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w00t! First post! So what shall we discuss? The possiblity that there could be aliens on other planets?
i think it is entirely possible. there’s just too much space for us to be the only life. my suggestion is children’s television: i am addicted to arthur and the saddle club.
1- Oooh, that’s a good topic!
I’m still voting for freedom as the topic.
I like the other two suggestions too.
How about discussing… gee, I don’t know. Everything I think of already has a thread of its own.
How about good horror movies? (It *is* October…)
1408 was a great movie. It’s based off of a Stephen King short story, so it’s bound to be extra creepy. This guy (who is like a ghostbuster who finds ghosts in haunted hotels) finds this one hotel and there have never been anything creepy in the oast hotels’s he’s visited, so, he finds this one hotel and room 1408 is supposedly haunted. It’s so creepy… but not the scariest movie I’ve seen.
5–That sounds like a good topic to me! Unfortunately, I haven’t really seen any good horror movies in a while–they all tend to just be, let’s see how much gore we can stuff into this movie, and they focus too much on gore, and not enough on the scary/creepy factor, and you just are like, please, enough gore already, it’s not funny, just nauseating–like “Texas Chain Saw Massacre: In the Beginning”. It was all gore, and wasn’t so much scary as disgusting.
Hey, my second cousin wrote “Texas Chain Saw Massacre: In the Beginning”. Ok, not really. But he did help write some horror film about this dead dude who shapeshifts. I had nightmares for 3 weeks watching that thing!
I just saw eagle eye…
eagle eye isn’t a horror movie
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Ghostbuster: It seems you are a neophyte. If you are, please visit the neophyte thread (it’s on the “most recent posts” bar, I’m to lazy to post the link). Although you probably have already and I just haven’t noticed. Eh.
Please don’t write things like “HANG ON I’M STUCK ON CAPS LOCK” in a post, especially on a specialized thread like this one, without anything else that makes any contribution at all to the blog.
Also, just to let you know, everyone didn’t leave. Sometimes threads will be quiet on a thread for an hour, but that doesn’t mean the thread is empty. It’s one thing to decide that people have abandoned the thread after a month of no posting, but when a thread is still fresh and people other than you have posted relatively recently, don’t jump to conclusions about things like that.
I think horror movies is a good topic, but I won’t be participating in the discussion. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a horror movie. That might be able to just go in the movies thread, though… I don’t know, but I’m cool with horror movies.
Not horror movies. Please. Go to the Movies thread if you have to.
How about Halloween costumes? I would have thought someone would already have suggested that…..
Ghostbuster, are you new?
13- I would have thought costumes would go on the random thread, seeing as it is October, and the name of the thread is “Tricks and Treats.” Still, if it is deemed appropriate, I wouldn’t mind a separate place to discuss it.
Ditto THF on the horror movies topic.
Children’s television is good too. Sesame street is the BEST, ‘specially the vintage oldie 70’s episodes, which is basically what they show most of the time anyway. But seriously- colored, cuddly monsters? Cannot be beat.
I love the in-between clips too, the little cartoons or stop-motion animations with songs about the letter of the day or such. *sigh*
MuseBlog: the best place to admit your brain is stuck in 3-year old mode.
Sorry Raynpho, but Wishbone and Lambchops totally have Sesame Street beat as children’s TV shows–i still cannot believe they took those off the air! I mean, c’mon, have you seen Sesame St. recently? Elmo’s World drive me bonkers. And some of the other shows they have on, such as Teletubbies? Those are just truly disturbing.
14-Well, why not? They could be discussed both places.
15- Actually, Wishbone is back on! They’re showing re-runs again. Wishbone and Arthur were my favorites.
5) *shudder* I can’t watch Horror movies. I can’t even watch Horror movie comercials. THey’re too scary. *whimper*
17) Aw…… I used to watch Wishbone……
For HAlloween I want to be an evil scientist. But I can’t find a lab coat. So I don’t think it’ll work.
Any other suggestions?
17–Wait, it’s back on? Since when? On PBS? I know it wasn’t on during the summer, I was channel surfing/browsing the digital TV guide often enough trying to find something good to watch, that if it was, I would’ve seen (given that we have about six channels). I never really got into Arthur when i was a kid, but I’ve seen some episodes recently, and it’s pretty good.
18–Really? You can’t find a lab-coat? That’s odd….Where I’m at, just about every store has zillions of white lab coats–that is to say, the campus bookstore and walmart both have them. But I suppose that’s just because both vet students and med students need them……I dunno. Did you try searching online to see if there was a local store that might carry them? Just a thought….
14- I liked the Slimey In Space arc.
15- I saw BooBah for the first time when i was… 6 or 7, I think. Anyway, when I saw the TV screen with the creepy googly eyed puffy things, I screamed at the top of my lungs and had nightmares for a week.
This was the kind of little child I was.
I loved that show on HBO that did cartoon versions of fairytales. Can’t exactly remember what it was called… but I liked it.
yes im new. why is everyone asking about me?
16 – We usually try to avoid that kind of thing.
18 – I would lend you ours, but I don’t think that’ll work too well. Oh and go to the Tricks and Treats thread to discuss it further.
19 – Yeah, Wishbone is back on! I don’t know about over the summer, but it was on on PBS (or at least Pittsburgh’s PBS) for at least the end of last school year.
But wait, why is Wishbone the topic now? I thought it was children’s tv shows?
I agree with Luna on Sesame Street. I heard that the necessary attention span for watching Sesame Street is 30 seconds. And everything is just so annoying on it now.
My favorite PBS kid’s show is probably Mr. Rogers. He was just so great, and his show actually helped build kid’s attention spans. Seriously. And he was so nice, too.
I was a big fan of Mr. Rogers, too. About 15 years ago I was excited to learn that the fact-checker of the magazine I worked for at the time was Lady Aberlin’s sister-in-law. It’s a small world sometimes.
Oh, Mr. Rogers was definitely my favorite show, pre-Wishbone and Arthur. It was really cool living in Pittsburgh, too, because I would see him all the time. His church was right next to the library (one of the many in Pittsburgh), and I always saw him walking around.
Did anyone watch between the lions? I did. That was a friggin awesome show. I liked Cliff Hanger (hanging from a cliff, and that’s why he’s called cliff hanger)
24 – I haven’t met Mr. McFeely, but both of my siblings have. And as Pan said, since we live in Pittsburgh, we saw him in Squirrel Hill all the time. Oh and my mom’s old friend (or something like that) showed up in Make-Believe from time to time, I forget what her character’s name was.
26 – Yeah, that was a fun show.
I can’t believe Mr.Rodgers was canceled. He was awesomely awesome. I always remember him singing “It’s A Wonderful Day In the Neighborhood” and while he changed his sweater
Odd, I know. But still. I also used to watch Between the Lions.
The only episode of Wishbone I’ve ever seen was this hilarious Tom Sawyer one.
I liked Mr. Rogers when I was little, but when I was older, it just annoyed me–what is with him and shoes??? However, I never did enjoy it as much as Wishbone and Lambchops. My sister was rather partial to Bill Nye the Science Guy. Lessee, I also like Reading Rainbow–i still remember this one show on optical illusions, and I like it so much, that when it came on for the second time in the afternoon/evening, I had to watch it again!
26–I didn’t ever see “Between the Lions” when I was a kid–it wasn’t on then (or, if it was on during my childhood, it must have been after I started grade school, at which point my viewing of kid shows was pretty much extinguished–I was at school all day). However, three or four years ago (mid/early teens), my sister and I were watching little kid shows–as we didn’t feel like doing school–and we saw several episodes of that. My sis liked it a lot more than me, due to all the singing, but I thought it was fairly good. Then it reached the point where every time we’d turn it on to watch, it would be a rerun of one we’d already seen, so….. The other good little kid shows they have on PBS are Dragon Tales (it’s not the best, but it is kinda entertaining) and Cyberchase–Buzz and Delete are hilarious! “I’m gonna love him, and keep him, and call him George!” [accent on first half of George–can’t really convey it through typing] The only part of Cyberchase that I really don’t like (other than the fact that the kids seem really slow–but I guess that’s just so the little kids can follow) is the “Cyberchase for real”, with these two teens who are absolutely, unbelievably stupid.
man. I cry so much when i watch TV. I mainly watch ‘arthur’ and ‘the saddle club’. I don’t really like horses but I love the saddle club. In one episode where the mean girl actually shows some human emotions. That I think was the point where I truly fell for the show. I also cried durring the arthur episode where DW’s parakeet dies. she goes into the kitchen and says “Dad, spanky won’t wake up.” That made me possitively weep. I recently discovered ‘reading rainbow’ and enjoyed it. I also sometimes watch “Fetch: with ruff ruffman” which is pretty cool.
15- I remember watching wishbone when I was small and I remember liking it. But I don’t remember truly understanding it.
22- cuz you show your newbieness.
23- once ‘the debators’ had the debate: which is better Mr. rogers or The friendly giant. (the debators is a CBC radio program, the friendly giant was a CBC children’s show for several decades)
26- nope. but it sounds cool.
26 – I did! My brother and I were talking about that just the other day, actually. Why, I have no idea, but it was amusing anyways.
“Look, look, see, see, coming down the lane. Here comes Scot, here comes Dot, here comes Chicken Jane!”
It’s amazing that I can remember that, when I haven’t seen the show in ages. Meanwhile, I can barely remember what homework I have due tomorrow. Really shows what my priorities are, huh?
Oh, wow. I just read the Wikipedia article on Between the Lions (yeah, I’m bored) and it says that the show is very different then it used to be.
“Most of the characters are now gone, including Click the Mouse, Barnaby Busterfield III, Walter & Clay the pigeons, Heath the Thesaurus, or other central characters.”
-GASP- I loved Click the Mouse!
“No new segments of Cliff Hanger, The Lone Rearranger, Sam Spud, Vowel Boot Camp, Moby Duck are being produced, and these have not been replaced by other segments”
“The show is no longer created by Sirius Thinking, Ltd, but now receives funding from the No Child Left Behind program, which may explain some of the changes.”
Oh. NCLB? That explains a lot.
26- Look look, see see, comin’ up the lane,
I freakin LOVE Between the Lions! My friend named her cats Lionel and Leona.
There goes Scott! There goes Dot! There goes Chicken Jane! *insert squawking noise*
29- Reading Rainbow! God, I loved that show. My brother recorded the one with the optical illusions yesterday and I watched it with him. ^^
30- I’m watching Fetch right now. I tried out to be one of the cast for the third season; I got nervous and spewed some crap about genetically enhanced gerbils.
And Gawains Word! That was awesome too!
h——ug
h—–ug
h—-ug
h—ug
h–ug
h-ug
hug
HUG!
and then the knights would hug each other- epic.
31–now that you say it, I remember in one of the later years of watching BTL (as in, maybe when I was 15, as opposed to when I was 13 or 14), that the shows had basically been shortened from being and entire 30 min show to being two 15 min. shows. And that’s right….they didn’t really have Click, or Barnaby, or the pigeons…don’t remember about the others, but it was basically–I don’t want to watch this at all anymore–not to mention there little fifteen minute segments, would just basically be splicing together parts fromt he longer episodes of the prior couple years.
31- WHAT? Click and the pigeons were the best! *sobs*
That’s so incredibly, depressingly ridiculous. What is our world coming to?
15- I regret to say that I have never even heard of Wishbone OR Lambchops. o_0
I do agree though, modern Sesame street is not so great. Apparently, Grover and Ernie have their own mini-shows, like Elmo? And Cookie monster admits that “cookie is only sometimes food”?
No. Just no.
Teletubbies/Boobah? … *twitches*
Bill Nye the Science guy is pretty awesome, though I never actually caught him on air. We checked out his videos from the library instead
Same with the Magic School Bus, which is also pretty pwning.
35–Yeah, I think they do have their own segments–Grover definitely does–it’s so stupid. But. never. heard. of. wishbone. or. lambchops?!?!?! oh, you must look them up on youtube–they were some of the best shows ever!
i only ever caught one or two magic school bus shows when I was little.
Click is friggin AWESOME, okay? Click is as cool as Pilchard from Bob the Builder.
They made us watch Bill Nye last year. Amazing, they still make us watch wee-uns shows in 6th grade.
They’ve ruined all the good kids shows. Now we have to deal with “the Veggie Monster”, Click and the pigeons being removed, bill nye killed, no more Carmen Sandiego (awesome show!) and they were all replaced by junk like Barney, the Telletubies, and the Boobahs. Stupid effing PBS.
28 (Beatlesrockr): What do you mean, Mr. Rogers was canceled?
I liked Lambchops at ages 2-4. I still have a Lambchops handpuppet! I never liked Reading Rainbow, though. By the time I actually saw the show (I didn’t watch much television) I was too old for the books, and I thought it was kind of annoying.
38–Actually, Cliff Eagle, Barney was around long before Telletubbies, Between the Lions (even the early episodes, when the pigeons were still around), Boobah, etc. I understand why you might think it is junk, and perhaps the Barney episodes they are showing now are worse than the ones when I was little (assuming they aren’t reruns), but you can’t truly say Barney replaced some of those shows, as Barney was around long, long before Between the Lions and some of the others had ever even been heard of.
Wait–Bill Nye was killed? As in the guy himself, or they just “killed” his show?
Gosh, I’d forgotten all about Carmen Sandiego until you mentioned it–I remember watching that some when I was younger. Kind of when I was in the post-Barney, Lambchops, Mr. Rogers, Reading Rainbow, etc. age.
28–I don’t know if it was cancelled so much as Mr. Rogers died. Although I remember there being Mr. Rogers episodes on after he died, just a few years ago. Actually, I haven’t watched that many children’s episodes recently, sad to say. I’m currently looking up cyberchase episodes out of boredom. Actually, it’s a pretty good show, especially compared to some of the junk they ahve out for kids nowadays.
37- Ha, they made us watch Billy Nye and The Magic School Bus in 7th grade, too. The thing is, we probably learned as much from those videos as we would have from any other source.
38- Bill Nye killed? 0_o
Also, Barney and the Teletubbies are pretty old, I wouldn’t say they exactly replaced the cool shows. Why they are not taken off the air, though, completely escapes me. Maybe because the very, very, very wee ones watch them?
Nothing can be said in defense of Boobahs.
36- Then I shall go do that now, I suppose. Or rather, after I finish my homework. *discreet cough*
40 (Luna): Yeah, I know he died (one of Pittsburgh’s most depressing weeks in my memory), but I’m pretty sure they still play re-runs. He actually stopped making new episodes several years before he died.
And as far as I know, Bill Nye is still alive. We have the same birthday!
I meant it metaphorically- they “killed” his show. My science teacher got his autograph at a convention about a year ago.
Has anyone ever seen “Beakman’s World”? Beakman was like an amped-up Bill Nye. His assistant was a big, seedy-looking rat.
44–An amped-up Bill Nye? That sounds disturbing.
It was. I found it hard to watch, but some of my science-writer friends liked it a lot. (They were the twisted ones who worked at Scientific American.)
40- Yeah. It was in the newspaper or something like that, I remember they kept on playing it after he died, but my mom told me that they had canceled it, not very long ago.\
AH BILL NYE! NO!
Sorry. My science teacher LOVES Bill Nye. We’ve already watched 13 videos this year! He’s getting on my nerves!
Bill Nye is alive and well, living in San Diego, I believe. he was interviewed in the New York Times Magazine a while back. I think he bikes to work, and now produces tv shows. Oh, and he’s got a nice garden!
omg, I just watched a Bill Nye episode, and now I remember exactly why I never really cared for it…..He gets very irritating, and acts like a complete moron, and all the little interludes are very creepy. Not to mention he was flirting with some girl who had to be like half his age (as in, teenage). It was weird. It’s on youtube, the earth’s crust episode…..yeah. Can’t believe my sister was so into it, I never understood that.
Bill Nye is awesome. Beakman, however…
41 – I watched an episode of the Doodlebops (by force) and it was stressing the benefits of CAULIFLOWER.
I was very unnerved. That waas basically the whole subject of the entire episode.
I like Blue’s Clues (with STEVE, not Joe).
49- Yeah, wasn’t about that egg demonstration thingy? Creepy.
All I can say, Robert, is OH. MY. GOD. I just watched a clip of “Beakman’s World” on YouTube (on weighing air), and–I’m speechless. That is one of the most creepy/disgusting/disturbing shows I have ever watched (with the possible exception of Teletubbis~whom I’ve never actually watched a whole episode of, but what is with their whole creepy disturbing run into each other and bounce off thing? It disturbing. Or maybe I”m thinking of Boobah, I dunno). No offense to Bill Nye fans, but it makes Bill Nye look incredibly awesome and sane.
ok, speaking of Boobah, I just watched a couple little clips of like the beginning intro thing on Youtube, and seriously, What the hell are they supposed to be? When they wake up and emerge from their spoons or whatever, I swear, if you just change the music (as one clip had done), it totally transforms the atmosphere, and has the makings for a truly scary horror movie. I can’t believe they made that show for little children–what the heck is wrong with the creators? Seriously, were they on drugs or something?
And teletubbies are pretty creepy, too….do they ever speak a word of intelligible english? How are kids supposed to learn how to speak listening to garbled, messed up english???? I miss the shows of old.
51–yeah, he boiled this egg in this teen girl’s kitchen, and then the two of them are heavily flirting before he leaves to return to the show. It was *shudder*
51 – Well, that was weird. But the show is funny.
50- Aw, Blue’s Clues rocks. I never did quite understand why everyone hates Joe so much though. True, Steve is better, but Joe’s a nice guy too…
Well, I suppose the Doodlebops never run out of ideas for new episodes, at least!
ok, sorry for the multiple posts, but I was reading the teletubby wikipedia entry when I came across this:
A spokesman for Itsy Bitsy Entertainment Co., who licenses the characters in the United States, said that the bag was just a magic bag. “The fact that he carries a magic bag doesn’t make him a homosexual. It’s a children’s show, folks. To think we would be putting sexual innuendo in a children’s show is kind of outlandish”, he added.
Seriously, i burst out laughing so hard–outlandish to think that they would put sexual innuendo in a children’s show? Have these people watched a single animated Disney movie that has come out anytime in the recent past? They are filled with sexual innuendo. Mayhap the creators of teletubbies are above this, but it’s really not all that outlandish of a possibility…..
I have come to the conclusion, that mayhap the UK (despite it’s many brilliant contributions to the world) just isn’t the place to go for children’s TV. Both Boobah and Teletubbies originated in the UK, and both by the same group, as near as I can tell–which explains some of the disturbing similarities…..
55 – I dunno. Joe was just kind of weird. Steve is just more fun. Also, they ruined the show. RUINED it. Ever seen ‘Blue’s Room’? *shudder*
44/46- I just googled it; it sounds, quite frankly, hilarious.
50- I HATE Joe! But apparently Steve went nuts and killed himself or something like that…
I would look up the video of BN flirting with Egg Expiriment Girl, but my parents and I are half watching the VP debate, and I really don’t want to distract them.
Also from wiki (I kinow, I know, stop double/triple posting–sorry!):
In an unrelated incident reported in 2000, a girl’s Tinky Winky toy reportedly said “I got a gun”. Kenn Viselman, then chairman of the Itsy Bitsy Entertainment Co., claimed the toy actually said “Again, again!”, a catchphrase from the show. [11]
Personally, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the toy did really say “I got a gun”–there was a clip on youtube of this teen playing the red teletubby toy, and the toy very clearly said “faggot” at least six times–doesn’t seem like a very appropriate thing to me…..not to mention, even if their teletubby toys are supposed to be saying osmething else, when they are so unintelligible, the least they could do is find phrases that don’t sound like something less harmless.
59- Have you seen the Elmo’s World Behind the Scenes video? It’s sooo hilarious… Elmo flirts with one of the little girls on the show. ^.^
(58) According to Wikipedia, Steve left to pursue a career in music. He’s still living.
60–No, I haven’t. *goestolookitup*
57- Well, yes. Blue’s room is… *struggles to find words*… bad.
etc.
59- *twitch* I used to have a red tellytubby toy, but it didn’t talk or anything. It was just a normal, plushy toy, which just happened to be in the shape of a tellytubby. It was a gift when I was very small, apparently.
61- Really? I’d heard he got arrested for drugs or something malacious like that… I suppose I shouldn’t have trusted the word of my fellow second graders nearly so much. Music is much more pleasant, anyhow. Good for you, Steve.
are you guys all crazy bill nye > everything.
lol not really. okay actually yeah really I loved bill nye. also no he’s not dead. the onion did something on that so maybe that’s where that comes from.
I watched toonami and sailor moon as a three year old. lol. I’m talkin old school good toonami. thundercats and whatnot. Also loved Lambchop.
19) OK! Good idea! thannks!
I LOVE Bill Nye! He is the MAN! I have a shirt of him saying, “Science Rules!” Totally awesomenessnessness!
64) I used to watch Sailor Moon too. But I eventually got tired of it because it was like the same thing every single episode.
Isn’t it an outrage about Cookie Monster? VEGGIE MONSTER?! Ruined! That totally ruined Seseme STreet!
Bill Nye? Flamablamablous.
Steve? FLAMABLAMABLOUS! I’m glad he didn’t die.
Joe? Meh. Annoying.
Teletubbies? I LOVED them when I was little. If you think it’s perverted, ever watch Barney?? Seriously. I hated it when I was little. I’d cry every time it came on.
VEGGIE MONSTER??? WTF??? What the heck is that??? Cookie Monster is way better.
Hey, sorry if I seem loopy. I am suffering from pain. *goes to take a Tylenol* Better.
Last I heard, Cookie Monster has gone back to being Cookie Monster. Which is good.
61- Well, then it was apparently a rumour that spread around my school. Oh well.
64/65- Sailor Moon! Loved that show (still do!) Mini Moon was a bit annoying, though… The Sugar Baby song rocks.
When I first heard about Veggie Monster, I was like “WTF????????????????” I begged my parents to sue the Sesame Street people for about 2 weeks. Urgggg… it was like my precious childhood memories were being wrenched from my heart with a dull tuning fork made of bamboo splinters.
66–Actually, yeah I did watch Barney. I liked it quite a bit when I was little. Now, *screamsandrunsaway* it just drives me crazy, especially the “I love you” song…….
I love you,
You love me,
We’re a happy family.
With a great big hug,
and a kiss from me to you.
Won’t you say you love me too!”
67 – *phew*
69 – It’s freaky.
(68) It wasn’t just your school; the rumors were widespread. Steve made television appearances to counter them. The article on Snopes.com speculates the stories may have confused the actor with a role he played on “Law and Order.”
71 – Umm… okay then… confusing a guy with his guest-starring role…
(72) Stranger things have happened. Easy to see how “Steve’s character was killed” becomes “Steve was killed” as the story gets passed around, especially to people who didn’t see the show. Then months later people forget the context. And, as Snopes pointed out, some people like to believe the worst of children’s show hosts.
As for Barney, I will say only that I found the main character, um, how shall I put this, aesthetically unpleasing. I never got past that enough to watch the show itself.
I liked Wishbone a lot.
Yay for Bill Nye and Sailor Moon! Also, Sagwa and Johnny Quest! I bought a DVD with four Carmen Sandiego episodes a while back. Awesome show, very Muserly.
49- i just watched that and it didn’t appear to me as creepy or flirting at all.
i watched a bit of beakman’s world. it’s boring and over acted.
68- sue sesamie street? wast of time. i don’t understand american’s and suing.
49- maybe you are just another pervert…. jk
My homeboy Amir was the voice of Arnold from Magic School bus in Israel. Awesome. (amir is like thirty, btw).
73- By ‘aestetically unpleasing’, do you mean ‘hideous, horendous to observe, fugly, and painfully idiotic’? Because those are the phrases that pop into my head when I think of that massive purple buffoon.
SAGWA!!!!!!!!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!! Ho pon yo, ho pon yo, Sagwa, shewana ho pon yo………….. (that’s what it sounds like anyway…)
74) JOHNNY QUESSSTTT
Also all those hanna barbara type cartoons…lol space ghost, the jetsons, the flintstones, and let’s not forget the flintstones meet the jetsons.
I wiki’d toonami and it was ronin warriors that I used to watch all the time! man I loved that show. and beat wars…oh man. When I got older I watched gundam wing and outlaw star with my brother when he didn’t kick me out…also dragonball. in fact I remember watching totoro as when i must have been three or four. now I’m nostalgic for old anime lol. now cartoon network is all crap except for flapjack which is hilarious.
(77) That would approximate my impressions, yes.
You know, I don’t think Barney is that bad. Okay, let me change that. Barney is that bad, but it hasn’t always been that way. Before BJ and Baby Bop and that squirrel thing came along, it was really nice.
Although there are a few shows that I really can’t stand (for example, I think Boohbah is really stupid), most children’s TV shows are not as bad as some people make them seem. Teletubbies is actually a wonderful show for really little kids (or it was the last time I saw it). It shows those videos of tots, and then it plays them again – I mean, have you met any toddlers? That’s always exactly what they want to happen. And stuff.
In defense of Boohbah, the creators of the show made it very clear that they would not allow “real life Boohbah’, y’know, actors in suits, that would scare the kids at birthday parties. (Just devil’s advocate here, Boohbah was after my time.)
I’m growing increasingly worried about tv though, for kids in particular. I’ve read a little of The Assault on Reason, by Al Gore, and this study (‘Baby Einstein’ Videos Ineffective, Study Finds, by NPR) worries me.
73 – I guess.
Boobah: What the heck? What’s that?
It sounds really stupid.
Flinstones: Oh my gosh I LOVED that show!!!!!
Scooby Doo: I LOVE the old ones! Th new ones suck though. And the ones with real people.
Jetsons: I LOVE that too!
I learned about half of the Spanish I currently know from Dora.
My little sister watched both Dora and the Backyardigans.
Good times… I still know about half those songs.
Wishbone: I love that show! Ever tho I was like three when it went off.
Lamb Chop: See Wishbone.
Between the Lions: Taught me to read.
Cyberchase: good show
Fetch: NEED TO WATCH
Tots TV: Second favorite show when 3.
Mr. Rogers: Was BEST SHOW when 3.
The new little kid shows are annoying. They’re not anything like the old ones. One time, at the dentists, they had the Disney channel on and this really scary show came on with all the Disney people, Mickey, Minny, etc. And they started dancing around and singing this annoying song OVER and OVER and OVER! And I was seriously about to run screaming from the waiting room.
Was it scarier than the April Random Disney™ Thread?
85–woah, I missed out on a lot when i wasn’t MBing….I just went there, and omg, it was hilarious!!!!! I love the song, but did you guys fix it so it didn’t automaticall play? Cuz all the posts were complaining about that, and I had to actually click the play button. One more question….the sound effect at the end of the clip–is that supposed to be a pie going *splat*? Because it sounds like something else, to me…..
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85 –
(86) Yes and yes. If you want to see something really scary, check out what happened to the GAPAs.
Sweet! You guys look so cute….But, one question, what are the mysterious Mickey smilies everyone was talking about? I only saw regular smilies and HPBs.
88 –
I remember it. All of it.
(89) Disney proved too powerful even for HPBs — temporarily, anyway. At the risk of triggering flashbacks, the MM smilies looked something like this:
After April 1st, the HPBs reasserted themselves and quickly bunnified the MM smilies.
I don’t see it…..
oh….ok, I can see it now that I switched to Firefox. I guess the mickeys aren’t compatible with Safari, even though the regular smilies and HPBs are…..
(92, 93) We have to post images within comments in two steps, and it may not have shown up yet when you first looked.
and now I see it with Safari, too….weird, it wasn’t there before.
91 – AAH! NO! THE HORROR!
77- SAGWA! *yay* I also enjoyed that show. but the song sounded like ‘sagwano sagwano sagwa shiwana hoponyo’ to me.
I can’t believe the actually changed the Cookie Moster to the Veggie Monster. How did they make the transition? Did he just one day decide he liiked Veggies more? *outrage*
Wait, he actually wasn’t changed, I just looked it up. GAPAs, can I post a link? It’s on Snopes…
97 – YAY FOR SAGWA!
100- YAY FOR UNPRUNOSIBLE THEME SONGS!
I liked Hard Hat Harry, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Cyberchase, Liberty’s Kids,Crat’s Creatures… and a lot more shows I can’t remember. Except Teletubbies. I. DISLIKE. TELETUBBIES.” The intelligable sounds that the strange tv-creatures made was unpleasing to me, and still is even to this day.
96- It’s even better when you use tabs to listen to it in rounds!
82- I love everything Scooby-Doo except the live action movies and the ones with real monsters. The others are great, skeptical, awesomeness!
Cookies are a sometimes food.
I liked Sagwa too. That was a nice show.
I loved Wishbone, Bill Nye, Lamb Chop, Shining Time Station, etc…most of the old shows. I also think that Cyberchase and fetch are good, although they were after my time.
I don’t really remember Lamb Chop. I have a lot of VHS recordings of it that my Grandpa sent me… I guess I really liked it when I was too young to remember. If that makes any sense.
I really like Fetch! It’s HILARIOUS!
Sagwa was awesome, too.
ARTHUR!
Bill Nye was sort of weird, but I like laughing at all the weird, but in style at the time, outfits that people wear.
Mr. Rogers was good, too. I liked the Speedy Delivery man and the videos on how they make things.
I just saw a documentary on eht Speedy Delivery man. Apperantly, he goes around the country and entertains children and adults alike.
Oh yes, everyone’s forgetting ZOOM! That show was the best. I liked how it was geared towards older kids.
106- I still watch all the PBS shows (OK, just the ones in the afternoon) and I’m almost 15!
When I was little, my favorite TV shows were Between The Lions, Cyberchase, Sagwa, and Zoboomafoo. I never really liked Barney, Teletubbies, or sesame Street. They were just…annoying.
Sorry to double post, but I forgot that I also used to like Zoom.
Oh! Zoboomafoo! I loved that show! Also Between the Lions. And Cyberchase.
Man, I watched a lot of TV when I was a kid.
108- I liked Zaboomafoo, too. I liked Teletubbies because of their appliances.
108- *Gasp* I forgot Zoboomafoo! Zoboo was the best. I can still sing the theme song!
DUCK!!”
107- ZOOM! too! Teh pwnage. I remember trying to recreate some of their crafts/recipes… and failing miserably. Oh well, they were still awesome.
Sagwa was nice. A very fine little show.
Oooh, Fetch!
107 – So did I until I found that I had no time on my hands. But I was in the middle of highschool when that happened.
I absolutely hate the Martha TV show! Especially since I know and love the books. I think that the TV show completely ruined the books.
Often, when I’m sick, I find that in the morning Sesame street is better TV programming then Jerry Springer or any soap opera. So that’s what I watch while I’m waiting for everyone to get back on MB.
Zoboomafoo pwns! I loved that show! Is it still on television anymore?
97- I’m not sure anyone knows what the song actually says. Even those who speak Chinese.
Wait! Here’s a link (is it ok? I don’t think it’s a bad link…)
www . cfhf.net/lyrics/sagwa . htm
Very explainatory.
102- Liberty’s Kids was probably my favorite show from the time I was 5 to age 8, when it was cancelled. I still remember the theme song!!!
107- I was on Zoom when I was in Kindergarten. I gave a little speel on how my school was preparing for earth day. ^^ I was so cute!!!!!
116- The lemur who played Zoboomafoo is at the Duke Primate center in Durham, NC. I went there once.
116- I don’t know. I have a whole videocassette of a lot of their shows.
I never really liked Cyberchase and Between the Lions.
Why do Musers like PBS kids so much?
118- For real? I need to go there! I totally always wanted to meet that lemur.
120- That lemur was so darn cute!
120- When I saw him, he had kindof packed on the pounds since his zaboo days, but he was still pretty cute.
117 – Really? Which episode did you end up in? *thinks back to the older (and way better) Zoom episodes*
119 – Because we prefer being kids in a lot of ways? For me, it’s because kids TV is fun, it’s not another version of real life like what soap operas try to do. Honestly, why watch something like that when it’s often beating on your doors in real life already? The only type of “adult” TV I like is the Olympics, because it’s just impressive, and because I like sports.
I didn’t see any TV. I feel clueless.
Yay, Zaboomafu!
i only have basic cable which puts me with religous channels PBS and news channels so basically for fun i watch PBS which means that though i am three days from being 13 im also watching shows along side two year olds it’s surpriziing how entertaining Fetch with Ruff Ruffman is the theird season just started and it rocks i guess. i don’t know i get home when it starts so i don’t have time to watch it but i did see a few of the new season shows. Cyberchase is also really cool.
Wow. Zaboomafoo has as many alternate spellings as Januka. Which is now spelled with a spanish silent J. Jag Sameaj.
Oh, yeah, Zoom! I remember that.
I wonder if they ever did the ‘freaky fluid’ as a craft on there.
128 – They did. I remember that one.
Does anyone remember when Zoom did Little Red Riding Hood–in ubbi dubbi? That was hilarious.
Ahh, I loved Zaboomafoo! That show was awesome. I also liked Mr. Rogers when I was little. And I confess to liking Barney–although, looking back, I don’t know how I could stand it.
119- Because it’s Edutanment!
107- i watch TVOkids, and often PBS. they have great shows for all ages.
I learned the words to ‘having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card’ song recently. I watched the only good land before time video yesterday. it mad me possitively bawl. tears coursed down my cheecks for about half the movie. ah my goodness it was great.
132–which number of LBT is the only good one? I have watched several of them. Petri is so hilarious as is Ducky, yup, yup, yup! And Cera is a jerk.
123- I have no idea; I only saw it once. It was on in 2006, though. I could find the recording, but I am a very lazy person and I’m watching Keith Olbermann bash Sarah Palin.
128- Yeah, they did; they made a big rubber tub of it and the boy who wore the blue shirt jumped into it.
129- Ubi spubeak flubuubent Ubbi Dubbi.
Favorite TV Shows from when I was a wee-un (in alphabetical order!!! XD)
PBS:
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Angelina Ballerina: I absolutely loved her. Still watch it on demand sometimes with my friend Elissa; have a collection of much loved books and a tattered Alice doll.
Arthur: What’s not to love? Prunella is fabulous and has always been my favorite character (along with Nemo… love that cat…)
Berenstain Bears: No idea why I liked this one. Very stupid now that I re-watch it.
Between the Lions: Every day at 3 after school, hunker down and watch this one. :&hearts: Click rocks, and my favorite episode is when they tak about greek mythology.
Big Comfy Couch: reeeeally cool when I was about three. I vaguely remember a girl sitting on a red couch with these weird dust bunny creatures under the couch. They kind of scared me, from what I remember.
Bob the Builder: Popular more with my little brother, but I got my fair share of it when he was parked in front of the ‘Pilchard in a Pickle’ and ‘Bob Can Fix It!’ videos. Why my parents didn’t invest in more than two videos, I shall never know. The little hedgehogs are the best.
Brian Jacque’s Redwall: Watched it with my dad, and I cried when Rose died in the last episode (when I was about nine… so sad when it got cancelled…
Caillou: Hate it, always have hated it, but my brother loved it, so I watched it.
Clifford: LOVE Clifford. That dog with the three legs was my hero for a little while. And I never got why Mac was blue.
Clifford’s Puppy Days: Leaves a lot to be desired, honestly. It’s ok, as far as little kid’s shows go.
Curious George: Another brother show. Used to like it; now I want to kill myself when I hear the narrator’s voice.
Cyberchase: Every evening at six until I was about 10 my brother and I would watch it. Favorite one? Umm…. when they go to the fair and they have to catch those ghosty things. I honest to goodness had a crush on Delete when I was 7.
Dragon Tales: Very creative, and Weezie was my fav. I like the one where they go to Puzzle Forest.
Fetch!: Watch it still. Tried out for the third season; never got a callback.
George Shrinks: Cool show. Not very popular, but it was cool. Like the one where he goes into the pond and finds a bunch of old toys.
Jakers!: Amazingly stupid. The government tries to make Irish the new Spanish; ultimate fail.
Jay Jay the Jet Plane: Ug, I loved this one, for some reason. Amazingly realistic when I was four.
Liberty’s Kids: OMG, favorite show EVER. I LOOOOOOOOVE this show (still do!!!!!) It’s on the history channel sometimes…
Mister Rogers: I liked the Land of Make Believe. That’s pretty much it. Oh, and I was always confused why he had a stoplight in his house.
Make Way for Noddy: Can barely remember it now; a little elf was involved. Oh, and he had an airplane.
Postcards from Buster: Stupid and unintelligent. Nice try, producers.
Reading Rainbow: Taught me to love books. Love it.
Sagwa: Another one of those shows that I absolutely LOVED. My dad, finding hilarity in the names of the cats, called me Siangwa and my brother Noahgwa, my mom Tamgwa, himself Patgwa, Syllabub Hangwa… you get the idea.
Sesame Street: This is the one show (other than Bear in the Big Blue House and Madeline) that I watched constantly when I was small. The older ones are SO much better than the newer ones.
Oop, time to go. I’ll keep going with my list later. Bye!
134- +1
I loved Liberty’s Kids!
“Looking at life through my own eyes…”
Yes. I like Zoboomafoo too.
DOens’t every little kid like cute little, hopping, lemurs? 
137–I’ve never even heard of Zoboomafoo? Was/is it a PBS show? That’s the only kids show channel we get….
Actally, scratch that, we do get some local channel five which plays “cubo” (selection of horribly irritating little kids shows) (including, but not limited to veggie tales and larry boy–and those are the stomachable ones) one day a week. Then, on CBS, on Fridays, I think, they have a couple hour segment of little kid shows. Some of which are ok, some of which are just annoying (I think they call the whole conglomeration koolopolis)
I love ancient Loney Tunes that aired years ago. Especially Duck Amuck, it’s the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.
136- “Searching for a hero to idolize…”
138-
You’ve NEVER heard of Zoboomafoo??? Are you serious?
138- Are you kidding? Zoboomafoo rules!!!
(oh yeah, i’m not a neophyte anymore
140, 141: Nope, I’m not kidding. I have really and truly never heard of Zoboomafoo. I did google it, and I have come to the conclusion that the reason I’ve never heard of it is due to the fact that it did not come on the air until after I stopped watching little kid shows [as a little kid], and went off the air before I started watching them again as a teen. So it was after [and before] my time…..
Well, Luna will be happy to know that I finally youtubed Wishbone and Lambchops. Wishbone looks nice, though I am absolutely positive now that I had never heard of it before.
However, I do, in fact, know Lambchops! I never watched it very frequently (for unknown reasons), but I know that lamb. I may even venture further to say that I once had a doll in his form, but that may or may not be true.
134- General agreement, but I never like Jay Jay, and I never watched a few of those shows. But wasn’t Angelina Ballerina BBC or something? We own one Angelina DVD because of my sister’s ballerina phase when she was three, and I’m pretty sure it was from some British company or something.
*Wiki’s*
Ahh, it was originally from HIT Entertainment in the UK, but aired on PBS and Nick Jr. All right, then.
i kind of have to watch kid shows, because I have a 3-year-old baby brother who watches TV every day. So I’m pretty cool with this topic.
136- LIBERTY’S Kids omg omg omg awesome show! Henri was the koolest!
sorry about the double post, but my FAVORITE show is Sesame Street. Go Elmo!
140- “Duck!”
“No it’s a *Blank*!”
“No, DUCK!”
kraft borthers are hit by the bird.
My current favorite modern-era (e.g., not on when I was under 6) little kids’ show is Wonderpets. A boy in my band class started singing the Wonderpets theme song in the middle of class today. He’s a wacko, but not in a bad way.
Do you think Bill Nye would count as one of the great scientists in the world?
I’m doing extra credit and have to get a few scientists- so far I’ve got Chomsky (From the Language issue ;)) Darwin, and a couple of others. Who else can I do?
I absolutely HATED Beakmans World or whatever. It used to come on on Sundays, and…
It failed.
But they made it into a cartoon in the newspaper with the corny insignia of, “Yes U Can!” With a picture of a can instead of the word.
It depressed me to read it, but they had really interesting articles.
149–scientists, huh? How about…..Gregor Mendel (mayhap not scientist per se, but he is the monk who did all the pea experiments on genetics), Rosalind Franklin (responsible for the bulk of the work behind the discover of the structure of DNA, although credit is never given to her, but instead given to John Watson and Francis Crick), um…..Marie Curie did a bunch of stuff with radioactivity (it was her, right? I think it was…..)
My guess is Bill Nye doesn’t count, but I could be wrong!
151- Yes, Marie Curie used radioactivity- thank you. My teacher has a good sense of humour, so I probably will use Bill Nye as one.
Sorry for going off topic for a minute, too- I decided this would be the best place to ask such a question.
140- “Feeling the pain as innocence dies, I’m looking at life through my own eyes…” I could go on and on…
149- I don’t know about scientists per se, but both Bill Nye and his Jedi Master, Carl Sagan, are certainly among the great science popularizers of the world!
149- He’s not a scientist, is he?
Bhor? I am speeling that right?
155-
Well, I’m sure I could explain him as a teacher of the children or something.
Bohr, right? The one with the atom theory comparing to an elevator?
We just learned about that, I don’t think I can do him.
If it helps, I’m in the Chemistry section on 9th grade Physical science.
Thank you so much, I now have to go, but thank you for your ideas and lists. I’ll keep them in mind. (:
156–ninth grade, eh? *missesthosedays* I think I did biology that year…..and chem in 10th….then AP chem in 11th……then physics in 12th
And now I’m back to biology…..And going off on a huge tangent……
So, back to the topic. Gosh, I really haven’t watched much tv at all since school started. (Well, unless tv online counts–I’ve watched at least 2 seasons of tv episodes online, but those weren’t kids tv, so……)
Bearenstein bears is ok, too. Although the books are so much better!
I think Sesame street came to AK once, cuz I seem to remember my sister going (huh, wonder where I was…..maybe it was before I was born? but the my sis would’ve only been not quite 2…..) And unless my memory fails me (which is possible, i could have created a false memory–hey, my psych teacher vaguely mentioned mirror neurons in class today! It was funny, cuz my mind immediately jumped to that issue of muse, and the spoof page with the look at these pictures, what is this kid doing…..). Anyway, unless my memory fails me, Lambchops came to AK as well, cuz I could swear I went to a live lamchops show.
I do remember having a lamchops t-shirt when i was little–there are pictures of me with my hair in a braid/braids wearing this lamchops shirt decorated with little hearts, and a big heart ont he front that has lambchops coming out of it (like the heart’s a window, or something).
I still remember little bits of lamchops episodes…..like one where she is singing (or soemhtng) and having flashbacks to when she was a little itty bitty lamb, and she ahd a mike, and thought it was lollipop and was trying to eat it…..
Then there’s another where she is wearing a ring that belongs ot the woman, and makes cookies, and thinks she lost the ring in the cokies so shemakes either Charley Horse or Hush Puppy (don’t you just love how their names are food? Well, Charley Horse isn’t food, but he is a muscle–it is muscle, right?) eat all the cookies cuz she doesn’t want to tell the woman (dang, I forget her name) that she lost the ring, and it turns out that it got stuck inside the gloves she was wearing wen she made the cookies…..(or maybe she was wearing a pair of gloves later, and not wearing latex glvoes when makng the cookies, I dunno).
And my sister had a Charley Horse puppet…..I think he was wearing a green shirt…..
138) Yeah, it was a PBS show. *fond memories*
147)
149) Definately! Bill Nye is everyone’s favorite scientist!
158- 8th, I really don’t know why they call it 9th, everyone in my school’s in it.
My favorite children’s show lately was Johnny Test, but they cancelled it.
Semi-depressing.
145:
YES. Liberty’s Kids… I watched that until it went off the air when I was… I dunno, in fifth grade?
Apparently Liberty’s Kids is still on the air! It’s on channedl 600 something… one of my friends has like a million channels and I found it! Yay!
Liberty’s Kids was such a great show. They should make more. Or something.
I liked Zoboo too, that was fun. I think my favorite part was the snack machine thing.
163- Yes, tha snack machine pwned all.
This dude in my algebra class found a HILARIOUS parody of Blues Clues. It’s a tad innapropriate, but rip-your-sides mirthful.
Bear in the Big Blue House, anyone? Baby Blotter is the BOMB.
You know what is just the greatest show? Big Comfy Couch. That’s a wonderful show.
163, 164- Ahh, the snack machine was the best. My sister and I checked out a Zoboomafoo cd-rom from the library once, just to see what was on it. The only part I remember is that there was a snack machine you would click, and Zoboo would say, “Garbonzo beans and papaya!”
It was my favorite quote for a very long time.
164- I never liked Bear in the Big Blue House very much. Possibly because by the time I discovered it, it wasn’t nearly as appealing as it might have been earlier. Say, if I’d started watching Sesame street or something, at the age of 5 or 6, it would have probably seemed ten times stupider than it does at present.
My favorite thing on Zobomafoo was the closet. Every time they opened it, everything would fall out on them, and I would think it was hilarious. When I was little and a frequent watcher of Zoboomafoo, I always wished I could have a closet like that. Now, I sort of do. And it isn’t funny at all.
165- That shw was a little scary. What were those weird dust bunny things, anyway?
167- The closet! Omygod that made me laugh so hard when I was wee. ^^
I loooooove Zobomafoo!!!!!!
Heehee!
You know what other shows I loved? Dragon Tales and Sagua… are those still playing?
168 – They were exactly that. Dust bunnies. But I didn’t get that at first, so I thought that they were “monsters under the bed” type things, except that they were under the couch.
I love Bill Nye! He was awesome! I actually found that show on a different TV station (not public TV) but it was really lousy because although the show hadn’t changed in terms of awesomeness, it was way shorter because there were a ton of commercial breaks in it. So what was once a 1/2 hour show was then a maybe 15 or 20 minute show, with 10 or 15 minutes of commercials sprinkled throughout. Blehhh.
Maybe that’s why we like PBS kids so much. Not only is it fun (mostly) but there are no annoying commercials in the middle of the shows.
I remember when I ws little that I disliked Teletubies because the babyin the sun scared me. That was a slightly random thought.
I liked Tellietubbies, unfortunately for me.
167 – Oh yeah, I remember that! Ah, sweet memories…
Teletubbies is actually a great show for toddlers. And it’s not stupid. Actually, I probably shouldn’t be saying anything about that show, because it could have morphed (like Barney) since I last saw it.
Do any of you remember “The Puzzle Place”? Or the lesser known “Bananas in Pajamas”? I loved both of these when I was little.
173- Yeah, it actually has somewhat of a plotline, unlike Boobah… *spits disdainfully on Boobah*
174- Oh… my god! I LOVED those shows, but no one ever remembers them!!!!! The Puzzle Place! So many memories… And my dad, whenever I came downstairs in the morning, he would sing (to the tune of Bananas in Pajamas) ‘Sianna, in pajamas, she’s coming down the stairs… Sianna, in pajamas, not wearing underwear…’ It would make me giggle shamelessly.
175- Boobah is really stupid. Just check out the games for it online. *shudders violently*
174, 175- Sweet, Sweet Days.
*cries in pure happiness* This video just… really touched me, for some reason. youtube.com/watch?v=eVeyLr2fGNA
What I’m really sad about know is how I never really appreciated Mr. Rogers when I was a kid. The only thing I liked about the show was Make- Believe, and I really didn’t pay attention to the rest of it. I tried to look up some shows, but I just recieved a lot of rubbish. Mr. Rogers was a great, great man, in my opinion, and the way people make fun of his kind nature just makes me so ANGRY!
He was also a vegetarian. *bonus points*
178- Awwwww…
‘We are All Earthlings’ song by the Sesame Street guys was reeeeally touching to me.
179- That made me melt.
149- why not?
155- bohr. one of the guys from the ‘bohr and rutherford diagrams’ right?
174- bananas in Pyjamas. FAVORITE SHOW EVER!!!!!!!!
kagy is watcing an idiotic 90’s show with the cutest 90 year old. jolly old people are adorable.
A bit of a digression, but did anybody else play the edutainment CD-ROM game Reading Blaster: Vocabulary as a kid? Rave the little green alien solving puzzles in Doctor Dabble’s castle to save Gloria Gastly?
170 – BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY!! I used to love that show.
Bananas in Pyjamas! I was starting to think nobody in the US had heard of them! (Then again, I also thought Pringles were only made in the Philippines. Got me there.)
179 – I just watched that song again… such a sweet song. There’s something about how earnest that and the similar Sesame Street songs that gets to me. Remember “I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon?”
185 – Yeah! I loved those songs! *looks those songs up* My friend used a line from “I don’t want to live on the moon” as her quote in her yearbook.
And there are some who would laugh at us for still loving sesame street…
185-Well, I’d like to visit the moon
On a rocket ship high in the air
Yes, I’d like to visit the moon
But I don’t think I’d like to live there.
Though I’d like to look down at the earth from above
I would miss all the places and people I love
So although I might like it for one afternoon
I don’t want to live on the moon
I’d like to travel under the sea
I could meet all the fish everywhere
Yes, I’d travel under the sea
But I don’t think I’d like to live there
I might stay for a day there if I had my wish
But there’s not much to do when your friends are all fish
And an oyster and clam aren’t real family
So I don’t want to live in the sea
I’d like to visit the jungle, hear the lions roar
Go back in time and meet a dinosaur
There’s so many strange places I’d like to be
But none of them permanently
So if I should visit the moon
Well, I’ll dance on a moonbeam and then
I will make a wish on a star
And I’ll wish I was home once again
Though I’d like to look down at the earth from above
I would miss all the places and people I love
So although I may go I’ll be coming home soon
‘Cause I don’t want to live on the moon
No, I don’t want to live on the moon
Somehow I remember that
Jim Henson was awesomely awesome.
187 – I don’t remember that, strangely enough.
But… GAPAs, can you insert a period there somewhere, please, for the benefit of the ‘Recent Comments’ bar? Thanks.
184- Pringles=Phylippines???
184 – That’s like “How did this potato chip get here from Brazil?”
188 – Look it up on youtube–it’s so sweet! (I favorited it!)
187 – Apparently, that song made me cry when I was little.
I suppose everyone wants to fit in, or to not fit in at all, to something. Not just school groups but anything. I just finished a book in which the main (female) character wants to fit in to an all male secret society at her school. In a way, I want to fit into the world of SF writers, editors and fans. Thoughts?
187- The Rainbow Connection, too! Kermit = Best.
Why are there so many
songs about rainbows
and what’s on the other side
Rainbows are visions
but only illusions
Rainbows have nothing to hide
So we’ve been told and some choose to believe it
but I know they’re wrong wait and see
Some day we’ll find it
the rainbow connection
The lovers, the dreamers, and me
The first verse & refrain, quoted from memory. That was my favorite song of all time for about a year, two years ago. Pretty much still is my favorite song, or at least in the top… 5.
Does anyone want to morph this thread now?
194- I’m cool with it. It was fun, but now it’s time to change. ^^
Okay, ummmmmm……………. favorite seasons and why?
192 – Well, what makes you not fit in?
194–Fine by me, but I don’t ahve any suggestions……
Let’s morph to… um…
Darn. I got nothing.
192 – I think everyone wants to feel like they have something in common with the people they admire, and they want other people to admire them. It’s a natural human desire to want to fit in, for better or for worse.
I personally am a huge fan of Zooboomafoo and the Kraft Brothers.
But my favorite children’s show is by far Little Bill (created by Bill Cosby). I have no idea why, but I am very much entertained by him and his multicultural friends. Although it is marginally creepy the elderly creator would name a five-year-old figment after himself, I just can’t get enough of that show.
Blue’s Clues was really magnificent until Steve went to “college”. Joe killed it so brutally…
Ahahahaha, Sesame Street! Everyone go to YoutTube and search “My Triangle James Blunt Sesame Street”. My geometry teacher showed us the video in class one day… hilarious!
As for Barney and Friends…
Te quiero yo
Y tu ami
Somos una familia feliz
Con un fuerte a brazo y un beso te dare
Mi carino es para ti!
196- that they have all been friends for years and that they are published. Green and I are starting to know people though.
200–*shudder* reciting it in spanish doesn’t lessen the horror those words now invoke. lol, I liked Barney when i was little, but they really need a new song. Even then, my family and I butchered it horribly for entertainment.
200- Mi non para ti, mon amie.
200- The Triangle thing was hilarious. In the end James Blunt looks like he’s trying not to laugh.
203- No hablo el francais, mi comrada.
205- Non mi, amigas. Salvo diversion tu simular!
We need a new topic.
Hey, you know what’s funny? Well, a lot of things are funny, but I was going to say that the first three posters’ blognames all start with k.
207 – We have sort of exhausted this one, haven’t we? I haven’t any idea what to do, though.
There are so many threads now, I lose track. Is there a thread that… encompasses, I guess, board games?
Well, that would be a bad topic anyway, we already had a topic that was on the dryer end.
187- :cries:
(208) THF: There was a discussion of games and pastimes back in May 2007, but I haven’t found anything similar since then. Should I make that the topic?
How about random weird facts? I wonder how many other people on the blog are Ripley’s Believe It Or Not addicts like me.
211- Yes! Weird facts!
Did you know that in your lifetime you unconsciously eat 16 pounds of your own hair?
winston churchill was born in a bathroom!
rubber bands last longer if you store them in the freezer!
honey never goes bad!
bumblebees’ (the fuzzy ones) fur is made of tiny scales!
the statue of liberty’s index finger is 8 feet long!
there are usually 3-4 insect bits in a bar of chocolate!
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coca cola used to be green
polar bear’s have hollow hair
212–ew!
213–ew on the last one!
125- 8 O 8 O 8 O 8 O You scare me………
Don’t worry about it, you won’t get it. Unless someone here happens to be Myles, but even he probably wouldn’t understand…
((stupid smileys))
Isn’t there already a factoids thread?
*checks*
Yes, but it’s very old and dead:
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1184
This is fine, though.
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a stack of playing cards. XD
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. :O
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand. (Might want to remember this one, haha.)
219 – Yeah, the quicksand one was (kind of) in the… August, I think… Muse. I love the 12 newborns one. Who knew? Well what I really want to know is if they figure it out or raise the kids never knowing they don’t share much DNA.
I don’t believe the duck one, though. Everything echoes when under the correct circumstances, at least a little.
One interesting fact that’s pretty in-depth:
Once upon a time, the French captured a bunch of English longbowmen. The French cut the index and middle fingers off of the bowmen’s hands, so that they couldn’t shoot arrows anymore.
So then, when they released the English guys and came to attack again, they held up their index and middle fingers (as an insult), so as to say, “I still have my two fingers, you’re screwed.” The two-finger gesture eventually morphed into a one-finger gesture, which is fairly common as an insult today.
Isn’t that cool?
(212) Doesn’t it depend on how long your hair is? Mine isn’t anywhere near my mouth. Or do you mean that hairs fall onto my plate and I eat them without noticing?
220- I read a similar story in the book Word Myths. It said it wasn’t true, but I really never know what to trust when it comes to etymology.
219- Did you heard the story on This American Life about the girls who were switched at birth? Look it up; it’s fascinating.
According to Snopes.com, both the story about the archers and the factoid about a duck’s quack are false (www .snopes.com/language/apocryph/pluckyew.asp and www .snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.asp).
Oh, that reminds me: According to my father, darker hair generally grows faster than lighter/red hair. Interesting, no?
I didn’t hear the “pluck yew” part – that would actually make it seem more likely that it was false. It also seemed to make sense that, from the description the teacher gave, these horrible people would do that. I actually asked him about it, because he had said the day before that they often ransomed any captured soldiers, and he said that they sometimes just liked to watch things like this, so they kept them and then just threw them back. I don’t know.
And this was from my 60-year-old social studies teacher…
Hurrah! New topic!
Did you know that:
Coca-Cola was originally sold as a health drink?
Lightning bolts sometimes shoot out of volcanoes? (Read in a magazine this afternoon.)
William Shakespeare was the first person to use the words “upstairs” and “downstairs” and “eyeball” ?
Nerd was coined by Dr. Seuss in “If I ran the Zoo”
Coca-Cola originally was made with coke (as in cocaine)–that is, I know I read that somewhere but am too lazy to verify its accuracy.
Um…..I’m at a loss.
About 100 men are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. (Omigod, that’s creepy.)
1. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it)
2. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that’s more like it)
3. A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
(In my next life I want to be a pig)
(How’d they figure this out, and why?)
4. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
(Still can’t get over that pig thing)
(Don’t try this at home…maybe at work?)
6. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
(Hmmmmmmmmm……..)
7. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
(I’m ambidextrous.If you’re ambidextrous do you split the difference?)
8. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
(From drinking little bottles of…?)
(Did taxpayers pay for this research??)
9. Polar bears are left handed.
(Who knew….? Who cares? How’d they find out, did they ask them?)
10. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What can be so tasty on the bottom of the pond?)
11. The flea can jump 350 times its body length.
It’s like a human jumping the length of a football field.
(30 minutes…can you imagine?? And why pigs?)
12. A cockroach will live nine days without it’s head, before it starves to death.
(Creepy)
14. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(In my next life I still want to be a pig … quality over quantity)
15. Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Oh, Geez) (That’s almost as bad as catfish)
16. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.
(I know some people like that.)
17. Starfish don’t have brains.
(I know some people like that too.)
18.Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
(I don’t peel onions, but if your a cooker try it)
(I bet pigs don’t cry if they cut onions! Another reason I want to be a pig.)
19. If a statue in a park of a person on a horse that has two legs up in the air, it means that person died in battle. If there is 1 leg up, it means that person died as a result from an injury in battle. If the Horse has all four feet on the ground, that means that person died of a natural cause.
(How about a pig on a horse?)
so…..one question. did you write the comments in the parentheses after each fact? Or were they copied form the website/forwarded email where you got the facts…..Just wondering.
227- Damn lucky pigs.
228- Yeah… I was wondering that…
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar machine and a chocolate bar in his pocket melted.
229–No kidding. 30 minutes?!
The fastest moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.0313 mph.
The largest plant in America is a type of mushroom; it can be 100 miles long. (roots underground, of course…)
The numbers ‘172’ can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction. (ironic, much?)
230- You’d think they would just die of happiness at some point… i mean, seriously!!!
232–yeah, although I’m not sure I want to think about it…..
And I can’t find the 172.
233- Yeah, me neither… on both of those…
The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave. (This is like an Ivars Peterson article…)
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; “7” was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. “UP” indicated the direction of the bubbles. (This is serious. Creative people back then, eh?)
230- Good God. What enables them to actually do that?
Wow, that has me thinking about Lord of the Flies now…
Speaking of both literature and baby-making, I’ve got a few factoids for either one.
~Kangaroos, dolphins, and humans are the only three species that have sex for fun.
~Franz Kafka was a subscriber to high-brow pornography (what the definition of that is for Czech metaphysical writers of the early twentieth century, I couldn’t tell you)
~George Orwell (the pseudonym of Eric Blair) served for many years with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma (now Myanmar)
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223-I love snopes.
232-I can’t see the 172 either…..
Go to www. snapple. com and click on “Real facts.” Knock yourself out with 672 Snapple facts.
Giraffes have no vocal chords.
In 1634, tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland.
There are more French resteraunts in NYC then in Paris. 8o
The average human spends up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime. Ewww!
A jellyfish is 95% water.
235-
My, where did you find those? And you’d think the pigs would do it for fun… and the lions…
Seriously? That’s kind of pathetic (regarding the resturaunts)
236-
Along the lines of romance and reproduction, the time record for two people kissing is 2 days. They did not stop to use the bathroom, eat, or drink.
Also, the record of the most people kissing at the same time is…. 300,000, I think.
If everyone on the planet sneezed at the same time, it would generate enough power to launch the earth into another dimension.
A duck’s quack DOES indeed echo.
Quicksand doesn’t make you sink.
A term Shakespeare supposedly coined, “honorificabilitudinitatibus”, if rearranged, spell “Hi ludi F. Baconis nati tuiti orbi”, which, translated from Latin, means “These plays, F. Bacon’s offspring, are preserved for the world”.
236–two weeks? Wow, I’d better get started. jk. I’m sure I will get kissed sometime (when remains to be seen).
237–why would you want to kiss for 48 hrs straight? I mean, I’m sure kissing is enjoyable and all (no personal experience, but I have to assume it is, or nobody would do it), but 48 hours with no food, water, or bathroom breaks? Surely it’s not that good. And surely starving yourself for 2days isn’t worth getting into the guiness book of world records, either.
239- Apparently the only reason they were was because they wanted to get into the world records. And they succeeded.
Rain contains vitamin B12.
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings in the world.
Rats laugh when you tickle them.
Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients.
235 – I think great apes and primates do it too, especially bonobos. o3o
240 – What other animals laugh when you tickle them?
Horseshoe crabs have blue blood.
Alligator tail tastes like chicken. (A friend of mine has a theory that everything we eat tastes like chicken or beef.)
Iceland basically declared bankruptcy recently.
(And, before anyone asks, I’m new. Been subscribing to Muse for a couple years, went on MuseBlog a couple times but never had anything to say, will probably screw up and refer to self as ‘Tazz’ in third person many times even though she doesn’t feel like doing that anymore.)
I’m pretty sure earthworms have green blood.
Because I was looking up whether 242 was right and earthworms do have green blood, I found out that green tree skinks have green blood due to bile in their blood.
Of course, I was reading this off a Google summary and it might not be accurate, especially considering that I always though bile was brown. o3o
I don’t know about the color of tree skink blood, but I do know that bile is greenish yellow/yellowish green. More interesting, bile is formed from damaged red blood cells and is produced in the liver and then stored in the gallbladder……and that’s not even all that interesting (well, not necessarily).
Red blood cells live 4 months (they don’t have a nucleus–that is, mammalian red blood cells don’t possess nuclei)
241- We have blue blood too!!!!
Our blood only turns red when exposed to oxygen!!!!!!!! (either that or green, I can’t quite remember. I’m pretty sure it’s blue though) 
245–According to my biology teacher and my biology TA, that is not true. Human blood is always red. True, it is only the very bright red it looks when you bleed when it is fully saturated with oxygen, but that also occurs when the blood has just come from your lungs, when it is still carrying the max number of oxygen molecules.
Human blood only looks blue when it is still inside your veins because of the way the light is filtered through your skin–the red blood and the color of the semi-transparent skin merge to make blue. Of course, the blood you can actually see coursing through your body is not as red as it is when you are bleeding, because it does not ahve as much oxygen bonded to the hemoglobin. The reason horseshoe crabs have blue blood is because they have an oxygen carrying molecule that does not require iron. Our oxygen carrying molecule, hemoglobin, requires iron to bond properly with oxygen.
So, according to my bio prof, blood in humans is NOT blue. Although I could have sworn I was previously told the same as you. And GAPA, if I am wrong in any of my details, please let me know! I would like to have my info straight for all of my subsequent bio tests……
I don’t think human blood is really red. I think it’s more like purple.
246-Why? I mean, yellow/tan/transparent plus red doesn’t equal blue…..
248–That’s just what my bio teacher said. That when the light filters through the skin, it makes the blood look blue instead of red.
This is copied from Wiki answers (and yes, I know that that is not necessarily the most accurate source, but….):
Why do blood vessels look blue under the skin?
Veins looking Blue
Blood in the arteries is bright red from the oxygen content, blood in the veins is dark red from the lack of oxygen. Blood in veins can look “blue” when viewed through the skin because of light refraction and other factors.
When a person donates blood, it comes from a vein, not an artery. It is also not exposed to air, or it would be contaminated and need to be disposed of. It also happens to be dark red, NOT blue.
The common misconception of “blue” blood is continued due to textbook illustrators use of blue and red to differentiate arteries and veins.
I’m prette sure human blood is dark red almost purpule becuase if you have blood drawn you can see the color in the clear container. Since the container is vacuum seeled the blood hasn’t touched air yet so that can’t efect the color.
250–exactly. When it’s deoxygenated enough it is very dark, as opposed to the bright red when it is fully oxygenated, but it’s definitely not blue.
I’ve always thought deoxygenated blood was blue, and oxygenated blood was red. But I think we definitely need some GAPA confirmation.
I’m pretty sure they look blue because… Well, have you ever looked through 3-d glasses? Because of the way they’re tinted, one color “disappears” for one eye, and the other for the other, et cetera et cetera the POINT BEING: Your skin being tinted red filters the red from the color of the blood in your veins and leaves you with the blue color we know.
My spiel.
/gradster(1)/ – Secretary of Bureaucracy of the ASAP
253 – Well, the non-tinted 3-D glasses filter out polarized light for one eye and non-polarized light for the other eye. I think. That’s what my dad said.
And yellow is blue’s opposite on the colour spectrum. So it theoretically could be true.
254- Yeah, that’s true. Like the Ben Franklin glasses.
A ten gallon hat isn’t really ten gallons.
(double post, sorry).
During menstruation, the sensitivity of a woman’s middle finger is reduced. (Really? I’ve never noticed).
Talented little buggers).
An ‘aglet’ is the plastic or metal tip of a shoelace. (They made a word for this thingy???)
Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie! (Gotta stop that stamp licking…)
Turkeys can reproduce without mating. (
The reason Leonardo Davinchi wrote backwards was because he was dyslexic.
There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade. (*shakes head sadly*)
When Britney Spears books into hotels she uses the name ‘Allota Warmheart’ so that nobody will recognize her. (I wonder if the hotel people have figured this out yet.)
Jean-Claude Van Damme learned to speak English by watching the cartoon ‘The Flintstones.’
257- I didn’t know that! I don’t beleive all of those facts, but most of them are interesting…
257-
257 – Komodo dragons and some other animals (can’t remember which ones) can also reproduce without mating.
And baby komodo dragons who are born solely from a mother are always male. Odd, eh?
260–I’m fairly certain that’s backward. Yes, many insects and a few lizards can reproduce asexually through parthenogenesis, but if I remember correctly, last Monday in our animal reproduction lecture in bio, that the prof said that when animals reproduce asexually by parthenogenesis, that the offspring are always female, not male.
Other organisms reproduce asexually through either fragmentation (flatworms, starfish) or budding (hydra, yeast). Fragmentation is when an animal splits into two, each becoming their own organism, and budding is when a new individual arises as an outgrowth of the parent…..anyways.
253) I do believe that the blood looks blue in certain veins close to the surface of our skin because that is the dirty blood being pumped back to the heart to be purified again. I’m not exactly sure though. I shyall look it up.
Hey! I found this online somewhere! Gotta go! Not a lot of time….. bye!
Under normal light, blood appears red because most colours are absorbed except for red, which bounces back from the blood. Every colour but red is absorbed by the oxygen-carrying pigment haemoglobin (Hb). If a filter that blocks the reflected colour is positioned between the blood and the eyes of the person looking at the veins, the perceived colour changes. In the case of humans, the skin serves as a filter for the colour red, and the colour is therefore perceived as green. The exact colour spectra is determined by the relative levels of oxygenated iron (HbO) and carbon dioxide in the blood. High levels of oxygen reflect red, and high levels of carbon dioxide reflect blue, which, when mixed with the yellowish colour of fat and or the skin, end up looking green.
I learned this last year people!! The blood cells don’t have any oxygen to distribute!
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, it’s stomach will explode.
I told this to a bunch of my friends, and now they all want to go down to the lake and try it.
Not very nice friends…..
This is how you say “Help Me! The Sith have taken my souffle! Ajudami! Los Sith han pres la meva soufflé!
And this is how you say ” Cliff Eagle spends too much of his time on Google Translator” in Finnish.
Cliff Eagle kuluttaa liikaa hänen kertaa Google Translator.
261- Yeast is yucky. It creeps me out.
265- O.M.G. Now I want to try that… my friends saw a crow blow up one time. She was taking a random video one time and she found a crow and zoomed in on it and it exploded… i can’t remember how to find it, but it was hilarious…
267- You’re not the only one; I once translated half of the first chapter of Twilight into Japanese.
Obstreperous is an awesome word.
Dog meat is eaten in China! Poor dogs!
270–yup. strange people.
270- As is monkey, which is unadvised because eating primates can lead to HIV.
Perhaps it is time for a change… or we could just hang on until November on Saturday……
272 – MONKEY? That’s practically cannibalism!
273 – Well, the month is almost over. Any ideas for next month’s topic?
Michael Jordan having “retired,” with $40 million in endorsements, makes $178,100 a day, working or not.
If he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every night while visions of sugarplums dance in his head.
If he goes to see a movie, it’ll cost him $7.00, but he’ll make $18,550 while he’s there.
If he decides to have a 5-minute egg, he’ll make $618 while boiling it.
He makes $7,415/hr more than minimum wage.
He’ll make $3,710 while watching each episode of Friends.
If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX ($90,000) it would take him a whole 12 hours.
If someone were to hand him his salary and endorsement money, they would have to do it at the rate of $2.00 every second.
He’ll probably pay around $200 for a nice round of golf, but will be reimbursed $33,390 for that round.
Assuming he puts the federal maximum of 15% of his income into a tax deferred account (401k), his contributions will hit the federal cap of $9500 at 8:30 a.m. on January 1st.
If you were given a penny for every 10 dollars he made, you’d be living comfortably at $65,000 a year.
He’ll make about $19.60 while watching the 100 meter dash in the Olympics, and about $15,600 during the Boston Marathon.
While the common person is spending about $20 for a meal in his trendy Chicago restaurant, he’ll pull in about $5600.
This year, he’ll make more than twice as much as all U.S. past presidents for all of their terms combined. Amazing isn’t it?
However…
If Jordan saves 100% of his income for the next 450 years, he’ll still have less than Bill Gates has today.
$$$ Game over. Nerd wins.
OMG. In AP Environmental class today, my friend who sits across from me taped me laughing and it is HILARIOUS! Especially in slow motion. Kind of embarrassing though….. but I like it.
Wanna know something ironic? My family gets a newspaper called Foster’s Daily Democrat. It’s a republican-based newspaper. Isn’t that hilarious?
Hey, the colors are different today, probably for Halloween.
277- Ha ha..