What better line of work for a guinea pig could there possibly be? Why, with this nose, I can sniff out software bugs faster than you can peck a pile of pellets, pal!
Nicole G. writes: “His full name is Leonard Hampton but everybody calls him ‘Lenny.’ “
Bedhead? Check.
Daytime but no job? Check.
Mac? Check.
Yup, we have a hipster hamster.
Yeah, I know, I typed too fast, trying to get out the door when I did a last check. And hipster hamster sounds better than hipster piggy
I wish my spamware was that cute.
hav u seen the Simpson’s episode with “Mapple” and Mypods? This lil piggy SO would have made a great salesperson.
His name is Leonard Hampton? And the ferret’s name is Plankton? Is it Inscrutable Animal Name Day, or something?
Geeze! What don’t they test on guinea pigs!?
As any true Mac fan-piggy could tell you, Macs do not have bugs. They have features.
Man, these JPIG files take forever to load.
Your alliteration is PERFECT! “peck a pile of pellets, pal!”
Cutest IT guy ever!
Is this the latest geek fashion – full length fur coats at work? Protesters are going to be protesting over this.
What? He was born wearing a fur coat? No way!
Did he get into the Starcraft II beta? lucky peeg.
if you don’t move back from the screen you’ll need glasses
Love the PEEEG! It’s great how he has the “kind of” crazy hair- not smooth-haired, not totally long-crazy-haired…. Just perfect in the middle!
me ? a beta tester ?
Basil contains high concentrations of ”beta” carotene … i guess i could (test) taste that
Lenny is a beta-Carotene tester, fer sure.
squeesqueesquee, a peeg! My day is complete.
Also, I’m pretty sure this isn’t what computer geeks mean when they talk about piggybacking on another system… Maybe he should roll over?
Either that is a small laptop or a HUGE piggie!
Malinki,
All he needs is cool-hip-person glasses. Well, and an unnecessary scarf. And a deep V-neck T-shirt. And a messenger bag.
He’s got great taste in laptops.
Lenny, thanks for the giggles!
Mandatory goofball television character reference:
“But………………..where’s (are you guys/ gals READY FOR THIS punchline????)
SQUIGGY?????????”
(giggle) (won’t it be cool, if the origin of the pic writes or we research it & find out, that the family of ownership DOES HAVE a pet named Squiggy??)
Format enter?
yes. yes. yes. yes. yes. yes. yes. yes. yes. yes. yes. yes.
I think we need to go over the basics honey bun.
What a handsome peeg! I love the fur on the top of his head that simply refuses to be tamed.
The hover text reminds me of a practical joke one of my former co-workers played on another: He installed a program on her computer so that the next time she turned it on, she got a message that read, “Are you sure you want to erase your hard drive?” with a check box for yes and another for no. Naturally she checked the no box, but this faux program caused a status bar to pop up that said it was erasing her hard drive.
Well, the woman who thought she was erasing her hard drive completely freaked out when she saw that status bar–starting screaming, jumping up and down in her cubicle, etc. Meanwhile, the person who wrote the program and whose cube was just down the hall, was laughing too hard from her reaction to tell her that it was all a joke–her hard drive was absolutely fine.
Ah, those were the days…
Um, resrie? Shocking as it may seem, there may actually be peeps who don’t know Lenny and Squiggy………
(I, however, always liked Lenny better…….)
“There once was an amiable guinea-pig,
Who brushed back his hair like a periwig.”
by Beatrix Potter
@260Oakley – I KNOW!!! Shoulda used a PiNG file.
@ Victoreia: thanks for breakin’ that news to me, so gently.
Yes, I am aware that I am a member of the Pleistocene Generation.
For the uninitiated — Lenny & Squiggy were the “wanna be boyfriends” (read: NEVER IN A MILLION YRS ) to Laverne & Shirley. And to the SEVERELY YOUNG:
Did you know, that Penny Marshall is Garry Marshall’s daughter? DId you know that Penny Marshall directed the film “A League of their own” (about women baseball teams during WWII for morale, when all the boys & men were fighting in Europe)? Did you know that before she directed that film, she was a character in a show called Laverne & Shirley (1950s era, spinoff from “Happy Days”)???
Hello? (cricket sounds
Is there anybody out there, who DOESN”T OWN A PROGRAMMED MP3 player, but is older than 6 months? Hello?
(cricket sounds)
(sigh.)
Penny and Garry are sibs.
Leonard is quite handsome, with his orange and white markings and ruffly ears. He DOES look very interested in whatever is on the screen. Smart peegie!
@ Res: Hellooooooooooo !
How many empty players ? Why would anyone have that many ?
“Is there anybody out there, who DOESN”T OWN A PROGRAMMED MP3 player, but is older than 6 months? Hello?”
*raises dinosaur paw*
BStrange: *raises brontasauras paw*
(What the hell is a “programmed MP3 player”?)
OK, here are my Pleistocene creds: The phrase “beta tester” strangely reminds me of “Lester Bestertester,” a name that used to crop up from time to time in “MAD” magazine, along with Melvin Cowznofski, and such words as blecch, potrzebie and axolotl.
@ ffleur:
“ooooooooooooooooooooooohhh YA GOT ME!!!!”
(death throes motions and sounds like a 1920s crime mob figure dying in a police scene)
It seems like I’ve always got one little bit of my story “twisted”
sigh.
I’m sympathizing with the scarecrow in Wizard/ Oz. If only I had a (sigh) brain.
What if I understand “beta” , better than I understand MP3′s? Will that get me into any hip nightclubs where the -?- deejay? MP-jay? 8-track cassette player
(insert name of media playing gadget currently ine vogue)
plays Stevie Wonder’s song “As” or Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer”?
and NEVER EVEN GO NEAR anything w/ Lynnard Skynnrd????
(of course, the bit about the 8-track cassette player was A JOKE.
REALLY I KNOW THAT THOSE ARE BEYOND PLEISTOCENE BUT — if it helps any to rebuild even a scrap of “street cred”,my dad’s brand-new1970 240 Z actually DID come with an 8-track cassette player and — ridiculous as this may sound, I am personal WITNESS that my dad, macho Captain Navy jet fighter pilot, used to play 8 tracks of — THEO pay attention, here THE CARPENTERS….and this was before Karen Carpenter passed away, so tragically unnecessarily for music history). That part is absolute fact; any of my three brothers can vouch for the truth of that.
ok I’m stepping down (for the moment) off my soapbox. Have a great night, CO peeps; ya know I love y’all!
Jessica told me about this website. Lenny looks cooler than what Jessica describes him as!
OLD, BAD JOKE AHEAD:
@Resrie. what is this? (making fluttering, descending movements with hand)
Karen Carpenter falling out of a tree!!!
Well, that was my Friday-ish comment for the day. :shock*
May I join the fossils? are you talking about the Gramaphone? Sees resriechan’s half asleep arm wave, Bstrange…”agreed”….now we just need one more vote…thank you QofD…we have a quorum looks like I’m in.
I know all about soft wear, you just put an old 78 in some hot water, it soon becomes pliable, then you can make things using your fingers to bend it into shape. I am looking over at a fruit bowl with lovely scalloped edges, that I made the other day.
@Resriechan:
didn’t mean to keel you dead.
*fans Res. with Trival Pursuit cards*
Come join the herd! We shall pet lap-peegs and talk about the good old days of rolling unspooled cassettes back up with the eraser end of a pencil, and big black vinyl un-compact discs you had to (gasp) manually flip over! to hear the rest of the music… I don’t quite go back to 8-track but I do remember single-sided cassette tapes…
Come away from that thing, Leonard dear, it’ll rot your little guinea peeg brain. *nod, nod*
@ Hon Glad: I know what a Gramophone is!!! Actually the wikipedia article (can’t recall just now but think it’s under the phrase “record player” is pretty darn comprehensive & cites, sources out the proverbial yin-yang!!!!
I wonder if there’s anyone who plays on CO, who has ever listened to a 78
(NO NOT A CD COPY FROM ONE an actual 78 playing on a turntable; they actually PREDATE 8-track tapes!! *GASP*
Yeah; ain’t THAT, a kick in the Haid???)
NOW who was it, tellin’ me that Laverne & Shirley is an old, obsolete TV show????? (JK)
@Theresa, don’t mind if nobody gets your references. Just say “What me worry?”
@Res, I much preferred Carmine Ragusa
Saffron: *singing like Carmine*
“YOU KNOW I GO FROM RAGS TO RICHES!!!!!!” or something like that. I remember he always entered and left the room singing something like that.
@Saff, what was the period BEFORE the Pleistocene? That must be the one I’m from.
[Plasticine? - Ed.]
Theresa: it’s such a shame. Y’know, “they say” the memory’s the first thing to go !
(shaking head & making tsk tsk noises IN SYMPATHY of course
)
Reise and 45′s ME I have … We old folks do need to stick to gether
Schlameel Schlamoo Hausenfeffer incorporated.
[Schlemiel! Schlemazel! ...
- Ed.]
I smell a sing-along:
Give us any chance we’ll take it!
Read us any rule, we’ll break it….
To all the oldies: In grade school and junior high I had a record player (yep, that’s what we called it) that could play different speeds for different records. There were 45s, with a big hole in the center for which I used a removable large plastic center column. This played the small 45 rpms with a single song on one side and another song on the other — I had music like Elvis Presley, etc. If you took the wide center column off there was a single, thin metal spindle which was for playing 33 1/3rd speed records, which were for my parents’ broadway musical show records. Which they bought in a special promotion at the grocery store — a new one each week. Along with their S&H Green Stamps.
Extra points for guessing which decade.
[Could be either the 60s or 70s. My sister & I had one too (70s). - Ed.]
ffleur #39: Hahahahahaha! “Fans with Trivial Pursuit cards” Hahahahahahahaha! That really cracked me up.
Schliemazeel??? Rats in my head it was schlamooo
HEhehhehe
[ahem "Schlemazel"
- Ed.]
Gosh, he looks so involved. What is he looking at?
Another pic please! boing boing boing!
Is “schlemeil, schlemazel” Yiddish? If so, does anybody know what it means?
My brother and I had a kids’ record player that was orange and white, like a big square box that you could close and carry like a suitcase. It played 45s, and our favorite one that we listened to over and over and over was a song about President Kennedy. I can still remember the lyrics: “John F. Kennedy, a remarkable young man is he, at age forty-three, elected to the presidency….” Hadn’t thought about that in a while. Now it’ll be stuck in my head all day.
Hey, wait–aren’t we supposed to be discussing cute animals?
skippymom: Here’s a comment about cute animals: Skippy looks really cute as your avatar!
Thanks, QofD! He turned 13 in January, and he now looks more, well, dignified and handsome than “cute”. That picture is from when he was about 3. He’ll always be the most beautiful creature in the world in my eyes.
skippymom: Awwwwwwww. That’s really sweet! My SamKitty is all black with white whiskers and he’s 9. Not really old for a cat but no spring kitty chicken either. Sometimes, he moves around like an old man and other times, he dashes about like a kitten.
QofD, I heard that Sam also thinks he’s a pony….
skippymom: Yes, at times he does. He’s so great. When my co-worker had a situation in his life happen that excluded SamKitty, he said he was going to take him to the shelter. I was like, “don’t do that! I’ll take him!” Ever since SamKitty came to the door holding his little suitcase and briefcase, (containing, The Contract) I’ve so love, love, loved and adored him! (little brat)
@ Qo’D : I never got an actual definition from my grandmother but she would say Lenny & Squggy would be the perfect examples of both a schlemeil & schlemazel .
As far as I know it is Yiddish but I wouldn’t bet the farm on it .
Y’know, you could start by clicking the link I included in my comment to KittyAdventures…
Mud Bug: Well now I’m curious enough to go on the net and find a translation. Off I go!
Theo: Oh! Thanks! That did answer the question.
Apple rolls out the new iPeeg.
@J snerk that is pretty funny!
Mud Bug- I think I have heard the expression “I wouldn’t bet the farm on it.” the one I like is “He’s bought the farm” which means a Pilot has crashed. I hasten to ad, I don’t mean I enjoy the death of an Airman but it’s gallows humour during, I would guess the second World War.
He “bought the farm” means a pilot crashed? I did not know that! I thought it was more general, like he’s snuffed it. Which is also kind of funny sounding now that I think about it.
Hon Glad: I don’t mean to poke fun either but I wonder if the whole “bought the farm” thing ties into the “kick the bucket” thing. Was that bucket on that farm? Perhaps used to milk the cows? (when the cows come home?) hmmmmmmmm? Buckets? Farms?
Uh-oh. I think I’ve “lost my marbles.”
Gosh, I remember having an 8-track in my folks’ car! I even remember my dad’s reel-to-reel! (The cassette’s bigger, older brother, who didn’t do “portable”…..)
My dad had this gigantic, wooden record player thing that must have weighed a thousand pounds and was really like a piece of furniture. I guess it looked good at the time but when I think of it now, it was pretty ugly.
[You're not talking about an antique Victrola, are you? - Ed.]
My dad and my brother made this gigantic wooden thing to put our components in, made it in the garage and stained it, put a hinged lid on it and all. Three components, the receiver, tape deck, and turn table. Don’t know why they didn’t think to stack them vertically, instead this monster “entertainment system” was as long as a couch! Heavy too and took up half of the living room. Ah, the seventies. Stylish, huh? Went well with the shag *snerk* carpeting.
Our parents’ record player was in this antique piece of furniture called a dry sink, and the records were kept in the cupboards in its base. Kind of cool, now that I think about it. When I remember it I always think of Lenny Bruce–the big deal was if the parents left us alone for a few minutes, we immediately put on the Lenny Bruce record, because of course we had been expressly forbidden to ever listen to it. I don’t think we ever got caught.
Ed: No, although that thing is cool and prettier than the one we had in our house. Ours was kind of longer and the speaker parts had this fabric stuff over them. I’ll try to find a picture of it.
Excalibur RD54 3-in-1 Music Player (Honey Wood Finish)
Sort of like this! But ’70s looking. You could lift up the lid and the record player part was under there. Except ours had “feet”
LOL oh yeah, the speakers! Ours were on groovy white pedestals and had like laminated wood on the top. They were rectangular from the front and kind of like a pyramid on the back. Also covered in white fabric. Fabulous!
Paunchie: Was your shag carpeting a burnt orange color? Ours was white.
Awwww, the ’70s.
Paunchie: I can dig it. Far out!
I’ll be his paws are just right to use the keys on the mini-computers. (Heaven knows my fingers are too big, if I press down 1 letter, all the surrounding letters get pushed also, producing a whole word in one stroke. Of course, the word is unrecognizable!!!!)
@resriechan
I’m young! I remember life before the internet existed!
….wait….is 26 still young?
oooooooooooooh yeah in re. “bought the farm” and pilot death.
Wayul, A Tanzer…suffice it to say, that 26 is A LOT younger than, say, 46!!!!
(In relative terms. Nana (Hutt) in our family made it to 97. My own mother is 80 and prob. healthier than MANY horses….Guess that the Hutts, are a relatively sturdy bunch o’ coconuts………………)
(combined giggle & affectionate snerk)
So — Victoreia — you remember a working 8-track, yet you remind me that there are people in the US who don’t know who “Lenny & Squiggy” were, on “Laverne & Shirley”????????????
(JK)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v512/Petrostone/Test%20photos/rc3.jpg
Wait! Ours was kind of more a combination of the other thing I posted and this thing! Ours was like this but it seemed like it was loooonger. I had to remember how long my parents had that and go back to the ’60s. This is closer to what it looked like.
um, Q….you kinda have a particular idiom in describing “things”. It seems like a “thing” to you, where you like to use the word “thing”. (giggle)
Ok kids — since we’re quite thoroughly off the cute bunny on the ‘puter “thing” (giggle)…I’m gonna try ANOTHER Classic Pleistocene Era Television Show out & (as they say in the military) “see who salutes” (perhaps no one but crickets??…we shall see)
Who has fond memoires of
(now let’s just agree to stay off the whole “did he really die under those slightly offbeat circumstances” issue, ‘k?)
Kung Fu (Shao Lin monastic pupil, relocated from China into the Western frontier of America) television program, D. Carradine….”grasshopper”
(Wait –THERE’s a cute “animal” reference!!!)
and — did you know that in one episode, the ? venerable?
William. Shatner. played a part which had *NOTHING TO DO* with Star Trek?????
ok, let’s see what kinda spirals result from that little tangle.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand:
GO!!!!
(oops) (*blush*)
“Guinea pig on the ‘puter ‘thing’ “……..the bunny is on a different “thing”
(*blush*)
Res: Well, what else would you call those things?
(and stuff).
Hang on a minute, Resrie–if you’re 46, you got your master’s degree at 21! How’d you do that?
QoD, sounds like you had a HiFi floor model. My family had one growing up…my mom would play her Richard Harris albums on it…..
Ooh, I remember 8tracks. Very high tech when that system came out! The track would always change mid-song.
I’m being followed by a Moon-CA-CLICK-shadow….
@ Q: well, you *might* consider some nouns. Y’know; “cabinet” and “turntable”.
And……”stuff like that”!!! (*affectionate snerk*)
Wow — skippy; you sure do focus & get the details, huh? I ARE IMPRESSED (and yes, I’m aware that that was incorrect subject/ verb agreement).
How tha’ happ’, is a wonderful little invention (of which VERY FEW high school students are aware) called the C(ollege)L(evel) E(xamination) P (something)
Evidently my abilities with basic college Freshman level Humanities coursework, and about a year’s worth of Freshman level French and English composition/ grammar/vocab ………………were proven by a Saturday that I spent happily filling in bubbles on an exam sheet, with an approved #2 pencil (o’ course) ………….and in return, got another sheet of paper later…to turn into my college & my college decided that I’d sufficiently reached “cred” levels in those 3 subjects….It’s called “CLEPPing out” and it saves the family book expenses, tuition expenses AND housing expenses….while putting the student farther forward, sooner (younger) than they would have been by taking that mandatory freshman coursework on the college campus in classroom.
They’re still available but kind of kept on the (current slang here, ain’t I cool?)
“down-low” …..S’pose the colleges all over the nation would lose a TON of money, if they made the CLEP tests more widely promoted…………
“And that’s the (how do you spell a verbal raspberry?) tooth”.
Peace & puppies to all.
@ATanzer –
I surely hope it’s still young!
Otherwise I’ve got to get on this retirement thing…
Saffron — are you still here in COland at this moment?
I had the little suitcase-player that did 45s, got them at the dime store. Wore out “Dizzy” until my mom said I was making HER dizzy, stop playing that damned record. I also had something that played 78s-and further disgusted my mom with the cover art of Steppehwolf’s “Monster” album. SNERK!! Oh, and our shag carpet was avocado. Eck……”Clamatoe, Clamatoe…..”
***AHEM**** (puts glasses on)
The best way to tell a Schlemiel from a Schlamazel:
A Schlamiel is the guy who accidentally spills his soup. The Schlamazel is the guys who gets the soup on his lap.
*** Stepping down, just too funny, people, I think CO may have lifted a record amount of soooo much good will and brought so many to tears of joy with this one…..Mazel Tov! (mmaaaa-zelll) (tove) — Which actually mean Mazel -happy Tov -day Happy Day!
As in “oh this wonderful thing just happened, what a happy day it is!
I love zee Pigs de Guinea, oui!
Katrina: Huge Mazel Tov to you too, love!!! Thanks for the explanation of Sclemiel and Schlamazel!
Love U!
Dreamspinner Cheryl: Avocado? Wow!
@resriechan – “Kung Fu” I don’t know, but I have been given a sudden urge to watch the Twilight Zone again (since mention of William Shatner reminded me – he was in two episodes).
I would still have a “portable” record player the size of a toilet bowl (sorry, it’s the first thing of approximately correct dimensions to come to mind) and the weight of a bucket of lead (or that’s how my arms remember it) had a well-meaning family member not added it, unbeknownst to me, to a load of donations being taken to a thrift shop. ALONG WITH EVERY RECORD I OWNED. Because of course just because she didn’t listen to vinyl records anymore meant that no one else did either, OBviously… *bunny disapproval face!* I believe my inner dinosaur grew three sizes that day out of sheer resentment, it’s been a decade or so and the loss still stings.
Oh, as far as “kick the bucket” goes, http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kick_the_bucket – the first explanation is the only one I ever knew until now.
I realize Leonard doesn’t have much reach and has to be very close to the computer, but he seems to be straining much too hard to see the screen. Have you considered little piggy glasses? Also, maybe he’d be happier with something like a Blackberry with a ridiculously tiny pig-sized keyboard.
@resriechan — you asked if anyone had actually heard played a 78 recording, and I didn’t see anyone responding. So here I am, raising my arthritic hand. My grandmother, who died ca. 1974, loved opera and had a bunch of 78s, including one by Enrico Caruso. She would play them for me. I still have the records; the Caruso one is framed between two pieces of glass so you can see the blank underside. We had a 4-speed record player, 16, 33, 45, 78. In 1962 I got a set of “learn-by-ear” French language records that ran at 16 rpm. Same size and shape as a 45 single. I think it was supposedly designed so that more lessons could fit on one record. Sort of like a dual-density CD. Or whatever. But anyway, I have heard 78s played. And I love Leonard!
Hey Susan that makes two of us i responded with a yes somewhere up there at the begining but it probably got lost in translation so that makes like two of us.. I are old!
okay I are 50 so not really too old! and I ♥ Leonard also
oh, Susan;
“How sweet it IS!!” — your memories!!
Hearing you describe that, reminds me of Nana (Hutt) in my (mother’s) family. She passed away at age 97 in 1994. I don’t think either side of my parents’ families were in a financial position to get music equipment at that time. We never had any 78′s in the house that I know of.
However, by the time I was in about the third grade, my dad was a commander in the Navy & we were on our second tour of duty in Yokosuka, Japan. We came back to the states again in either 70 or 71, with all kinds of very intricately carved furniture from our trip. Our stereo cabinet then contained a reel to reel (on which Dad put multiple Bill Cosby albums on one reel; multiple Peter Paul & Mary albums on another reel, etc) tape player, a wonderful early streamlined LP turntable & a fairly snazzy FM/AM receiver/ amplifier before the days of computer chips in stereo equipment. We still have that cabinet in my mother’s living room due to the gorgeous woodwork & carving; however nobody plays anything on the music components; my mom isn’t much into music components. She just turned 80 in November & is strong as 2 Clydesdales although she maintains a lovely figure.
SO cool to hear about your grandmother’s love for Caruso’s music.
One guess (if you come back to read this): is her family heritage Italian?????
I sure what QoD is struggling to describe is a radiogram. My uncle Len had one, when he sold his farm and move to a relatively small house, my family got it, we thought it was marvellous. It was made by Grundig a German company who were considered the bees knees in those days. Radios and record players used valves and that eras, now seemingly, clunky technology, so radios record players had to be big, an average valve was the size of an MP3 player (I hope MP3 is the right name) I call them thse little things that you can store and play music on. Don’t get me wrong I was given an MP3 as a Christmas present a few years ago, a guy I work with put several of my favourite CDs on it and I seldom use it. Why don’t I learn to use it myself? Well basically I can’t be arsed.
Hon Glad: Grundig sounds really familiar and my parents were stationed in Germany twice so maybe they dragged it back from there. Sadly, everybody in my immediate family has died so there’s nobody to ask about it.
@res
Sorry I missed you…..
I left right after posting.
So my sister got this device-y turntable that converts LPs to mp3 files. Very cool.
@resriechan (99) No, Grandma was born in Vienna. She taught me to make Wienerschnitzel, and apple pie, and something she called “macaronis”. Casserole with bacon fat and tomato paste — heart attack waiting to happen. My father loved chocolate pudding, and we had it every time we visited her. I still make chocolate pudding only with My-T-Fine pudding mix. And I have the ingredients for the casserole in the house most of the time.
As for Peter Paul and Mary, I have their original LP albums. We didn’t have a tape recorder. So to learn to play their music, by ear, I had to constantly stop the music, try on the guitar, then try (usually several times) to find the same place on the record with the needle. Now I have CDs. Kids today would have it MUCH easier IF they wanted to learn to play that stuff!
At one time I had Grandma’s baby grand piano in my apartment — now my sister has it in her house. I have my other grandmother’s (Nona’s) big Baldwin Acrosonic spinet (in my house) instead. But I still have Grandma’s music books. And right now I am hearing her play “Liebestraum” in my head.
And I miss my daughter’s guinea pigs!
Shag carpeting? White in the living room, and a burnt orangey red mixture in the family dining room. Where I used to take naps on the floor with “PussyFoot” the Tom Cat that knocked up my kitty. I always loved the bad boys.
I love hearing all these stories! And, “I can’t be arsed” is my new favorite expresshe! lol
PS My parents loved that old folk music, Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary, etc., anybody remember the Kingston Trio? They rawked! heh. Also, lots of John Denver. We loved you John!
Paunchie: Rockin’ shag carpeting description there! Ours was white in the living room for which my mom actually had a rake to be used only indoors and she would totally RAKE THE CARPET! Hahahahahaha! At the time that seemed normal but now it seems so funny! In the dining room, we had a flacatti rug, also white. I’m not sure if I spelled that right. I used to like to lay on it and nap under the table! And finally, John Denver forever!!
(You light up my senses…..)
A carpet rake?! hahahahaaaa!! awesome.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who liked to nap on the carpet!
Nope, you’re not alone on the carpet napping! And I know, a carpet rake?!! What the *&%@?!! Leave it to my goofy parents!
*sing along* Country Roads…. take me home… to the place…I belo-hong! West Virginia! Mountain Mama, take me home (down) country roads…
Carpet like that was just made for napping! Even better when you have a sunbeam and a large kitty companion.
Uh, Paunchie — no harm or nuttin; but ya might wanna watch the phrase “old folk music” when ref’ing to PPM; 2 of them are still doin’ pretty darn good health-wise.
P & P are actually 72 this year. They were born in 1937 & 1938 so that makes them. At the time they first began recording (before the MLK I have a dream speech), they were pretty darn young & actually a bit out of cool/ avant garde/ beatnik….Wikipedia says that Mary was the daughter in an activist family and that when she first sang with Pete Seeger (as background) she was still in high school
(the article cites about 1957).
Pete Seeger is quite a fair amount older than they; although certainly there have been folk festivals & such, at which they all performed.
Signed,
Folk Music is STILL very Groovy, man
(can ya dig it??)
RIP Mary Travers 2009
[Oh, they always knew what they were playing. Even when PP&M were playing it live & new, it was "old folk music". Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly... - Ed.]
(oops I didn’t finish recombining the two phrases
at the beginning of paragraph two ie:)
P & P are actually (if I did my math right) about 78; born 1937 & 1938.
(I couldn’t get my computer’s calc function up and I’m MUCH better with folk music references than I am at math .so……..)
and @ QOD Grundig is indeed/ was maybe a big deal. I can research it later but something’s up just at this 30 min.
Rocky Mountain HIIIIIGGGGHHHHH, Colorado!!!!
LOL I meant old folk-music. Not old-folk music!! Folk music!! Folk music!! Not old-folk music!!
[Ahhh, I begin to see the disconnect...
- Ed.]
(oops)
(*blushing slightly, goofy facial expreshe*)
Stepping, ever so gingerly, down off soapbox.
Walks off, whistling the all-time Tune of Innocence, whistled by all criminals in every movie, in which the police officer **suddenly shows up***
just after the car explodes.
Old-folk music: got it right here.
@ QoD: here is one part of the Wikipedia material under the word Grundig. Looks as though there’s background of innovation both in radio electronics AND in seeing early vision that TV was the wave of the future in the 1940s/50s.:
Max Grundig (7 May 1908 – 8 December 1989) was the founder of electronics company Grundig AG. He was raised by his parents in Nuremberg, where he completed training as an electrician. In 1930 he and a colleague opened a store selling radios under the name Fuerth, Grundig & Wurzer (RVF)
After World War II business expanded with a successful range of consumer electronics. In 1972 the company became a corporation and was sold to Philips in 1984.
His company was one of the first to produce (“frequency modulated”?) radios, cutting out static interference for clearer reception. In 1952, it was one of the first European companies to start producing TV sets.
Grundig became a market leader in home entertainment products. In the late 1970s it began to lose some of its marketshare under increasing pressure from lower priced Japanese products, and in 1980 the company recorded its first losses.
Grundig was forced to close eleven plants and cut its workforce from thirty-five thousand to twenty-nine thousand workers.
Colleagues described Max Grundig, the son of a warehouse manager, as a workaholic who made decisions alone and interested himself in the minutest detail of his business.
Grundig’s father died when he was twelve and his mother had to support her five children on a factory wage.
Young Max started his working life as a plumber’s apprentice but by the age of twenty-two had set up his own radio shop with a friend in Nuremberg.
After World War II, he was permitted by the Allies to relocate his business to the Franconian city of Fuerth where he set up his own factory to produce radio parts.
sorry that was rather long. I thought it had all kinda interesting little early electronics innovations aspects.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand Theo: “OLD folk” Music. Aaaaaaaayup.
(erp).
(QoD: howja like to have been in one of THOSE dresses
with those FOINE, buff-lookin’ guys, onstage with the Dance Theater of Harlem? )
OH WOW! Theo, as soon as I saw your post, before I ever even clicked on the link, I KNEW it was going to be The Lawrence Welk Show!! My sister and I used to adore watching that show (as adults, mind you) for the sheer cornyness of it! We used to get up and dance together around the livingroom to that show. And totally crack up at ourselves! Great memories there!
but Q, that’s all very crucial & stuff but y’know we’re girls —
Don’tcha WANT TWO of those luuuuuuuuuuuuvely dresses????
The men’s vests! The poofy sleeved shirts! And PINK! oh wow. Studly!
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO ALERT!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE TCM NETWORK !!!! NO COMMERCIALS !!!!!!
(Theo & Paunchie; I’m sure that I just cancelled any cred I’ve ever even dreamed of having….but for Dr. Z; I’m fine with that…the novel itself is pretty historically renowned, as well….)
I never read the book, but I love TCM too!!
I never made through Anna Karenina either.
But Mme Bovary?! Oh yeah. Flaubert rules.
I wonder if that hampster, would be willing to work on Hello Kitty Online Open Beta. Teh cute belongs with moar cute.
[*GLARE* - Ed.]
it may look like he’s on a bed but in fact he’s piloting a large floral-print magic carpet via magic carpet flying software.
I have 4 bunnies (a white and brown one, a black one, and two brown ones) that i raised from babies like this one.
I assumed the hamster was named Lenny because he is a wonder pet, and that Tuck and Ming-Ming are around there somewhere as well. Maybe not enough parents of properly aged little ones in this thread to make that connection.