Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Toys

[Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com>]

Jim Rockford can beat Buffy hands down, any day!
Carl


David Buchner wrote:
> 
> Mike and Jon harassed me thus:
> 
> >> I'm pretty sure Dave was being facitious when he wrote that.  He's
> >> probably got a birthday coming up and is refusing to acknowledge
> >> it by attempting to erase 60's shows from his memory.  I bet he
> >> remembers 'leave it to beaver'
> >
> > You may have a point, there.   We'll assume he remembers
> > the 60s as clearly as do I, and wants to leave it behind.
> 
> Dude, seriously. I'm 35. I was born 5 months before Neil Armstrong set
> his first foot on the moon. I didn't grow up watching Batman and Star
> Trek -- I grew up watching re-runs of them. I have seen a few episodes
> of _Voyage..._ when they were showing it on Sci-Fi in the morning, a
> year or so ago. Sorry. Yes, I remember 'Leave it to Beaver' -- but from
> wasted afternoons after school in the 80's. Again, sorry.
> 
> Oops -- I guess I've been exposed.
> 
> > (I was an annoying little kid.   I found all the markings errors
> > and factual mistakes and stuff like that.  By the time I was
> > about 12, Dad didn't like to watch TV with me in the room.)
> 
> Maybe have more in common than simple chronology would have dictated,
> after all. Um, excuse me -- what does GOD need with a STARSHIP??
> 
> > I did hear, when I was on the Seaview mailing list, that someone
> > had bought the 16-foot version of the sub.   It was never made
> > clear, but my impression from the photos was that a diver was
> > supposed to be in it, making it do everything (like letting bubbles
> > out of the MBT inlet valves).   Does anyone know the truth?
> 
> See? That's why I mentioned it. I knew how fond you ancient fellows
> were of that sub. Incidentally, in my looking for tiny r/c subs on the
> web in the last few days, I found somebody's customer review in which
> they attached a Seaview model to the top of one so they could drive it
> around in the pool...
> 
> Don't worry, though. We're having a child soon. And she'll grow up
> watching the same 60's re-runs I did. That, and Buffy. And Rockford
> Files. And target practicing.

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