Here is an email I sent to Rhino: "I recently bought the Gumby boxset and nearly threw up at what you did to the series. For reasons that can only be attributed to severe mental retardation and brain damage, or just a callous disregard, the powers-that-be at Rhino had the sheer gall to eliminate the original Gumby theme song and replace it with some bland soulless aural-feces. It's truly incomprehensible as to why anyone would do this. You also redid the voices and sound effects which were a signature of the series. Some of the charm of Gumby were the voices and great sound effects. It almost makes the episodes in this DVD box set unwatchable, knowing how great they were originally. It's a tragedy that the Gumby episodes will be forever preserved in this repulsive manner. I really think Rhino owes Gumby fans an apology for this mishandling of this classic." ............ And here is their response: "Dear Mr. Cohen, I apologize for the tardiness of this response and am sorry that you are disappointed with this release. We were not able to license the original voices & music, so the elements from the sydicated (sic) re-runs in the 80s were used. If you would like to return your boxed set for a refund, please send it to:" yadda yadda.............So, now we know the reasons. Sad to say the least. For hardcore fans, hunt down the VHS episodes (not the Rhino releases, obviously), which are readily available on Ebay and Half.com. The quality of the videos vary, but at least you get to see the show as close to as it was meant to be seen.

In memory of Miss Cantankerous :

i have decided to bring grunge back just for one day due to laziness.

Leave grunge dead, call yourself a crustie.

this thread has inspired my new film in many ways.

I try to rep just about everything that you post and the board won't let me.

instead, I will use this space to say that yr awesome.

don't ever leave us.

i am honored.

Hey cool, Daily Record.

While typing this, I am currently doing a handstand, and taking a dump.

Pull on your flip-flops and lets go shopping dear,
Pull on your flip-flops, we'll go flip-flopping dear.
There's plently of petrol in the car.
We'll go shopping, not too far.
When we were young, we would go flip hopping dear,
We'd be pill popping from there was no stopping dear.
We'd be pill popping from there was no stopping dear.
But right now I think I'd rather go shopping dear.
Let's go shopping dear.
We can cast away our fears.
Let's go shopping dear.
You know the shops are really near.
Pull on your flip-flops and lets go shopping dear,
Pull on your flip-flops, we'll go flip-flopping dear.
You can buy crisps and I can buy jam.
You can push the trolley, I'll push the pram.
Let's go shopping dear.
We can cast away our fears.
Let's go shopping dear.
You know the shops are really near.

Why don't hipsters learn? The 'stache wasn't cool on anyone but Steve Prefontaine and Burt Reynolds.

Because they're fucking hipsters and they should be rounded up and fed fugu

b'awwww

Speaking of fugu, Iron Chef, Rice battle, right now.

I am so pumped for my Lit exam tomorrow. Like, overly pumped, i.e.: if exams were a person, I'd probably jump them and put them in a stranglehold, screaming "AAAAAW YEAH BRING IT, FOO'."

CHARLES DICKENS, YR GOIN' DOWN.

I never had to read Charles Dickens...I'm not sad in the least.

GOOD. Don't be sad at all. Be glad you've been SPARED.

Dickens and Hawthorne both suck in my opinion.

My entire junior english class (except 3 or 4 Poe things, a Faulker short work (maybe a speech of his), The Lottery, and the Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge) was about Puritans in Literature. That was Honors fucking Junior English. We read some much about the fucking puritans I thought I was going to explode, the teacher even had a fucking 6-foot mock gallows in her classroom.

The Scarlet Letter is horrible, and Dickens is bollocks.

I'm trying to remember, I know we read:
Sinners in the hands of an Angry God
Young Goodman Brown
Scarlet Letter
The Crucible
various little things about puritans and a few more sermons

Fuck it all.

God I know. I got through the first chapter and I had to put it down for fear of killing everyone I knew including myself.

Oh, and she wouldn't let us say "whore' while reading Crucible in class, and got pissed at me when I said it or any variant of "damn". I had to read the part of the witchhunter preacher dude.

The version we read didn't even have those words in there. Fuck censorship.

I was the witchhunter preacher dude too! Last year.

... that was a great class, actually. Non-elective English this year was pretty lame in comparason. I got to say damn, and chill out on a beanbag listening to Doolittle and Goo. And my final was doing some David Bowie art project. And didn't read the Scarlet Letter! There was some wack Vietnam novel, and Catcher in the Rye. The only thing that sucked was Arthur Miller...

/nerdy nostalgia

i'm mike watt, all i eat is squid, raaaaaah

My senior english dual-enroll for 6 hours college credit. We read things like The Important of Being Earnest, Macbeth and Gullivers. Our 'big' project was to write an essay on a banned or challenge book. I tried doing it on East of Eden, but couldn't find enough sources, so I ended up doing it on both A Clockwork Orange and 1984. Senior year was fucking great for reading, other than those I read, of my own according: The whole Hitchhiker's Guide, Catcher in the Rye, Grapes of Wrath, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and a couple of other books. Amazing.

you must spread some rep...

all of those books are fantastic.

I also tried reading Ulysses for the first time but got 100 pages or so in and then I blew a gasket.

Other than the books and graduating, senior year sucked major cock.

/bitching

Irrelevant:
I have a 4-piece Batman Pez dispenser set.

yes.

i am new i dont know any of you and im happy being shirtless.

thank god it's the last harvest of the season.

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