Chit Chat Thread for the week of July 28th 2008

I was going through some of Sparky's memorabilia and ran across this old video clip from his past movie experience. This was when he was playing Super Dog in the movie by the same name. He thought you might enjoy the movie promo movie clip.

I was reading a few old posts and came across a Sparkey going out for coffee post, but the animation is gone.

I forgot for a minute that the most current icon replaces all icons even in old posts.

Oh well, maybe Sparkey will go out for coffee again sometime.

P.S. Sparkey is pretty pale, does he not like the sun?

I love your clip, it's fantastic. Where did you get it or what software did you use to create it?

He just might!

I created the character in 1984, made 8 childrens books for my nieces and nephews and now great nieces and great nephews. Five years ago I decided to try to take the character and create a animation from a one frame drawing idea.

I use PC Paint to make all my drawings and Coffee Cup Gif Animator to combine the frames into an animation.

Thanks, I am glad you enjoy the ThumbNail Animations.
I appreciate it very much.

Thanks for the quick response. I love your Sparky animation - they certainly make me chuckle!

I chuckle everytime you post a new one. You should publish the books. If they are anything like the Gifs, you would sell 'em like hot cakes.

We are off to a new week and was just trying to have some fun. We spent Saturday at the lake and had a wonderful time. We didn't do too much boating, due to fuel prices, but we had fun sitting in coves, meeting people, and just hanging out. The weather turned out to be better than expected, so it was really nice.

Sunday we worked around the house and made some progress on getting some projects completed. We still have a ways to go, but we are getting there.

I just finished another class towards my bachelors degree. I have one class left and then I can graduate. I am scheduled to graduate on November 6th. I can't wait. It has been many years, and a lot of frustration and patience, on my wifes part, so it will be nice to be completed. Of course, I plan on starting my masters next fall but I get to have one winter and summer before going back. Looking forward to some extra time and to working on a couple of projects on here as well.

Well, I guess I have blabbed enough, everyone have a good week.

Alan

I thought Asante Samual is with the Eagles?

A total solar eclipse is coming up on August 1st between 8:04 and 12;58 UT... (1:04 a.m and 5:38 a.m PDT) The only problem is you have to be near the actic circle or northern most Canada to see it... or in Central Russia or China... It's not going to be visible in the U.S....

Oh well at least Mercury hasn't gone back into retrograde....yet

Let's have the coord's and plan a trip...
I have nothing to do for the next three weeks, anyone else up for a road trip?

A total solar eclipse will be visible along a narrow track that will start over the Northwest Passage of Canada, gives a glancing blow to northern Greenland, then shifts southeast through Siberia and western Mongolia and before ending near the famed Silk Route of China.

Comments Made in the Year 1955!
You'll like this : )

That's only 53 years ago!

'I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's
going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $20.00.'

'Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long
before $2,000.00 will only buy a used one.'

'If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a
pack is ridiculous.

'Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to
mail a letter?'

'If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire
outside help at the store.'

'When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday
cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the
garage.'

'Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail hair cuts make it
impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing
their hair as long as the girls.'

'I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let
Clark Gable get by with saying DAMN in GONE WITH THE WIND, it seems
every new movie has either HELL of DAMN in it.'

'I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a
man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows
they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas .'

'Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for
$75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday
they'll be making more than the President.'

'I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be
electric. They are even making electric typewriters now.'

'It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married
women are having to work to make ends meet.'

'It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone
to watch their kids so they can both work.'

'Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more, those Hollywood stars seem to
be getting divorced at the drop of a hat.'

'I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot
of foreign business.'

'Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes
half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the
best people to congress.'

'The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously
doubt they will ever catch on.'

'There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend, it
costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel.'

'No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $35.00 a day in the hospital
it's too rich for my blood.'

'If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it.'

Thank you John, for making me feel even older. I remember saying some of those things - in 1955! In particular, the 59 cent a gallon for gas comment. Look how far we've come.

I'm almost tickled that the price dropped to less than $3.80 a gallon in my 'hood.

OK, OK - I remember back in the 1952-53 time frame
when we used to scrounge up 50-75 cents between 2-3 of us and buy gas for my buddy's 41 Ford and we would "cruise the streets" all night on that gas.

I don't feel as old anymore.

Thanks, MrKen!

I wasnt driving then. I was only ?????????? NOT saying.

"I thought Asante Samual is with the Eagles?"

I read that he signed a 6 yr. contract. So if he's out for a few games, won't bother me, especially if it's a game against the Pats.

Same era... maybe 55 It's amazing how much gas you can get from pump hoses in a station with a bunch of pumps...

The pollution is really irritating my breathing. Please rain soon.

You picked a good year John - That is the year I got married and am still lucky to be married to the same gal.

Americans drove 9.6 billion miles less in May 2008 than they did in May 2007. No figures on June yet. We're using more public transportation and carpooling for commuting and making fewer recreational and shopping trips. That has something to do with the decline. Hopefully, we won't go back to the same old habits if the price continues to go down.

Only 25 home games left at the house that Ruth built on the corner of E161st and River Ave.

He's building the one across the street, hes' just working the night shift and no one sees him.

We still didn't have and indoor bathroom.
Sears and Roebuck and Montgomery Ward cataloges had dual roles.

Homeless meant sleeping in someones car because you were too intoxicated to walk on home.

No one locked thier doors.

Land and homes were bought and sold on a handshake.

A gallon of milk was .50 from the cow and included a glass gal. jug.
Eggs were .25 a dozen for the white ones, brown eggs were .20. Double yolks were .35

If you knew company was coming on Sunday, you started cookiing and preparing a week before. Today, you make sure you have plans to be gone.

My how have times changed.

One more and I'll shut up.

You could find and ABC Store in about every hollow you looked in. Just no state tax collected.

Was going thru USN Electronic Technicians School at Great Lakes NTC in IL.
Waukegan(sp) , Milwaukee, Chicago great liberty towns for a 19 year old kid.

Finally ended up on a Destroyer out of Boston.

Man, those were the days !

Well, you guys have succeeded in reminding me how much I do remember and how old someone who remembers should be - but - I don't feel old.
I'm having fun!
Hope you are all having fun. Have a great week.

Eagles are not on the Pats schedule for 08... Your safe.

I'm not only in retrograde myself, but more like
TOTAL RETREAT....
Yeah, I read somewhere that it will be visible only for an area 157 miles wide. I'll let someone else have my place so viewers won't be crowded.

Have a nice trip. Take lots of pictures.

I remember taking a history test on 5-5-55, and thought about what I'd be doing on 6-6-66 and 7-7-77 and.....you get the idea.

I was supposed to marry my college sweetheart back in the late '50s but my mom broke us up. In 2003,
after 47 years without contact, he calls me and we get back together, got married 7-15-06. ONLY 50 years late!! I think we were meant for each other. And that is how I got from Mobile AL to Chelmsford MA in real life.

Life is not for the faint-hearted.

It didn't work out but she was still my first love.. and we remained friends. She just passed a month ago... My present wife and I married April 15th (tax day) in 1972, because I was a heathen and had been married before my wife and I couldn't be married in the Catholic church, 5 years and $300 later the Pope granted me a dispensation.. Got married again on 7-7-77 with two children in attendance....

Edit and oh yeah we are still happily married...

A lot of rocking and rollin in good ole Silver Lake... Waiting for some after shocks...

Edit: 5.8 they're saying...

edit edit: coordinates
Lat N33.58.7 lon W117.50.3
N33.97873 W117.83836

Ao, I went through about the same ordeal, it took 3 years to get a nullification and permission to marry. I wanted a sacramental marriage this time.
Let's have a toast to wedded bliss for the long haul.

Another significant date is on the horizon:
08-08-08 and it will be a good day to reflect on the waypoints we set in life. Can you tell I am in a philosophical mode?

I was still in grade school.

Some of the people, some of the time !!!!!!!!

Yikes.... My mother was in the class of '18 at Hollywood High... I still don't feel old though...

Yikes 5.8.... N33.97873 W117.83836 Run for your lives.... Earthquake...

Just checking in to keep the windmill active.Visting friends ib NC

Tickled Huh!

Gosh they have you right where they want you!

My self, I'm Pis_ed at that price!!

Let's start the ships sailing down out of the straits of Hormuz right out of Iraq!

Bob

Good old days started sneaking around and driving my brother-in-laws car with out my folks knowing about it. Go to a drivein movie and eat for 2.00. Oh well your only as old as you feel. some days older than others. Was in the army in 1960.

Brett Favre applied for reinstatement today... WOO-HOO :)

Rumor has it he's coming here to the Tampa Bay Bucs. Its been in the news since last week.

Not much 2 say other than thanks for the site (and files).

Another significant date is on the horizon:
08-08-08 and it will be a good day to reflect on the waypoints we set in life. Can you tell I am in a philosophical mode?

Hey babago is that the beginning of the Olympics mode or another philosphical mode??

Sure whats going to happen Gary A.. Its a very complicated mess up here in Wisconsin.

It would be sad to see Favre return to the NFL and play for a different team for a couple of years and then fade away.

Same thing happened to Jerry Rice. He had a remarkable career with the 49ers. He should have retired with the 49ers, instead of bouncing around to two other teams.

Same thing happened to Joe Montana who went to KC for a year or two at the end. Or am I imagining that? I suppose the money is hard to refuse.

Does anyone Remember These good old Days

http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties.htm

That is a great link. I still enjoy the music of that era and listen to the radio shows on XM while on the road.