Jump the Shark (aka random topics) (San Antonio, Austin: budget, work, home)

[b. frank]

Originally Posted by Michael T

I must add that a sicilian playing a native-american was a lot more believable than a 5' 6", 125 lb, spaghetti-armed wuss named Henry Winkler playing a tough guy! Talk about mis-cast.

Yeah - what a blight on an otherwise perfectly realistic show about American life in the 50s..er..70s.

[twange]

Originally Posted by b. frank

Yeah - what a blight on an otherwise perfectly realistic show about American life in the 50s..er..70s.

HAHAHAHAHHA

You mean Arnold wasn't exaggerated?

[southdown]

Originally Posted by Moonlady

OK, so this particular rant doesn't fit anywhere else on this forum, so I just thought I'd post it here and get it out of my system. Went to Bee Caves HEB early Sat morning, got a nice sweet parking spot in the first slot close in. I have a compact car. I came out to find a Cadillac SUV parked over the line on my side, so close that I had to climb in on the passenger side. I was really angry. Why does someone think it's acceptable to park like that? It took every single ounce of willpower I had not to take the green Sharpie marker in my car and write some very derrogatory comments on the side of that pretty pearl white Escalade. What would you have done?

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or
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[twange]

Originally Posted by southdown

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or
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Uh, now I know what I'm going to buy online next.

[atxclassic]

[b. frank]

How can anyone say the man is not a tough guy?
Look how nonchalantly he water-skiis!

[Soccersupporter]

Originally Posted by libbykt

My husband is a huge technology geek. Every single thing he does is on the computer, so whenever we are trying to find something I usually make a game out if it and see who can find it first -him on his computer or me in the phone book. I usually win.

I have not used a phone book in so so so long. The computer is too easy. I probably fall into the same category as your husband but with faster fingers, my wife has never beat me with the phone book. That is unless she does not want to leave bruises.

[Moonlady]

Ah...that made me think about The Magic Time Machine. Anyone remember that one? Potty Patrol?

[Trainwreck20]

the MTM closed not all that long ago, I think...isn't there a few of them still around? We went to dinner there for prom night one year...I had no idea how raunchy the waiters could be! My poor date was a Japenese exchange student and her English was far from perfect, but she certainly got all the inuendo. Actually, I think I was more mortified than her .

The year after that, my date wanted to go to the 'Frog Pond'. Didn't happen, for better or worse, but does anyone remember that place? Or actually go there?

[pilotskid27]

Originally Posted by Moonlady

Ah...that made me think about The Magic Time Machine. Anyone remember that one? Potty Patrol?

I NEVER was allowed to go to MTM.....all the "cool kids" talked about it in school, but I was a bit too young for prom, didn't have my drivers license or my own money for that matter. Then we moved out of state for a few years, and by the time my family returned to SAT, I was away at college.

I remember suggesting to my siblings that we try to go there on a return visit a couple of years later, and they were shocked and appalled that I would want to "waste money" on such a place. I guess the "cool kids" were on to something else by the time they came of age.