I got all your references except the above.
What was that from?
BTW I’m 39.
Jim
In many parts of the black community, I’m already *biologically * old enough to have grandbabies. I got a friend now who had a daughter at 15 and now the daughter is pregnant at 13. :eek: My youth is gone, boy.
Strawberry Shortcake.
Hey, I actually remember the New Coke and Diet Coke jingles. (“Introducing Diet Coke… you’re gonna love it just for the taste of it!” with a star studded commercial that included Robert Wagner, Telly Savales, Jane Wyman, Jon Erik Hexum and lots of other people big in the early 80s drinking the glass bottled drink [this was when Eric Estrada wasn’t cool enough to be on TV because he was a has-been, then he got cool again as a has-been, then he got overexposed as a has-been without a Travoltesque comeback, now he’s not cool again.) I even remember the Enos & Boss Hogg crossover appearance on, of all ungodly choices, Alice.
Relates to your (brilliant) OP- it’s amazing what pop culture hath wrought. Once on a train from D.C. to Philadelphia I got into a discussion of the opening segments of Golden Girls with a black guy dressed in all-the-way rapgalia and a straight-from-central-casting old Jewish NYC woman.
“Well this much I tell you, boopaleh, Betty White- what nice legs she has!”
“Oh, yeah you see 'em on Golden Girls…”
“Yeh, when they up thah dancin’ and shit at the beginnin’?”
“Oh yes, and her real legs those are, not a model.”
“Mmm hmm.”
“True that.”
Wonderful moment, and a great testament to the spillover cultural Bondo that is pop culture.
One of my favorite pop culture moments involving a newly dead D-List celebrity:
Mary Jackson , who played the elder (and prettier) of the Baldwin Sisters on The Waltons, died earlier this month at 95. On a talk show I watched a couple of years ago she told about going to NYC on vacation with her equally old (real life) sisters and riding the subway. A young Hispanic guy who was dressed in what most would interpret as “gang wear” (as were his friends) kept eyeballing her and finally came over to her and she instinctively clutched her purse and waited for the mugging. He said something in Spanish which she didn’t understand and one of his amigos translated: “He wants to know, did you ever see Ashley Longworth again?” (Ashley Longworth was Miss Emily Baldwin’s “the man who got away”, referred to on several episodes of The Waltons.) He was totally serious, and that (and to meet her) was all he wanted.
:eek: to both.
I am happy to say I don’t know any details about Strawberry Shortcake.
There was a lot of press about a supportive study in the last year, but John Baugh identified that situation as long ago as 1996:
Talking While Black
Askia, I just have to say, you are my hero. As soon as I read the “Peculiar Purple Pieman from Porcupine Peak (Ha cha cha cha cha cha, cha cha cha cha cha. CHA!)” I knew there was a reason I liked you. I squealed out loud and showed my husband, because I have said this phrase millions and millions * of times, only to have people look at me like I had two heads. *No one * ever remembers the Pieman. And here they are bringing back all that old 80s merchandise so today’s kids can play with them, and they still no one remembers the Pieman. Screw 'em all!
FINALLY! Someone who KNOWS!
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jrfranchi. My younger brother liked Strawberry Shortcake. I had taste, class and urbane sophistication. I liked the Smurfs. (Okay, I did like the Peculiar Purple Pieman in leery kind of way.)
Anastasaeon, I thought that while the cartoon “Drawn Together” doesn’t miss much, they totally should have spoofed the Pieman when they spoofed Strawberry Shortcake a few episodes ago.
I remember the Pieman-I was the biggest, berriest Strawberry Shortcake fan you’d ever meet.
Remember his sidekick, Sour Grapes?
Groan.
…yes, dammit. But not until you said the name.
Way to kill off my few functioning synapses not hopelessly mired to my 80s youth, cute lil’ Guinastasia.
Magellan, the situation that you complained about originally (Askia with the headphones and the five year old with a parent who expressed an “okay”) is totally different from the boom box scenario. Do you not understand that a person can object to one and not the other? Do you know what a straw man is?
Ooooooooooo, “straw man”. I guess your next post will demand “cite”, as they are the two most mis- and over-used escape hatches used on these boards.
Go back and reread you post 107, then my response to it. You seem to think that most parents would/should not object to their five-year-old hearing such lyrics. I recommended an easy way to find out if youre correct. It doesn’t matter if your headphones are so loud that they can be heard by a kid at the next table or your boomboxcan be heard twenty feet away. IF lyrics are inappropriate, you have the responsibility to monitor if a child nearby can hear them. Even Akia thinks that the music was inappropriate and that she was acting rude.
Let’s say you and two friends get into an empty elevator. You just got cut off by some dick in a BMW and your pissed, relaying the story to your friends: "And then this goddam motherfucking scumbag in a Beemer swerves out and cuts me off. I catch up to him at the next light and we both are yelling. I call him a syphillated mothe”—just then, as you were about to launch into a very poetic the doors open and a parent with two kids (five-ish) get on. Do you continue your story as if they weren’t there? Or do you cut your story short and wait to continue it when the kids aren’t around?
Look, I don’t know what your problem is. What exactly caused you to create post 107? If you feel the need to continue this, please answer that question with specificity. If not, let’s just say we disagree and move on to more pleasant lives.