Martha Kent took the kid's baby blankets, un-wove them thread by thread (since trying to cut them was a good way to break scissors, although eventually they could trim the thread with his x-Ray heat vision), and then re-wove them into his outfit, re-un-weaving and re-re-weaving as he grew from boy to man.
At least that was the way they told it back around 1960.
In the comic books of the late 50s, early 60s, they used hyphens, i.e, Jor-El, Kal-El, etc.
Only vaguely related, last read Spiderman comics in the 60s, but only realised recently in retrospect that Stan was probably writing Peter Parker as Jewish.
I was just thinking about the Weekly Reader yesterday, how at some point I must have reached whichever grade it is at which the school no longer provides them, but doesn't tell you in advance that they're going to quit so that you can't complain and the start of a new school year means a lot of new distracting stuff so you don't realise until who knows how long later that it's been a year or three or more since you've seen a copy. Having enjoyed and looked forward to it, I felt somewhat cheated when I eventually realised it was no longer a part of my life.
I haven't heard the "occupants" remake in years and years. We (we being the radio station at which I was working at the time) had it on the playlist for maybe a month back somewhere in the late 70s, before I became music director, maybe a year after that cluster of time in which Elvis, Ricky Nelson, and various members of Lynyrd Skynyrd died.
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"The civilisation that blurts out its existence on interstellar beacons at the first opportunity may be like some early hominid descending from the trees and calling "Here Kitty" to a sabre toothed tiger."--Robert Rood
Only in this case it's more like "Klingon want some Viagra?".
I still remember when the Carpenters album (Yesterday Once More)that song is from came out, it had several remakes of 50s and 60s classics strung together as though part of a radio show as well as a clever cover art concept. That was about the time I developed a somewhat prurient appreciation for her delicious alto.
What part of the South are you from and why don't you know about the original Marvellettes recording of that song?
I didn't know they were officially known as Exchange Names, but I wish they'd never gone away. Unfortunately I live in a community that was small enough (back then) for 4 digit numbers until after mnemonic prefixes fell from favor and fashion. Maybe it's just as well, though, we'd have probably gotten something lame sounding.
Speaking of original area codes, shortly after Carolina Tel. & Tel. started running a great, beach music flavor jingle ("Operator, give me nine one nine") written by one of their employees, they decided to shrink 919 in half geographically from east to west and give the coastal counties (spiritual home of beach music) a different number that has yet to inspire any budding composers.
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I've been in favor of no bush for about three and a half years now, but to no avail.
"The # of peanut M&Ms in a 49.3g bag ranges from 19-25. Why is this?"
Peanuts are not uniform in size and weight so some Peanut M&Ms are heavier than others. The product is sold by weight, so the extremes are a few heavy Peanut M&Ms or a lot of light ones.
What in the world is intuitive about base 12? (unless you have 6 fingers on each hand) Now base -insert multiple of 2 here- is intuitive because you divide something in half and then divide the halves in half and so on. If we had used our fingers for counting and saved our thumbs for something else, like indicating carrys, we would have gotten along just fine with base 8 and learning binary, octal, and hexadecimal would have been a lot easier.
We still could have divided the year into "moons", we would have had a 1 in the 8's column and a 4 in the 1's column of them.
Considering that on your webpage you admit to stealing someone else's private property and offer to subvert the Slashdot moderation process by giving your mod points to someone else, I'm hoping that you're quite careful about to which aspects of your personality those children are exposed, even though you do get real life karma points for caring for them (and my sympathies as you attempt to find less destructive channels for their artistic inclinations).
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You should have posted while signed on for proper credit. I have a feeling that I accidently got a +1 Funny that should have gone to you.
At least that was the way they told it back around 1960.
Only vaguely related, last read Spiderman comics in the 60s, but only realised recently in retrospect that Stan was probably writing Peter Parker as Jewish.
I haven't heard the "occupants" remake in years and years. We (we being the radio station at which I was working at the time) had it on the playlist for maybe a month back somewhere in the late 70s, before I became music director, maybe a year after that cluster of time in which Elvis, Ricky Nelson, and various members of Lynyrd Skynyrd died.
Only in this case it's more like "Klingon want some Viagra?".
What part of the South are you from and why don't you know about the original Marvellettes recording of that song?
I didn't know they were officially known as Exchange Names, but I wish they'd never gone away. Unfortunately I live in a community that was small enough (back then) for 4 digit numbers until after mnemonic prefixes fell from favor and fashion. Maybe it's just as well, though, we'd have probably gotten something lame sounding.
Okay, but only if we include Coronet Blue.
I still want to know how it turns out.
Speaking of original area codes, shortly after Carolina Tel. & Tel. started running a great, beach music flavor jingle ("Operator, give me nine one nine") written by one of their employees, they decided to shrink 919 in half geographically from east to west and give the coastal counties (spiritual home of beach music) a different number that has yet to inspire any budding composers.
I've been in favor of no bush for about three and a half years now, but to no avail.
If I can't have 634-5789, can I have Beechwood 4-5789?
If you're willing to undergo martyrdom for the greater good, please watch as many "reality" shows as possible.
I will lead the singing of your praises when you're gone.
Ain't they got them rocket surgurons in Huntsville?
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"...which does not focus too much on too few characters."
Never mind.
But is it 39-21-48 or 39-21-40 shape?
No, that's any show with an episode about Nazis and Cylons.
I pay for it every time I use it--in wasted time, in aggravation, etc.
...until I hear what was said. Alfred's usually smarter than that.
Peanuts are not uniform in size and weight so some Peanut M&Ms are heavier than others. The product is sold by weight, so the extremes are a few heavy Peanut M&Ms or a lot of light ones.
No, G is common and B+ is hot :-)
If there really were a sucker born every minute there would be enough around that size wouldn't matter.
We still could have divided the year into "moons", we would have had a 1 in the 8's column and a 4 in the 1's column of them.
I just had a mental image of a mobile Alexander Calder would never have had publicly shown.
What, is Machine Language for Dummies out of print already?
Considering that on your webpage you admit to stealing someone else's private property and offer to subvert the Slashdot moderation process by giving your mod points to someone else, I'm hoping that you're quite careful about to which aspects of your personality those children are exposed, even though you do get real life karma points for caring for them (and my sympathies as you attempt to find less destructive channels for their artistic inclinations).