Random thoughts... - by Tocky
Sulphur on 19/1/2024 at 17:42
Maybe they feel you've got something to learn.
mxleader on 19/1/2024 at 18:07
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Maybe they feel you've got something to learn.
:laff: Maybe it's my punishment for getting bad grades in grammar school. Maybe I should have done poorly in college so I would get professors instead.
Sulphur on 18/2/2024 at 14:11
Hot take: if you grew up watching Cheers, Adventure Time is 150% more affecting as a show to you.
Also The Good Place, but for very different reasons.
Tocky on 21/2/2024 at 04:16
I was humming a tune the other day and knew it was a show from my childhood but couldn't remember what. Then of course it came back to me as everything does. The multi colored squares with action scenes mixed in... MANNIX! One of my dads favorites. I thought I would see who had it now and it is on Prime. It was a detective show that ran from 67 to 75 right in the heart of the muscle car era and man did it have some great ones. There was an Olds Toronado one off convertible, a Dodge dart convertible, a couple years of Cuda convertibles, a Dodge Challenger (oddly not a convertible but a sun roof), a Grand Torino, Caprice convertible, and a Camero. Also a 65 GTO kept popping up. Must have been one of the producers. Man this was a great show for cars. George Barris customized many of the early ones.
I don't think I've ever even seen a convertible Toronado before.
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https://i.imgur.com/kCIHVSY.jpegBut my favorite was his Cuda.
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https://i.imgur.com/DJTQSga.jpegThe show was okay in that seventies detective way but the cars were great in that seventies car way.
DuatDweller on 21/2/2024 at 18:31
Do you remember any episode of the original Hawaii 5-0 TV show?
I do remember just the music and some flashes here and there of some buildings, but not one single episode.
I'm sure there must have been some muscle cars in it.
demagogue on 21/2/2024 at 21:33
There's a game called Automation--Jason Moyer is the other big fan of it--where you design cars to fit different countries in different eras. But anyway, after playing with that game some, it made me pay attention to US car history, but especially Lee Iacocca's Mustang and John DeLorean's GTO were two big landmarks for that period that interested me a lot.
There's a whole other dimension about their use in movies and shows. There was a whole genre of car & car chase shows revolving around them. Then again in the 1980s in a different way. We really haven't had cars play that kind of role in pop culture since then, have we? Like speaking of Hawaii 5-0, a new version is back on the air, but there isn't near the emphasis on cars like there used to be; or maybe that's just what I remember also. Anyway, it's always cool to watch those old shows now.
Qooper on 21/2/2024 at 22:51
I'm tired but I can't fall asleep, so I thought I'd scoot over here and write something. Now that I'm here, I don't have a clue what I was going to write. Well, it was probably going to be something random anyways, something like what I just wrote, except less forgetty.
CZmeltdown on 21/2/2024 at 23:13
Do you think Bioshock Infinite is really as bad as people say?
Qooper on 22/2/2024 at 08:10
Well yeah. The first Bioshock was supposed to be a spiritual successor to System Shock, but they pulled it off a bit. The pulling had started. They kept pulling, although people warned them not to. By the time they made Bioshock Infinite, they had pulled System Shock completely off the game.
To pull something off. You pull and pull until it comes off. To pull something off.
[video]https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2HKjvCSSuqM[/video]
Sulphur on 22/2/2024 at 08:14
Do you need to take your meds?
