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posted by Francesco Marciuliano at 10:30 AM
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I side more with the empiricists than the rationalists. To me, rationalists have the same basic flaws as, say, fundamentalists, only they have replaced the idea of "heaven" as a means of transcending mortality with the idea of "truth." The light of the human mind shines only for the human mind, it illuminates nothing else. What is real is what exists and can be perceived outside of it.
And I'm definitely serving Ho Ho Pudding at my next party.
Veronica! She is so roadside!
big wheel. definitely the big wheel.
I'm all about the Intellivision, G.
Green Machine in a landslide. The chopper-esque stylings, the unique rear-wheel steering mechanism... holy crap, what a thing of beauty. Still reigns in my memory as the Greatest Christmas Present Ever.
I'm going to have to choose door number three and go with the Little Debbie "Swiss Cake Rolls"
Why must I choose between Atari and Intellivision when the answer is clearly Colecovision?
Swiss Cake Rolls taste worse than Vegemite, my friend. Egh. (And I think I actually still have that Ron Guidry card from the box somewhere too...but, alas, not the HoHo.)
I second the Big Wheel!! When I got one with the hand brake that let you slide/crash/scab yourself from head to toe I went crazy and would've slept on it if my parents had let me.
I knew there would be dissenters. I just figured it would be from the "Zoom" or "New Zoo Review" lobbies.
I didn't even know anyone with a green machine, were they more expensive or something?
Ho-Hos for sure
Electric company
Veronica
Atari
Intellivision except when my brother would hit 1 & 9 to pause it if my running back got free in football, then I'd have to hit 1 & 9 to un-pause it and we would repeat this until he tackled my guy.
Matchbox. Substance over style.
Big Wheel until my brother insisted I ride him on the handle bars and the front wheel broke off.
Ho-Ho's. Yodels taste like wax. Chocolatey was, but still wax.
Sesame Street vs. Electric Company? Push. Would love a Super Grover/Spider-Man teamup (with a special appearance by Easy Reader).
Veronica. She'll break your heart but it'll be worth it. Betty is so suffocating.
I'll have to go with Empiricism, though both were useful in settling the Yodels/Ho-Ho's debate.
Atari
Daytona, Indianapolis and Bonneville / Hot Wheels are always racing, and they always will
neither
Ho-Hos - without pimp-pimps
Electric Company - Easy Reader, Letter-man, Fargo North: Decoder - and what about Naomi?
Veronica, oh oh oh
Jungians
I don't understand the Veronica love.
She's rich, yet demands Archie pay for everything. Once they're out of high school she'll realize he's always going to be dopey-cute and middle class, and drop him like a beat.
Betty, on the other hand, is just as hot, has an equally nice rack (she just doesn't dress so skanky), and is clearly far more suited for Arch. She's fun, adventurous, down to earth. She's the girl from all the country songs. Veronica's going to go through more husbands than JLo.
intelitari
hotbox
big green
ho-dels
electric street
jem
darwinism
what`s all the fuss about??
"I don't understand the Veronica love.
neither do I, she's too high maintenance. I am a Betty fan.
While Veronica is indeed high-maintenance and asking for trouble, she conforms to the irrational love-on I've got for brunettes.
So I'd take Veronica, even though I'd be paying for it in many more ways than one.
"Yodels are frosted, cream-filled cakes that are made by the Drake's company and are distributed on the east coast of the United States."
No wonder I've never heard of them. Damn East Coast bias. Oh well, I like the Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls anyways.
Rationalism vs. empiricism. Can't we all just get along? Surely we can all agree that there is something innate in human consciousness, even if it is nothing more than a cognitive disposition to learn. And a 'universal' truth is meaningless if it cannot be independently verified; as the truth is universal, it cannot be.
And what about zingers? No zingers?
As a brunette, I have to side with Veronica. If I were her, I'd be fleecing every cent out of that two-timing jerk Archie.
I do feel for Betty, though; in that picture, her bloated cheeks remind me of myself when I got my wisdom teeth removed 5 years ago...
Further, the clear winner of consoles has to be the Intellivision, as long as the Intelli-voice is hooked up. B... 17... BOMBER!!!
Morgan Freeman will always be "Easy Reader" to me..
Obviously, "The New Zoo Revue" trumps all. Mainly because Betty Jo was waaaay hotter than any of the "Archies" girls.
Oops...I meant Emmy Jo.
*cough*
I think the images here rather tilt the vote Veronica's way, no? And to shift the terrain slightly, what about the bizarre "Ding-Dongs"/"King Dons" thing? Finally: New Zoo Revue is...odd, while Zoom is just E-vil (they're all Republicans now, guaranteed...).
Here's what Doug and Emmy Jo are up to these days, by the way. Click on 'production team' and you should be able to see their pictures:
http://www.lagunaproductions.net/interior.html
As a kid i had neither the big wheel nor the green machine. But i did have a big wheels-type rider that had a mounted battery powered squirt gun on the front. It was detachable and everything. When it was attached to the bike there was a trigger on the handlebars to use...
ah, those were the days.
unfortunately I have no idea what this dream machine was called. if anyone knows what I'm talking about could you let me know? sentimentality needs a title here.
Was the one with the squirtgun called the "Night Rider Big Wheel"?
In any case, go to this link for "adult" sized Big Wheels!
Adult Big Wheels
Here we go:
1) Atari rocked! I remember selling a gazillion boxes of candy back in elementary school with my sister and we won one. Most of the people gave us the candy, too. Coolest. Year. Ever.
2) Hot Wheels. My grandmother, who refused to buy toys, bought me a Hot Wheels track because she blew two hours in J.L. Hudson's toy department playing with one and having one hell of a time. Only toy she ever bought me.
3) Green Machine, but sadly I had an off brand Big Wheel. Sigh....
4) Neither. Hostess chocolate cup cakes would be the right answer. Hostess Cup Cakes.
5) Sesame Street totally! Even my dad, a strong, silent Fred Williamson type was totally into Super Grover.
6) Betty. Veronica reminds me too much of the stuck-popular girls who picked on me in middle school.
7)What? No cynicism? Damn....
Veronica is hotter, but the situation is easily remedied:
Betty: Couldn't you like me, just me the way I am? When we first started out, it was so good; w-we had fun. And... and then you started in on the clothes. Well, I'll wear the darn clothes if you want me to, if, if you'll just, just like me.
Archie: The color of your hair...
Betty: Oh, no!
Archie: Betty, please, it can't matter to you.
Are you implicitly trying to EQUATE Ho-Hos and Hot Wheels and The Electric Company WITH Cartesian Rationalism?
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