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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 11:57 AM Original message |
When you were growing up, watching TV back in the 60's , 70's.an 80's who did you root for? |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
1. What movie am I watching then? Red Dawn or Chinatown? |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:01 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. In Chinatown the plot was evil... |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
2. I read somewhere that coyote/roadrunner is a big generation gap |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:03 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. That is completely fascinating. nt |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:26 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. They want to blow stuff up? They want to see the Roadrunner killed? |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 01:02 PM Response to Reply #9 |
28. We feel like we're chasing impossible moving goalposts |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 01:11 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. An interesting viewpoint, although a lot of older people are also chasing moving goalposts. n/t |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 04:24 PM Response to Reply #28 |
63. I wouldn't say that older people represent the roadrunner |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:28 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. Then the under 40s are in deep doo-doo |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:47 PM Response to Reply #2 |
17. But nobody identifies with the Acme Company -- how sad. |
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Biker13 (609 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 05:59 PM Response to Reply #17 |
72. Coyote V. Acme |
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dmr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-04-09 12:59 AM Response to Reply #72 |
82. Now that is fun & funny |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-04-09 01:25 AM Response to Reply #82 |
86. That's the funniest damn legal humor I have ever read. |
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Orangepeel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:53 PM Response to Reply #2 |
23. If you can remember where, I'd be very interested in knowing |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 01:01 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. It was an op-ed in the Washington Post, around the turn of the millenium. |
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Capn Sunshine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 01:54 PM Response to Reply #27 |
34. probably another Peggy Noonan piece of crap. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 02:36 PM Response to Reply #34 |
44. No, it was a professor at College Park |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 01:06 PM Response to Reply #23 |
30. Meanwhile, here's a more recent survey that finds a racial divide as well |
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Orangepeel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 07:03 PM Response to Reply #30 |
76. I wonder if there is a liberal/ conservative divide? |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-04-09 09:31 AM Response to Reply #76 |
87. What? No! |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 01:58 PM Response to Reply #2 |
35. You could look at it both ways. The roadrunner is admirable because he/she is smart. |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 03:23 PM Response to Reply #2 |
51. You can really see that in action on "Man vs. Cartoon" |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 03:26 PM Response to Reply #51 |
52. "The wrong critter"? |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 03:40 PM Response to Reply #52 |
56. "Poor little roadrunner never bothers anyone ..." |
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rebel with a cause (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 04:21 PM Response to Reply #2 |
61. I'm in my sixties and always hated the roadrunner. |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 05:35 PM Response to Reply #61 |
67. I only watched the Westerns for the horses |
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rebel with a cause (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 05:53 PM Response to Reply #67 |
70. You and me too. |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 11:41 PM Response to Reply #70 |
79. Hoss' horse, Chubb was part Quarter Horse, part Thoroughbred |
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rebel with a cause (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-04-09 12:12 AM Response to Reply #79 |
80. You definately know more about horses than I do. |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-04-09 12:44 AM Response to Reply #80 |
81. I've owned horses since I was fourteen, bred them for 25 years |
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dmr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-04-09 01:06 AM Response to Reply #61 |
83. I was in love with the Virginian |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-04-09 10:59 AM Response to Reply #61 |
93. Yes, and they explained why the Cartright "boys" didn't look alike |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-04-09 11:36 AM Response to Reply #61 |
95. I'm in my 70s and never like the coyote either. |
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alphafemale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 05:39 PM Response to Reply #2 |
69. I'm over 40...by a handful. And identified with Wile E. as long as I can remember. |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
5. Ponderosa was dullesville. I was on Lauren Greene's side against Cylon tyranny though. |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:20 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Cattle Star Galactica |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 05:56 PM Response to Reply #5 |
71. Abu ben Cartwright? |
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asjr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
7. I fell in love with Rowdy Yates. |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
8. In the 80s I was rooting for the Resistance to take |
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TlalocW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
11. I rooted for KITT over the General Lee |
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xxqqqzme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
12. I rooted for the prisoner |
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tjwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
13. Bonanza...native americans were savages, or at best intruders that had childlike mentalities. |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:50 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. One of the worst was Wyatt Earp -- a police constable who was fired for horse stealing. |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:57 PM Response to Reply #13 |
25. and mothers, wives and girlfriends were all.....REPLACEABLE. |
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dmr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-04-09 01:15 AM Response to Reply #25 |
84. You always knew a love interest would die in the end |
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NRaleighLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
14. I rooted for Gilligan to not screw up for once so they could get off the island! |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 01:03 PM Response to Reply #14 |
29. I always leaned toward MaryAnn, just as I did Bailey, on WKRP |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 02:13 PM Response to Reply #29 |
40. I had this strange crush on the Professor |
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frogmarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
15. Well, back when I watched Bonanza, |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 02:03 PM Response to Reply #15 |
38. And yet the women would take their chances at a piece of that pie, |
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Bunny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 02:43 PM Response to Reply #38 |
45. You're damn right they would. |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 03:53 PM Response to Reply #15 |
57. interesting that that show fits into the Hollywood anti-marriage theme |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 03:58 PM Response to Reply #15 |
58. We called it the Cartwright kiss of death |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
16. It was just another western to me back in the 50s and 60s. |
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parasim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
18. I wanted to be Caine from Kung Fu |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:48 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. It always amazed me how a pacifist needed to do so much ass-kicking. n/t |
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NYCGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
20. Never watched Bonanza. My favorites were Star Trek and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. |
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Individualist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:57 PM Response to Reply #20 |
26. Those were two of my favorites along with Laugh In and the Smothers Brothers show. |
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NYCGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 01:50 PM Response to Reply #26 |
33. Loved those, too! NT |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
22. All I know is that it was NEVER safe to date one of the Cartwrights... |
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TexasProgresive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
24. Emma Peel |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 06:13 PM Response to Reply #24 |
75. I wondered why I couldn't meet nice British gentlemen like John Steed. |
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Brother Buzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
31. The underdog, Maverick |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 02:01 PM Response to Reply #31 |
36. They were like the anti Cartwrights... |
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Brother Buzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 03:38 PM Response to Reply #36 |
55. Maverick: As my pappy used to say... |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
37. Or Freebirds v. Von Erichs |
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chat_noir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
39. I rooted for Murphy Brown over Dan Quayle |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 02:53 PM Response to Reply #39 |
47. So did I, at 16. |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
41. There were a few Westerns on when I was a kid... |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
42. I wanted to be Paladin...dress in black, read Keats, and shoot people |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
43. I loved those warm family moments when Little Joe led Hoss into the barn |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
46. I watched more Wild Wild West than Bonanza. |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 06:07 PM Response to Reply #46 |
74. Wild West is super underated chronic |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 10:27 PM Response to Reply #74 |
78. Oh, yeah....fueled my inner geek a bit, too. :^) |
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WI_DEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
48. No, I enjoyed watching Barbara Stanwyck prove she could be as tough as any man on "The Big Valley" |
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LisaM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
49. LOL - I was thinking "Family Affair", "Brady Bunch", Bob Newhart |
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notadmblnd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
50. UNDERDOG! |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
53. Batman |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
54. I rooted for Cat Woman and the Penguin in the old Batman series |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
59. Barney Miller. n/t |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 04:25 PM Response to Reply #59 |
64. I rooted for Wojo. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 05:32 PM Response to Reply #64 |
66. I never liked Wojo, he was too Republik for me, even then. |
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Brigid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
60. I rooted for the Riddler and the Joker. |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
62. I rooted for the CHiPs, the A-Team and Miami Vice... |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
65. I always thought Oscar the Grouch |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
68. Mary Ann |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
73. Laura Ingalls vs. Nellie Olson |
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ThatsMyBarack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-03-09 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
77. Contestants on the following game shows: |
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Touchdown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-04-09 01:21 AM Response to Original message |
85. Catwoman! Her car was way cooler than the batmobile. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-04-09 10:06 AM Response to Reply #85 |
89. My sweet lord! |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-04-09 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
88. Rollo Larson. nt |
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NoPasaran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-04-09 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
90. I could never figure out |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-04-09 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
91. the cubbies. |
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el_bryanto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-04-09 10:52 AM Response to Original message |
92. I watched very little tv in the 1960s not having been born yet. |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-04-09 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
94. I grew up in the 40s and 50s and I found the Cartwright TV show silly |
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