Saturday, November 19, 2005

Yes. It was an actual rabbit's foot, bone and all.
Don't blame me though.
The 80's were barbaric times.
Far from the world of Dr. Phil, Atkins, Wi-Fi Internet, and Emo.

I was born in '82 but most of my memories come from the 90's
That was a decade of quality programming for young viewers wasn't it?
Shows like Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Saved by the Bell, and California Dreams.
Great shows that tricked us through entertainment into learning life lessons and general knowledge.
Take this song as an example from the Animaniacs.

Yakko's World

United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama
Haiti, Jamaica, Peru,
Republic Dominican, Cuba, Carribean
Greenland, El Salvador too.
Puerto Rico, Columbia, Venezuela
Honduras, Guyana, and still,
Guatemala, Bolivia, then Argentina
And Ecuador, Chile, Brazil.
Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, Bermuda
Bahamas, Tobago, San Juan,
Paraguay, Uruguay, Surinam
And French Guiana, Barbados, and Guam.

Norway, and Sweden, and Iceland, and Finland
And Germany now one piece,
Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia
Italy, Turkey, and Greece.
Poland, Romania, Scotland, Albania
Ireland, Russia, Oman,
Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia
Hungary, Cyprus, Iraq, and Iran.
There's Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan
Both Yemens, Kuwait, and Bahrain,
The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Portugal
France, England, Denmark, and Spain.

India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan
Thailand, Nepal, and Bhutan,
Kampuchea, Malaysia, then Bangladesh (Asia)
And China, Korea, Japan.
Mongolia, Laos, and Tibet, Indonesia
The Philippine Islands, Taiwan,
Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Sumatra, New Zealand
Then Borneo, and Vietnam.
Tunisia, Morocco, Uganda, Angola
Zimbabwe, Djibouti, Botswana,
Mozambique, Zambia, Swaziland, Gambia
Guinea, Algeria, Ghana.

Burundi, Lesotho, and Malawi, Togo
The Spanish Sahara is gone,
Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Liberia
Egypt, Benin, and Gabon.
Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya, and Mali
Sierra Leone, and Algiers,
Dahomey, Namibia, Senegal, Libya
Cameroon, Congo, Zaire.
Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar
Rwanda, Mahore, and Cayman,
Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Yugoslavia...
Crete, Mauritania
Then Transylviania,
Monaco, Liechtenstein
Malta, and Palestine,
Fiji, Australia, Sudan.

Crazy. Just crazy.
That somebody would spend the time to arrange all the nations of the world in such a way that it rhymed and could be sung.
Our current youngins are missing out aren't they?
Writers just don't do that these days, or possibly aren't allowed to.
Whatever happened to positive messages in children's programming?
Like a silver bodied, green haired superhero telling you that "the power is yours" to effect the environment in a positive way?

Guess I'm just gettin' old.
That's how I felt chillin' w/ most of the "New School" Rho Dawgs and Pledge Dawgs tonight.
It feels weird being one of the only few people in the room that can legally buy their own alcohol.

To the young cats:
Turning 21's overrated.
Soon as you wake up the next day and get over your hangover you realize that you can buy alcohol on your own.
That's the buzzkill.
Because it's legal.

Wedding this weekend.
I'm not invited though, 'nother lonely weekend for me.
At least I've got a bunch of new electronic gadgets to install.

The Random Quote:
"I want to make a jigsaw that's 40,000 pieces and when you finish it it says: GO OUTSIDE" -Demetri Martin

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