Messages From The Heartland

[injest]

yes! tell tell!!

(off to bed...but I look forward to reading it in the morning!!)

 

[ifyoucantfixit]

          Thats stunningly beautiful pictures David.  Of course I would like to
hear your story..I love a great story, and if it has a legendary type root..even
better.

[David In Indy]

Well, I'm still working on the story. I have a VERY heavy workload this week. I'm hoping to finish it either on Friday or during the weekend! 

Yes Janice, the story is based on an old Lakota story my Mother used to tell me when I was little. I'm "Davidizing" it though, and putting it into my own words using my own characters!

I'll post it just as quick as I finish it, okay?? 

[David In Indy]

HAHA!!!   

How many of you remember THIS???

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn3S8U3lL6A[/youtube]

(For those of us on dial-up, this video is about 5 seconds)



Those of you my age and older probably remember these old test patterns. Normally they were accompanied by a very annoying and steady beep. This one is from an Indianapolis station.

I remember getting up very early in the morning and finding these test patterns on the TV until about 6:00. I would be sitting there with my bowl of cereal and milk waiting for the test pattern to end and the cartoons to start! 

[David In Indy]

Sounds like Hoosiers have lots of cousins in Iowa. 

  

Probably! 

Well, Iowa is only two states away from us. It's very close. So I'm sure we have a lot in common with each other. 

[David In Indy]

In Philadelphia we pronounce it "cops." 

Do you remember calling the police "Judy" (Judy Justice) or "Betty" (Betty Badge)??   

"Oh God, here comes Judy!"

I wonder what the gay kids call the police these days?

[mvansand76]

I'm working on another Lakota story. I'll tell it if everyone wants to hear it. 

Yeeeeh! I am so glad to hear this! You will have to make some time this week to finish and post it!

 
Mel

[Jeff Wrangler]

Do you remember calling the police "Judy" (Judy Justice) or "Betty" (Betty Badge)??   

"Oh God, here comes Judy!"

I wonder what the gay kids call the police these days?

I think that was before my time, but I came out pretty late in life--didn't start the process till I was 26.

[Marge_Innavera]

Those of you my age and older probably remember these old test patterns. Normally they were accompanied by a very annoying and steady beep. This one is from an Indianapolis station.

I remember getting up very early in the morning and finding these test patterns on the TV until about 6:00. I would be sitting there with my bowl of cereal and milk waiting for the test pattern to end and the cartoons to start! 

I remember those - and the Star Spangled Banner playing at the end of the broadcasting day for American stations.

Also remember the Winky Dink show where you had a plastic cover you put on the screen so you could draw things when the nattator told you to, like a ladder in a particular place for one of the cartoon characters to climb. Jurassic-era interactive media.   

[Marge_Innavera]

Do you remember calling the police "Judy" (Judy Justice) or "Betty" (Betty Badge)?? 

In Georgia, as I recall, cops were referred to as "the fuzz."