September 12, 2013
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I'm trying
I'm trying to get Xanga to be more community-ish. We need more people back here. Spread the word my children. Xanga is still alive. Sure it was on life support for a while there but it's back with slight problems but it's back. What the hell am I saying? Oh, there was this incident that is being kept on the down low. A kid who was home schooled for the first 6 years of his schooling (k-5) had to enroll in the public school because his mother is sick and can't do the teaching. Anyway, the kid is bored in class and asks the teacher if he can go to the library. The teacher said that would be fine. Well the kid is home schooled and has absolutely no clue that the school has its own library. Instead he goes outside, gets on his bike, and bikes to the city library about a half mile away. Well all heck broke loose at the school because they couldn't find the kid. They searched everywhere and then at a recess break he casually puts his bike back on the rack and walks up to the teacher to show her the books he got. Teacher breaks out in laughter. They later took a "field trip" to the school library.
Now, do this survey
List a notable news event from the year you were born
The start of the Iran/Iraq War
U.S. operation to free hostages in Iran fails
Ronald Reagan elected president
John Wayne Gacy executed
John Lennon assassinated
Mt. St. Helens eruptsList a TV show from the year you were born
CNN became the first 24 hour news network
M*A*S*H
Dallas
The Dukes of Hazzard
Taxi
Little House on the Prairie
The $1.98 Beauty ShowList a popular song from the year you were born
The #1 song on the weekend I was born was “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” by QueenList a video game from the year you were born
PacmanList a car from the year you were born
Chevy El CaminoList a movie from the year you were born
The Empire Strikes Back
Superman II
Raging Bull
Heaven’s Gate (the biggest flop in movie history)
Airplane!
Friday the 13th
Caligula (released the week I was born)
The Shining
The Blues Brothers
CaddyshackA notable political figure from the year you were born
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Leonid Brezhnev
Margaret Thatcher
Fidel CastroList 5 TV characters you'd like to get nasty with:
5 Florida Evans from Good Times
I swear Florida had the worst name in TV history. “My name is Florida!” Oh Family Guy, you’re silly! She had to be the kindest woman ever on TV. She was a mother and a wife and after a contract dispute she became a widow. Always putting others before herself. That is what I love in a woman. Also she had to put up with J.J. “Kid Dy-no-mite” on a daily basis. A few years ago on the Howard Stern show, they had John Amos on as a guest. He played Florida’s husband, James Evans, on Good Times. Howard said that John was one of the greatest actors ever and should have won countless awards. John asked why and Howard replied, “Any man who could say that Florida was beautiful deserves an Emmy.” I laughed.#4 Dr. Neela Rasgotra from ER
She listens to punk, she’s sassy, sexy, smart, and she speaks with a British accent. Plus she’s a doctor so I could be a kept man. I can’t stand the sight of blood and to think that she digs around in people’s insides on a daily basis to save their lives…well that makes me…next.#3 Officer Tina Hanlon from The Shield
Something about a female police officer drives me wild. Maybe it is the prospect of being locked up in handcuffs or trying to get out of a ticket through interesting means. Packing the firepower and ridding the streets of criminals is such a turn-on. Oh yeah, she has a thing for older men and I am feeling the more I post that I am getting older. She’s also bi…bilingual.#2 Edith Bunker from All in the Family
She was the sweetest woman and she put up with all of Archie’s nonsense. Edith had a great singing voice. Here’s a strange but true tale: there was a girl at my college that I had many classes with that my roommate and I referred to as Edith because of the similar resemblance. The only difference was the hair. I asked her out but realized that she wasn’t Edith. Oh well.#1 tie Marge Simpson from The Simpsons/ Lois Griffin from Family Guy
I think the biggest thrill for me with these two is that they are both chubby chasers. They both put up with their respective husbands’ incompetent boobery. Both Lois and Marge have kinky sexual tastes; Marge likes to get it on in public and Lois is a dominatrix. It’s a tough choice so I called it a tie.shhhh....I was just trying to see if a post I did a long time ago could be retrieved and get the old copy pasta schtick.
Comments (25)
I was born in 1946 and can't remember anything which was going on then. But I do remember the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports and the 1951 Republican Convention, along with commercials for Hostess Cupcakes and Wonderbread, on our black and white tinytube.
most all the news out of 1946 was probably rebuilding and restructuring after WWII.
Over Labor Day weekend I watched Groucho Marx's gameshow You Bet Your Life. That was so good. He got away with quite a bit.
Unfortunately, Xanga 2.0 went from a daily "high" of 1894 users on Sep 4th to just 476 on Sep 10th. There is a definite downward trend, less now every day. (The daily high on the "old" Xanga over the past year was about 160,000.)
Many of the 476 are users who can't access their blogs and go to the Help page to complain.
Of 800 registered requests for help, 15 have been marked resolved. There are numerous genuine-sounding complaints where people claim they are Premium or have contributed to the Fundraiser but still can't get back on their blog.
Woe is Xanga.
Yeah Xanga really is in dire straits. They really need a devoted staff instead of having to have the popular people go to the Xanga Team with complaints.
ha - I thought you were a bit older. I'll do the survey too
I tend to get that quite a bit. I've lived quite a life so it always seems like I'm older.
List a news event from the year you were born:
Lee surrenders at Appomattox. Happy?
my great-grandpappy was there as part of the Union
I thought my birth WAS the news event of the year?
I should add my birth to the wikipedia page for my birthdate.
Video game from the year I was born ?
HAHAHAHAHAHA - video had not been invented yet... heck we only barely had TV... electric typewriters and computers were still years away. LOL
I remember discovering the wonderful new game, Pong, when I was about oh... maybe 9 or 10.
I know that was a tough one but I think I originally stole that survey from some young'un
I 'recommend' PrincessPowers' comment.
sigh...I miss recs
Pacman!
Interesting selections regarding that first question. Cool survey, good answers; even better reasoning.
Also, good thing that teacher laughed and didn't scold him.
I spent so many hours playing Pacman as a kid but for some odd reason I was better at Ms. Pacman. I think it was because it had more warps.
Glad you enjoyed.
I think you need a huge sense of humor when dealing with kids on a daily basis when they aren't your children otherwise you'd go crazy.
List a notable news event from the year you were born
My parents were married. I was born. Notable to me anyhow.
List a TV show from the year you were born
"Car 54, Where Are You?"
List a popular song from the year you were born
"Big Bad John"
List a video game from the year you were born
"Spacewar" conceived in 1961 but wasn't produced until 1962, at MIT.
List a car from the year you were born
Dodge Dart.
List a movie from the year you were born
"The Absent Minded Professor"
A notable political figure from the year you were born
John F Kennedy
List 5 TV characters you’d like to get nasty with:
Jeanie (I dream of her)
7 of 9 (An 11 out of 10 if you ask me!)
Leela (one eye and all)
Jill Monroe (Now she is an angel)
Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter, could lasso me any time)
Big Bad John...is that how your parents got your name?
Car 54 Where Are You...I love that show. It is so innocent by today's TV police show standards.
7 of 9...YES!
Also Leela...YES! After seeing Kathy Segal in Sons of Anarchy and knowing she did the voice on Futurama, I can't watch her on Married with Children in the same light.
I never liked the libraries in school. I never used it in high school. Thank goodness that my public library is pretty awesome, even if it doesn't have CS Lewis's science fiction trilogy at all (now how the hell am I supposed to read the last book???)
Hmm. I guess I have a survey to do!
I honestly don't think I checked out a book at my high school's library in the 3 years I went there. I used the library daily so I could do homework, study, or read papers and magazines in comfy cushy chairs instead of the desks in study hall that were probably used as torture devices in the Spanish Inquisition.
So copy pasta worked! YAY!


I remember everything you listed...so that must mean I'm old.
I loved Edith Bunker! Greatest character ever!
I love the story of the homeschooled kid!
HUGS!!!
I was born in 1933 due to an accidental pregnancy. lol
We only had radios for entertainment. lol
Loved your very comprehensive list and says more about you than the list--you do not do things half way.
frank
glad you enjoyed, I have downloaded quite a few old time radio programs. I really enjoy them because they made you use your mind to picture what was going on.
I'm doing the RYC thing, which I've never done, but it seems to be the answer to knowing about replies!
I wish, wish, wish, someone who knows something would tell us what in the hell is happening! I wonder if edlives is around? He used to know.
you know, I haven't seen that guy around Xanga or the Xangaforever facebook page. That is sort of interesting.
yeah I really wish they would be more open and telling with us about why certain features aren't accessible or if they are bringing them back.