First time seeing this...! Right now!
So, waaaaaaaaaaaay before I was born, this was the vernacular even back then! *boggle*

The YouTube algorithms placed this in my queue and holy moley... good stuff.. even if it was more grandad's era!

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I happened to see this the other day, "returning soon! under Old Management!", and it did seem like a fun 'Bullwinkle-ish' thing to say :Dhttps://www.dailybulletin.com/2021/11/02/bullwinkles-family-fun-center-is-returning-to-

Here's a mascot from an Australian Expo from some years back.. I think....


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Those two companies are currently on my $#!^ list for overbearing, or untested, or invasive programming and policies. *grrrrrr ( Read more... )

Frequently I hear hispanic parents addressing their kids as Mama or Papa or (Papi) .. dunno if this is a new thing, or a cultural habitation that I just missed in my previous days.

Many of ya know that a few years ago, Red Robin restaurants pulled WAY back on their mascot exposure, hardly featured at all any more in their restaurant presence.... which seems strange to me when it's the very name of the restaurant and had a very strong identity connection there ( Read more... )

Saw a friend to try to fix a standalone program using GMail (on a mac this time, mostly inconsequential)... As you might know, Apple decides when they will arbitrarily (and somewhat un-ethically) mark applications as being "end of life" for certain editions of their O.S. and I thought this might be another one of those rather common problems ( Read more... )

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This is one of the earliest records I ever had... my dad brought it home for me in a random stack of 45s ... nutty, silly, but catchy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6D0EeV4WwA

anecdote: Many many years ago, I wrote a cheque to a friend for 1 million _smiles_ ... :D .. They put it up on their refrigerator as a fun reminder. I guess it's a testimony to *whew* their trustworthiness that they never tried to cash it for leeegal tender!