Baaaad earworms! Eeeeevil ones! Sam's earworm was assigned to my little sister to play in a first grade and then the next year in a second grade play. She played it ennnnndlessly on a recorder, rather badly, very mournfully (she would have called it "with deep feeling", I'm sure!) and - *gasp!* - without tonguing to separate the notes and make the transitions clean for two years straight. The song is as effective on me as it is on all those enemy Jaffa.
Yeah, Nine Inch Nails or a Handel Oratorio sound about right.
I've never been to either Magic Kingdom. We took the kids to Sea World in San Antonio once, but the highlight of that for me was the fact that whe just happened to be staying in San Antonio during Fiesta, so we had a wonderful time checking out the Riverwalk during a particularly festive season. It was a bit of the Southwest that my kids would never have gotten to see otherwise.
I lived from the middle of my fourth grade year until the summer after my sophomore year at Bryn Mawr two blocks away from Playland (and amusement park with a skating rink where Dorothy Hammill learned and trained, and where the Rangers have their practice ice). Those pictures of RDA practicing with the Rangers were taken there. I kinda got amusement parks/theme parks out of my system early. Kid's love 'em though.
Other than the three trips to Disneyland (once at 12, once when I was in grad school, once when I took JP and the stepson), I think I've had exactly two visits to smaller amusement parks in my entire life.
Disneyland with my brith family was . . . okay, but very subdued. Kind of like going on holiday with a pack of Vulcans. Disneyland with my own family, as it was then -- one young-for-his-age child, one terminally immature technically-adult male -- was actually a wonderful thing. I had a fantastic time. The marriage itself was a disaster, much of that trip was a mess, but that day was great and I still cherish it.
I'll send you the parody by PM -- not because it's naughty, but because it's not nice to spread extra earworms.
As to the children, I guess I'm reminded of the guy who played the nebbishy Steve on Blues Clues, who after he left the show got a guest shot on Law & Order. He got a ton of angry mail decrying his morality. Didn't he know that he would be warping his pre-school audience's little minds? His reaction? "Gee, who knew that my Blues Clues fans would be up at 10:00 at night, much less watching Law & Order!"
Something I've only seen done properly in real life once. I ran into my ex-stepmother at a library book sale when Eldest Daughter was about 14 months old. I gave the ex-stepmom (someone who was mean to my little 5 year old brother when no one was looking, but who didn't dare try it on 12 year old me, because I would not have stood for it, and I would have told) a big smile and said hello, and introduced myself and my daughter (she hadn't seen me since I was 12, and I was then 28). She gave me the cut direct.
Huh.
I did a double-eyebrow raise (because I've never learned to do just one) and then got the giggles. It was just such a waste of her energy to try to be mean to me like that. I kind of enjoyed it, having read enough cheap literature where such behavior is a staple, and never previously having seen it actually "in the wild". It was my Jonas Quinn moment. First time for a cut direct!
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(I'm playing Nine Inch Nails to counteract the earworms, though.)
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Yeah, Nine Inch Nails or a Handel Oratorio sound about right.
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I lived from the middle of my fourth grade year until the summer after my sophomore year at Bryn Mawr two blocks away from Playland (and amusement park with a skating rink where Dorothy Hammill learned and trained, and where the Rangers have their practice ice). Those pictures of RDA practicing with the Rangers were taken there. I kinda got amusement parks/theme parks out of my system early. Kid's love 'em though.
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Disneyland with my brith family was . . . okay, but very subdued. Kind of like going on holiday with a pack of Vulcans. Disneyland with my own family, as it was then -- one young-for-his-age child, one terminally immature technically-adult male -- was actually a wonderful thing. I had a fantastic time. The marriage itself was a disaster, much of that trip was a mess, but that day was great and I still cherish it.
I'll send you the parody by PM -- not because it's naughty, but because it's not nice to spread extra earworms.
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Ummmm... I should add... please?
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http://sg1genrecs.dreamwidth.org/79210.html
THINK OF THE CHILDREN
PROTECT THEIR EARS
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As to the children, I guess I'm reminded of the guy who played the nebbishy Steve on Blues Clues, who after he left the show got a guest shot on Law & Order. He got a ton of angry mail decrying his morality. Didn't he know that he would be warping his pre-school audience's little minds? His reaction? "Gee, who knew that my Blues Clues fans would be up at 10:00 at night, much less watching Law & Order!"
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Huh.
I did a double-eyebrow raise (because I've never learned to do just one) and then got the giggles. It was just such a waste of her energy to try to be mean to me like that. I kind of enjoyed it, having read enough cheap literature where such behavior is a staple, and never previously having seen it actually "in the wild". It was my Jonas Quinn moment. First time for a cut direct!
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