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Dataman
Ace Cruncher Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 4865 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Personally I think Ayn Rand’s views were and are a steaming pile of dingo dung (can we say that here?) She once lectured at the college I attended and I suffered through it. But the story line of “Atlas Shrugged”, taken only a piece of fiction, does present some interesting questions. What does happen to the non-producers when the producers stop producing? One of my heroes died today ... Walter Cronkite.  Perhaps the last of the news journalists before they became news personalities.  Thats what the Colt 45 is for--to keep the non producers out of your fridg. and on the street-- i liked Cronkite also---do you remember John Cameron Swayze hopscotching the world for headlines I thought he just did the Timex commercials?   I can remember when i was a kid back in the olden days we would sit in front of the TV watching the test pattern hoping something would come on and i do remember Mr. Swayze on some news show and when he started he or maybe he said it at the end--hopscotching the world for headlines and i would wonder how in the world could he do that My parents bought their first TV in 1954 and got me this little rocking chair to watch it with them. I would watch the test patern because the first thing on in the morning (after the national anthem) was the Howdy Doody show. I would slowly rock my way to the TV until I was about 1 foot away from the screen. Mom would come along, grab the back of the chair and drag me back about 8 feet. Then the process would start all over until I was again a foot away. I still have the chair in the guest bedroom ... the cat likes to curl up there ... she is the only one who fits. Do you remember Tom Terrific? You could by a plastic sheet that stuck to the screen and a crayon. When Tom was in trouble he would ask his TV friends to draw a bridge so he could get over a river or a ladder to save someone in a burning build, airplane, car etc.  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Dataman at Jul 19, 2009 2:14:35 AM] |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Do you remember Tom Terrific? You could by a plastic sheet that stuck to the screen and a crayon. When Tom was in trouble he would ask his TV friends to draw a bridge so he could get over a river or a ladder to save someone in a burning build, airplane, car etc. That would have been the cartoon on Captain Kangaroo. Don't forget his mighty dog Manfred. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
*Minnesota Crunchers* |
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Dataman
Ace Cruncher Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 4865 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Do you remember Tom Terrific? You could by a plastic sheet that stuck to the screen and a crayon. When Tom was in trouble he would ask his TV friends to draw a bridge so he could get over a river or a ladder to save someone in a burning build, airplane, car etc. That would have been the cartoon on Captain Kangaroo. Don't forget his mighty dog Manfred. Cheers Yep I forgot about Manfred and Crabby Appleton (evil rival). |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Do you remember Tom Terrific? You could by a plastic sheet that stuck to the screen and a crayon. When Tom was in trouble he would ask his TV friends to draw a bridge so he could get over a river or a ladder to save someone in a burning build, airplane, car etc. That would have been the cartoon on Captain Kangaroo. Don't forget his mighty dog Manfred. Cheers Yep I forgot about Manfred and Crabby Appleton (evil rival). Anybody remember "Pluck Your Magic Twanger" Froggy Gremlin? |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 07/18 - All Members:
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Points milestones report ======================== PohSoon reached 5,000,000 points  Runtime milestones report ========================= marysduby reached 50 years of runtime Results returned milestones report ================================== Blueprint returned their 6,000th result NiceMedTexMD returned their 3,400th result imin returned their 1,400th result New members report ================== No new members found. Retired members report ====================== No new retired members found. For the week as a team: Statistics Total Run Time Points Results Team Records: Results Returned: 12/19/2007 2,522 Points: 05/06/2009 518,871 Runtime: 01/25/2006 1:123:00:53:34 Good crunching folks!!!! |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 07/18 - Active Members
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Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days. Top Twenty active members returning points today: 01: RT - 59,465 points 02: esoteric17 - 52,715 points 03: marysduby - 44,653 points 04: NiceMedTexMD - 30,344 points 05: Coingames - 23,708 points 06: parmesian - 20,744 points 07: brown chris - 17,921 points 08: Dave Bell - 15,614 points 09: keithhenry - 12,366 points 10: Blueprint - 10,032 points 11: sulcata - 5,979 points 12: Vuj - 5,865 points 13: Dataman - 5,640 points 14: wrr - 3,298 points 15: Sunny L. Kae - 3,269 points 16: Esteban69 - 2,982 points 17: Dresser - 2,772 points 18: smcclarigan - 2,613 points 19: imin - 2,381 points 20: Airwolf_Liu - 2,066 points Total points returned today: 344,123 Active members returning points today: 37 Average points per member active today: 9,300.62162 |
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Dataman
Ace Cruncher Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 4865 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Do you remember Tom Terrific? You could by a plastic sheet that stuck to the screen and a crayon. When Tom was in trouble he would ask his TV friends to draw a bridge so he could get over a river or a ladder to save someone in a burning build, airplane, car etc. That would have been the cartoon on Captain Kangaroo. Don't forget his mighty dog Manfred. Cheers Yep I forgot about Manfred and Crabby Appleton (evil rival). Anybody remember "Pluck Your Magic Twanger" Froggy Gremlin? Sure do. Memory fails ... it was Winky Dink with the magic screen. Winky Dink EDIT: The world's first interactive video game [Edit 1 times, last edit by Dataman at Jul 19, 2009 3:04:30 AM] |
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Former Member
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......CONGRATULATIONS POHSOON ON REACHING 5,000,000 MOT POINTS !!!...... |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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You guys are gonna get me started about the Flash Gordon serials fighting the evil Emperor Ming, the Gene Autry serials fighting all those crazy underground empires (amazing what you can find in a cave), the original black and white George Reeve Superman, the black and white Popeye cartoons (with the clapping doors). The new stuff was Mighty Mouse (with his girlfriend Pearl Pureheart), Rocky and Bullwinkle, Father Knows Best, etc.
----------------------------------------You know, college kids these days missed a lot. We old farts pre-date PCs, PDAs, and iTumes. Then there's cable TV, cell phones, foreign cars, freeways, the moon landings, Vietnam, the race riots, Civil Rights and desegregation, space travel, all the assasinations, knowing about hurricanes days in advance, microwaves, drive-thrus (we just had drive-ins), and for some of us, Korea and the atomic era. Then I think about my grandmother who knew life before TV, radio, theaters, electricity, indoor plumbing, cars, planes, tractors (the mule pulled the plow), telephones and enough to make us old farts feel downright young! What are today's college kids' grandkids going to miss out on? ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by keithhenry at Jul 19, 2009 3:21:50 AM] |
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Dataman
Ace Cruncher Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 4865 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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You guys are gonna get me started about the Flash Gordon serials fighting the evil Emperor Ming, the Gene Autry serials fighting all those crazy underground empires (amazing what you can find in a cave), the original black and white George Reeve Superman, the black and white Popeye cartoons (with the clapping doors). The new stuff was Mighty Mouse (with his girlfriend Pearl Pureheart), Rocky and Bullwinkle, Father Knows Best, etc. You know, college kids these days missed a lot. We old farts pre-date PCs, PDAs, and iTumes. Then there's cable TV, cell phones, foreign cars, freeways, the moon landings, Vietnam, the race riots, Civil Rights and desegregation, space travel, all the assasinations, knowing about hurricanes days in advance, microwaves, drive-thrus (we just had drive-ins), and for some of us, Korea and the atomic era. Then I think about my grandmother who knew life before TV, radio, theaters, electricity, indoor plumbing, cars, planes, tractors (the mule pulled the plow), telephones and enough to make us old farts feel downright young! What are today's college kids' grandkids going to miss out on? Don't start me on Flash Gordon!!! I had a very, very serious childhood crush on Dale Arden. I think the death of Walter Cronkite has taken me on a trip down memory lane. |
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