I am so excited! I've been looking for this little treasure for a long time! I can get the individual cartoons but not the young hosts and their cute antics. It's the Tom and Jerry Halloween Special from the 1980's.
I've also been looking for the 1985 Halloween TV movie, "The Midnight Hour". I can get it from Amazon,com for $300 new or $130.00 used. Part 1 is posted on YouTube but not part 2. Someone else posted the entire movie in numerous parts but the vocals have been dubbed with music so you can't hear the actual movie. I would love to get the entire movie.
Checking
out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that
she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good
for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."
The
clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not
care enough to save our environment for future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back
then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the
store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized
and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they
really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our
day.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in
every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and
didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two
blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back
then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the
throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling
machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our
clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their
brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady
is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back
then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room.
And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember
them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen,
we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines
to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the
mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or
plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn
gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human
power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club
to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we
didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain
when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every
time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead
of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead
of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But
we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took
the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked
instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one
electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a
dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a
signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find
the nearest pizza joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation
laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the
green thing back then?
Today may be your birthday that you only get to have every 4 years. If so, Happy Birthday! Also, Ladies, today is the socially acceptable day that you may propose to the one you love if you're tired of waiting for him to propose!
I'm really tired of trying to find a matching set of sheets, so I decided to do something about it. I'm reorganizing the linen closet.
This is a set of king size sheets that I folded, using the method from the following link. It actually only filled half the pillow case. It is folded over. Store Sheets and Pillow Cases.
Here is a video that does it a little differently.
A great nostalgic site! Lots of good stuff on this site from the home page. This is just such a really fun place to play! http://upchucky.com/
You can use the the little scrolling thingy on the side and see more tune choices. The diversity of music in the 50's is surprising. . . Elvis, Bing Crosby, the Coasters, the Everly Brothers, Patti Page, the Big Bopper, Johnny Cash, Louie Armstrong, Bo Didley, Rosemary Clooney, Carl Perkins, the Platters, Little Richard and Hank Williams. Music was all over the place. They knew how to have a good time! But, if oldies ain't your thing, pick any year!
As I was searching for some information, I decided to try YouTube. I came across this video of the Mrs. Georgia 1968 Pageant. Apparently wearing a hat and being able to cook were requirements.
Also of important note... the women were only known by their husband's names and not their own. My how times have changed.
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had
never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire
class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no
one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan". All grades will
be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will
fail and no one will receive an A.... (Substituting grades for dollars -
something closer to home and more readily understood by all).
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The
students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied
little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who
studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard
decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame
and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study
for the benefit of anyone else.
To their great surprise, ALL
FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately
fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great,
but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want
to succeed. It could not be any simpler than that.
Remember, there IS a test coming up: The 2012 elections.
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work
because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other
half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else
is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of
any nation.
Tis the season ... and the rush is on. Black Friday, Cyber Monday; All the toy commercials. Some of us love it and some of us hate it, but most all of us do it. Are you a Wal-martian?
