# I used to love this? What was I THINKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 26, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715 "2011-02-26T17:52:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/41 "2011-02-26T23:49:50Z")
_Chicago Hope_. I hated ER but loved _Chicago Hope_. Now, I have to admit ER was the better show, even if I never liked it all that much. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/42 "2011-02-26T23:54:23Z")
_Law and Order_. I couldn’t get enough of that show. Now, my cable is plagued by repeats on at least three channels. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/43 "2011-02-26T23:55:16Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > Ha ha, this is almost exactly what I was going to post. I think that a large percentage of young fantasy readers go through a Piers Anthony phase somewhere around ages 12-15, then realizes he’s a terrible writer and feels embarrassed about the whole thing. People actually mistakenly thought that he’s a “fantasy” writer? Not only does he state in his author’s notes that yes, it’s fantasy, but is not supposed to in any way be taken for anything other than the silliness it is (paraphrased of course), the stories themselves are so obviously meant to be nonsensical lighthearted fun! Whoever would mistake those (even teens) for serious fantasy writing? Though I have to admit, I didn’t start reading them until well into adulthood (so maybe teens could be fooled), and I never took them for anything other than just lighthearted silly fluff to pass the time. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/44 "2011-02-26T23:58:06Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > God, this is almost embarrassing to admit, but I used to really, really love Piers Anthony. I read all of the Incarnations of Immortality series and most of Xanth. I remember genuinely enjoying these books. I look back now and think, seriously, WTF? He is one of the worst fantasy authors to ever get published. It’s just dreck! What the hell was I thinking? > > I’ve also moved on past some of the Robert Heinlein stuff I used to really love, but I don’t have the same “WTF?” feelings about it. I just don’t care for it as much anymore. This. I even turned one of my friends onto Anthony back in the day and several years later she asked if I’d read some book or other of his and I was like “Gah, what was I thinking, he sucks” ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/45 "2011-02-27T00:02:57Z")
Brains and scrambled eggs. Ate a lot as a kid. Too much fat. I got tired of my gf’s negative comments. She didn’t like see them in the kitchen. She loves bacon & it all comes from the same pig. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/46 "2011-02-27T00:09:12Z")
They still sell them. brains yumm [http://www.blogcdn.com/www.slashfood.com/media/2008/12/pork-brains-425.jpg](http://www.blogcdn.com/www.slashfood.com/media/2008/12/pork-brains-425.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/47 "2011-02-27T00:09:49Z")
The only CD I’ve ever been ashamed of owning (to give you an example of the type of thing I’m not embarrassed about, I still genuinely enjoy listening to ‘MMMBop’) is a Good Charlotte single called ‘The Anthem’. All my other childhood CDs, from the Spice Girls to S Club 7 and back again, they’re all on my iTunes and out on my shelves with the rest of my music collection, but that Good Charlotte single, that shit is bad. Banished to the back of the closet, forever. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/48 "2011-02-27T00:10:18Z")
I also read Piers Anthony as a kid. My taste in music when I was in junior high or so was pretty questionable. Mariah Carey, Ace of Base? Oh, the early 90s. brb pegging my pants. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/49 "2011-02-27T00:12:47Z")
The movie Repo Man. I just loved it when it first came out and saw it several times. I tried to watch it about 10 years ago and was wondering what I ever saw in the movie. I still have fond memories of the movie but now know enough to not watch it again. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/50 "2011-02-27T00:27:47Z")
> [@CanvasShoes](#): > > People actually mistakenly thought that he’s a “fantasy” writer? > > Not only does he state in his author’s notes that yes, it’s fantasy, but is not supposed to in any way be taken for anything other than the silliness it is (paraphrased of course), the stories themselves are so obviously meant to be nonsensical lighthearted fun! Whoever would mistake those (even teens) for serious fantasy writing? Uh, who said anything about “serious” fantasy writing? > [@](#): > > Though I have to admit, I didn’t start reading them until well into adulthood (so maybe teens could be fooled), and I never took them for anything other than just lighthearted silly fluff to pass the time. There’s “lighthearted silly fluff” and then there’s absolute rubbish. Around about age 14 my opinion of Piers Anthony shifted from the former to the latter. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/51 "2011-02-27T00:56:06Z")
I loved the show _Facts of Life_ when I was a teenager and then didn’t see it again for many years (it’s not that popular in syndication). When I did it was a “WTF was I thinking?” revelation: mediocre all around. ---
**Author:** ![Blisters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Blisters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blisters)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/52 "2011-02-27T02:04:24Z")
circus animals (the cookies) ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/53 "2011-02-27T02:16:20Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I loved the show _Facts of Life_ when I was a teenager and then didn’t see it again for many years (it’s not that popular in syndication). When I did it was a “WTF was I thinking?” revelation: mediocre all around. I realize that this probably wasn’t a draw for you personally, but to me, (back then an 11 or 12 year old kid), both Nancy McKeon (“Jo”) and Lisa Whelchel (“Blair”) were pretty dang hott back then, at least to my eyes, when I was probably about 5 or 6 younger than those two fine actresses… ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/54 "2011-02-27T02:42:17Z")
What immediately came to mind was _Three’s Company_. I thought this show was HILARIOUS as a preteen/early teen (not exactly the target audience). Then I caught a show in recent years, and…well, _wow_. :eek: Horr-i-ble. Painfully so. But, John Ritter is still cool in my book. Other shows just OMG awful to me now that I loved then (I was between 10-14 for all of these): _Knight Rider Murder, She Wrote Diff’rent Strokes Facts of Life_ Music-wise, I really liked Christian pop back in the late 80s/early 90s. :::shame::: I loved Michael W. Smith and went to two of his concerts…then I happened across his _Go West Young Man_ album recently, had a nostalgic listen, and UGH. Pop synthesizer confection, as was most of the genre at time. (I _do_ still like Jars of Clay, though.) ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/55 "2011-02-27T03:18:08Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > _Law and Order_. I couldn’t get enough of that show. Now, my cable is plagued by repeats on at least three channels. Oh, good reminder. I also vote for Piers Anthony and “Law and Order”. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/56 "2011-02-27T03:39:24Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > Led Zeppelin, for the most part, though there are still a small handful of their songs that still resonate with me. (I only hear those songs once in a while when listening to the radio; I havent played any Zeppelin on my own for decades) Songs? You mean they had another song besides _Stairway to Heaven_? ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/57 "2011-02-27T03:47:38Z")
> [@Heyoka13](#): > > I chew ice cubes now. I have been told this condition is called ‘pica’. I thought PICA was just when you ingest things that are not meant to be eaten, like chalk or metallic objects. ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/58 "2011-02-27T05:44:04Z")
I saw **Care Bears: The Movie** in the $2 bin at Walmart a few years ago. I remember watching that as a little kid. Figured it had to be pretty bad for $2 to be too high a price for childhood nostalgia. It was. Problem is, I can’t bring myself to get rid of it so any time anybody looks through my DVD collection I always catch a bunch of crap for it. ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/59 "2011-02-27T06:48:48Z")
I was totally in love with Shawn Cassidy. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715/60 "2011-02-27T07:08:36Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > I realize that this probably wasn’t a draw for you personally, but to me, (back then an 11 or 12 year old kid), both Nancy McKeon (“Jo”) and Lisa Whelchel (“Blair”) were pretty dang hott back then, at least to my eyes, when I was probably about 5 or 6 younger than those two fine actresses… I’ve had lesbian friends who thought Jo was an early icon for them and felt a bit betrayed when she fell in love with a guy on the show. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-love-this-what-was-i-thinking/572715.md?page=4)