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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
