Re: OT: sponge burning!
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:03:25AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 12:25:02PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > On Wednesday 31 January 2007 11:59, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > On 01/31/07 10:45, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:35:16PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > > >> On Tuesday 30 January 2007 20:55, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > >>> Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > > >>>> Then, for your kids' peace of mind, maybe we should not mention
> > > >>>> the idea of putting certain square sponges into the microwave!
> > > >>>
> > > >>> It's amazing the crap that passes for animation these days...
> > > >>
> > > >> Yes. It's certainly not as artfully drawn as Speed Racer was in
> > > >> the 1970s or as well written as Sabrina and the Groovy Goolies
> > > >> from the same time period.
> > > >
> > > > having recently picked up a copy of SPeed Racer... its nowhere
> > > > *NEAR* as cool as I remember it being. Most of it is not
> > > > "animation" but a series of stills (I know, animation is mothing
> > > > but lots of stills, but...). Still cool, just not what my brain had
> > > > recalled after all these years.
> > >
> > > My kids like a lot of stuff that causes my IQ to perceptibly lower
> > > if exposed to it for more than 5 minutes. I figure that my parents
> > > thought the same of Fat Albert, SR & Scooby Doo.
>
> indeed. but since we're older, we are surely right -- what we thought
> was cool was indeed cool. What our kids think is cool, is obviously
> stupid drivel. That said -- teen titans ranks up there for me ;)
Well, I 'm 60 now. I use my kids to tell me that's cool these days.
That's how I found out about the wonderfully surreal Sponge Bob.
The movie is Hollywood drivel, but the TV show really works for me.
-- hendrik
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