 

57 minutes ago, OoohMaggie said:

i love the death at 5:54, does he say "Ow" as he hits the floor?

Not sure that's what it was supposed to be, but it certainly sounds like that. 🤣  

[nachomama]

Here's what I get for going to Dollar General, apparently there's a trick to the coupons where you can get "gain" cheap. $5 off gain products and $5 off general purchases except for some reason I didn't get my second $5.  I bought cheap wash cloths, just for kitchen or cleaning use, I know their quality is low, I don't care, if it scrapes gum off a shoe or poo and I throw it away, no big deal. So I dyed my hair (not because of grays because I'm not old, shut up) and I used one to clean up, dear lord in heaven the amount of blue dye that ran out of that thing when I rinsed it out. If I had thrown those in with laundry would everything I own be blue? I get that some color runs, this was as if I just pulled it out of the bucket of dye. Anywho I was dying my hair because my power was so flickery, we had major thunder and I gave up watching the Baywatch movie from a few years back. Yes, its terrible, I was watching it because it was filmed here and I was looking for locals or things I knew. After re-starting three times I gave up.

Also did not attempt to watch the BH90210 reboot which I heard sucked but lotta feels on the Luke Perry tribute.

[AngelKitty]

35 minutes ago, nachomama said:

dear lord in heaven the amount of blue dye that ran out

I thought you meant from your hair. 🤭

[nachomama]

oh no that was red. but yes I should be purple today from red and blue make purple. there was a lot of dye going down my drain.

I did have blue hair once, my mom let us dye our hair one summer and I thought I was going to be like the Berlin chick (You take my breath away.......) song from top gun. She had kind of a long blonde bob and just the ends were blue/black who knows  so I attempted that with my hair.

1. Didn't have straight hair (very old perm)

2. my hair was fried and frizzy from previous peroxide experiments and shorter than the nice bob the lady had in the video

So school picture day I don't look like Berlin lady, I look like a nest on my head with possibly a "stain", kinda like those commercials for "ring-around-the-collar" back in the day, only on my head not my shirt. WINNING!

luckily for me the day I showed up some other girl had also done something tragic with her hair, she had a skunk stripe so they stopped calling her "bisquick" started calling her skunk. I escaped the wrath. (I don't know what bisquick was supposed to mean other than maybe pale and doughy?) I don't know which would bother me more bisquick or skunk

[Nashville]

12 minutes ago, nachomama said:

I did have blue hair once, my mom let us dye our hair one summer and I thought I was going to be like the Berlin chick

Ah, yes - Terri Nunn.  Every heterosexual male in the known universe had a crush on her from about 1982-1985.  

12 minutes ago, nachomama said:

She had kind of a long blonde bob and just the ends were blue/black who knows  so I attempted that with my hair.

I’m guessing this was the look you were shooting for:

[AngelKitty]

I actually put a purple stripe in my hair a couple of years ago when I knew the chemo I was scheduled for would make me lose my hair. My first chemo treatments didn't make me lose it. I put purple for lymphoma.

[nachomama]

31 minutes ago, AngelKitty said:

I actually put a purple stripe in my hair a couple of years ago when I knew the chemo I was scheduled for would make me lose my hair. My first chemo treatments didn't make me lose it. I put purple for lymphoma.

That's exactly why my mom let us dye our hair blue, she was starting chemo and figured it would fall out. it was very electric blue on my mom and we got the "leftovers" of her dye.

Yes! That's exactly what I was going for and sure didn't get that. Plus the "blue" on my already fried hair actually turned green. At the beginning of summer when I actually "went blond" I didn't actually understand the concept of "going blond" You DO NOT  pick up standard blonde hair dye and just go to town on dark brownish/red hair because DING DING DING you end up looking like Ronald McDonald. I had some neon glow orange hair for the beginning of summer, and yes we experimented with lemon juice/peroxcide/sun-in to try and make it get lighter...and it did but it became straw. It's a wonder all my hair didn't fall out. So yes for back to school I had yellow brillo pad hair and then tried to Terri Nunn it.

And I hated the Top Gun song I liked the "no more words" song.

[AngelKitty]

I started highlighting in my mid-thirties. My hair was getting darker as I aged and by then I decided I wanted to be blonder, so I was. My hair grew back a bit gray but not enough to be interesting so I went back to my Extra Light Beige Blond by Loreal. It did come in curly, which is kind of cool.

I did go red after I divorced my ex. I looked good as a redhead but I kept scaring myself in the mirror. Who is that? my mind kept asking.

[nachomama]

My mom hoped and dreamed and prayed that her hair would come back thicker or curlier. Her entire life she bemoaned the thin lackluster hair she had, always permed it but her perms didn't last.

She envied our hair, if we sat in front of her watching tv (back in the day kids didn't get "chairs") you sat on the floor to watch tv and hell, in our house, eat your dinner off a tray on the floor in front of the tv...bygones...she would twiddle our hair with her thumbs. I don't know how thick my hair is by comparison to other people, but definitely she had baby fine hair and mine had some body, as in it could be curly-ish or straight-ish. My sister inherited my dads super curly hair. She looks like a q-tip just a poof on top of her head. My dad kept a crew cut his whole life because he got teased about curly hair as a child. So I'm thankful I didn't get super thin lifeless hair but also not a cotton ball.

Her hair came back it's same boring self, possibly less gray. Her boob didn't grow back but you know, they gave her a fake one to stick in her bra. and she loved to throw it at my friends. If there was someone over and they weren't paying attention to her she sneaked her boob (just a gelatinous blob*) and threw it to them, this one kid freaked and screamed and ran for the door. He was all "it was warm and squishy". She also sneaked her little turbin thangs off her head. You'd look at her and she looked like Elizabeth Taylor (her words, pfft) then you turn around and she's all uncle fester. She also had her drugs all kinda mixed up so she coulda just been high as a kite.

*she let the little kid she babysat play with it and one day he bit a hole in it. She was all "don't tell your father! get me some duct tape" We actually used electrical/stretchy tape. Do I need to call Jeff Foxworthy? I think I'm a redneck.

[AngelKitty]

My aunt would play Toss the Tittie with us.

[nachomama]

I have no idea how I'm a functioning adult with all the bizarre happenings of my childhood. (Who says I am?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!

If the Goldbergs hadnt already been done I could definitely come up with a couple season of just truly whackadocious nonsense. Hell, I could write for them

[AngelaHunter]

8 hours ago, Nashville said:

I’m guessing this was the look you were shooting for:

I couldn't figure out who or what "Berlin" is until nachomama mentioned "Top Gun". I loved that song!

6 hours ago, AngelKitty said:

My aunt would play Toss the Tittie with us.

I may be sorry for asking, but what was THAT?

[nachomama]

Here’s a better video for the hair. It’s pretty funny that this was a hair goal for me. 

I guess I didn’t do it right or my phone is stupid. Anyway “no more words “ video by Berlin. I remember these things very differently from my childhood. I could have sworn the video had a train in it. And honestly until I googled Terri Nunn today I didn’t know she was American. Like my younger self was so stupid that I thought because their name was Berlin they were from Germany. Dear lord I was a stupid stupid child. Like I thought her and Nena of the 99 luft balloons were neighbors. If I had met myself as a child I would have punched myself. 

Edited August 9, 2019 by nachomama
Moronicness

[Nashville]

15 minutes ago, nachomama said:

Anyway “no more words “ video by Berlin. I remember these things very differently from my childhood. I could have sworn the video had a train in it.

You’re probably thinking of the video for the very first Berlin song to chart large - “The Metro”. 

https://youtu.be/jEZP22b82ks

Edited August 9, 2019 by Nashville
Added video linky

[nachomama]

Damn you’re good. See? This is all because I was a fetus. Much too young to remember these things. I wasn’t even born until 1997 so I have to search past lives for these memories. 

[Nashville]

Seriously?  You’re younger than BOTH my daughters!  😆