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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => CEDU / Brown Schools and derivatives / clones => Topic started by: try another castle on September 23, 2009, 01:36:48 AM
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I <3 tshirthell.com
Saw this ages ago on their front page, finally managed to snag it before it was discontinued.
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Dat you,batIw?
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ja.. not the most flattering picture.
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I liked the pic. I need one of those. Not you. The shirt.
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lol. I gathered.
They're on clearance, so hurry up before they're all gone.
http://www.tshirthell.com (http://www.tshirthell.com)
I kinda want their Texas one, too. "Don't mess with Texas. It's not nice to pick on retards."
For the sleestak mask:
http://www.maskmasters.com/ (http://www.maskmasters.com/)
This guy matt makes them. Pretty fuckin sweet shit.
I know you didnt want the sleestak mask, but Im plugging the dude anyway.
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Don't want the Sleestak mask? Land of the Lost came on the Sci-Fi channel about a month ago and I watched one silly episode after another. I loved that show as a kid. Not sure why I did having watched it recently. Same thing happened to me when I watched Star Blazers and Speed Racer again. Sad. But the Sleestak were always cool.
Last year I bought the entire 39 DVD's of Six Million Dollar Man. Halfway through watching them. Not as bad as I thought they'd be. Some are cheesy, but overall I thought they were done well. Typical 70's acting and I can't get enough of the polyester, blue, brown or tan suits. One thing I never realized was that the sound effects they used for him running and yanking things out of the ground didn't come in to play until like late in Season 2. Nor was I aware that there were actually Made-For-TV movies that came out first, before the show. And in them Steve Austin was more of an assassin. Not the superhero in the television show.
I also lived in Texas for most of a year. My girlfriend at the time got kicked out of RMA for having a sex contract with me. The "Official" story was that we were caught in the walk-in freezer attached to the Spring Room, naked as jaybirds and in the middle of the act. Truth is we were fully dressed and were quite done. Did it on her Challenge Night. Full time! She was originally from Alaska but her rich father wanted her in an all-girl school, so she went to a top private school down there. Boy was she unprepared after RMA.
Texas sucked! Not only did I lose her while there, the weather was unbearable. When it rained, it rained like Noah was about to show up in an Ark. When it snowed you thought a new ice age had arrived. The wind? 80 MPH or dead calm. When it was hot, it was Mohave Desert hot. And the winter was colder than anything in Idaho. In California we have gutters on our homes to catch rainfall, have it roam over to a drain and then down to the ground. In Texas they had deflectors because there was no way to catch the rain. There would be a slight parting of a wall of water in front of the entrance that you could slip through without getting entirely drenched. I was really surprised. Someone said that was unusual for Dallas, but I don't buy it. The place just sucked. Not sure why we fought the Mexicans for it. They can have it along with the Texans themselves. I never met a larger collection of illiterate, backwards people in my life. Well, the staff at RMA came damn close.
A Sleestak mask would be sweet, and Halloween is right around the corner. Problem is, most people would have no clue what it is from.
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http://foulmouthshirts.com I have the" yes Im fucking weird" shirt
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You were in Dallas? I was born and raised there.
That's one thing I miss since living in SF.. those massive thunder and lightning storms.
I remember that stillness that would hit right before a tornado, and the sky would turn orange.
It never got that cold, though. We were lucky if we got some snow.
Hail, though. We got a bit o that. Normally before the tornado.
Yup, had the same programming lineup as a kid, speed racer, star blazers, battle of the planets, 321 contact, and land of the lost. You got more programming from the single, god-like channel, (UHF) than from all of the hundreds of shit fest channels people have access to today.
If you think the sleestak mask is good, you should see the set of feet I have.
Im going as a jesus freak sleestak for halloween. sleestak mask and feet, navy blue blazer, khaki pants, and pockets stuffed full of chick tracts.
How's this for some interesting land of the lost trivia? Did you know that Walter Koenig (Checkov from Star Trek) was a regular writer for that show? He wrote pretty much all of the episodes that dealt with enik.
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SF as in, San Fransisco?
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I had no idea Walter Koenig did any of that. So many of the Trek cast vanished from site soon after the show went off the air. And I would have never taken him for a writer. Considering what Shatner and Nimoy dished out by way of screen writing, I assumed the rest of the cast was lacking in such skills.
They used so much animation back then. When I watched Land of the Lost recently I was really taken aback by the amount of artwork used for sets. As a kid I would not have noticed. And you made me laugh about the UHF comment. We always had to mess around with the rabbit ear antennae to get it to come in clear, but the shows were usually worth the effort. I lived for Banana Splits and the Super Friends.
However, I didn't actually watch Trek until I was thirteen. I never watched it as a kid. Yet I am a huge Trek fan today. I even wrote five Trek novels. And a Star Wars Trilogy. But I had watched Star Wars on opening night back in 1977. Like thirty people in the theater.
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Oh, and you mentioned orange skies before the storm. Did you ever experience the lightning storms in Idaho where the bolts would be blue and pink, red and yellow and come straight down and strike the dirt?
I remember one storm, we were watching it approach the campus, it was coming from over by the farm and we were on the smoking porch. So we decided we wanted to feel more like we were in the center of things so we ran over to the field house, but a wall of water came towards us and we decided to run back to the house but we didn't make it. We were soaked within seconds there was so much water. It was hitting the dry dirt in the field so hard that little puffs would appear. And the lightning hit and the puffs were even larger. It was scary in an awesome kind of way.
But in Texas, I just remember endless miserable weather. Maybe when they said it was unusual, they were referring to the snow and ice. It snowed during the winter and then would melt in the morning. By night there was a foot of ice on everything. Next night snow, next morning melt, than another foot of ice. There was easily two feet of ice on the ground every day for month or more, and the wind blew so hard it was like being in a freezer.
It only hailed once though. In June. Which by itself is an unusual time for there to be hail.
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oh, ice storms were somewhat normal, and unbelievably dangerous. We'd get maybe on average one every year or every other year. (that seems to me to be regular for those things, theyre so horrible.)
I remember the first time I ever saw one as a child. My dad took me into the backyard, and it looked like the world had been encased in crystal. We had a magnolia tree, with those big flat leaves, and we could split the ice apart on one and end up with two perfect ice molds of the leaf.
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The ice would evenly come off the leaves as two pieces of perfect mold? That would be cool to see.
I grew up in San Jose, CA. Still here. It snowed twice in my lifetime. The first time we put garbage bags all around the driveway, made a pool of water and for about two hours the next morning we ice skated and played hockey on it before it melted. Then I went to Idaho and saw more snow, and shoveled more snow than I ever care to remember.
Technically Dallas was not the coldest climate I ever experienced. I was on Katka once, on my Final Voyage and it was 36 below with maximum wind chill. They later said it had dropped to forty below at one point, but -36 and -40 are a little hard to differentiate between when you are shivering inside a snow cave you shoveled together because freezing temps were not a part of your childhood.
Then a few years back, when Denver had made the playoffs for the Superbowl, I was a truck driver and oddly enough I was well known across the country as "The Shorts Guy." I developed a near-immunity to cold because of my 40 liter a day intake of Mountain Dew. I was burning so many BTU's cold meant nothing to me. So I would always wear shorts because I was always warm or hot. And despite it being 40 below in Denver, I was out there fueling my truck and washing my windows as I was well known to do in any freezing temperature, washing my windows and everything. It was all on a dare though. My student had heard the stories during his training and when I went in to the sleeper berth to put on some warmer clothes, he asked, "What are you doing?" And I answered, "It's forty below outside, so I am putting on jeans and jacket." He replied, "You can't. Nobody has ever seen you dressed in anything but shorts." So I said again, "It is forty below outside, it is really fucking cold dude." And calmly asked, "But you could do it couldn't you? You could stand out there for ten minutes, fuel the truck, all that stuff and not show any sign of being cold?" And I said..."Yeah, probably, but..." And he said, "Dude, you got a rep to uphold." So being an idiot, I went outside and pulled it off. People were in the truck stop looking through the fogged up windows watching me. My fifteen minutes of fame I suppose...
So, did SF mean San Francisco? Are we neighbors?
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Yeah, Im in SF.
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Wow, too cool, we're neighbors. Maybe we'll have to get together some time. Liam, the guy doing the CEDU Documentary thinks he will be in the Bay Area next time for his filming and interviews, maybe next year. Perhaps we'd all meet up then if you were interested.
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sounds plausible.
I dont know if I want to do any more interviewing for it, though. I've said enough.
maybe in my sleestak mask.
"I was shoved into a pylon and forced to stay there until the three moons had risen and set for fourteen cycles."
fucking pylons.
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sounds plausible.
I dont know if I want to do any more interviewing for it, though. I've said enough.
maybe in my sleestak mask.
"I was shoved into a pylon and forced to stay there until the three moons had risen and set for fourteen cycles."
fucking pylons.
What is that from? Can't be Land of the Lost, it was on earth.
You did interviews for the CEDU Documentary?
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yeah, the pylons were from land of the lost. i might be getting the planetary satellites wrong, though. Maybe it was suns, not moons. Maybe it was both.
Yeah, Im in it.
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I thought Land of the Lost they just traveled back in time to an older period on Earth? Then again it was more than thirty years ago, so I suppose maybe they traveled to another world with multiple moons. And a world with dinosaurs like ours. Or am I reading this wrong?
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Who was the guy inside of the Pylon the "high Priest" creature? Enoch?
He played with than "Panel thing"" with the glowing lights.
I Just
Enik. He knew the pylons, but he didn't live in them. He lived in the temple with the rest of the sleestaks.
Nobody lived in the pylons.
Then there was that bitter, bitchy alien dude who lived by the swamp cause his ship crashed there. Looked kind of like a lite brite.
I thought Land of the Lost they just traveled back in time to an older period on Earth? Then again it was more than thirty years ago, so I suppose maybe they traveled to another world with multiple moons. And a world with dinosaurs like ours. Or am I reading this wrong?
I honestly don't remember how they resolve the series, long after Marshall takes a powder and that uncle shows up. (jump the shark time)
While I was watching, it was never established exactly *what* that place was. You had prehistoric beasts, retarded monkey men, lizard creatures, a grumpy alien, multiple satellites and the pylons.
I do remember them finally explaining the "beware of sleestaks" sign by the temple. (shown in first episode) There was always a question about who wrote it, because nobody in the land of the lost knew english, let alone knew how to write. (the pakuns didnt know it until the humans taught it to them.) I think it was marshalls father, who was there before him... or something stupid like that.
My favorite bit of LoL trivia is that sid & marty kroft could only afford to make three sleestak costumes, so they had to edit it to make it look like there were more of them.
In the dvd commentary, the actress who played Holly was talking about how they hired basketball players to be the sleestak, so they could be tall and imposing, and then they stuck them in these little caves where they had to hunch over, so any impact regarding height was totally lost. lol
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There was a Magic the Gathering card called the Knights of the Order of Leitbur. So all of them you could argue would be called Leitburites.
I am starting to think my memory of Land of the Lost is now residing in the Land of the Lost Memories. I never watched the version that came out in the 90's. And I can't remember any of the details of the other shows I watched like The Adventures of Huck Finn, or Johnny Quest. Star Blazers might be the only program I can remember in detail. And having rented it from Blockbuster about fifteen years ago, I realized how amazingly bad it was.
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I never saw the 90s one, either, actually.
What was huck finn from? Wasnt that part of the banana splits?
I remember my babysitter telling me that the footage shot for the beginning and ending sequences were on location at six flags over texas. the flume ride does look familiar.
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The opening sequence being the part where the three are waving from a river paddle boat?
I am pretty sure it was part of banana splits. There were several short segments each week with Gullivers Travels being another one. A always liked Glum and him saying '"It'll never work....it's a hopeless cause...we're doomed...doomed I tell you..."
But you appear to be the expert on LoL. Sid and Marty always seemed to have no budget. Those Schoolhouse Rock episodes were used because they apparently filled the exact time space at certain intervals in kids programming. Everything back then was shoestring budget. Going back to Star Trek I think.
I hate to say it but I only learned what Jump The Shark meant just a few years ago. My buddy from RMA who was actually allowed by his parents to be glued to the tube all day explained it to me, and I had actually watched the Happy Days episode back when it came out. Poor me.
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oh, i meant for the banana splits ending seq, not huck finn. they were at an amusement park, and it had the flume ride in there, but there are flume rides in most parks, so not sure how my babysitter apparently "knew" that it was from sfot.
I think my memories of childhood are split down the middle.. 50% television, 50% real life.
It was one of the many hannah barbera atrocity-fests that I loved back then. (although i hated a lot of the shorts on banana splits, such as arabian knights and that other one where the famiy is fighting natives or some such thing. I enjoyed the actual show, with the actors in their animal suits, jumping around and getting their asses served to them by the sour grapes messenger girls.) They also had one music video every episode, and I always liked those.
As for Sid and Marty Kroft...
I recall that the kroft superstars would show their series on rotation, so youd get the far out space nuts, then bugaloos, then land of the lost, then lost saucer (jim neighbors and ruth buzzi in robot costumes?? and a horse dog?), then sigmund the sea monster.. etc etc etc.
Although land of the lost existed before all of these other shows were cobbled into kroft superstars. I remember it used to be a saturday morning thing when I was around 4 or so, but at that point, my parents wouldnt allow me to watch it because they felt it was too scary. I believe that was around the same time that h.r. pufnstuff was out. (one of the few kroft shows I remember being shot on film instead of video.)
All I have to say is.. thank god I missed lidsville. They never played it on my local station, and I heard it was particularly painful. (although the actor who played the villain made a great joke about it when he was on an episode of the x-files.)
believe it or not, sid and marty built an amusement park. I saw footage of the place, and it's just as creepy and weird and awesome as you would imagine. It didnt do too well. Most of the rides ended up breaking relatively soon, or never really worked all that well to begin with. I guess people would consider it a failure, but for me, it made perfect sense... that is *exactly* how a kroft amusement park should behave.
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The certainly came up with some odd shows.
I tended to like things with space. Lost in Space was a real favorite, though I wouldn't last more than five minutes today watching it.
I do remember H.R Puff and Stuff. Sigmond the Sea Monster I recall as well. What I hated about the show was watching only life five minutes of show at a time as they popped from one to another. And every week did not have the same shows, so sometimes you had to wait another week to see if they'd show what you liked. I guess they ran it that way because they figured kids didn't have attention spans of more than five minutes, or else Sid and Marty and Hannah Barbera had so many ideas and so few platforms to show them that they just cobbled together one program to show ten.
That is funny about the Sleestaks in small caves. I never remembered them as being tall compared to the father. That may be why.
Being the third youngest in the family I often did not have any choice in what I watched. So I got to watch Brady Bunch, Eight is Enough, Barney Miller, All in the Family, Hawaii Five-Oh, The Munsters, The Odd Couple, and WWF Wrestling back when Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant were the big names. My brothers were all glued to that show. And anything dealing with KISS. I remember having to prevent myself from committing suicide when KISS made a television movie.
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lol. KISS meets the phantom
"don't warry stah chuyld, aw'll bend th' bars with my muynd"
The night that debuted on TV was the same night my cat ate my goldfish. (random information)
I love KISS but not for the reasons I did when I was a kid. I heard about them when all the other pre-teens did, when the shameless merchandising machine cranked into high gear. I didn't get a chance to hear them when they were strictly a band with some pretty rockin songs.. plus makeup. and talk about jumping the shark. Remember their foray into disco? "I was made for lovin you baybay, you were made for luvin me." That pissed off probably around, I dunno, 100% of their fans.
My suspicion is that all of the merchandising and whoring was spearheaded by Gene. He loves to pimp KISS.
I hated Lost in Space. Drove me nuts. I liked the faggy bitter Dr. Zachary Smith (and no, I didnt remember his name off the top of my head. I had to look it up.) but that was about it. Ernest Borgneine's role in the Disney film The Black Hole kind of reminded me of a darker version of him. (Remember that film? Fuckin a. Floating robots and zombie slaves.)
Or did you mean the lost saucer? Lost in space was 20th century fox, lost saucer was kroft.
Ive heard the same thing from other people about kroft superstars, that being that there was no continuity. I guess I lucked out. Normally, the Dallas station would play the the full 30 minute episodes from one series, in order, until it reached the end of that season, then move on to the next series. So we'd get about two weeks of something like space nuts (starring bob denver as gilligan in space, pretty much.), then we'd get another series. I never got to see land of the lost to completion, however, because that show had three seasons.
Im sure my sister and I fought over the TV, but that normally resulted in neither of us getting tv, so if there was any disagreement, one of us would just watch in our parent's bedroom and the other in the living room.
I think having a two TV household saved us a lot of arguments.