I loved the game shows! I don't know if anyone remembers Jokers Wild, that was a favourite as well. The Newlywed Game was hilarious, for the time it was quite risque!
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Wow, that is really cool that you remember the contest! I don't think all the books together would have fit in the house! I was glad they took a year to ship them. It is mind boggling to see so many books. I worked out the value and it ended up being about $45,000 worth. I kept the packing slips and added them up at the end of the year. Crazy!
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Joker's Wild easily my favorite (Jack Barry version). Name That Tune, Family Feud, Tic-Tac-Dough, Price is Right, Press Your Luck, $25,000 Pyramid, and Newlywed Game were the ones in my rotation. I pretty much quit watching game shows once I went off to college, but was really into them when we missed school due to snow days back in the 70s/early 80s. We had board games for a lot of the game shows. The Family Feud and Joker's Wild ones were the ones we played the most.
That reminds me, we had a Hollywood Squares game - that was a great show too.
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Might be the second time I've shown my gal a HF post. 'She seems really nice. I like when people like that win.'
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Pretty much any time I was home sick from school, I watched the Price is Right and I Love Lucy reruns while eating saltines, Campbell's chicken noodle soup, and drinking ginger ale.
I never did go to Boloco.
There was a place in Kenmore Square on the corner in the late 90s.
"Burrito Joe's."
The very name inspired confidence.
I tried it once. That was enough.
Pretty much the same for all of us.
I was never much for game shows, save perhaps The Gong Show.
But your tummy ache menu brings back memories. That was the list in my family, too.
That and The Dating Game!
I was a particular fan of The Hollywood Squares. My grandmother loved Concentration.
Youth is so blissful!! Saltines, Campbell chicken and noodles, and ginger ale in the day (and yes I lived in those times and shared a common eating regime)... All that was probably 20 year old MRE repacks from the Korean war ration leftovers repacked into cans if I think about it. It is truly amazing how so many of us survived on that stuff.
No regrets and good days all around so no complaints from this quarter.
Note we did have some things on our side with mercury based thermometers you could heat up on demand (rubbing hands, radiator, etc.). "Remember vividly the doctor saying "don't you bite on the glass...." I still think that 9 times out of 10 my parents knew I "could have" made it thru the day but they were getting 70's and even more 80's "soft" and let me off. For the yutes here, that's 9 times out of 10 all-in from kindergarten thru 12th grade as I can count on less than 2 hands the number of "sick days" I actually had. In fact there were probably more "snow days" than sick days if I think about it and that meant going back to school when the chicken pox were still scratching but the corn starch and milk helped, or a day after breaking a bone because "the doctor put it in a cast and take a tylenol"! ;-). Good ol' days I say!
I still live on saltines, ginger ale, and chicken noodle soup when I don't feel well.
It works!
It works!
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Except I can't stand the Campbell's soup any more lol. The noodles are too wimpy. The nostalgia is fun though.
Homemade chicken noodles soup hits different. My aunt makes legitimately the best kind. Whenever it gets cold out, she'll just make a big pot. Hits the spot!
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I used to like Panera's until they changed the recipe years ago.Homemade chicken noodles soup hits different. My aunt makes legitimately the best kind. Whenever it gets cold out, she'll just make a big pot. Hits the spot!
But the best soup around here is at a local steak and spaghetti house. Baked chicken and rice soup.... delicious. Now I want some.
Went and saw a 310 acre property today guys. I will section off the back ten acres for the analytics nerds
This was the view from the kitchen
This was the view from the kitchen
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That looks very peaceful. Nice!Went and saw a 310 acre property today guys. I will section off the back ten acres for the analytics nerds
This was the view from the kitchen
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river or lake?Went and saw a 310 acre property today guys. I will section off the back ten acres for the analytics nerds
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I might've grown up differently than a few of you. Saltines, chicken soup and game shows? Did you grow up in a Disney movie?
Word to the wise. "They" don't build waterfront anymore. Ergo - if you can get waterfront you go for it ASAP. Whether still, flowing, or spring source.
Whether still or salty - nothing at all else like it.
My children have never (and will likely never) get a glimpse of Campbells for a multitude of reasons - but I do, do the home-made chicken soup thing they absolutely love. Whole carcass of a farm bread chicken after a spit roast chicken dinner and the stippings, pea, potatoe, carrot, celeri, peas, beans, homemade chicken stock. Salt, pepper, parsley and a bit of garlick... An evening to simmer and cool and reheat as it is always better a day later.... Campbells 2.0 I say... ;-)Homemade chicken noodles soup hits different. My aunt makes legitimately the best kind. Whenever it gets cold out, she'll just make a big pot. Hits the spot!
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