Comments | mesila: Reason # 4,679 that I love Deekoo

mesila

Reason # 4,679 that I love Deekoo

Dec 26, 2004 18:47

He didn't grow up in a house where there was a lot of TV watching - almost zero, and none while he was in his teens.

Looking through this list of discontinued food products I ran into, I realized with a heavy sigh how much of my brain is literally littered with stupid jingles associated with these products. Whereas being homeschooled by parents ( Read more... )

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Oh the dialogues that start in my head after reading your post! hurricanecarol December 27 2004, 04:50:57 UTC

All so true...my parents lived by the TV Guide and the programming guide in the Sunday paper. We only had one television for most of my formative years, but so very, very much revolved around it. We would actually circle the programs we wanted to watch during the upcoming week. My Dad had football and Rowan and Martin's laugh-in and the Smothers Brothers and Bonanza - those times were sacred...never mind that he frequently fell asleep watching them...the channel could not be changed. And when I was little, time was marked by what was on the set, (the milkman came during Captain Kangaroo, for example ( ... )

'Twas the least I could do... mesila December 27 2004, 06:14:45 UTC

Thanks for this very thought-provoking piece.

You're most welcome. Your "soggy fliers and tears" post should be magneted to my refrigerator or something, it's just so resonant and so good to remember.

...unless one is in the middle of generating the family chroma_if January 3 2005, 07:18:59 UTC

then (especially if one chooses something bodily addictive like, say, cocaine) the offspring will later react in opposition. When they are able to select their own drugs, they'll head directly for booze, or other CNS depressants, because Dad/Mom always did that other stuff and they didn't like that... So if one's mind is doomed to reverberate in horror of stuff one had to put up with as a kid, then, well, I can't think constant TV any worse than constant boozing or doping, but then I lack resistance to it, since my childhood situation was the reverse of your own. Then, too, people eventually crash out and are then quiet; but the TV doesn't sleep, though it did when I was little ( ... )