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you havent seen the original 1951 version??? get yourself to Amazon, only a few bucks... its WAY better than the crummy 2008 remake!
(unless you want to waste time d-loading a dubious copy, waste of time when you can buy the **pristine** version...

oldmanmickey wrote:We just had more time to screw up and maybe learn from it.

Or not to learn from it, and thus to serve as bad examples for the younger generations.

Just what ever you do dont get them started talking about walking 5 miles to school, up hill both ways through hip deep snow in Florida fighting a dinosaur.

Bah! Back in my day, we hadn't even invented walking yet! We had to flop along the entire way on our bellies, or at least we would have if we'd invented bellies or flopping or distance yet!

as363 wrote:And you can still see - with a good scope - the remains of the lander and the tracks of the driving vehicle and the foot-prints.

That would have to be a really good telescope if it was a terrestrial one. I doubt that even the big heavily-funded observatories have the resolving power for that.

Obligatory Yorkshire men sketch! (monty python)

and a text version!!!
http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/jokes/mont ... remen.html

"we had it tough! We used to have to get up out of t' shoebox, twelve o'clock in 't night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues.... kids today.... "

the comments on youtube are great! (for a change, no trolls interested!!!)

"When I was kid, we didn't have the Internet. We had to chisel messages into a slab of stone and then drag it across the desert and hand it to someone."
"STONE??? we used to DREAM of stone... (no, YOU read the rest on youtube!!!!! )

"why has this only got 4 comments??"

"Ohhhhh we used to DREAM of having four comments.... :/"

I was born in 1963, but honestly forget day to day how old that makes me.
(I'm a bit past fifty, but damn if I'm going to keep calculating every time the subject comes up.)

Being young was fun, esp back in my single-digit years and I was inventing all those natural laws for myself, (never mind they had previously been discovered ages before), like "[number of possibilities] x [number of possibilities] - 1" or "Is what I'm 'seeing' the same thing that other people actually 'see'?"

Stuff like that, I invented all that stuff.

You're welcome.

TazManiac wrote:I was inventing all those natural laws for myself, (never mind they had previously been discovered ages before)

Every baby for the past ten thousand years has spent some time studying gravity to verify that it works on everything, all the time.

shaddup-you!

TazManiac wrote:I was born in 1963, but honestly forget day to day how old that makes me.
(I'm a bit past fifty, but damn if I'm going to keep calculating every time the subject comes up.)

Dude... This is the twenty-first century... let a computer do it FOR you!... put in your info once and bookmark the results, then if you ever need to figure it out again, just go back to it and it'll update automatically...

Warrl wrote:

TazManiac wrote:I was inventing all those natural laws for myself, (never mind they had previously been discovered ages before)

Every baby for the past ten thousand years has spent some time studying gravity to verify that it works on everything, all the time.

Past performance is no guarantee of future expectations. Continue testing.

jwhouk wrote:Y'all are making me feel like a kid (I'm only 47).

You and me both... I just turned 47 last month...

lake_wrangler wrote:

jwhouk wrote:Y'all are making me feel like a kid (I'm only 47).

You and me both... I just turned 47 last month...

That makes me feel older, since I hit 48 in October...

jwhouk wrote:

lake_wrangler wrote:

jwhouk wrote:Y'all are making me feel like a kid (I'm only 47).

You and me both... I just turned 47 last month...

That makes me feel older, since I hit 48 in October...

If it will make you feel better, I give you permission to shake your cane at me to get me off your lawn, once you turn 48...

I remember hearing about JFK's assassination. The Summer before I went into my first year of High School, I watched the grainy footage of the moon landing and Niel Armstrong's first steps on lunar soil. I am of the last generation to be in high school during the 60's.

You young pups at 47 and 48 can wail about your 'old age' in another twenty years, and (if nobody kills me by then) I will STILL be shaking my head at you!

... Back to our story...

Dude, the other three are certainly teens. I am squirrelly enough now... at that age, I was certifiable.

... and I STILL owned guns and played with explosives... and went into the Army to train as a sniper when such a thing was TOTALLY uncool! But the 'conspiracy theory' attitude that they display- I remember things I believed back then and am totally embarrassed.

Paul nailed it perfectly... as well as Jessie's reaction.

I'll be 37 in three weeks. A part of me finds that fact most alarming.

Gyrrakavian wrote: I've been following the comic since sometime in either 2010 or 2011. Possibly before Tepoz first showed up. Not entirely sure but I think it was right before the paranormal stuff started getting introduced. It's hard to peg down because it's been longer than 5 years, and I go through a comic's entire archive if I decide to start reading it regularly.

Except Tepoz first showed up in 2002.

"I was born in a paper sack,
At the bottom of a sewer.
I had to eat dirt clods for breakfast,
My family was so poor.
My daddy was a waitress,
My mother sold bathroom tile.
My brothers and sisters all hated me
'Cause I was an only child."

Atomic wrote:...or Twelve O'Clock High, ....

Are you talking the movie, or the 1960s TV show that ran 2 1/2 seasons? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_O' ... TV_series)

Opus the Poet wrote:

Atomic wrote:...or Twelve O'Clock High, ....

Are you talking the movie, or the 1960s TV show that ran 2 1/2 seasons? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_O' ... TV_series)

For some reason, the board software does not include the ending parenthesis as part of the link. Might want to make a board-approved URL link out of it, like this:

12 O'Clock High

hey guys, don't feel put out about age... Even *I* don't believe I'm 58, I still feel like a 30 year old and act quite a bit younger!!! and remeber, when you get above 70, you can act like a stupid 5 year old!!

Opus the Poet wrote:

Atomic wrote:...or Twelve O'Clock High, ....

Are you talking the movie, or the 1960s TV show that ran 2 1/2 seasons? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_O' ... TV_series)

I was thinking the movie, but now that you mention it, yes - I faintly remember the TV show too.

At any rate, I was thinking of memorable movies or shows by era, going back in time.

And if you've never seen it -- Ernie Kovacs and Eugene - Groundbreaking stuff. The story (spoilers at link) is Jerry Lewis had a comedy special in 1957, and NOBODY wanted to follow that act. Kovacs took the ball and ran with it.

Keep two thing is mind if you're watching this for the first time:

1. Televison was New - Movies in your home! Wow!
2. None of this type of staging and acting had ever been done this way -- at all. Barely even in commercials or movies. It Was All New.

Thankfully, Kovacs repeated this show in 1961 and was able to tape it for the rest of us!

"Now what you hear is not a test/ I'm rappin' to the beat/ And me, the groove, and my friends/ Are gonna try to move your feet!"...

Atomic wrote:And if you've never seen it -- Ernie Kovacs and Eugene - Groundbreaking stuff. The story (spoilers at link) is Jerry Lewis had a comedy special in 1957, and NOBODY wanted to follow that act. Kovacs took the ball and ran with it.

Keep two thing is mind if you're watching this for the first time:

1. Televison was New - Movies in your home! Wow!
2. None of this type of staging and acting had ever been done this way -- at all. Barely even in commercials or movies. It Was All New.

Thankfully, Kovacs repeated this show in 1961 and was able to tape it for the rest of us!

I finally had time to watch it, and that was rather amusing. Even for today, the simplicity and the absurdity of it is disconcerting. Either that, or I am easily amused. Or both.

BTW, I find rather interesting that in this video, we hear the first recorded evidence of the existence of the minions...