# Look up...look waaay up... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 4, 2000, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-up-look-waaay-up/18574 "2000-05-04T17:15:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-up-look-waaay-up/18574/1 "2000-05-04T17:15:40Z")
A beloved piece of my childhood is gone: **The Friendly Giant** is dead. Can there be any Canadians over the age of 25 who don’t recall with great fondness the 15-minute show on CBC television, with the deep-voiced, but soft-spoken giant in his castle, who always had three chairs ready for his little friends to visit? And the piano-playing cats? Or Rusty and Jerome playing the harp and recorder respectively? It was a gentler, calmer time–no cartoons, no toy commercials, no action figures. Robert Homme was 81. [http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/time/history\_radio\_tv/giant.html](http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/time/history_radio_tv/giant.html) ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Derfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@Lord\_Derfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Derfel)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-up-look-waaay-up/18574/2 "2000-05-04T18:30:35Z")
FYI, we did this [yesterday](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=23419). ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-up-look-waaay-up/18574/3 "2000-05-04T18:38:07Z")
Wow–how did I miss that one? And with the same thread title, yet… Thanks, m’Lud!