A few of my favorite things....

[Lorali82]

I LOVE these things. Remember those Magic Eye books? Those rocked.

I did a science experiment on them in middle school. I can't recall exactly what it was I was testing for, but I do remember frustrating a statistically significant number of subjects in my sample size with them.

I also like ViewMasters.

Totally.

How could someone not know about the WIRE HANGERS?

I had to Google it.

 

[rootsfan]

Stereograms

Mummies

The 4th dimension

Ripley's

Visual evidence contradicts your "13-year-old boy" claim, with extreme prejudice. (Hi Lorali!) But yeah, I do dig the stereograms.

 

[blueskies]

Stereograms

You know.. I can't see these things.. I never could..

 

[Ekserb]

I did a science experiment on them in middle school. I can't recall exactly what it was I was testing for, but I do remember frustrating a statistically significant number of subjects in my sample size with them.

I would have been one of them. I cannot see these things as they are intended to be seen.

I can instantly see the ones where I have to cross my eyes, but when I use that technique on these, the 3D effect is reversed - the near parts of the object are far away and the distant parts are close. I can stare at this kind all day and it never pops. It's so frustrating! Everyone else in my family can do it and they tease me for my inability.

Damn you! I've just wasted another ten minutes trying to get this to work. Fuck!

On another topic: Do you know who Groucho Marx is? I mentioned him at work the other day and one of my younger co-workers asked who that was. WTF?!?

 

[blueskies]

I would have been one of them. I cannot see these things as they are intended to be seen.

I can instantly see the ones where I have to cross my eyes, but when I use that technique on these, the 3D effect is reversed - the near parts of the object are far away and the distant parts are close. I can stare at this kind all day and it never pops. It's so frustrating! Everyone else in my family can do it and they tease me for my inability.

Damn you! I've just wasted another ten minutes trying to get this to work. Fuck!

On another topic: Do you know who Groucho Marx is? I mentioned him at work the other day and one of my younger co-workers asked who that was. WTF?!?

I too was teased by my family for my inability..

And yes, I do know who Groucho Marx is. Loved him & his brothers!

 

[bluebell]

Dirty Birds

And of course, when you did see them, the extreme weirdness of them must have immediately impressed itself on you. Whereas I, having grown up with these things, only realized comparatively recently that they are seriously wacked out.

It is kind of funny, though, when you grow up and watch movies/TV shows you loved as a kid and see just how much "bad stuff" was in there that you never knew about.
Case-in-point: Pee Wee's Playhouse.
Do you know how many homo-erotic jokes there are? Crazy!
Makes me love Paul Rubens for getting away with it.

How could someone not know about the WIRE HANGERS?

I have no idea.
Maybe certain things fly at people and stick and others just don't.
I mean, I certainly wouldn't call Lorali uncultured by any stretch and yet...no wire hangers for NO WIRE HANGERS!

I mourned when they redesigned the game. It's so not the same.

I know. Blasphemy.

 

[bluebell]

Duck Soup with a side salad

Damn you! I've just wasted another ten minutes trying to get this to work. Fuck!

One of Lorali's many gifts.
She is quite Siren-like. You'd better watch out or you'll end up dead.

On another topic: Do you know who Groucho Marx is? I mentioned him at work the other day and one of my younger co-workers asked who that was. WTF?!?

That's so wrong. So wrong.

 

[Ekserb]

That's so wrong. So wrong.

I know! I mean, I grew up in the Seventies and Eighties, but I've seen The Little Rascals (some may refer to them as Our Gang) and The Three Stooges, even though these movies were produced in the Twenties, Thirties, Forties and Fifties.

Have kids for the past fifteen years been raised on nothing but video games? Whatever happened to plopping your kids down in front of the TV for a few hours while the adults make dinner or clean the house?

Hmmm. Maybe they still do that, but the kids watch only MTV and rot their brains with hip hop music and Pimp My Ride.

How many kids would bring a gun to school if they only realized the simple pleasures of a clever "nyuk, nyuk, nyuk" every now and then?

 

[Daizie]

How many kids would bring a gun to school if they only realized the simple pleasures of a clever "nyuk, nyuk, nyuk" every now and then?

That never gets old. Makes me laugh everytime.

 

[Britwitch]

I have a few...

* That moment in a theatre when the lights go down and there is silence...no music, no speaking, no irritating crinkling of candy wrappers...it's magical...

* When one of my students says or does something that I know they have learnt from me...makes me feel like I must be doing something right...

* The smell after the first Spring rains...almost like damp dirt but somehow fresher and so very invigorating...

* A good old thunderstorm!

* And I guess a combination of the two before...walking in the rain without an umbrella or a jacket...I love it!

 

[sutherngent985]

The old Tarzan movies from the 30s with Johnny Wiesmuller

When I'm bowling and everything comes together in one frame...my release is perfect and the sight and sound of the ball striking is magical

Watching my son play his Gameboy and seeing the expressions on his face as he plays.

When something I just had in pieces and rebuilt is turned on and it works...I am still amazed after all these years.

Cuddling with the woman I love...almost nothing else comes close.

 

[Lorali82]

One of Lorali's many gifts.
She is quite Siren-like. You'd better watch out or you'll end up dead.

I can't sing so I choose brain aneurysm via Magic Eye as an acceptable death-lure alternative.

 

[bluebell]

Lor, you're sick and I love it.

I can't sing so I choose brain aneurysm via Magic Eye as an acceptable death-lure alternative.

Well, you've already got one poor schlub washed up on the rocks. <eyeballs Ekserb>

 

[QreeSRdr]

I can't sing so I choose brain aneurysm via Magic Eye as an acceptable death-lure alternative.

Imagine a magic eye of erotic images. Now that would be kickin'.

Did anyone every try to find patterns in their furniture as a kid? I remember doing that like my couches were some kind of magic eye thing. It was really weird.

And to answer that question about kids playing nothing but video games... yes, they do that if they are allowed to. I just found out I have a cousin (by marriage) that can master almost any computer game out there within hours but couldn't tell you anything about modern news and events (or sports or women or ...). Poor bastard. At least I lurk around here every now and again looking for 'cultured' women and the what not.

PS Hey lorali, how you been?

EDIT | I meant to actually use that quote when I originally posted (I am tired, please forgive me). Anyway, I can see myself being lured into death by a magic eye that you are luring me with. Yeah, that is what I meant to say.

 

[swingsncarousels]

(How about we make it interesting by not referring to fucking, sucking, jerking off, or anything otherwise sexually related. We all know how nice sex is - there's no need to state the obvious.)

Well! That kind of restricts the domain doesn't it?

Hey - there are *aspects* of sex that take one to cloud nine, and go *way* beyond just "fucking, sucking, jerking off"! There are shades and dimensions - whole *new* dimensions....

How about the sight of one's wife in the throes of orgasm under her lover?

How about the sight of her prettiest place just pollinated with his seed?

How about knowing that at that moment she is *fertile*?

How about loving and rearing the fruit of that union, because the child came out of *her*?

Man, you'd be amazed at what scope there is to the open end of sex, when there's true love driving it....

But if you *insist* on me leaving out the best things in my life, - um - olive and anchovy dip when stoned on good grass. And you think that's *interesting*?

;-D

swingsn..

 

[monique1971]

Well! That kind of restricts the domain doesn't it?

Hey - there are *aspects* of sex that take one to cloud nine, and go *way* beyond just "fucking, sucking, jerking off"! There are shades and dimensions - whole *new* dimensions....

How about the sight of one's wife in the throes of orgasm under her lover?

How about the sight of her prettiest place just pollinated with his seed?

How about knowing that at that moment she is *fertile*?

How about loving and rearing the fruit of that union, because the child came out of *her*?

Um. Is this post autobiographical?

<at a loss for words>

 

[swingsncarousels]

Um. Is this post autobiographical?

<at a loss for words>

Of course.

Would anyone make up such things? *Could* anyone make up such things?

;-)

swingsn..

 

[PussyMistress]

The feeling of soft satin nightie as it touches my skin.
The hugs of my children on a stressful day.
Watching my children grow each day and hearing them laugh and play and seeing their smiles each day more than worth living for.
Knowing that despite my oldest son's challenges in life that he will face them and find even if it's a few friends that will accept him for who he is.
Hearing my youngest son call me "Princess Peach" with a bright angelic smile on his face.
Lying in bed listening to my music and reading.

 

[Lorali82]

Well, you've already got one poor schlub washed up on the rocks. <eyeballs Ekserb>

I hope to at the very least make blood shoot out of his eye sockets again.

 

[Lorali82]

Imagine a magic eye of erotic images. Now that would be kickin'.

I totally Googled for some when I was looking for a stereogram site to link in my post back there. I'm sure they exist, but I couldn't find any.

 

[Ekserb]

I hope to at the very least make blood shoot out of his eye sockets again.

My girls wouldn't like that very much.

 

[RedVixen]

the feel of my orange cat curled against me (or on my head) as he sleeps... he's my buddy...

 

[chair92]

Nice thread.
My personal favourite is the moment when I first push off from the beach in
my sea kayak at about 6:30 am on a cold Sunday morning.
In Australia our winters a mild, there is still a cold edge to the water as you paddle from the beach to the ocean and head up the coast.
Some mornings the ocean is as flat as pool table and the sun is just spinning colours on the water.

Inside the Kayak my legs are warm under a neopreen skirt. On these mornings when the ocean is flat each paddle stroke makes the boat glide forever.

You can't manufacture mornings like this, you just have to get in the water and take it as it comes.

Some mornings you get out of the boat with white salty eyebrows from a killer swell that pounded you and the kayak all the way home.

The trick is to keep getting on the boat and apreciating the good days.

 

[Ekserb]

This makes me smile.

Not so much the obvious pain of the drunk bastards getting pelted by cans and bottles, but the crowd's audible winces whenever a missile hits the target. You can just feel the crowd's pleasure as they collectively groan and chuckle.

Plus, there is something so satisfying about seeing a nearly full can of beer explode in a cloud of foam as it bounces off some idiot's head.

I could watch this over and over all day long.

 

[ScootNKit]

My 13 month old's smile, laugh & facial expressions. Priceless!

Agreed! Mine has learned to say "mommy" and I can't get enough.

cold sheets on naked skin
lotsa free time and a clean house. (I love when I have nothing to do)
Waking up early and realizing I still have an hour of sleep.