This post started off as a trip down memory lane.
Then it became a question.
Then a bit of an obsession.
Now I’m just wondering what important information is lost in my brain to make room for ’70s TV memories.<\/p>\n
I’m talking about that old Sesame Street cartoon where the lady has her kid go to the store, and the kid spends the whole time repeating “a loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter”. First off, it seems to me that there was either more to the list, or more to the kid’s rhyme. But those three have been validated through Google, so I’ll believe it. (I forgot that it was a “container” of milk, though thats understandable, since I don’t think I’ve referred to it as a “container” of milk ever. And I had thought there were eggs involved. Oh well.) <\/p>\n
Here comes the first question. About half the websites (mostly blog entries) I found referred to it as a boy, the other half as a little girl. I distinctly remember it as being a boy. An inner city black (as African-Americans were called in the ’70s) kid dodging all kinds of distractions to get his bread, milk and butter. Maybe this would be better served as a poll question, but which was it? A boy or a girl?<\/p>\n
Next question. Pete<\/A> and I agreed to remember that one of the distractions on the street was a pimp. I’m sticking to that memory, but reading my research, I’m wondering if I might have my Sesame Street sketches confused. That and a little Simpsons thrown in. We ALL remember young Homer being chased through the streets of NYC by a pimp, and I know that it happened in Sesame Street, too, but one post I read (which I was either too dense or too ignorant to copy the link) flashed back to the boy’s dream where he gets lost and meets a man that morphs into all kinds of things to help him get back home. THAT, I believe, was a pimp. Now I’m even more lost.<\/p>\n So now I’m figuring out my next step. I really wish it was as easy as getting a movie clip of the “stick of butter” sketch, though that might not answer my pimp question, so I’d need the morphing sketch too. Ah, maybe I’ll just dig out that Simpsons episode and forget all about it. <\/p>\n It IS, after all, the weekend!<\/p>\n ADDED: I can’t believe I forgot this link<\/A>! Seems this chick remembers the “stick of butter” sketch, which is cool. But she’s of the “it was a girl” memory. Not cool. Anyway, what got MY attention is the post about her “sex with David Spade” dreams. I think it was this line:<\/p>\n “I don’t like the annoying needy, nerdy, whiny qualities of his character on Just Shoot Me.”<\/p>\n …or those EXACT SAME qualities in EVERY OTHER character he’s ever done. <\/p>\n There. Now its the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This post started off as a trip down memory lane.Then it became a question.Then a bit of an obsession.Now I’m just wondering what important information is lost in my brain to make room for ’70s TV memories. I’m talking about that old Sesame Street cartoon where the lady has her kid go to the store, … Continue reading 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12<\/span>