Remembering Things Past

Did they teach you guys the recorder during elementary school or was that an 80s or 90s thing?

Remember the annual hearing test? The one where they tested your hearing and then the next week you got a nasty ear infection because they just slap dashed the machine with a bit of rubbing alcohol between one kid and the next?

Who remembers the Satanic Panic?

What about stranger danger? Ah stranger danger, you saw The Day After right? Well stranger danger was that there were people in vans who wanted to lure you in with candy and puppy dogs, and people dressed up as clowns (this was a nod to John Wayne Gacey) and they all wanted to kidnap, rape, and kill you.

Then to finish you off, who remembers A Thief in the Night? Yeah, if you want to know why people in the midwest are so psychotic and paranoid its because our parents, news media, schools, and churches spent the first 10 to 15 years of our lives trying to scare the living shit out of us. Our parents mostly tried to limit that, but our schools and churches did their damndest to traumatize us & they wonder why there was a drug crisis. Oh and DARE and GREAT, two programs that didn't dissuade people from drugs or gangs.

Now some of you are saying A Thief in the Night? As a kid this one scared me as much as The Day After. As an adult? OMG, its hilarious-

 
The day after… terrifying

Gibby WTF is giant umbrella?

Boy’s life was great. The cover easily further the month’s Penthouse.
 
herodotus said:
Oh and who remembers The Day After? Not The Day After Tomorrow, but The Day After. They showed that on ABC the year I was born and they showed it again in late 1989. Mom told me to not watch it in 89, but I did. Scarred me like you wouldn't believe. Every time they tested the emergency alert siren for years I was afraid that somehow nuclear war had started. So if you wonder why nuclear war scares the living hell out of me and I seem too sympathetic to Russia its not because I particularly want them in Ukraine its because I am genuinely traumatized. Yeah, Kansas City, Lawrence, Sedalia, Joplin, Whiteman AFB, and the scene at the end where Liberty Memorial is is gone except for the very base. . . . holy shit. To you guys those are geographic terms. To me those places are home. The film was basically saying this shit could happen and if it does its gonna kill you!

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I saw this in Korea, late at night in my "hooch" (off post little house I rented). It was surreal being in the Army at the time
 
HipKat said:
Wow, I just looked ol' Clip up. I didn't know he died, and that was before I moved here :(
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Yeah, he got killed in a car accident. He was king of the corny pun. I met him a couple times, he seemed like the guy he was on tv, happy and easy going. Ran for mayor of Lockport once I believe.

RIP Clip, you corny bastard!
 
HipKat said:
Man, I played so much Hockey when I was a kid, ice and street and every time I touched the puck, I heard Ted Darling's voice in my head
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Yeah, I liked Ted, until the last years, he kept losing his place when calling the game. It might have been due to his Pick’s disease, which went undiagnosed for years. They’d find him wandering around the Lockport mall making people uneasy. Nobody realized he was losing his mind. Sad story.
RIP Ted.
 
JC-3122 said:
Yeah, he got killed in a car accident. He was king of the corny pun. I met him a couple times, he seemed like the guy he was on tv, happy and easy going. Ran for mayor of Lockport once I believe.

RIP Clip, you corny bastard!
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There was a Science teacher named Cornelius Mahoney when I was in High School. My buddy Dave Gorski used to always say "Cornelius; what a corny name!"
 
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