Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Kill This Thread IX: The 24-Hour Version (Fifth Time)

I think it's been at least ten years since I bought a plane ticket any other way.

I only purchase when budget airlines hold sales. Otherwise the tickets would eat up more than half my monthly income.

Alas, it's expensive everywhere. I'd love to travel more, but I'm trying not to spend money.

Saving up for something in particular, or just saving up? I'm actually just saving up now, though I allot a portion of my income towards travel.

Nothing in particular. I'm just trying to be more frugal. "Frugal" is such a cool word.

Not as cool as "frogurt"! The frogurt is also cursed!

Have you seen any frogurt ghosts recently?

I had to look that up. I like The Simpsons, but I've missed a lot of episodes.

Every time I see a blue sky with a few clouds, I think of The Simpson's intro.

I love that Simpsons frogurt quote for some reason! Such a goofy send-up of Gremlins in a way.

Now I'm reminded of the various Treehouse of Horror specials! Those were quite a hoot.

I remember when the Simpsons were just those cute cartoons shown on The Tracy Ullman Show. Just hand me my cane and my Geritol and start playing some Lawrence Welk. I feel old.

I remember, too! Pretty sure the Simpsons are older than Ibby!

I look at my youngest cousins now, some of whom are two decades younger than me, and I feel old too.

I mentioned Lawrence Welk to some folks in their mid-20s. They'd never heard of him.

I'm sorry, I've never heard of him either (although I am in my mid-20s too!)

Look him up on Wikipedia.

Lawrence Welk's show is remembered by a lot of people as something their grandparents liked. I didn't mind the music so much as I minded that the show looked thrown together.

When I was a young'un, on Saturday nights my family watched Lawrence Welk, followed by Hee Haw. What an odd juxtaposition that was. Perhaps it explains why neither of the musical genres from those shows are my favorites.

I feel like killing SOMETHING. Good thing this thread is conveniently located here.

p.s. LT ... Those shows sound like torture. Better double check the statute of limitations on torture ... otherwise your fam might be in trouble.

One thing I did pick up from reading about Lawrence Welk was he always picked top quality musicians to play.

I remember having trouble sleeping as a kid because my folks would listen to musiclas like Les Miserables or Phantom of the Opera, or artists like Patti... Patti... I forgot her name. Some of those songs were very sad and dramatic, hence the difficulty.

The last time I saw an episode of The Lawrence Welk Show was in 2002. The year before, a friend of mine who always had a party on Kentucky Derby day had moved away. I had another friend over to watch the Derby and, as our friend had done, we made mint juleps. Mint juleps go down so smoothly, you don't really notice when you're getting drunk. Then the Derby came on and, two minutes later, was over. There it was, Saturday afternoon at about 5:30 and my friend and I are both totally plastered with nothing to do and nowhere to go. So, we start channel surfing and find the Welk show on our local PBS station. The show never made so much sense in my life!

And you remember all the details with such clarity! I'd be hard-pressed to do the same for anything that happened a decade ago!

I remember that friend moving in 2001. It was the next year, so that part was easy. The mint juleps were awfully good, though. We had a pizza delivered because neither of us could drive. I forget what we did later, but my friend may have crashed on my couch that night.

My folks don't like it when I crash on the couch overnight. They say my sweat soaks into the cushions.

That was my old Futon couch. I now have one from Ikea. I often go to Ikea to see my furniture in its natural habitat.