HeeHEE at your misheard lyrics! (My friend Julie, in high school, thought that "Suffragette City" was "Esophagus City" and we all laughed and laughed at her.) And I still have my mixed tapes too. What I don't have anymore -- showing how much older I am than you -- are the tapes I made by *holding* the cassette player next to the radio when I was 9 or 10. Ah, good times...
the tapes I made by *holding* the cassette player next to the radio when I was 9 or 10. Ah, good times...
Oooh, OOOOH, I had those! *waves hand wildly* I found one a few years ago, and bust a gut laughing when I played it; behind the scratchy, distant, actual *song*, I could hear my mother yelling for my sister downstairs. BWA!
Loved the "polar tank" story, snacky. *g* And I hope your oral surgery goes well!
Oh, I had those too! We had a little mic that we used to hold up to the speakers to tape.
Best tape story ever: my friend Amy had an older sister, Mary Ellen, who had Down's Syndrome. Mary Ellen used to like to tape TV shows with her little tape recorder, and then listen to them later. One time she played me one of the tapes. She had recorded "The Dukes of Hazzard." You could hear her singing along with the theme (only chiming in on the last words of every line so it sounded like "...boys...harm...saw...law..." and so on), the grandfather clock chiming 8, her sisters fighting in the background, another sister practicing piano, and her mother announcing, "Mary Ellen, I'm going to take a tub now."
LOL! I used to tape TV shows with my tape recorder, too. This was several years before my family got a VCR. I still have a few of the tapes. Kept them because you can hear my niece crying or babbling in the background (she's 19 now, so I can't wait to play them for her someday when we're together again).
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Oooh, OOOOH, I had those! *waves hand wildly* I found one a few years ago, and bust a gut laughing when I played it; behind the scratchy, distant, actual *song*, I could hear my mother yelling for my sister downstairs. BWA!
Loved the "polar tank" story, snacky. *g* And I hope your oral surgery goes well!
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Best tape story ever: my friend Amy had an older sister, Mary Ellen, who had Down's Syndrome. Mary Ellen used to like to tape TV shows with her little tape recorder, and then listen to them later. One time she played me one of the tapes. She had recorded "The Dukes of Hazzard." You could hear her singing along with the theme (only chiming in on the last words of every line so it sounded like "...boys...harm...saw...law..." and so on), the grandfather clock chiming 8, her sisters fighting in the background, another sister practicing piano, and her mother announcing, "Mary Ellen, I'm going to take a tub now."
I'm giggling right now just thinking about it.
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That's classic.
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