{"id":313,"date":"2005-02-10T12:25:59","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T17:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=313"},"modified":"2005-02-10T12:25:59","modified_gmt":"2005-02-10T17:25:59","slug":"useless-crap-for-200-alex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Useless crap for $200, Alex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been remembering WAY too much worthless crap from more than a decade ago, lately. Alot of it started with a random conversation with <a href=\"http:\/\/site.angrypete.net\">Pete<\/a> that included references to &#8220;The Wonder Years&#8221;, &#8220;Mr. Belvedere&#8221;, &#8220;Get A Life&#8221; and &#8220;E\/R&#8221; (of course, not the ripped from the headlines drama Thursday nights on NBC, rather the &#8217;80s sitcom featuring a young George Clooney &#8211; who had yet to star as the handsome maintenance man aptly named &#8220;George&#8221; on &#8220;Facts of Life&#8221; &#8211;  as well as Elliot Gould, Jason Alexander and the &#8220;big redheaded lady that&#8217;s been in everything who&#8217;s name isn&#8217;t Edie McClurg&#8221;, Conchata Ferrell), but then it got worse. <\/p>\n<p>Lately, everytime I think of the &#8220;LiveStrong&#8221; bracelets that are quite the fashion\/political statement these days, and the 15 other multi-colored bracelets that support everything from breast cancer to &#8220;hey, I need a green one to support something I&#8217;ve never heard of and to match my sweater&#8221;, I think of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecity.com\/lavender\/fullmonty\/820\/SBTB\/Season-1\/9.12.htm\">this<\/a>.  What would Zack Morris do if he had a crusade to fight today? <\/p>\n<p>Then yesterday at work, completely out of the blue, I belt out (in my head, but it was belted) &#8220;BOOGER!&#8221; in the same Dr. Johnny Fever voice from WKRP in Cincinnati. Which, in turn, leads me to thinking about the early years of &#8220;Head of the Class&#8221;, with a sparkly, and not yet tossed around a million dollar mansion, Robin Givens, and later featured that Irish\/Scottish sounding guy who I recognized on something a few weeks ago, Billy Connelly. <\/p>\n<p>I swear, my head is just like the old HBO show &#8220;Dream On&#8221;, but cooler.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFinally, late last night, it was over (not really &#8220;over&#8221;, because I&#8217;ll never get the obscure TV references out of my head). I either hit the pinnacle, or the bottom of the hole. Three words at <a href=\"\nhttp:\/\/www.sugarmrpoon.com\/comments.php?id=4060_0_1_0_C\">Sugar, Mr. Poon?<\/a> sent me over the edge. In response to a post that pretty much just said &#8220;Cuyahoga Sheet Metal&#8221;, which its bad enough that I (or ANYONE) can remember that as the company that answered the phone when Jake Taylor (Tom Berenger) called the phone number Lynn (Rene Russo) gave him in the fancy-ass restaurant in &#8220;Major League&#8221;, but I remember the phone number. <\/p>\n<p>555-1934.<\/p>\n<p>How freaking obscure is that? Seriously. I don&#8217;t see many movies, really, I do tend to stick to my favorites, and that would be would be one of the favorites, but to remember a fake phone number, without having to rack my brain at all? <\/p>\n<p>Its just sick.  Really, really sick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been remembering WAY too much worthless crap from more than a decade ago, lately. Alot of it started with a random conversation with Pete that included references to &#8220;The Wonder Years&#8221;, &#8220;Mr. Belvedere&#8221;, &#8220;Get A Life&#8221; and &#8220;E\/R&#8221; (of course, not the ripped from the headlines drama Thursday nights on NBC, rather the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=313\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Useless crap for $200, Alex<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}