[HPFGU-OTChatter] I feel so old....

[Mary Jennings]

Rachel wrote:

>He'd not heard of Schoolhouse Rock.  And neither had three
>other of my students.
>
>I didn't realize they didn't play them anymore.  They were
>such a staple in my childhood.  Saturday mornings, on ABC.
>Interjection.....Lolly, Lolly, Lolly.....I'm Just A
>Bill....Conjunction Junction....etc.  I really learned
>quite a bit from those cartoons.

:::::bounces up and down:::::  Ooh, freaky!  I was describing these cartoons 
to an English friend just the other day.  I watched Saturday morning 
cartoons on American channels (from Plattsburg and Vermont, I think) when I 
was a kid in Montreal.  You're right, they were just wonderful, though the 
American history ones didn't help me any in school, of course.  Imagine what 
kids today could learn from these.

>I should bring in my Grammar Rocks or History Rocks
>videotapes and make these guys watch them!

They'll learn more from these than any textbook!

>Then again, this is the same guy who said "I wasn't born
>when Return of the Jedi came out.  So Star Wars didn't form
>my childhood like it did yours."

I'll tell you how I found out the hard was that I was no longer a 
teenager...I heard a song on a Golden Oldies radio station that I can 
clearly remember being in the charts.  It was "When Will I See You Again" by 
the Three Degrees, and I can still see myself sitting next to our huge 
wooden radio listening to this song.  I was about 25 when I heard it as a 
Golden Oldie, and I was thoroughly depressed for the rest of the day.

>Gee....where's the line to pick up my Social Security
>check?  Wait...can't find my walker.  So nevermind.

And then we can go shop for some nice cardigans and woollen pleated skirts, 
OK?  By the way, I love your blue rinse ;)

Mary Ann
(only 33 but going grey already...and proud owner every Abba 
record...original, of course)

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