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Never aware of My Two Dads?
But Staci Keanan was the next Alyssa Milano!
So you're younger than me AND have a promotion?
geez, I don't even have a job
According to Wikipedia, The A-Team stopped running new episodes when you (and I) were four years old. So I guess it depends on which syndicated shows our local stations chose to run. I don't remember ever seeing The A-Team on TV, except at weird times like noon on Saturday when I had no desire to watch old reruns. There seemed to be an awful lot of Columbo, Knight Rider, Gilligan's Island and MASH, though.
You got me there, but my point was he was not famous enough to be on a dead pool list.
Google is unhelpful because it's actually "Cojocaru", btw.
That's just how well I know him, I can't spell his name.
Weird how that happens.
I was blown away recently by how unfunny "Alf" was. I loved that show as a kid, but watching it now, it's absoultely jaw-dropping how terrible it is
The professor builds a boat/radio/signal system out of coconuts, Ginger and Mary Ann flirt with a clueless Gilligan, Gilligan destroys the professor's ingenious invention, Skipper hits Gilligan with his hat.
Now you can say you have and no one will ever be the wiser.
Hmm. I'm 21, and I know exactly who #2, 3, and 5 are, I know vaguely who #1 is, and I've never heard of #4 or 6. Meanwhile though I have never watched American Idol, I can still probably name 10 people who sang on the show (maybe 1 fewer if Sanjaya doesn't count as a singer).
Scary, but sadly, not inaccurate.
"1. George Peppard"
I'm 29 as of last Sunday, and I've never heard of him either.
Also he wasn't on the list because of being extremely old or extremely screwed up on drugs, but by being a moderately famous person with chronic kidney problems. Kind of a technicality.
I'm pretty sure he was on the A-Team. That's all I've got.
EDIT: Apparently I was right about that; I should have known him since he went to my university, though apparently he didn't graduate.
Another guy in the pool is wondering why the heck Chemical Ali is still around. BTW, I lost the Coco-whatever fight in a TKO.
(And in another ten years there will be teenagers who have never heard of Natalie Imbruglia!)
The other five are in another league of recognizability. I've seen all of them quite often in TV or movies or man-vs-dog intelligence contests.
I can name several American Idol particpants (Taylor Hicks, Ruben Stoddard, Kellie Pickler, Kelly Clarkson, Clay Aiken, etc), yet have never seen an episode.
I feel that Yoko Ono didn't break up the Beatles, Lennon and McCartney's egos did, and that George Harrison is the greatest Beatle of all (How can you not love "My Sweet Lord"?)
My favorite player from the Cardinals is Ray Lankford, and I'm still bitter about the way the team turned on him, and his reunion tour later with the team only partially assuaged that bitterness.
Billy Joel was played at my wedding, and I know every word of the Piano Man.
My favorite movies (from my relatively vast collection) include To Catch a Thief, His Girl Friday, and the orginal Sabrina (Yes, I'm an Audrey Hepburn fan).
I can remember spending many summers at a drive-in burger joint.
I know who Miley Cyrus, Shia LeBouf are, and the most recent movie I saw in the theatre was Harold and Humar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, yet I have no kids (I am married).
If you can figure my age from those cues, more power too ya!
Not too cool!
I was spit on by Sleepy LaBeef...now how's that!
So did I. Only I watched them in the 70's. Columbo was the best. And I do think of Banacek with I see George Peppard.
Then again, I also watched the first run of Star Trek. And The Man from U.N.C.L.E. I still feel a little surprised when I see David McCallum has a job, and little disoriented when he speaks without a bad Russian accent.
It is not surprise I feel that someone does not know who Yoko Ono is -- it is gratitude and a sense of relief, that maybe someday nobody will know who she was.
I won't get started on the number of pop cultural references on this thread that went right over my head.
Don't Rush Me, With Every Beat of my Heart, Tell it to my Heart... something else Heart...
Taylor Dayne had a much fuller voice than Grant or Wilson Phillips (She was pretty much a white Whitney Houston).
I actually hated that whole 'genre' - if it qualifies as such - but for reasons still unexplained, I rather liked Taylor Dayne as a tasty bit of MOR pop candy.
The actual writers of that song loved it once they won their $$ out of his ripping-off carcass.
I haven't heard the name "Taylor Dayne" in at least a decade.
I actually saw that she was on some reality show a few years ago. She has made the all-too-common mistake of trying not to age. A minute later I have not seen her since.
You mean the song that ripped off "He's So Fine"?
74?
Gerald Ford
A George Peppard thread, and no mention of The Blue Max? What kind of cretins are you?
Mmmmmmmm, Ursula Andress
Yeah, that George Harrison, He's So Fine.
So far two people owe me Cokes.
Edit: having me on "ignore" is not a defense.
Billy Joel was played at my wedding, and I know every word of the Piano Man. Not only that, I have attended 4 Billy Joel concerts in my life.
I am excited that one of my favorite ex-Rangers is slated to be the manager of the Grand Prairie AirHogs.
I have attended a perfect game, but have never been witness to a triple play live or on television.
Last five books I have read: "Coolidge: An American Enigma", "The God Delusion", "Goldwater", "Atlas Shrugged", "Matty: An American Hero"
I have seen each and every one of the Police Academy movies, but have not seen any of the Lord of the Rings series and only one of the Star Wars movies.
The only movie in the Star Wars series I have seen is Attack of the Clones.
The first CD I ever owned was Madonna's "The Immaculate Collection".
I was highly disturbed that there was only one season made of the classic "Misfits of Science".
Guess my age!
(EDIT: miscalculated the year that the Madonna album came out)
I can't see someone 30+ at the time they came out really enjoying them that much, nor can I see a really young person really wanting to go back and watch them.
I'm going to say...12 at the time of the first Police Academy, so...36
Damn, same guess as Crispix
OK, let's make it 35
RB, maybe I watched a bad couple of Columbo episodes. One had Ray Milland. I forget who guessed starred in the other one, but it involved a conductor or a composer.
He could be a person with no interest in music, who only found himself buying his first album in college because his girlfriend wanted to hear it. But how does this square with the devotion to Billy Joel, which is at any rate more appropriate for someone who was 18 in 1980 rather than 1990?
And even if he was in the prime age for enjoying Police Academy when the first one came out, it doesn't take long to outgrow that particular frame of mind. Maybe the Police Academy clues merely indicate that he had several younger brothers.
I'm 32, thank you very much.
Which reminds me -- does anyone here remember The Prisoner?
It wasn't intended to be misleading in any case, but Madonna was the first CD I bought. I had plenty of tapes before that.
I was 8 when the first Police Academy movie came out. I was 13 when Police Academy 6 came out. I watched 7 later...MUCH later. No younger brothers - I'm actually an only child.
I also figured the Billy Joel clues would throw people off, but they're actually true. I attended concerts in 1994, 1995, 1999 and 2007.
I omitted one clue that would have been really, really damning: I've had a crush on Drew Barrymore since "Firestarter". Either you'd figure out my age really quickly or think I was a pedophile.
Having worked for a company that provided alternative financing solutions for 16 months, yes, I CAN believe you work in finance.
which should accurately place my age, but I shudder to think what it leads people to believe about my taste in music
who knew
TV - My favourite show as a kid was Happy Days which I watched both new episodes and syndication.
Music - My first record purchased with my own money was U2 - Unforgettable Fire. My first CD was De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising.
Movies - The first movie I remember going to in a theater was Star Wars.
Books - The first books I read that turned me into an avid reader were the Tolkien bunch, followed by the first three Dune books.
See if you can guess without looking up dates. :)
I was good at it, too. That made it even worse.
I quit before it killed me.
But new episodes of Happy Days is throwing me for a loop, how long was that show on for?
I'm going to have to push it back to 36
You guys are making me feel better about myself.
Has there been a better miniseries made in the intervening forty years?
As demonstrated above, I knew that Bob Dole's first running mate was Gerald Ford.
I graduated with a bachelor's degree in statistics last May.
The English Patient is one of my favorite movies.
The first CD I bought was Genesis A Trick of the Tail
I, too, have worked in finance, in my case making markets in options.
My all-time favorite Gopher hockey player is John Brill.
I still think that Meryl Streep is hot.
The greatest TV show of all time is The Muppet Show.
My previous job was working for a company that provided phone service to correctional facilities.
However, I did not get the job working for a company that provided Internet applications to multi-level marketing firms. I was beginning to think I was working my way through Dante's Seven Circles of Hell.
I'll cheerfully admit that I'm 30. My first CD purchase was "Core" by Stone Temple Pilots. My favorite TV show growing up was The A-Team, followed later by The Cosby Show, and much later by The Simpsons.
My first movie theater experience was either Disney's "The Jungle Book", or "Return of the Jedi". I read everything I could get my hands on, but specifically remember reading Sherlock Holmes, Tom Sawyer and the Tintin stories. I also have a vivid memory of being left at home by my parents for the day, and keeping myself company by reading "Horton Hears a Who"
Which reminds me -- does anyone here remember The Prisoner?
Second shout out for the Prisoner, loved Secret Agent as a teenager but haven't seen it since.
First 45 (as if that doesn't date me) -- Hey, Little Cobra
First LP -- Meet the Beatles (3 way split with 2 older sisters)
First Movie Star Crush -- Hayley Mills in the "Parent Trap" (I'm younger than her -- no pedophilia involved -- sorry, wrong thread)
First Scary Movie -- Pinocchio -- afraid I'd turn into a Donkey Boy for telling lies
First Movie ever -- 10 Commandments (I only remembered the Red Sea scene when I saw it later in life)
Earliest TV shows that I can remember -- "Twentieth Century", "GE College Bowl", "Jack Benny"
I remember when "Huckleberry Hound", "The Flintstones" and "Rocky and Bullwinkle" debuted
I was NOT allowed to watch the "Three Stooges"
That's because it wasn't called Episode IV when you saw it. Just because George Lucas renamed it doesn't mean you have to follow suit (though if he had been more honest with the renaming and called it Star Wars Episode π: Register of the Trade Mark, I would have been happy to go along with it).
Hell, I think (the vast majority of) you are all lame for not knowing who Wadada Leo Smith, Evan Parker, Jimmy Giuffre (RIP), Ellery Eskelin or Woody Shaw are. See, we all get to be hip in our own ways ... but none as hip as Repoz.
And anyone who knows who Rufus Wainwright is but doesn't know who his dad is should be ashamed of themselves. :-)
Exciting news! Rufus Wainwright is composing an opera!
You've talked about this before. Glad to see that you landed on your feet. I put you around 49.
I suppose the Star Wars one is a little wrong since it was not really the first movie I went to in a theater. It was the first movie I saw in a theater that I remember. Not quite the same thing. I have been told I was taken to Bambi (over the complaints from my grandfather that it was nothing but propoganda), but I have no recollection of it.
My grandparents used to take me and my brother to one movie a year. But that stopped promptly after "Wayne's World"
Yoko Ono really isn't that famous. She had a brief run as a punchline, but even that's long in the past.
I'm much better now. If only I could find a job.
You've guessed too old.
My buddy and I fell into a tie in a college trivia contest because I called Dale Evans' horse "Buttercup" instead of "Buttermilk" or vice versa -- I still have that mental block.
We lost in overtime by not being able to name all the Zodiac signs and what the represent in a minute or something. Any other question... Gary was an English major which covered my big trivia weakness, I had sports covered which was his big weakness.
I was going to ask if the conquistadors had brought over horses at that time.
She was there to break up the Be Sharp's as well as being referenced in Home Movies
I recall my uncle telling me how when my father and mother were "courting" my dad took her to a "moving picture show" in Des Moines, and my mother remarked upon leaving that the whole thing was 'silly' and it wouldn't last.
He gave her the razz for that until the day he passed...................
First album: Tony! Toni! Toné! Sons of Soul. Followed by Crash Test Dummies God Shuffled His Feet. Yep.
First concert: Bob Dylan and Natalie Merchant at the Broome County Arena. That must have been only about seven years ago.
First line of products that I wanted to collect all of: Ghostbusters.
First favorite baseball player: Barry Larkin. This must have been just after he won the World Series.
Earliest non-cartoon TV show that I can remember: Probably Night Court. I remember that was the first TV show that I wanted to watch despite having no idea what was going on. Maybe I liked Harry Anderson's tone of voice. I never wanted to watch kids' shows that didn't have cartoons or puppets, because the characters always acted stupid and overly enthusiastic. So for me it was always Warner Brothers cartoons, and Rocky and Bullwinkle, and Sesame Street.
First kiss: Emily.
And it's like compound interest in its effects. If you don't know the names of the American Idols, you miss the references to them in TV shows, then shows that reference the shows, then their use as irony as their stars wane, etc. Think of all the pop culture references that simply assume people know who's being discussed.
As a point of fact I have an Andalusian. Two actually.
Wonderful horses. Feisty.
And probably smarter than most of the people who post here.................
(I actually saw Yoko Ono in concert once - she and Thurston Moore and DJ Spooky opening for Stereolab in Battery Park - Yoko wailing, Thurston playing his guitar with a pair of scissors, Spooky laying down and taking off beats at random, none of the three of them interacting in any way - 20 minutes of agony.)
Those are some fun ones too
First Favourite Player: Greg Maddux (only because he had the same name as me, I thought I was picking a mediocre player)
First DVD: Sharpe's Sword
First Thing I Recall Desperately Wanting for Christmas: Lego's El Dorado Fortress
First Book I Recall Reading Entirely Myself: either Asimov's Foundation or Tolkien, not sure
First Concert: Tea Party headlined Edgefest (technically Creed headlined, but I just left after Tea Party)
Wonderful horses. Feisty.
And probably smarter than most of the people who post here.................</blockquote>
I've always found horses to be pretty stupid. Mules, on the other hand, are frickin' geniuses. The reason they're so stubborn is that people keep trying to get them to do stupid things.
Roundhay Garden Scene?
Horse in Motion?
Monkeyshines?
Or my personal favorite - Gordon Sisters Boxing?
One of his better tunes is in the background when Pesci and DeNiro kick the * out of made guy Billy Batts in Goodfellas.
This was the story when Osborne first came up, but I have a very vague memory of his father complaining that his son was actually named after John Wayne's character in The Fighting Seabees, aka, Donovan's Army. Which is the opposite of naming your son for the Sunshine Superman.
Especially since they're touring now.(**)
(**) Well, kind of.
2. Chevy Chase
3. Ted Danson
4. Taylor Dayne
5. Tommy LaSorda (a delicious shake for breakfast, one for lunch, and a sensible dinner!)
6. Bronson Pinchot
I know 2, 3, 5, and 6. I thought Peppard was on Star Trek, but clearly I'm wrong.
The only thing I know about Yoko Ono is that she banged one of the Beatles.
Could you let me know their schedule, so I can make sure that I'm out of town?
Stewie (threatening): "I'll do to you what I did to John Lennon!"
(flashback)
Stewie: "John, meet Yoko. Yoko, John."
It was the mid-20's I think. No idea on the show.
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