Random Thoughts VIII: The Ocho
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I am so old I saw this as a first run in the theater back in Manchester as a little boy. I was only six but have a very vivid memory of watching it and trying to shoot the "bad" wolf with the little machine gun on the toy WWII landing boat I had with me. We were sitting in the right rows section about halfway back and I ended up losing the little machine gun in the dark theater and we couldn't find it. Drama! Have disliked sad movie scenes ever since.
Years ago I knew a guy that caught a bat in his house. He had it wrapped in a towel and was trying to get it out a window. He got bit just as he was getting it out and thought "oh no" as that thing flew away. He should have just thrown the whole darn towel out the window.Poor thing - probably best to put it out of its misery. I pity the people doing the shots. A family of friends in Ames who live in one of the Victorians in the historical district south of Mary Greeley had bat issues in their eaves & occassionally indoors. The whole family had to take prophylactic shots once. I don't remember the exact circumstances - something about they found a dead bat indoors that tested positive for rabies and couldn't be sure that rabies hadn't been transmitted to them through an open wound or saliva. That was about 25 years ago...so the shots may be different now. They went in the stomach back then, iirc, and there were several, spaced out over a few days. They were also very painful shots. With a couple of kids in preschool, early elementary ages, you can imagine how FUN that was.
Edit: the way the quote function works now, it looked like I was advocating for putting a healthy fox down.
First saw it on Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.I am so old I saw this as a first run in the theater back in Manchester as a little boy. I was only six but have a very vivid memory of watching it and trying to shoot the "bad" wolf with the little machine gun on the toy WWII landing boat I had with me. We were sitting in the right rows section about halfway back and I ended up losing the little machine gun in the dark theater and we couldn't find it. Drama! Have disliked sad movie scenes ever since.
Ok yeah, you're right. I was thinking of it on a small scale, and not the whole assignment. That's why I was confused
Apple Dumpling Gang was my first movie in a theater - most likely the same theater as Boxster. We never went to the movie theater but I was invited to my friend Scott's 9th birthday party and we got to go to a movie!
I am so old I saw this as a first run in the theater back in Manchester as a little boy. I was only six but have a very vivid memory of watching it and trying to shoot the "bad" wolf with the little machine gun on the toy WWII landing boat I had with me. We were sitting in the right rows section about halfway back and I ended up losing the little machine gun in the dark theater and we couldn't find it. Drama! Have disliked sad movie scenes ever since.
I remember watching it as a young lad on the Disney Sunday Night Movie or whatever it was called. I hid behind the couch to cry when Old Yeller died.First saw it on Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.
I also nodded and agreed when Bill Murray asked who cried watching Old Yeller in Stripes.
I don't remember my first "in theater" movie. I don't think it was the first one, but I remember my mother taking us to see "My Fair Lady". Years later I found out that the surprise treat was because my father had apparently imbibed at the office party (my parents weren't tee-totalers, but they didn't drink much) and they didn't want us to see him drunk (or even tipsy). 
The theater in our town had Saturday afternoon double features (all G rated) for a quarter. Our parents would drop us off, go shopping, and then pick us up after the movie. Movies were a treat, so nearly all the kids filling the theater were actually sitting and watching the movies. The ones that didn't were made to sit in the lobby, and their parents were informed that their behavior was unwelcome. Usually meant an unhappy trip home...
The theater in our town had Saturday afternoon double features (all G rated) for a quarter. Our parents would drop us off, go shopping, and then pick us up after the movie. Movies were a treat, so nearly all the kids filling the theater were actually sitting and watching the movies. The ones that didn't were made to sit in the lobby, and their parents were informed that their behavior was unwelcome. Usually meant an unhappy trip home...
I can't absolutely remember the first movie I ever saw in a theater. We rarely (basically never) went. I am guessing it was either Sound of Music or Gone with the Wind.
I remember getting up in The Sound of Music went the camera panned up to the bells after they got married because I thought it was over. Little did I know there was about another hour to go.
I think that may have been my first movie too. However, it could have been Escape to Witch Mountain.
The first movie I remember watching in theaters was Star Wars Episode I. I haven't watched it in years, and I plan to keep it that way since I remember it being really cool, and I don't want to shatter that memory.
T -7 days until I can send 3 of 4 children on that glorious yellow vehicle which will whisk them away to a palace where there are angels dressed as teachers to educate them for 7 hours (plus another 1 total on the bus). Not excited at all. 
I think this is the most depressing thing I have read all day. Don't tell me the year.
T -7 days until I can send 3 of 4 children on that glorious yellow vehicle which will whisk them away to a palace where there are angels dressed as teachers to educate them for 7 hours (plus another 1 total on the bus). Not excited at all.
My favorite day of the year is first day of school. House of 5 becomes house of me. Beautiful thing.
The KC you know now is not the KC from my high school days. Despite spending a large portion of my childhood in the Seattle area, my parents were very strict when it came to behavior. I was a proper southern girl ...yes, sir, no ma'am, minded my parents, didn't sass my teachers, didn't date until I was 16 (and even then it was mostly group dates). I had my first real boyfriend/girlfriend dating relationship as a sophomore in college. Meh. It is what it is.
For the life of me I can't remember the first movie I saw in the theater. I do distinctly remember seeing Batman (Michael Keaton version) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? at the Drive-In, I must have been 11.
I do remember seeing Sister Act at the theater, I'd have been 14, on a "date", but that couldn't have been my first time in a theater... I think
I do remember seeing Sister Act at the theater, I'd have been 14, on a "date", but that couldn't have been my first time in a theater... I think
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