Here is a flashback to the past... I confess to having watched this game show. But my true waste of time was to read the magazine published by William M. Gaines, the infamous publisher of Mad magazine...
I fear that kids today don't have the privilege of wasting time on satire and humour. Instead they are too busy either shooting up/blowing up things on video games or too busy in the basement with Internet porn. Woe is us! What is to become of us since the current generation has no access to the evils of time wasting and tom foolery!
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I think I posted once about some Mad magazine thing or another and then deleted it for some reason... We were talking about it the other day and wondering why we didn't take better care of our "collection". I was remembering a Don Martin Dept. about the first time alone in the rest room. The Kid washes his hands and follows the directions on the hand towel dispenser to the letter..
I wish kids were wasting time on satire, but I admit that my boys have a terrific sense of humor and love satire. They re-watch Monte Python movies all the time and love Jon Stewart.
I wonder if we read the same Mad magazine issues?
Thomas: It is good to see that we share the same "sophisticated" tastes. But I suspect our days as avid readers of Mad don't overlap. I'm guessing I was reading the stuff 15 years before you did. Like most kids, I had to give up my addiction when I went off to college because I no longer had the time to savour the humour in the academic hothouse of college.
I enjoyed the video clip because it reminded me of my time-wasting youth when I watched TV programs like To Tell the Truth and when I had my collections of comic books and Mad magazine, my model building, my kite flying, and all those other distractions of youth. Now that I'm a wizened old fart, I've graduated to more "acceptable" time-wasting activities like web surfing, blogging, and reading trashy novels. Oh... wait a second, you are doing the same thing. Does that mean you are ready to "graduate" to old fart status as well? Quick, grab some old Mad magazines and pretend that youth is eternal!
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