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For some reason, I seem to have wound up with a really whacked-out set of childhood memories. Apparently I spent most of my early years watching TV shows, eating cereals, and playing with toys that no one else remembers.
I spent my first year or so of college being accused of having invented the cartoon with the koalas who lived in the little town and one of the minor characters was a flying squirrel named Mingel or something similar, who had massive abandonment issues and had been adopted-or-similar by the slightly weird grownup character who wore a poncho and had a telescope.
Um. Okay, I only managed to confirm the part about the koalas and the town. That was The Adventures of Little Koala, and I think the poncho-wearer was named Walter. There was the one episode about the trainload of papayas being spoiled (first time I'd ever heard of papayas) and the episode where the characters were trying to define a word (I want to say the word was holocaust, but I'm having trouble believing that a random children's cartoon show would Go There; maybe it was apocalypse?) and theorizing that it was what you called a situation when you had a flood, a drought, an earthquake, and a hurricane at the same time. Or something like that. You guys remember this, right? Somebody?
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fairmer is so far the only person I've ever found who remembers the cartoon called Spartacus, which ultimately left me very confused, given that most people in my culture mostly associate the name Spartacus with some gladiator movie spoofed at the end of The Life of Brian. The cartoon was about this guy, Spartacus, who had these magical armbands o' power and, I dunno. I think there was a monolith or something?
Anyway, all of that was to say, in the course of hanging out with #2 Brother the other day, I managed to confirm another of my odd memories - the expensive and highly-prized cereal that we could only ever talk Dad into buying - never Mom - that came in a little red box with a soccer player on the front and contained Riboflavin was called Pro-Grain. My brother couldn't confirm that it was actually shaped like little R's or P's, but, hey, at least now I know I didn't completely hallucinate it. Score one for me.
(Icon, which comes from an anti-homophobia ad campaign, in honor of #2 brother being a bit more tolerant than I gave him credit for, and also because I like staring at the kissing hockey boys.)
I spent my first year or so of college being accused of having invented the cartoon with the koalas who lived in the little town and one of the minor characters was a flying squirrel named Mingel or something similar, who had massive abandonment issues and had been adopted-or-similar by the slightly weird grownup character who wore a poncho and had a telescope.
Um. Okay, I only managed to confirm the part about the koalas and the town. That was The Adventures of Little Koala, and I think the poncho-wearer was named Walter. There was the one episode about the trainload of papayas being spoiled (first time I'd ever heard of papayas) and the episode where the characters were trying to define a word (I want to say the word was holocaust, but I'm having trouble believing that a random children's cartoon show would Go There; maybe it was apocalypse?) and theorizing that it was what you called a situation when you had a flood, a drought, an earthquake, and a hurricane at the same time. Or something like that. You guys remember this, right? Somebody?
fairmer is so far the only person I've ever found who remembers the cartoon called Spartacus, which ultimately left me very confused, given that most people in my culture mostly associate the name Spartacus with some gladiator movie spoofed at the end of The Life of Brian. The cartoon was about this guy, Spartacus, who had these magical armbands o' power and, I dunno. I think there was a monolith or something?Anyway, all of that was to say, in the course of hanging out with #2 Brother the other day, I managed to confirm another of my odd memories - the expensive and highly-prized cereal that we could only ever talk Dad into buying - never Mom - that came in a little red box with a soccer player on the front and contained Riboflavin was called Pro-Grain. My brother couldn't confirm that it was actually shaped like little R's or P's, but, hey, at least now I know I didn't completely hallucinate it. Score one for me.
(Icon, which comes from an anti-homophobia ad campaign, in honor of #2 brother being a bit more tolerant than I gave him credit for, and also because I like staring at the kissing hockey boys.)