New Year's Eve is a time for tradition . For some, it is the tradition of paying an annoying amount of money to have a relatively mediocre and incredibly stressful time squished up against a bunch of other people with loud horn thingies, eagerly waiting to, um, count backwards. Woohoo! My favorite tradition is, rather, avoiding all of those people and watching the Twilight Zone marathon on the SyFy network.
That was a a lot of fun. What about that climate change one, the only one I remember seeing? Earth was getting closer and closer to the sun and we all were sweating and miserable and the sun was huge, then, it turned out the narrator was dreaming and the sun was going away and we all froze! Remember?
"10. The One Where You Are Stuck In the Ithaca Bus Station With Your Doppleganger From Another Dimension, Who Is Trying To Murder You In Order To Take Your Place In This One"
A) Community did it better with 'Darkest Timeline'
Pierce: "What are the rules?"
Annie: "You have to shoot yourself to win"
Pierce (shoots himself and begins to melt back into the Darkest Timeline): "WINNER!"...
Also: "Mega Scott is cool, we're getting waffles next Sunday..."
TWICE in P.E. class a volleyball hit me in the face and broke that nose bridge bit in my glasses. Never broke the glass itself. But you can't wear glasses that are in 2 pieces. My mother, being frugal, taped the two pieces together with surgical tape, but I protested loudly that it made me look ugly, and she eventually ordered me new glasses. A new pair of glasses cost $20 in 1966, and that was a LOT of money. Our telephone bill was only $5/month, and my parent's mortgage on a 3-bed 1-bath house was $75/mo, so that should explain a lot.
When my mother found out in 1967 that I needed braces, her heart must have sunk. But somehow she found a way to pay for them. Thank you, mom!
Yes, simpler times. We had only 2 TV channels. NBC was local and had good reception, but a channel 30 miles away that shared CBS and ABC was snowy and didn't come in good in bad weather. This probably explains why we watched "Gilligan's Island" every week, which was a really stupid show - because there was nothing else to watch.
SUPERB MOVIE! Very appropriate for today's technological revolution. I have it on DVD. I saw it in a movie theatre in 1970 and have never forgotten it. I highly recommend it.
I wish I could join you. I hope you had a wonderful party. What most of us sometimes forget is that there are MANY MANY people out there who share our viewpoint and who refuse to be dominated. I'm glad you have friends like this to share your life with. Go out and find more of them, because they are out there.
You should watch them all, from start to finish. They are ageless, and they will speak to you. I was just a little girl when I watched them, and they changed me and taught me to think outside the box. Now I am 60, and I still think outside the box, so thank you Rod Serling.
He was nearsighted. When you are nearsighted you need glasses to do everything. You can't read without them, or read street signs, or recognize faces that are only 2 feet away. I was nearsighted since I was 6. I couldn't see anything in the swimming pool and used to bump into the walls when I was swimming. I couldn't play sports because they made me take my glasses off, and then I couldn't tell which side of the field was my side. I couldn't hit a baseball or made a basket in basketball. I couldn't read the blackboard in my classroom because they made me sit in the back row. I couldn't play in the snow because it got on my glasses and I was constantly having to wipe them off. Every time I went indoors from a cold outdoors, they would fog up and I couldn't see anything. It was HORRIBLE. HORRIBLE!!!! Every year, when I blew out my birthday candles, I wished for 20/20 vision. I finally got it when I was 45 years old - it was called LASIK. Best gift I ever gave myself. Now I have 20/25 vision without glasses and I am happy as a pig in mud.
That was a a lot of fun. What about that climate change one, the only one I remember seeing? Earth was getting closer and closer to the sun and we all were sweating and miserable and the sun was huge, then, it turned out the narrator was dreaming and the sun was going away and we all froze! Remember?
I was amazed to recently discover Pat Sajak is the chairman of the Hillsdale College board of trustees.
https://www.hillsdale.edu/news-and-media/press-releases/hillsdale-college-welcomes-pat-sajak-as-new-board-of-trustees-chairman/
Rod Serling belonged to the Unitarian church so yes, he was probably an Evil Social Justice Warrior.
"10. The One Where You Are Stuck In the Ithaca Bus Station With Your Doppleganger From Another Dimension, Who Is Trying To Murder You In Order To Take Your Place In This One"
A) Community did it better with 'Darkest Timeline'
Pierce: "What are the rules?"
Annie: "You have to shoot yourself to win"
Pierce (shoots himself and begins to melt back into the Darkest Timeline): "WINNER!"...
Also: "Mega Scott is cool, we're getting waffles next Sunday..."
That is all.
TWICE in P.E. class a volleyball hit me in the face and broke that nose bridge bit in my glasses. Never broke the glass itself. But you can't wear glasses that are in 2 pieces. My mother, being frugal, taped the two pieces together with surgical tape, but I protested loudly that it made me look ugly, and she eventually ordered me new glasses. A new pair of glasses cost $20 in 1966, and that was a LOT of money. Our telephone bill was only $5/month, and my parent's mortgage on a 3-bed 1-bath house was $75/mo, so that should explain a lot.
When my mother found out in 1967 that I needed braces, her heart must have sunk. But somehow she found a way to pay for them. Thank you, mom!
Only if you are Vincent Price. https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Yes, and they were not tempered glass, so they broke into shards.
Yes, simpler times. We had only 2 TV channels. NBC was local and had good reception, but a channel 30 miles away that shared CBS and ABC was snowy and didn't come in good in bad weather. This probably explains why we watched "Gilligan's Island" every week, which was a really stupid show - because there was nothing else to watch.
Why would he want to come back? He is out there somewhere saying "I got out at exactly the right time. Those people are crazy."
What a great movie. I went to see it with my mother in 1971. It was scary as shit. We drove home not saying a word.
It is a BRILLIANT movie. 1971. Classic sci fi thriller. Your library might have it. If not, I will send you a copy, but don't tell the DVD police.
SUPERB MOVIE! Very appropriate for today's technological revolution. I have it on DVD. I saw it in a movie theatre in 1970 and have never forgotten it. I highly recommend it.
Oh, no, I don't do that. The Twilight Zone made you think. The Internet discourages that.
I wish I could join you. I hope you had a wonderful party. What most of us sometimes forget is that there are MANY MANY people out there who share our viewpoint and who refuse to be dominated. I'm glad you have friends like this to share your life with. Go out and find more of them, because they are out there.
You should watch them all, from start to finish. They are ageless, and they will speak to you. I was just a little girl when I watched them, and they changed me and taught me to think outside the box. Now I am 60, and I still think outside the box, so thank you Rod Serling.
He was nearsighted. When you are nearsighted you need glasses to do everything. You can't read without them, or read street signs, or recognize faces that are only 2 feet away. I was nearsighted since I was 6. I couldn't see anything in the swimming pool and used to bump into the walls when I was swimming. I couldn't play sports because they made me take my glasses off, and then I couldn't tell which side of the field was my side. I couldn't hit a baseball or made a basket in basketball. I couldn't read the blackboard in my classroom because they made me sit in the back row. I couldn't play in the snow because it got on my glasses and I was constantly having to wipe them off. Every time I went indoors from a cold outdoors, they would fog up and I couldn't see anything. It was HORRIBLE. HORRIBLE!!!! Every year, when I blew out my birthday candles, I wished for 20/20 vision. I finally got it when I was 45 years old - it was called LASIK. Best gift I ever gave myself. Now I have 20/25 vision without glasses and I am happy as a pig in mud.