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"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
A few things you didn’t know about your blog hostess
Hope ya’ll don’t mind if I take the evening off from serious-issue blogging – I figured something light-hearted tonight would do us all some good, so here are a few oddball things about me that you may (or may not!) be interested in knowing (in turn, I hope readers will join in with their own list):
1. I was one of the first kids in my first grade class to read 100 books in a school year. My mom even has the T-shirt I was awarded to prove it.
2. I learned early on (around the second grade) how words could cut like a knife. Utilization of this new and exciting knowledge led my bus driver to kick me off the bus one day, with the stern warning that if I ever said ‘those mean things’ again, I’d be off the bus for good. It was small wonder not many of the other kids wanted to sit next to little ST on the bus on the way home.
3. I won a spelling bee when I was in third grade. My prize? A navy-colored leather-look zippered pencil holder with red and white stripes down the side. I carried it with pride.
4. When I was about seven, my dad painted the house we lived in a pretty yellow color. He’d barely finished painting one side of it when I decided to lean up against the freshly painted wall (vanilla ice cream cone in hand) in my new shorts set my grandmother made for me. It’s the only time I could have ever been legitimately accused of having a yellow streak down my back. Though I thought at the time that the little yellow paint streak was cute, my dad was not amused. Neither was grandma.
5. I had a cat named “Choo Choo Train” when I was very young. My dad worked at the railroad at that time and brought Choo Choo home as a stray. We also had another cat at that time named “Lollipop” (I didn’t name that one) and later, Felix. We had a rabbit, too, for a short time, but gave the lil gal to a family friend when we moved from the house I lived in when we had these various animals.
6. I remember one year when I was 8 or 9 I was very excited to see that my mom and dad got my older sisters a drum set for Christmas. Big mistake. I don’t have to explain why.
7. File this under “so THAT’S why she’s like she is now”: When I was learning how to ride a bike, the first moment the training wheels were off I rode it straight into a tree, and knocked my head into the side of the tree. Years later, I was swinging on a neighbors tire swing when the rope holding it on to the branch broke, and the tire fell to the ground with me in it, slamming my head on the dirt ground which had no grass for cushion. Within a year or two of that, while playing kickball in the fifth grade, I decided in the middle of playing a defensive position that I no longer wanted to play. So I sat on second base. Right about that time, the gal at the home plate kicked the ball and it hit me directly in the head 
8. When I was around 12 or 13, I was still in the tomboy stage of my life, even though my mom insisted on me wearing ‘girly clothes.’ I made a deal with myself that I would do so, but would still continue to do things tomboys did – like try to swing across the nearby creek using an old rope that was hanging off a tree branch. The day I attempted this, several other friends had done so and succeeded. But I, wearing a tangerine colored shorts set, – the top of which had this cute sailors collar – gave it a go, and in the end, I didn’t have a good enough grip on the rope and fell into the creek, ruining an outfit my mom had only recently picked out for me. I guess I had this thing for ruining clothes. Thankfully, I outgrew it (and outgrew the tomboy phase as well) 
9. An early influence on my life was Wonder Woman. In my pre-teen days, I used to pretend to be her by wrapping a black towel around my head to symbolize Lynda Carter’s hair, and I’d wear white sweat bands for my bracelets. I’d then go out in the front yard and twirl around, like Wonder Woman would do when she was getting ready to kick bootie. (C’mon, now – how many other women do you know would admit to that?)
10. Though I live in NASCAR country, I am not a NASCAR fan. The rare times I do watch are mainly to see the pre-NASCAR race shows where you get to see the drivers walking around in those cute uniforms. Hey, I’m a woman, ok? I enjoy the sight of a fine gent in a cool-looking race uni. I admire men in other types of uniforms, too 
(Ok, so this last part wasn’t exactly an “oddball” fact about me …)
11. I have this intense fear of two things: deep water and Godzilla movies. The deep water I’m afraid of because I nearly drowned in a pool when I was very young. The Godzilla movies I can’t explain the fear – I just know that *if* I watch one, it’s because I’m with someone who wants to be watching it. My mother and sisters watched Godzilla movies religiously when I was younger, but I always opted out of joining them. I personally think Godzilla is THE scariest creature ever created for the movies. Update: Gasp!
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Heh heh…Godzilla eh?
Two of the scariest things I’ve ever seen in a movie are the alien from “Alien” and the ED-209 Enforcement Droid from the original “Robocop.” My scary moments growing up were from watching the old orginal “Outer Limits” show. I was 6 years old when it debuted, and two episodes really scared the pee out of me. “It Crawled Out Of The Woodwork” where this maid in a physics lab tries to vacuum up this large dark ball of dust that gets sucked into the vacuum and turns into this huge, howling energy monster. The other one was “Production and Decay of Strange Particles” where this newly found element is a doorway to another dimention. The people working on it (one of them Leonard Nimoy in a pre Star Trek role) are in these radiation suits, they slump down and when they stand back up the faceplates show this glowing lightning energy, the suits are empty except for the energy being. Scary stuff.
No wonder I grew up to be a physicist.
Thanks for the additional insight into your personality ST!
LOL I had chicken pox for my 10th birthday. Dad sang me happy birthday, but it didn’t really help.
The scariest movie I ever saw was, as I have said before, “The Haunting of Hill House”. It is very scary for a 1963 black and white movie. The other movie that horrified me, when I was a youngin’, was “Children shouldn’t play with Dead Things”. I don’t think it is scary now, but the 1st 5 mins are a doozey. /shiver When I was 2 I had a “Choo Choo Train” too. I tried to ride it off of the steps and cut my head wide open. I still have this scar today 40 years later. When I got home from the hospital, I tried it again, but Mom caught me before I could conquer it. 
I agree with Sev, Dear. Thanks for the insight into your personality. – Lorica
3. I completed the second and third grade in the same school year.
(I used to be smart)
7. I was riding a bike once with my feet up on the handlebars and my hands off of them…when I hit a bump and veered right into a tree. I was knocked unconscious.
(Maybe that’s why I used to be smart…)
When at school from 1st grade through 6th I was very studious, but I changed for some reason I had become an anti authority type started getting involved with the hippie generation and was like that up until I got my first job where I guess I had learned responsibilities. That was about 1970 when I got my first Job so my involvement into that hippie stage didn’t last too long.
Also when I was young about 5 years old I too had gotten very frieghtened of some scenes in Twilight zone and had a few phobias after seeing that plus seeing the first movie of Jaws, needless to say now adays I see no need to go swimming in the Ocean or go anywhere near it, when you realize that there are fish in that water that makes a full grown person look like a minnow, my other fobia is of heights so I don’t like to fly and I don’t wan’t to take a boat over seas. I guess that I am a land lover and live in the midwest.
I enjoyed this ST, thanks for sharing about yourself and allowing us to share a bit about us to you. I think that things like this are light hearted and can be very interesting to listen to and participate in.
To me, Godzilla is the silliest “monster” ever devised by a Japanese studio.
LOL
Sally Jesse Raphael and Rosie O’Donnell get close to the scariest ever on TV, though!
I like those old Black and White SciFi pictures. If you’ll note, benning, that Raymond Burr (Perry Mason and Ironside) and Nick Adams (The Rebel) were in 2 of those pictures.
I love “Forbidden Planet” and “The Day the Earth Stood Still”.
My daughter is starting out in the “Business”. She’s up for a couple of real paying jobs, one being an Art Director’s job. I pray she gets one.
#9 – I am so glad that I am not the only one who like wonder woman!
My brothers took me to see “Jaws” when it first came out. Keep in mind that I was about 5 years old…maybe 6 or 7 at the most. I don’t know WHAT my parents were thinking when they said “Ok” to THAT!
I spent the entire movie, I think, with my hands over my eyes. When that dead guy pops out on Richard Dreyfus (when he’s underwater), I was climbing OVER the seats to get the hell out of the theater! I was four or five rows back before my brothers got ahold of me.
I still can’t watch that scene. =D
I had a friend in high school that, when the head rolled out of the hole in the boat in Jaws (the scene you talk about) jumped so much he threw his popcorn and Coke over his shoulders onto the guy sitting in the row behind him.
Kind of like my girlfriend’s reaction at the chestburster scene in “Alien.”
St-
I have no fear other than one. I can swim at night in the ocean, by myself in the dark no problem. When I swim in the pool at night by myself, as soon as I go underwater and see the pool light it freaks me out. It was this movie I saw as a kid. I have tried to overcome this fear on a regular basis, but usually end up running from my pool in the middle of the night.
I had a great childhood. I had an evening gown when I was about 5 that had netting on the skirt, I wore it till it stunk and one day my two brothers cut the net off so they could use it catch tadpoles in the creek.
The scaries movie I saw was the black and white classic Black Sunday about a witch that comes back to life and the Exorcist when it first came out – I kept yelling, don’t go up those stairs. !!
The first movie on TV that scared me was Dracula starring Bella Lugosi because Dracula could turn into vapor and get into a locked room or fly into a second story window as a bat. He would then turn back into his human form and attack his victim biting them on the neck and drinking their blood. Don’t know how those blankets saved me but they did, you had to be real fast to get a breath of air and back under the covers because you never knew what was lurking in the darkness. I preferred the Three Stooges to Horror movies.
I am not a big fan of heights, there was a few of us swinging on a rope swing (Tarzan swing) when I took a swing about 10 foot of the rope hung up on a knot on the side of the tree. When I swung out the rope slipped off the knot dropped and stopped but I did not until I hit the ground about 50 feet below the rope. Now with rope burns on both hands a bloody nose and a broken right wrist I hobbled home. Just remember it isn’t the fall that hurts it’s the sudden stop.
The only other phobia is snakes I have been known to tread air to avoid stepping on one.
For those of you that need to conquer your fear of heights…Go to the stratosphere in Las Vegas…go to the roof…it will feel kind of high up. Then get on the ride on top of the roof. It shoots you straight up in a chair from 0-60 in like 4.5 seconds. When you get back on the roof you will feel very happy to be off the ride and very comfortable on the roof.
I cured my fear of heights by skydiving. Jumping out of a plane in fright, er, flight is like a big cntl-alt-delete for your brain, it tends to reset everything.
Here are my 12 useless facts-
1- I was the crybaby kid who the bigger kids picked on. I was also the shortest kid in my class until the 5th grade, and had a cyst on my forehead which was a lovely target for the abusers. I finally had it removed when I was 19.
2- I was an avid reader, and was given full run of the library ahead of nearly everyone in my class. My favorites were Encyclopedia Brown, Danny Dunn, The Mad Scientist’s Club and the Hardy Boys. I graduated to Sci Fi and avidly devoured Lester Del Rey books. Mydaughter Kayla shares my passion for reading, and we spend a lot of time in the library comparing books and making recommendations.
3- I play guitar, something I started when I was a freshman. I started playing on a red $25 checkmate guitar from K-mart. when I graduated in 1979 my mom bought me a $150 dollar Yamaha acoustic, which in today’s dollars would cost about $400, much more then I am sure she could afford. The check mate is long gone, but the Yamaha is an old friend I still have and still sounds nice. I now have 6 (almost 7) guitars, the Yamaha, a Dean Jazz Stylist electric, A Dean Cadillac electric, a Takamine acoustic, a vintage 1979 Kramer Electric and a 12 string Art and Lutherie. My 7th is the Dean Cadillac 1980 reissue I ahve on layaway, one of only 250 made. Notably however is the one I let get away, a 60’s Fender Jaguar that I bought in the 70s for $100, and traded in for the same amount to buy another electric. I estimate that guitar is worth about 5 grand today. I also have 3 amps, and a dozen or so pedals or other accessories with more planned. My kids both have guitars too.
4- I started my illustrious driving career in my moms pinto wagon. Since then i have owned a Datsun B210, a Dodge Colt (my only new car), a Plymouth Valiant, a Chevy Malibu, a GMC Van, a Buick Regal, a Mazda 626, a Ford Escort and a Ford Taurus. Presently we have a Pontiac Grand Am and a PT cruiser.
5- I am descended from the bastard son of Mary Queen of Scots, and I am also I am about 1/32 Jewish.
6- I went to High School with a couple famous people: The first is Chuck Wright, whom you may know better as The Godfather from the WWF. They other was Olympic Skater Brian Boitano.
7- I like Harry Potter.
8- I have a fear of heights, insects and reptiles, though only the insects drives a panic response. Heights I just avoid and reptiles i prefer not to touch, but will tolerate.
9- I have too many pets in my house: 1 dog, 4 cats, 2 rats, 1 gecko, 3 bearded dragons, 3 finches, 2 lovebirds, a senegal parrot and a cockatoo. Add the kids to it, and it’s quite the circus.
10- Though I grew up in suburban San Jose, we actually spent most of my childhood playing in creeks and orchards, almost all of which are gone now. We rode bikes endlessly, often with playing cards in our spokes to make them loud.
11- I had never seen snow until I was 13.
12- As a nod to ST, I look damn good in my USAF Uniform.
I was an avid reader, and was given full run of the library ahead of nearly everyone in my class.
Hey, me too. I was tested as reading at a 12th grade level when I was in 3rd grade. I used to read the dictionary and encyclopedia for fun.
I was also raised so Southern that I was 13 before I figured out that Damn Yankee was two words!
Severian, I never saw the sense in jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft.
I thought Damn Yankee was two words also until I moved south!
Well Jim, considering the fact that, in order to cram as many jumpers into the plane as possible, the fuel gauges in the wing roots of the little Cessna read “Empty – Do Not Take Off” in large, friendly letters, I think I may have been safer jumping out than landing in it!
Drewsmom,
Black Sunday! Awesome flick! Especially for it’s time.
One show that really freaked me out was I believe an Outer Limits episode, wherein a man is warned by his butler about the man’s dire horoscope, which the man laughs off as nonsense and superstition. He then wrecks his car and is paralyzed, unable to move a muscle and is pronounced dead. The viewer hears his thoughts as he tries to figure out how to comunicate with those who are preparing him for burial until he finds he can move his pinky on one hand. He’s all ready to tap out an SOS when the workers lift his body to a gurney. When they lay him down upon it, his hand is pinned beneath him and he’s unable to tap his message. They continue preparing to wheel him out, putting a shroud-like sheet over him, he’s resigned that he’ll be buried alive, and it’s only when one of the workers notice a tear running down his face that they realize the man isn’t dead. (whew!) The thought of being buried alive messed with my young head for years. THAT was the scariest thing I’ve ever seen on film. Nothing has bothered me since until I saw a film of a rat bastard terrorist prick behead a helpless prisoner. To be bound and know THAT’S coming…
OK, that was a downer. Sorry.
I dont recall any movie giving me the willies, except maybe Arachniphobia.
I usually shun scary horro movies. After the original Friday the 13th, which relied on actual suspense instead of blood generators, I got bored with many of the gore fests (just as I am bored with the modern Gore Fests…). The over usage of modern effects makes the movies a little cartoonish.
Unless Milla Jovovich is involved of course, in which case it is fine.
But a tv show did a great job on me once, that being the old series The Night Stalker. That show has a few episodes that scared the b-jesus out of me.
Inspired by Karl, here is my 10 useless facts countdown:
10. I did not get my driver’s license until I was 17.
9. I believe that Beyonce Knowles, Milla Jovovich, Jody Watley, Halle Berry, Kimberly Elise, Gabrielle Union, and ST are ultra-uberbabes. But the hands-down (or should that be hands-on?) winner is my wife. No – she is not watching me type this!
8. I do not like coffee, the TV-show Friends, pineapple on pizza, Star Wars, Star Trek (the original series excepted), sushi, or green eggs and ham.
7. I am true African-American, meaning I am a white American who actually lived in Africa for 6 years. Take them apples Mr. Rt. Rev. Jesse Jackson!
6. My IQ is higher that John Kerry, Howard Dean, Al Sharpton, Al Gore and Dan Rather, but lower than a lobotomized amoeba.
5. I never voted for George W. Bush for president. No, really – I was living overseas at the time and the buttinski Democrat who was in charge of voter registration in our county would not let me vote absentee.
4. No habla espanol. Whatever that means. Perhaps I should instead say Nafahamu Kiswahili.
3. I am insane and have the certificate to prove it – my Texas teaching license (secondary mathematics).
2. I lost my virginity at the age of Deleted – NSA to a woman named Deleted – NSA.
And the No. 1 Useless Fact about me is:
1. My real name is not Mwalimu Daudi.
1. My very favorite useless fact about myself is that I have no belly button. Nope, none at all.
2. As a child, I played “Charlie’s Angels” with my friends, and whoever got elected the bad “guy” had to carry around talcum powder upside down to create a trail for the rest of us detectives to follow. We had the best smelling grass in town.
3. When I was about two, I pulled the metal ring around one of the stove burners off and put it over my head and around my neck. Naturally it then wouldn’t come off. While my grandmother had a stroke thinking I was going to choke to death, I took a nap and waited for my father to come home with the bolt cutters. This might explain why I’m not fond of choker style necklaces.
4. One of my hamsters gave birth to 63 babies. Not all at once.
5. I had a hermit crab that spent a good week lost and roaming in a Louisville hospital before my mother met him coming back up the hall toward my room. Imagine the things he saw!
6. Patrick Stewart has the most perfect bald head around.
7. I don’t eat slimey foods.
8. Odd numbers disturb me. I don’t know why.
Oh gosh – I have truly enjoyed this thread! Don’t even know where to start on the commenting … first I guess I should say “welcome to my blog” Southern Girl. I’m literally LOL on the Charlie’s Angels thing
Also a bit welcome goes to “Drewsmom”.
Mwalimu, I sincerely appreciate the compliment
And I’m laughing heartily at the number 2 factoid on your list!
Sev, I’m with ya on the Damn Yankee stuff! Except I didn’t learn that until much later
Karl, I don’t doubt your word on how you looked in your USAF uni, but I think a link to a pic for verification purposes is in order
Jim M, I’m afraid of snakes too … had a friend in high school who had one (fairly large) snake that he named Osirus (sp?). I refused to visit his home. LOL.
To G-Monster and Sev re: conquering fears – I’ve only recently conquered my fear of spiders, but believe me the accomplishment wasn’t made without a fair amount of shrieks along the way. I just hold my breath now, grab a magazine or shoe – and SMACK! I really have tried to get over my intense fear of Godzilla. In fact, a few nights ago I was up at a ridiculous hour of the morning and one of the cable channels was showing a Godzilla movie. I could only sit through about ten mins of it before turning it off. I even had tried turning the sound down, as the SOUND G-zilla makes flips me out, but the sight of him alone is scary, so my attempt the other night failed. Ah well ..
Lorica and camo- LOL, sounds like we three were head bangers as children!
Brian – I have never watched Jaws all the way through, but my father could probably recite the lines in the movie backwards
PCD – good luck to your daughter!
Osirus (sp?)
Osiris, Egyptian god of death and the underworld (I love Egyptology!).
Thoth, god of writing, magic, and mathematics is my personal favorite.
Ah – yep, you’re right on that one, Sev … my friend had a fascination with all things Egyptian.
I’m with Brian on Jaws. I still won’t go into the ocean because of that freakin movie!
Also, the abominable snowman in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer really freaked me out……..but only until I was like 25 or so.
I love Godzilla movies, you just can’t dislike a movie starring two guys in rubber monster suits beating the snot out of each other! THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT!!!
I have two miserably spoiled rotten dogs!! One is a full blooded black lab, the other is a black lab, dalmatian mix. As I type this they are lounging on the couch, as if they did something tiring today!!
I’m a HUGE Yankees, N.Y. Giants, and N.Y. Rangers fan!! Being in N.C., though, I had to pull for the home team when the Rangers got knocked out of the playoffs.
I have recently become hooked on E bay, it’s an evil site, EVIL I SAY!!!!
I’m a Superman, Seinfeld, and 24 fanatic (No, I never grew up!). I’ve been told that I relate to children so well because we’re on the same level. To which I have replied “I know you are, but what am I?”.
I survived Hurricane Ivan in a bathtub in Jamaica. We were in Negril at the Sandals. They gave everyone an oppurtunity to leave a few days before.
We happen to be sailing on a Hobie Cat whilst Sandals was having a meeting for the guests of the hotel. When we got back from our sail, a couple we had met the day before asked what we were going to do.
We asked the, “about what?” They told us what the options were, and my fiance spouted out, “we’re not leaving.”
Before the Hurricane came we were watching t.v. and the guy from Haiti was on screaming. “You folks in Jamaica, don’t be foolin around. We only got a category 4 and you’re getting a category 5.”
The bartenders had some interesting stories about Hurricane Hugo from ‘88. The music played. “Don’t worry about a ting, because everything, is gonna be allright.”
Continued….
Quote from bartender…
“First, it is going to get real calm. Not an ounce of wind, not a cloud in the sky. Then the wind and rain will come. You’ll hear the trees scream. But that’s just the beginning…”
So we are having our last supper, with the 60 remaining guests at the hotel. Then they send everyone to thier rooms, letting us know the power and water will be cut within an hour. They tell us to stay in our bathrooms.
The smart people,(not us) fill thier bathtubs with water. We decide we are bored with no tv, and decide to take a walk. We walk down the steps, to the front of the hotel, passing another couple sitting on the steps. I ask them, “you gonna run when you see the wind?” The answer yes. We hook a right towards the restaraunt expecting to see other guests.
The wind comes out of nowhere and we run to the restaraunt area. It is full with just the employees storing restaraunt furniture in the rooms. They yell at us to go back to our room.
Continued…
My fiance runs towards are room but can’t get around the furniture and is kind of confused. I grab her hand and we run up the stairs. On the second floor we actually pass the other couple that was waiting for the hurricane as we were running so fast.
Safely in our room, we set up our candles and supplies in the bathroom and prepare for the hurricane. The hurricane headed for Kingston, in the center of the south side of the island, but ended up making a sharp left for the west side of the island. Negril. Somehow, it actually hooked around the west end of the island, so we enjoyed both sides of it.
From our bathtub, I kept hearing a chirping sound. I was worried that maybe our smoke detector was going off, so I kept opening the door to our room to check.
My fiance told me I was paranoid, so eventually I closed the door and blocked it with a chair. In the bathtub, in the dark, with our bible, our granola bars, and a few candles, we tried to sleep.
Continued…
It’s hot, and I’m not wearing a shirt. We are laying on opposite sides of the tub. I feel something crawling on my chest. She tells me I’m paranoid. Then it’s crawling on her.
She screamed so loud, the couple next door thought something really bad was happening. They were actually pinned into thier bathroom as thier door opened the opposite way, and the wind kept it closed the whole time.
I got up and lit the candle. First I started swinging with the bible. Then I realized it was the bible, and picked up the chair. Then I finally halfway killed the giant cockroach with our digital camera.
Somehow I got it into the toilet, and shut the lid. This thing was a monster! It was so big, we felt we were fighting an alien. We were afraid to open the lid, so we blocked off the lid as best as we could.
The story goes on…but we survived…and if anyone wants to hear more, let me know….
I know, I know, that’s enough…
Anyone want to hear about Brazil, Latvia, Berlin or my 3 trips to Thailand. I was single on those trips and I don’t think you guys would believe these stories. But they are all true.
Karl, I don’t doubt your word on how you looked in your USAF uni, but I think a link to a pic for verification purposes is in order
How did I know that was coming….
In the interest of full disclosure, the before picture below was me getting an honor graduate award at the AF NCO Leadership School at Travis AFB in 1986. The after picture was the 4th of July a few weeks ago, here in the East side of Seattle.
Before
After
NC Cop: “I love Godzilla movies, you just can’t dislike a movie starring two guys in rubber monster suits beating the snot out of each other!!!”
ST: LOL … that was two guys in rubber suits? I always thought it was some type of other special effect …
G-Monster – Sounds like you are, ahem, well-travelled
Karl – Thanks! Wow … look at that uni!
Gee, all this sounds so exciting. All I ever did was ride out Hurricane Gloria in CT. My stupid cat ran UPSTAIRS to hide behind the water bed.
I love Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer. You know Bumbles bounce. Yukon Cornelius is the coolest. I watch it every year, twice if it is on. – Lorica
One show that really freaked me out was I believe an Outer Limits episode, wherein a man is warned by his butler about the man’s dire horoscope, which the man laughs off as nonsense and superstition. He then wrecks his car and is paralyzed, unable to move a muscle and is pronounced dead.
Man, that sounds absolutely terrifying!!!
Poe’s “The Premature Burial” was the most frightening thing Poe ever wrote IMO. Yeesh!
Wasn’t an Outer Limits, I’ve got all of them on DVD, and I don’t think it was a Twilight Zone either, might have been an episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presnets” which was a mid ’50’s show similar to Zone. It’s not gotten the replay the others have which is too bad, as it was an outstanding show with a lot of bizarre plot twists in each episode. I remember one where a woman beat her cheating husband to death with a frozen leg of lamb or roast, then cooked it. When the detectives came and questioned her, she asked them to dinner and they helped her eat the murder weapon.
Karl, the Northwest is a great place I was born in Tacoma and grew up in Gig Harbor and ended up stationed at McChord AFB, all of my family still lives in the NW.
Severian, “the little Cessna read “Empty – Do Not Take Off” in large, friendly letters” there is a clue in there somewhere. Snicker, snicker. I was flying from ATLanta to SEAttle on an L1011 when we lost pressurization in flight and had to drop from 33000ft to 20000ft in seconds and make an emergency landing it ST Louis. I wasn’t really nervous at all once we leveled out at 20000ft I just had another JD and Coke thinking if I am going out I am going out happy. I still made that trip once a week (in first class only and sometimes in the cockpit) for four months straight and always on an L1011.
Sev, you are right about Alfred Hitchcock he had some great movies too I have some them on DVD. Since they (Hollywierd) can’t seem to come up with good plots anymore maybe they should remake some of Hitchcock’s stuff.
maybe they should remake some of Hitchcock’s stuff.
Yeah, but it’s hard to imagine anyone doing them better than the master. Hitchcock was an incredible director. The remake of Psycho was terrible. Maybe it’d be better if Hollyweird actually tried to have an original idea rather than retreading the same old stuff over and over.
Jim, I remember vividly the time during altitude chamber training when they put us in the small chamber and did an explosive decompression. 8000 feet to 24,000 feet in about a second. Really an eye opener! Hypoxia comes on a lot faster after this kind of decompression. By the time I had my oxygen mask on and had pulled the green ball to start the emergency oxygen flow, a few seconds, things were starting to gray out.
Sev, you are right about Hollyweird’s remake of some old classic movies! Sorry lost my head.
Good thing you were in a controlled environment for the decompression.
Sev’s decompressed? Who’da thought?
I know you’ll pay me back for that one, Sev … LOLOL
Decompressed, deconflicted, and deconstructed! But not demoralized!
Thanks ST
Sev,
Do you know why donkey’s are not allowed in college?
I’ll bite, why aren’t donkey’s allowed in college?
Nobody likes a smartass.
Sev,
Just thought I would help out with the “Decompressed” jokes. Hope nobodies offended.
Ow, I should have seen that one coming.
- Scariest movie – On a freezing cold night in 1951. my nanny dragged me downtown to the Cleveland Hippodrome theater to sit through the premier of “The Thing from another world”, starring James Arness, as the Giant Monster. The movie was in black and white, and done using all the avancular “horror” techniques, adding to the suspense at every opportunity. Today it losses 95% of it’s shock value on TV. But to a young impressionable mind after sitting through scene after scene, designed to scare the pants off of audiences, when Arness bursts through the door at the end of the hallway I litterily peed myself. Made waddling home, shivering in the cold uncontrollably with wet pants, already scared witless, “interesting”. Years later I can remember seeing Johnny Carsen interviewing Arness on the tonight show, and cracking him up when he introduced him as “The man who got his start playing a giant man eating carrot”.
- Strangest neighborhood “incident” – “The Rabbit that refused to die”. Back one summer awhile ago, some kids that live down the block let their dog get out of the house. It returned a little while later carrying their next door neighbors pet rabbit. Being terrified they’d get into real trouble with their parents they snuk back to her house and slipped the very deceased animal back in its cage on the ladies back porch.
- The next day I was out in the yard watering the lawn and she spotted me and walked over. She said she was freeked out, and I of course asked why. She said “Well I think my rabbit is haunted…. We burried it two days ago when it passed, and this morning the damn thing showed up back in its cage again!”
- I have a belly button. I’ve been told its cute. It’s an “inny”. When I was about six my prankster grandfather told me that your belly button style determined what you would be politically when you grew up. If you were an inny you’d be a Conservative, and if you were an outy you’d probably be a Liberal, since only a nutcase would go around letting their belly buttons stick out. After he filled my young head with things I had no way of understanding he’d finish off by asking me to pull his finger. I do remember, since he made Liberals sound pretty bad, I grew up hoping my belly button never popped out.
- Bang