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There were these books of “sniglets” if anyone even remembers that. Dumb made up definitions of words for ordinary dumb things that don’t have a word for it yet, with illustrations. Mildly popular in the 80s. I remember one sniglet. Warbloid - noun. The little thing inside a tape player that eats the tapes. It was a drawing of a hand holding a tiny thing under a magnifying glass that looked like a tiny toothy monster head. e: poo poo I found it thanks hoogle 
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what an excellent entry. I have no recollection of such a thing as a sniglet. This is the exact kind of memory i was hoping for
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Jun 26, 2019 08:14
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Ralph Hurley posted:There were these books of “sniglets” if anyone even remembers that. Dumb made up definitions of words for ordinary dumb things that don’t have a word for it yet, with illustrations. Mildly popular in the 80s. holy poo poo I had those sheets when I was a kid
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18/00 Str gives +3 to hit and +6 to damage and fighters have the best THAC0
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I think sniglets started out as part of some long forgotten stand up comedian’s act where he coined that term and listed a bunch of words he came up with. He parlayed that into a book that someone got me for Christmas. I liked it so I got the second book the following Christmas. Or maybe a calendar. That’s all I know.
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Jun 26, 2019 22:34
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Rich Hall was on an HBO series called "Not Necessarily the News" in the 80s. It was on that program that he did a segment on Sniglets each week. It was one of the most popular segments. While I have forgotten most of them, a few have actually entered my regular vocabulary. My favorite, and most commonly used, sniglet is "bleemus", which is the layer that forms on the surface of liquids like tomato soup or hot chocolate. This is not to be confuses with "flen", which is the crusty goop that forms at the opening of catsup bottles and other, similar bottles of condiments.
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Zippy the Bummer posted:my older sister, who was a teenager at the time, accidentally dropped her apple into the fountain at the Louvre. she was pissed off for the rest of the day because it was her only meal because she was experimenting with being vegetarian at the time. my brother and i laughed at her while we ate imagine adhering to your voluntary dietary restrictions when you go to france
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Genesplicer posted:Rich Hall was on an HBO series called "Not Necessarily the News" in the 80s. It was on that program that he did a segment on Sniglets each week. It was one of the most popular segments. While I have forgotten most of them, a few have actually entered my regular vocabulary. My favorite, and most commonly used, sniglet is "bleemus", which is the layer that forms on the surface of liquids like tomato soup or hot chocolate. This is not to be confuses with "flen", which is the crusty goop that forms at the opening of catsup bottles and other, similar bottles of condiments. I have vague memories of that show, but slightly less vague memories of the paper-based sniglets.
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Milo and POTUS posted:imagine adhering to your voluntary dietary restrictions when you go to france i am imagining it
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Genesplicer posted:Rich Hall was on an HBO series called "Not Necessarily the News" in the 80s. It was on that program that he did a segment on Sniglets each week. It was one of the most popular segments. While I have forgotten most of them, a few have actually entered my regular vocabulary. My favorite, and most commonly used, sniglet is "bleemus", which is the layer that forms on the surface of liquids like tomato soup or hot chocolate. This is not to be confuses with "flen", which is the crusty goop that forms at the opening of catsup bottles and other, similar bottles of condiments. The show even had an address you mail them in to.
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It’s 1988, and a nighttime thunderstorm has just knocked out the power to the house. I get a flashlight and my trusty little GE pocket radio and turn it on because I wasn’t about to sit in the pitch black in silence. The songs that played are as followed: Don’t Worry, Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin Red Red Wine - UB40 Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car - Billy Ocean Need You Tonight - INXS Sign Your Name - Terence Trent D’Arby Father Figure - George Michael Some commercials started playing, and then the power came back on. I’ve still got that GE pocket radio somewhere.
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You Are A Elf posted:It’s 1988, and a nighttime thunderstorm has just knocked out the power to the house. I get a flashlight and my trusty little GE pocket radio and turn it on because I wasn’t about to sit in the pitch black in silence. This is really cool; this is why I love this thread.
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Jun 28, 2019 01:07
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in fourth or fifth grade my classmates and i were lining up outside the school to wait for the teachers to open the door, as we did every morning. As i was standing around i noticed a kid in my grade who was holding his hand over his forehead. i asked him if he had been hurt, and he started to quietly cry. As the doors opened he took his hand away, revealing a small patch of hair on his scalp that had been shaved away, presumably by accident. his hair was very short to begin with, so it would have grown back quickly, but i guess he was terrified that people would make fun of it. he was a friendly kid and everyone liked him, as I recall. I don't remember his name and we weren't "friends" but i remember this. for some reason edit: I also don't know how he intended to hide it for the entire week it would take to grow back. Just keep his hand on his head all the time? We boys were not allowed to wear hats in the school building Zippy the Bummer fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Jun 28, 2019 |
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Jun 28, 2019 01:27
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Jun 28, 2019 01:30
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Pastry of the Year posted:This is really cool; this is why I love this thread. Thanks. I totally remember that playlist to this day. Another memory from that same year: My sister was watching The Box and really wanted to hear a couple of songs, so she got my mom's permission to pay for and request those videos/songs. The songs? "Peek-A-Boo" by Siouxsie & the Banshees, and "Dear God" by XTC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGH_16SICL0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p554R-Jq43A It was really cool seeing those songs in the queue before they aired.
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Jun 28, 2019 01:34
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I remember absolutely nailing as a young me singing Kiss from a rose by Seal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMD2TwRvuoU I do not know why but I was just compelled to sing the gently caress out of it and having my mom's friends ride along to hear me do it. Nothing never really set off from it was basically little K.D discovering how karaoke can be fun
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Jun 28, 2019 01:52
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Rich Hall is terrific and has enjoyed some success in Moldy Old England, if Top Gear is to be believed.
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When I was about 5 years old, I had this cassette I would listen to on my Fisher-Price cassette player that had a bunch of soft rock ballads from the early '80s. Since the cutoff date for the songs appeared to be around 1983, I would say this cassette probably came out the following year, and may have been an as-seen-on-TV thing. I can't remember the name of the so-called album, but I specifically remember most of the songs on it. Baby, Come To Me - Patti Austin & James Ingram Never Gonna Let You Go - Sergio Mendez Just Once - James Ingram & Quincy Jones If Ever You're In My Arms Again - Peabo Bryson Just The Two Of Us - Bill Withers & Grover Washington Jr. Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes Do That To Me One More Time - Captain & Tennille Hearts - Marty Balin Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler Into The Night - Benny Mardones I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near) - Michael McDonald Only The Lonely - The Motels
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An old tagline for this one car dealer in my state still sticks with me despite A) not seeing a commercial for it in well over 10 years, and B) the place closing down about a year ago. "IF YOU HAVE 99 DOLLARS, AND A JOB, VISIT LOMAN AUTO SALES TODAY!"
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Some time in the late 90s or early 2000s Pizza Hut had a promotion where you could pick a bunch of songs and order a free mix CD from some dotcom bubble website that I'm sure doesn't exist anymore. I didn't really know poo poo about music so my sister just picked a bunch of stuff that she liked. The ones I can remember are: Karma Chameleon - Boy George Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer There She Goes - The La's I Do - Lisa Loeb She let me pick the title for the disc label and I decided to call it "NO WAY OUT" because I thought that sounded badass lol Mr. Bones fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Jun 29, 2019 |
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Jun 29, 2019 01:44
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My earliest memory is of marveling at the color of the leaves on the trees in autumn when I was 3. I was in the car with my dad. He was listening to Master of Puppets, which is the first song I remember hearing in my life. I don't remember where we were going/coming from but I remember the colors and the sick riffs very distinctly
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Mr. Bones posted:Some time in the late 90s or early 2000s Pizza Hut had a promotion where you could pick a bunch of songs and order a free mix CD from some dotcom bubble website that I'm sure doesn't exist anymore. I didn't really know poo poo about music so my sister just picked a bunch of stuff that she liked. The ones I can remember are: I also had one of these mixes. The only song I can remember off of it was that bizarre one-hit-wonder/novelty song from the '90s about being in love with David Duchovny, and I still remember about a verse and a half of that song, just enough to still get it stuck in my head because life is suffering.
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when i was 17 or 18 i was driving from Omaha to Kansas City, and my car broke down. my insurance company sent out a tow truck that arrived about an hour later. As i drove back to Omaha in the tow truck, about an hour drive, the driver had a pop station playing on the radio. I made some normal small-talk to pass the time. then a song by Pink came on, and the driver immediately started talking about how hot and sexy Pink was and shifted around in his seat in an odd manner. i just sort of said "yeah, she's hot" and neither of us spoke for the rest of the drive until he cheerfully said "thank you" when I paid the cash to cover the extended transport
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i have very few coherent memories from kindergarten/1st grade, but one particular one that ive thought of a lot recently is back in 1st grade thanksgiving season when the school is all dressed up with brown/orange hand turkeys and cornucopias, and the teacher asked the class to write down what we were grateful for. i couldn't write anything (and not for lack of not knowing or being write-shy) and just had a blank page in front of me, and my teacher came up later and was like 'what are you not grateful for anything? what about pizza? your parents? your house??" and i was just like "no.... not really..." and i genuinely meant it then. and now it explains a lot about my entire life lol
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What’s at Deer Forest? A whole day of fun and memories. Deer Forest. Off I-94 in Coloma, Michigan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw47n8vGyjA FEED THE DEER
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Ralph Hurley posted:What’s at Deer Forest? I gotta say, it takes some balls to charge people to feed deer. In Michigan.
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The Newberry's department store was very old and very small. (It opened in the 1800s in a narrow downtown building.) It had three floors. Ladies' clothes were upstairs, and there were gardening and lawn supplies, pet supplies, and kids' toys in the basement. I was allowed to look at the toys by myself while Mom shopped, but they didn't carry anything good. The sidewalk outside was made of small bricks shaped like oyster crackers. The oyster cracker sidewalk was my favorite part of going to Newberry's. When I was 3ish my family took a road trip from upstate NY to Washington DC. My only memory is of seeing the Statue of Liberty from where we were pulled off the highway to let my older sister throw up because she was carsick. When I was 4 or 5 we visited family in Pennsylvania. Their shih tzu kept waking me up by walking on my sleeping bag, and I was scared of the Fightin' Irish mascot sign on my uncle's wall.
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nankeen posted:my cousin and i are almost the same age. when we were preschool age and our family went to a restaurant, as soon as the adults stopped watching us we'd both grab the salt-and-pepper shakers and start sprinkling them on the tablecloth. we always sprinkled them densely into a blob shape and i remember it being important to get an equal proportion of salt and pepper, and we called it "making a hen", a name that i know i came up with but can't remember the reasoning of Lol
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I have a distinct memory from kindergarten, and I think it might have been the last day of a term or possibly the last day of the year. For whatever reason it was just me, the teacher, and my mom in the classroom. There was a basket of candy and I saw what appeared to be a small Tootsie Roll but in a blue wrapper. I'd never seen that before and thought it was really neat, and opened it up. To my surprise it was white, and I thought it was a very special Tootsie Roll indeed. Once I started chewing on it, though, it tasted nothing like a Tootsie Roll and I can't remember if I spit out or just forced myself to swallow it. In hindsight it was probably a vanilla or other flavor Tootsie Roll, but at the time my little brain could not process the idea of a non-chocolate (to use the term generously) Tootsie Roll.
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when i was in highschool i was driving somewhere with my friend and a young woman acquaintance of his. she smelled awful, but i did not mention this of course. But i do recall that, immediately after making a mental note about how bad she stank, she said aloud "i don't believe in showering. i just shave all my hair and wipe down with a towel after" i do not remember her name or anything else about her
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At either 11 or 12 I went with my dad to the neighbourhood convenience store, and he asked the guy behind the counter "So is there a new owner or something?" The guy said yeah, and they had a friendly chat. Wanting to think of myself as a grown up who can have adult conversations, next ti me I was there I asked the guy the same thing, and he just frowned and said "Why is there anything wrong? What looks different?" Because I hadn't been listening to anything my dad was saying, I just sort of stared at the guy while he kept asking more questions before slinking away.
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One of my sons asked me "what's the longest word," I instantly replied, "in the English language? It's pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconioses, 47 letters." Haven't thought about that word once in 30+ years. I still have trouble remembering to put my garbage cans out on Tuesday, but that word and the number 47 is rock-solid engraved up there.
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I thought the longest word in english was floccinaucinihilipilification. I looked this up, and found that A) thanks to my 10th grade english teacher's borderline obsession with this word I still remember how to spell it and B) it is the longest non-technical word in english, which I guess means its the longest string out letters that doesn't fall into the category of scientific or technical jargon
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When I was 7, my mom and I went to Montgomery Ward because she was looking for some new curtains for the bedroom. We were on the first floor where home furnishings and such were, which also happened to be below ground level. We got what we needed and were waiting for the elevator to take us back to ground level. The elevator doors opened up, and two of the most backwater people that looked like members of Leatherface’s family from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 step out. One of them, wheezing and scratching his beer belly and sounding exactly like Peter Lorre says, “heeeeeh heeeeeeeh, we maaaaaade it.” My mom and I still say “we maaaaaade it” in that voice as an in-joke whenever we arive somewhere over thirty years later.
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When I was in second grade I moved to a new town and thus a new school. There was a large field surrounding the school (being the rural Midwest of course) that was absolutely infested with some kind of low-lying weed that was a dark red color, kind of like rhubarb. One kid there convinced me that when the plants turned red like that, it meant the devil was coming. I didn't think much of it until one day during recess I was wandering in that field (because there was gently caress all else to do) and came across a bunch of blackbird feathers scattered around. It looked like the thing had exploded, since there was no carcass around. But there was one remaining piece: what looked like a tiny little brain, pierced through the middle by one of the bird's own feathers. When I saw how many of those red weeds were nearby I got the gently caress out of there and went back inside. I assume the bird was either killed by a cat and ripped apart, or that maybe some other kid had found it first and hosed around with the brain by sticking a feather in it, or maybe someone actually did shoot it with something and it actually did explode violently enough to blow its brain clean out, or maybe I just dreamed it, but I remember it very clearly.
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Pete Ellis Dodge! Long Beach Freeway! Firestone exit! Southgate!
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when i was 6 mum left me sitting outside the bottleshop with a trolley full of groceries while she ducked inside to buy wine, she told me to "guard" the groceries which was a bad idea because every time someone passed within a few metres i'd bare my teeth and growl and bark like a dog
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Whenever I hear Stevie Wonder's "You Are the Sunshine of My Life," I quietly utter in my head, "...Minute Maid" after each time that phrase is sung because, well, Minute Maid. What else? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmqIXffOFsY
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Drunk Nerds posted:One of my sons asked me "what's the longest word," I instantly replied, "in the English language? It's pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconioses, 47 letters." Haven't thought about that word once in 30+ years.
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AM2T-AA4N is the Game Genie code for infinite health in Gunstar Heroes. I don't think Ive even used a Game Genie in about 20 years.
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