I didn’t interpret the favorite TV mom poll as which mom I actually liked the best, but which moms I enjoyed watching on their shows.
I’d never in a million years want Lucille Bluth as my mom, but, man, did I enjoy watching her. The Gangie episodes are some of my favorites to re-watch.
@aurora_maire: do you mean what did I call my parents when I was a child, or what did I call them when I was grown? Because for me that’s two different answers – at least. I’m not sure whether I called them the same thing as a small child as I did when I was an older child.
I was thinking “do” as right now or “did” as before they died. So as adults (well, unless you were a child when they died).
Funny you should bring it up because when I did the poll, I was trying to remember if I always called my mother “Mother”. It seems I probably would have been less formal as a child but if so, I can’t remember the transition. My siblings also called her “Mother”. I didn’t answer for the father poll because he died when I was young and I don’t remember what I called him.
There is something else I was wondering about. I don’t have children so I don’t know this. Do parents decide what they want their children to call them or is it usually an organic thing the kids just start doing?
It varies. My grandmother was called “beema” because that’s what her first grandchild said. But my parents and my husband’s parents picked the names they wanted.
And that makes “what did you call your parents” hard, because i sometimes called them their grandparents names, and sometimes called them their parents names.
I know grandparents sometimes (usually?) pick their names. My sister spent a bit of time before deciding she was to be “Nana”. I wondered if parents did the same thing. Would a mother prefer to be “Mama” instead of “Mom” or a father want to be “Pop” and not “Dad” for instance. Or maybe they just go with the first thing the baby babbles.
I haven’t eaten Starburst fruit chews and therefore don’t know whether I have a preference and, if so, what it would be.
“Minnesota Wrecking Crew” sounds vaguely familiar, so I may indeed have heard of it, but if so I have no idea who are what they are or where, or even for sure if, I’ve run into the term before.
Yo Mr. Mustard, I’m a big fan of Carol Kaye, to this day, even at 88, she’s dropping Facebook posts talking about her experiences with both the wrecking crew and otherwise as a studio musician. Great stuff.
Wikipedia supports this definition. I didn’t recognize the term when it was mentioned in the poll, but I did watch NWA Wresting on TV when I was growing up in Wisconsin in the 1970s, so I think it’s likely that I did hear the term back then.
I know who the (other) Wrecking Crew is, and know a fair amount about them, including the debate as to whether they actually went by that term back in the day, or whether Hal Blaine coined it himself.