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1. 1 day ago on Working Daze

   CLIST, I know from the IBM mainframe days. Can’t say I know the others. You win. :)

2. 2 days ago on Working Daze

   Try me.

3. 7 days ago on Luann Againn

   Well, change of a person’s ways isn’t just the click of a light switch. Tiffany is a good character now because she is still flawed, and understands that. Readers saw the old Tiff for years who was a convenient foil for Luann in middle school/high school but that made her a two dimensional cartoon villain. Since “Luann” is a ‘slice of life" story, it’s usually better to have long standing characters be more complex than how she was portrayed originally. And often that complexity is best written for “villains”.

4. 7 days ago on Luann Againn

   Tiffany was the archetype mustache-twirling villain. These days I like her better since she’s matured, far from perfect, and trying to be better while looking at a previous version of herself as a dorm mate.

5. 8 days ago on Working Daze

   What, no BASIC?

6. 30 days ago on Working Daze

   The book was very short (as all Seuss childrens books were) and Ted Geisel only trusted Chuck Jones to do the animation. Chuck and Ted had worked together doing cartoons for the war propaganda effort during WWII (Private Snafu) and they also managed to get out an early “Horton Hatches the Egg” for movie theaters. Geisel knew that Jones would stick to his strict wishes while his padding and gags for runtime would still be elemental to the story. For the Grinch That Stole Christmas in 1966, it worked.

7. about 1 month ago on Liberty Meadows

   …if it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all…

8. about 1 month ago on Working Daze

   Yes. I’m too young to have seen the original broadcast but I do remember it as a four year old in 1969. If you got the Blu-ray of it as I have, you get the extended cut with the peppermint mine scene reinserted. And I remember when “We’re a couple of misfits” was substituted for “Fame and Fortune”. That was kind of strange since as a kid, you’re thinking “wasn’t this a different song”. And in those days with one yearly broadcast, you had to rack your brains.

9. about 1 month ago on Working Daze

   One of the few shows that really got better with the re-edit. The original 1964 broadcast didn’t come back to the Island of Misfit Toys and kids everywhere watching noticed the plot hole and wondered why they’d been left behind again. So the producers at Rankin-Bass went back re-filmed the ending with the toys around a campfire lamenting their fate as “forgotten again” and when the doll cries “I haven’t any dreams left to dream”….man that moment still wants me to bawl like a baby even though you know that Santa and Rudolph are already on final approach. And the ending credits were reshot with the toys being “parachuted” to their new homes. Left on the cutting room floor with the new edit? Yukon Cornelius discovering a peppermint mine right outside of Santa’s castle.

10. about 1 month ago on Lio

    What I liked about it was the obvious Harvey Comics style of artwork (Casper the Friendly Ghost, Wendy, Little Audrey, Little Lotta, etc)….right down to the printed halftones of color Sunday Funnies many of us grew up.