jujube
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We have a channel that shows a lot of the old TV shows of the 50's and 60's and I occasionally like to sit and watch one that I liked as a child.
Last night I watched a Rifleman episode and a Lassie one. It's funny to see some of the inconsistencies that show up....i.e., there was an oil lamp on the wall of the Rifleman's cabin that clearly had an electric light bulb in the globe. Not even a "flicker-bulb" but a plain old incandescent bulb.
And then there's Lassie. Oh, Lassie. People think Lassie was so smart, when she just LOOKED smart compared to the humans in the series. I mean....Lassie shows up barking her fool head off and the father, without fail, cries, "What do you want, girl?" and turns to the mother and asks, "Do you think she's trying to tell us something?" AS IF, their mush-for-brains son Timmy hasn't fallen down the well, got stuck in a cave-in or is in the raging river clinging to a rock with the dam about to break LIKE HE HAS DONE 49 TIMES ALREADY THIS YEAR ALONE! Sheesh, people.... And Lassie stands there thinking "OK, been there, done that. I've rescued that kid 137 times and I'm sick of it. Next time, I'm going to just go lay in the shade and lick my *******s and THEY can go fish him out of the river."
Last night I watched a Rifleman episode and a Lassie one. It's funny to see some of the inconsistencies that show up....i.e., there was an oil lamp on the wall of the Rifleman's cabin that clearly had an electric light bulb in the globe. Not even a "flicker-bulb" but a plain old incandescent bulb.
And then there's Lassie. Oh, Lassie. People think Lassie was so smart, when she just LOOKED smart compared to the humans in the series. I mean....Lassie shows up barking her fool head off and the father, without fail, cries, "What do you want, girl?" and turns to the mother and asks, "Do you think she's trying to tell us something?" AS IF, their mush-for-brains son Timmy hasn't fallen down the well, got stuck in a cave-in or is in the raging river clinging to a rock with the dam about to break LIKE HE HAS DONE 49 TIMES ALREADY THIS YEAR ALONE! Sheesh, people.... And Lassie stands there thinking "OK, been there, done that. I've rescued that kid 137 times and I'm sick of it. Next time, I'm going to just go lay in the shade and lick my *******s and THEY can go fish him out of the river."
