Cebu's a mature adult????

Don't tell me you've never met immature ones ?

I attended an International Music Camp one summer in high school.
The primary common ground appeared to be not music, but Sesame Street.
I seem to recall hearing all manner of people singing "Oh, who are the people in your neighbourhood?", and seeing various people explaining the difference between "near" and "far" (complete with Grover-like flailing arms). Most amusing.

(I sang. I did not flail.)

The Muppets' Singalong crossed my desk today.

Guess what I'll be watching tonight.
(I shall be knitting a green sweater the while.)

Matt... you do know that was a TV show and not real, right?
And the 'lithium' drug is really a lithium compound.
Similiar situation is Sodium. In pure form it'll explode on contact with water (even the water in the air). Bond it to Chlorine and you got a tasty seasoning (table salt).
It's Amino World without Chemists

ParU, define "real". I think your def. is a lot more restricted than mine! *g*

And I liked the sig line!

But I stole the line from the American Chemical Society... Clever though, isn't it?

You have never intentionally said something with the point of being overheard? Especially fun in elevators, just as the door is opening.

"She thought it felt weird, but I kinda liked-- "


--
A precariously balanced mixture of myopic optimism and rampant paranoia.

I think most of us did the sodium-in-water activity in high school Chem class, big guy. Get a little chunk, put it in a wide-mouthed graduated cylinder with water, and watch it spin round and round, following the rim of the cylinder. We got a chunk that was a skosh too big and had the anti-climactic (for the teacher) joy of watching our sodium catch fire as it spun around the glass.

Star Trek was not a show. It's a religion with its own division of sects and denominations. And they too may worship false idols on occasion.

Wesley Crusher was a wussy little girl.

Yeah, I noticed immediately that every person who hated Wesley Crusher was a GUY who could only see that this kid got to be on the show they wanted to be on. They wanted to be the teenage genius that saved the day. And they weren't.

Not to say that some of the plots in the later seasons involving everyone but Wes being an idiot weren't annoying as heck, but in the beginning, his character was fine.

The Eileen
Take the road not taken - the leaves crunch that much louder!

The Sodium thing is more fun when a large chunk floats down the communal drain of the lab bench and then drops into the sink ... resulting in three foot high flames erupting from it and the Indian chem teacher running around on his wonky leg shouting "don't put vater on it! don't put vater on it!"

"Million to one chances happen nine times out of ten"

I didn't get to do jack in Chem. All book work and math that NEVER EVER EVER made any sense.

But I do know how to make Glint now. *buzz buzz*

Wesley may have been a wuss (so I hear, anyway) but Wil is a pretty interesting and humorous grown-up.

There's no such thing as a wide-mouthed graduated cylinder. What you were using was a Beaker. Harrummpphh. *g*.
Chemists have Solutions

Not possible. Beaker is an orange-headed neurotic with a speech impediment created by Jim Henson.

at Raleigh's that I'm right?

Matt is right, you know.

Google's word is final-- looks like a tie. To settle the bet, each of you must buy a pint of beer for the other: Matt will drink his from a glass cylinder, and ParU will guzzle from a Muppet's open mouth.

Pictures will be made available on CITYBagel.

There's a set of pictures I want to see!

I'm sure someone is competent enough with a camera to get them without Unit's face, you know, for anonymity's sake.

*grin*

Thanks Apple - but I have had a beer with Matt at Raleigh's before, though I didn't wear a mask. (Well OK, a Pepsi, I rarely drink). But we'll see if he wants to pay off or not.

I meant for the pictures. We're calling for pictures.

*grin*

I can't wait to hear Cebu's take on the muppet picture, given her .sig line... ;-)

I LOVE the Muppets. It's so unfortunate that Sesame Street has become The Elmo Show. I miss the days when Grover was the popular monster round those parts. he is the best after all.


as always,
I hate Elmo.
:D

WTF? Better then Cookie or Oscar or hell even Snuffy?

Grover sucked.

Heh debating muppets I can do. Not touching the religion thing.

Hypo, all the characters you listed are one-dimensional. In that sense, yeah. They're on a lower level than Grover. At least Grover is inscrutable.

I can't believe I've actually entered into this debate. Muppets are so 20 years ago.

Must be that retro cool thing I can't avoid.

One dimensional? They're monsters-- they're supposed to be nothing but walking balls of raw emotion! I say that Grover and Harry and most of the talking monsters were lesser monsters because they could speak and reason and control their emotions. Civilized monsters? WTF??

So yeah, the best monsters were the ones who were at least a little weird/scary/impulsive. Cookie Monster was good-- until he started eating vegetables and rapping about nutrition. The real ultimate Muppet was, of course, Frazzle. He wasn't friendly, he couldn't talk, and he stuck his tongue out at everybody. I'm not sure he was ever even allowed near the children wandering around Sesame Street-- Frazzle was that hardcore!

And yes, I could argue about this all day.

*choke* You insult the cute, adorable,loveable Grover? Shame! I'm not hearing that, mister!

Animal was a favorite??

*grin*

Animal was my favorite, sure as hell. Followed in no particular order by Beaker, Rowlf, Zoot, and Dr. Teeth. And Gonzo.

-There's someone in my head, but it's not me.-

Or, failing that, enornous appetites (Cookie Monster), or, failing that, really creepy mouths ("Yipyipyipyip..."). Sorry, Cebu, I didn't make the rules.

Oh yeah, umrguy, don't forget that one guy with the dynamite and the boomerang fish. He was excellent because he served absolutely no purpose.

Huh. I'm on a strange computer at the moment, so I can't check: does this link lead anywhere useful?

Mike, those were two separate guys. I can't remember the boomerang fish dude's name, but the dynamite guy was like Crazy Harry or something like that.

-There's someone in my head, but it's not me.-

I think his name was like enzo and he threw mackeral?

editted

Whoops I was wrong. Here's the link about all the muppet characters. The fish guy is Lew Zealand and the dynamite guy is Crazy Harry.

I hadn't seen them in forever. This is why the reruns need to be shown again.

He's a PUPPET on a child's show, he doesn't need teeth. :P

Well I wasn't that big a fan of the Muppets. But in honor of founder of this site (who was a HUGE fan of Sesame Street), I'd have to vote for Ernie... (Of Bert and Ernie fame).

Of course Sesame Street is an example of how stupid some of the folk are at PBS. They let the the Children's TV Workshop make ALL the money from Sesame Street, thus ensuring that none of their other shows get funding. Sesame Street alone could've funded PBS and NPR with $$ left over for other things.

Sesame street was Jim Henson creation and he had the muppets. That's why PBS can't own them. And WTF? Sesame Street isn't supposed to fund PBS the viewers are. By providing seseme street commercial free the PBS stations are supposed to be able to have viewers donate money. When's the last time you actually looked at what a PBS station does and how it gets funded?

PBS stations are not a true cohesive commercial network. They are a patchwork collection of stations that can play anything and everything when they want as long as they pay for the licensing rights. Sure they try to keep similar times but in no way are they constrained by it. The PBS station in San Francisco (rich) does not have to share either original programming or money with the PBS station in Carney, NE. So Sesame St would have made only one PBS station rich. And had absolutely nothing to do with NPR!

And what the fuck? You're ranting about PBS and NPR on a muppets thread? Dude that's just messed up.

Blasphemer!

The original Muppet Show, the one that came on in the evenings in the 70s, was absolutely brilliant. Kid friendly, but with enough stuff for the adults to make it hilarious... only the Animaniacs have ever done better with it.

Actually, ParU, I would have figured that you would be a very big fan of Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker...

Yeah Paul I shoulda been, but I was in grad school, getting married, working two jobs and then later in grad school, working 2 jobs and having a little baby run around, so I was kinda, sorta, busy and never watched it.

But it's all good. Cause if I hadn't paid so much attention to my daughter, she probably wouldn't have been reading by 4 and gotten into Berkeley, then been listening out her apt. window and decided to post what she overheard online, and then where'd we be?

I much prefer the characters from the actual Muppets show. Sam the Eagle, Pepé Shrimp, those big fuzzy Wild Things-ish monsters, oh and the grumpy guys in the balcony (Statler and Waldorf), Bunsen and Beaker, Swedish Chef, Gonzo, etc... I love them all.
This is one of my frequent stops on the 'net.
*grin*

Elmo's not a Muppet. He's an empty ball of cuteness rolled inside a massive Zoloft pill in disguise to hide the fact that he's some kind of sick, Tarantino-esque parody of a Muppet, as imagined by someone who's been way overexposed to Hieronymus Bosch paintings.

I find ParU's lack of sense of humor disturbing.

I assume that everyone has heard about the woman holding up the tickle-me-elmo manufacturing line ... caught hand sewing each of the dolls at the end of the line ...she'd been told to give each doll two test tickles.

"Million to one chances happen nine times out of ten"

Elmo in the roll of Mr. Blonde is really quite disturbing. Thanks, Matt.

except when I am.

Besides where do you think Henson got the idea from?

Nothing wrong with a little sects and violins on TV...

no sects in my violins.