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22 Mar 2008, 8:22 pm

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For those of you who are used to living in an aspie type household. I have a secret to share- a household of aspies is exhausting. Two boys have to share stragegies for hours when they are playing Age of Empires, and Ubby3 has to report to me every so often about the latest development. Youngest Liam has long monologues too and HAS to go to the beach NOW!

Helen is changing to aspie before my eyes. SHe has a perseveration at the moment - making alternate movies for U tube to reply to a certain group - a powerful lobby group that SPEAKS for others. Or she is in frenetic activity riding bikes with the boys, rowing with the boys, swimming with the boys ...

In my day, children were seen and not heard! And daughers of the age knew their place!

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22 Mar 2008, 11:11 pm

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Okay, I officially get to feel old now.

Our cable system carries CBUT, even though we're in the States. I found an episode of "Pinky Dinky Doo", one of 'Ganas favorite programs, airing on there this morning (for those unaware of it, it follows the tales a little girl named Pinky Dinky Doo tells her little brother, Tyler, illustrated inside the Story Box). After it was over, she came to me with the remote, wanting more. Unfortunately, there aren't any episodes in the On Demand lineup, nor recorded on our DVR (and the TV upstairs, where she was watching it, doesn't have a DVR box anyway).

And I started in with, "Hey, kid, be happy you've got a DVR at all!" And then, the ol' inner voice went into the Old Man Monologues: "When I was your age, we didn't have this fancy-schmancy cable! We had to use an aerial, and we only got three channels - four on a good day! And the fourth one was always snowy! And we were happy to have it, I tells ya! Didn't have no DVRs, either! If we wanted to watch a show again, we'd have to wait for the rerun! Now git offa my virtual lawn, ya video brats!"

"BEFORE we had TV, little children used to go outside to play all day. They made their OWN fun, not waiting on the idiot-box to do it for them!...."

Oy.

Before we had tv, we had radio shows like the Lone Ranger.

I love collecting them. They tell a good story sometimes and otherwise feel like I'm stepping into a different time period.

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22 Mar 2008, 11:13 pm

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Managed to sleep for 6 hours. Might be a little mania kicking in. Trouble is, when you get older, and have health issues, it isn't fun anymore. Just makes it hard to sleep!

hey, did you catch the link I posted in the cafe last night?

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22 Mar 2008, 11:16 pm

Nannarob, that place is supposed to be in the kitchen making dinner, right (j/k)?

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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23 Mar 2008, 12:27 am

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hrumphhh! and a half.....Remember when all the men had the same first name: Mister, and all
the women had the same first name Missus....them were the days.

ma'am. I live in the NorthWest where they call misses ma'am. and the first names were 'yes, ma'am' and 'no, ma'am'

Merle

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23 Mar 2008, 12:44 am

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hrumphhh! and a half.....Remember when all the men had the same first name: Mister, and all
the women had the same first name Missus....them were the days.

ma'am. I live in the NorthWest where they call misses ma'am. and the first names were 'yes, ma'am' and 'no, ma'am'

Merle

And should I call you ma'am, or go by another name?

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23 Mar 2008, 12:55 am

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Before we had tv, we had radio shows like the Lone Ranger.

I love collecting them. They tell a good story sometimes and otherwise feel like I'm stepping into a different time period.

There used to be a radio station around here that played old shows on Sunday nights (before they went all right-wing talk, all the time). I became a big fan of the Jack Benny Program, and the Whistler. I thought Burns & Allen had their moments, but mostly in the opening dialog between George and Gracie. The rest of the show was typical sitcom material, beneath both of them.

Another bonus of my cable package is that I can get a radio station out of British Columbia, that plays old shows Sunday nights from 10 to midnight. The first time I stumbled across it, the program that was on was "X Minus One", with their production of Robert Heinlein's "The Roads Must Roll". Lately, they've been running a BBC Radio serial from the Seventies, focusing on the adventures of an upper-class British detective (in, I think, the postwar period) and his plucky Cockney sidekick. The DJs have been having a lot of fun with the character's name - Dick something-or-other. "Are you ready for more Dick this week?" "I'm always ready for more Dick!"

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23 Mar 2008, 1:03 am

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Before we had tv, we had radio shows like the Lone Ranger.

I love collecting them. They tell a good story sometimes and otherwise feel like I'm stepping into a different time period.

I agree about Burns and Allen. Actually, I don't like most of the comedies because most of them simply aren't funny anymore. I think Jack Benny and a few others have their moments and can be a lot of fun to listen to. I love Duffy's Tavern as the show tended to be hilarious and think Stan Freburg's stint on radio was way too short at only 15 episodes. That's about it for the comedies.

I really like X Minus One. As a matter of fact, I have five of the last six episodes they made saved on my computer. I think the last one was "Grey Flannel Armor".

My personal favorite is one that only lasted a year, but only because the company that produced the show was broken up. It's called "Box 13" and starred Alan Ladd.

I tend to enjoy all of the shows that aren't comedies, though, and ones like "The Lux Radio Theater" tap into my interest in classic films.

I find the fact that one station was able to broadcast clear across the country interesting. These days you have to have web access to listen to anything from the other side of the country.

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23 Mar 2008, 1:06 am

In my day we thought Dick was a man's name!

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23 Mar 2008, 1:11 am

Well, it could mean that and it could mean, in this case... something else entirely.

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23 Mar 2008, 1:42 am

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hartzofspace wrote:

Managed to sleep for 6 hours. Might be a little mania kicking in. Trouble is, when you get older, and have health issues, it isn't fun anymore. Just makes it hard to sleep!

hey, did you catch the link I posted in the cafe last night?

Yes, I did.

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23 Mar 2008, 1:44 am

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morning_after wrote:

hartzofspace wrote:

Managed to sleep for 6 hours. Might be a little mania kicking in. Trouble is, when you get older, and have health issues, it isn't fun anymore. Just makes it hard to sleep!

hey, did you catch the link I posted in the cafe last night?

Yes, I did.

There are a couple of others I could send your way.

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23 Mar 2008, 2:37 am

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I have 3 sons but have gained a daughter this holiday .... my mother! Can't she just entertain herself??

This is my first attempt at using Windows MovieMaker .... a bit of Autism Advocacy:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR03uSFQf6Y[/youtube]

Helen

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23 Mar 2008, 3:21 am

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richie wrote:

hrumphhh! and a half.....Remember when all the men had the same first name: Mister, and all
the women had the same first name Missus....them were the days.

ma'am. I live in the NorthWest where they call misses ma'am. and the first names were 'yes, ma'am' and 'no, ma'am'

Merle

And should I call you ma'am, or go by another name?

MAM. . .Merle A. Morrigan. . . I am Ma'am where ever I go!

Merle

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23 Mar 2008, 3:38 am

Excuse me ma'am, mister! May I interrupt your BORING conversation. Helen and I have joined Aspies For Freedom. We saw your thread there, morning_after. It was excellent, on how aspies are relaxed and social in aspie support meetups.

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Richie ....splutter.....swallow.... My place is in the kitchen!! !! I'll be chasing you around the kitchen with my rolling pin. I won't be able to catch you but I'm a mean shot!! !! !

Hurumph

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I think there must be some chronic learning disability that is so prevalent among NT's that it goes unnoticed by the "experts". Krex

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23 Mar 2008, 5:15 am

Whoops

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