ghijkmnop wrote:Finally, the Internet has given me information I need: The titles of the ABC Movie of the Week that I watched in the early 70s. There were several that were quite memorable (Trilogy of Terror, for Example), but a couple of the minor ones stuck with me, and I could not remember the titles. Now that I know them, I can move on to the next one-time TV thing I watched 45 years ago that I can't seem to locate anywhere. :)
There are a couple of old cartoons we had taped off TV 20 years ago that I couldn't ever find the existence of previously. Your post reminded me to look them up again, and this time, I found them!
IamNotCreepy wrote:There are a couple of old cartoons we had taped off TV 20 years ago that I couldn't ever find the existence of previously. Your post reminded me to look them up again, and this time, I found them!
This just made me go to the google machine and give it a last try to finding a very obscure cartoon from the 80s I had been unsuccessfully trying to find for years and which no one else seemed to remember IRL or even in cartoon specialized forums.
All I remembered was the tune of the intro and that the cartoon was about a group of dragon apprentices to a sorcerer, and that they lived in some sort of magical forest, hiding from some evil dude. Whenever I talked to people my age who had a similar experience to mine and even watched the same other shows, they either told me it sounded vaguely familiar, but they'd think I was talking about the Gummi bears, or the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon (which was my first and only experiencie with the world of D&D until that awful, awful movie came out) or some other thing, suggesting I might have been misremembering and/or mixing up separate things, like the Smurfs and Winnie the Pooh, or something. I was almost convinced this was the case sometimes, but then I'd start humming the tune and bits and pieces of my memory convinced me I wasn't deluded.
This is hardly the first time I become obsessed with some trivial thing from my childhood, but usually after extensive sessions of web-browsing (with constant deviations which usually took even longer) I'd find what I was looking for. This one cartoon I've been trying to pinpoint for years without getting any closer, and I usually end up watching hours of theme songs and intros on youtube. So I promised I wouldn't do that this time, as I've been with busy recently and can't afford to waste time like this. It was also going to be the (allegedly) the very last time I went on this particular goose chase, as I'd already covered most of the ground on previous efforts.
And what do you know? I refined some search terms, and reminded a crucial detail I had missed before. Long story not that short: I finally fucking found it.
Turns out, only one of the creatures was a dragon (the 3 others were "monsters") and there was also a runaway human prince who was the main character. Curiously enough, this was a co-production of Marvel and Disney, all the way back to 1984. I didn't remember the good wizard being black either, but that's neither here nor there.
The funny thing is, the theme song, which is the reason I wouldn't give up on my quest? Yeah... I remember it differently. I guess now I have to find out what that song on my mind is from.
China is the most progressive country in the planet. It was a law that ethnic minorities should get lighter punishments for the same crimes as the Han, the majority, would receive.
Liangshaoyikuan (Chinese: 兩少一寬), literally "two fewers, one leniency", was a Chinese government policy of giving leniency in charges and sentences with regard to minorities as compared to Han for the same criminal offenses.[1] The policy was enacted in 1984 by Peng Zhen and Hu Yaobang. On July 9, 2010, a statement jointly published by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, State Ethnic Affairs Commission, and United Front Work Department suggested that "everyone should be equal before the law, and criminals should be punished regardless of their ethnicity". However, they do not have the legal authority to challenge a policy implemented by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, a higher authority; the policy has thus never been officially repealed.
I know you're being ironic, but China is pretty aggressive about its expansion, populating areas with enough Han Chinese to out compete the local ethnicity, and ignoring that things like Tibet exist at all.
I always knew that "In the Hall of the Mountain King" has actual words, but TIL that they are:
Slay him! The Christian man's son has seduced the fairest maid of the Mountain King! Slay him! Slay him! May I hack him on the fingers? May I tug him by the hair? Hu, hey, let me bite him in the haunches! Shall he be boiled into broth and bree to me Shall he roast on a spit or be browned in a stewpan? Ice to your blood, friends!
Which is more disturbing than I expected. Oddly enough, I have read Peer Gynt and really should have been able to put two and two together.
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Then the LORD said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is loved by her husband, yet an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes."
Marcuse wrote:I know you're being ironic, but China is pretty aggressive about its expansion, populating areas with enough Han Chinese to out compete the local ethnicity, and ignoring that things like Tibet exist at all.
Flooding a country with foreigners to outcompete the locals? Sounds pretty progressive to me.
TIL most of Wodehouse isn't public domain https://spontaneousderivation.com/2008/ ... erg-texts/ immediately making me never want to buy one. Thank god the impulse buys from a few weeks ago were second-hand. I am not a fan of companies collecting money from me for their "right" to a 42 years-dead man's work.
WE ARE ALL FLOATING IN THE WINDS OF TIME. BUT YOUR CANDLE WILL FLICKER FOR SOME TIME BEFORE IT GOES OUT -- A LITTLE REWARD FOR A LIFE WELL LIVED. FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT...
TIL that Nick Offerman actually has a professional woodshop. And in case that's already old news for you, I also learned there's going to be a competitive crafting show hosted by Offerman and Poehler.
“People who make things are my favorite kind of folk,” said Offerman in a statement. “Practical, clever and terrific in a pinch. That makes me tickled pink to have a front row seat at this prodigious display of talent, and admiring and cheering on an amazing crop of American makers. Plus, Amy and I have a strong tradition of tomfoolery so let’s see if we don’t have some good fun.”
TIL that Edwin Armstrong, the inventor of FM radio, killed himself as a result of the stress and financial damage done by a lawsuit brought about by David Sarnoff, who owned the patent for AM radio.
Sarnoff made a habit of this sort of thing, and also similarly ruined the life of Philo Farnsworth, who - while technically not the inventor of television - was the one who made it viable as a widespread entertainment system. Farnsworth died poor and in obscurity, and for a long time Sarnoff and his company's lead engineer, Vladimir Zworykin, were instead considered the fathers of television.