*I'm an amendment to be, yes an amendment to be, and I'm hopin' that they'll ratify me...*

"Conjunction Juction, what's you function!" I loved Schoolhouse Rocks. I still suddenly start singing that one every now and then. Can't beat it .

I think you and I had the exact same grammer school experience, Wil. Except, of course it was mostly fellow girls who were the bane of my existance...and, trust me, we girls can be VERY cruel.

Wil,

I happen to love Total Geeks! I'll take a Total Geek over a Cool Kid anyday!

-Jocelyn

Hey Wil,

Does he actually look goatish?

-Jocelyn

Wow! Talk about your classic Role Reversal...

The Cool kid grows up to be a Chemistry Teacher, and the Total Geek an Actor/Writer.

Sing it, Wil. Geek is cool.

"First, you have to get even with Kent, it's a moral imperative."

-Val Kilmer as Chris Knight in "Real Genius"

*L*

It seems all countries have these really cool shows that explains about grammar and numbers and stuff. :)

Just goes to show, people are not all that different in other countries ... or they all have one big-shot TV Exec that controles it all.. Hmm... Not there's a thought.. *L*

Those dodge balls really hurt...

That's sweet.

...The part about Kent being one of your posse's teachers.

I for one, did not watch Schoolhouse Rock. I loved the Saturday Afternoon Specials though. The ones with the cat that introduced them.

I guess in that situation, I would have assumed the cool kids were setting me up to be verbally shot down no matter what I replied, and therefore would have repsonded with something neutral ("I see it every now and then when I watch Saturday morning TV.") that would have forced them to strain their shrivelled little pea-brains to come up with an effective cut-down.

Yeah, I got a couple of those dodge balls in the face back in the day. I did have a righteous moment one time in sixth grade, though. It was team dodge ball and it came down to between me (tall, gangly geek) versus Rusty Downy (muscular jock). I was nearly pissing my pants with fear. He threw, I caught.

And the heavens opened to the Ode to Joy.

I was carried aloft the shoulders of my fallen brethren.

Well, I would have had I not been such a tall, chubby farker...

"Lallylallylally, get your adverbs here..."

Nice story, Wil. I think most of us have lived something like that. I think it was Judy Blume books in 7th grade in my case...

wow, small world.

~cue twilight zone music now~

just happened to watch the complete SchoolHouse Rock on DVD today with my kids. VERB!
Though I always liked the multiplication ones the best. Cause 3, well you know, is a magic number.

i always knew i was a geek, now everybody knows ;) (well, they probably knew it too. doh!)

Interplanet Janet, she's a galaxy girl!!

Have any of you heard the covers done of Schoolhouse Rock songs? You can check it out at Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/43dc . They are fun - but nothing like the real thing! This year they have released a 30th Anniversary Edition of The Best of Schoolhouse Rock. http://tinyurl.com/43dh That's on my wishlist!

Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
Hooking up words and phrases and clauses....

~Janece

aw i remember School house rock! "i'm just a bill, yes only a bill, standing on top of capital hill" i think that's how it went lol.

One of those lessons that you learn early on, but don't quite see until later....Just be yourself.

;)

Oh, and you know what is funny?
Kent is probably lurking around your site....
Sometimes life is sweet like that.

"High School is for babies."

I love my SchoolHouse Rock... the dvd has me thrilled! You must get it if you don't already have it... heck, you should send a copy to this now school teacher/ex cool kid!...

Wow! What a coincidence.

www.consumptionjunction.com is one of my favorite sites!

Joey Carnes...Imagine that. I used to work with a Joe Carnes at the Cincinnati/N. KY International Airport...worked as an aircraft fueler for 3 years with this guy. He was eventually promoted to supervisor, then busted back down for...well I don't really remember why...I think he wrecked a fuel tanker or something...or the position went to his head...not sure. I don't think he lived in Kentucky all of his life, and he would be just about the same age as you and I (I'm 29. My birthday is in the same month and on the same day as Jonathan Frakes and Gene Roddenberry, a fact of which I am quite proud! ;})

Hmm...Wouldn't that be something if he happened to be the same Joey Carnes that punched you in the nose? I'd *gladly* return the favor for you Wil if he were the same one! LOL >=}

...Interjection!...

...I'm just a bill, on Capitol Hill...

Loved those cartoons, but I wouldn't have admitted it on the circumstances, either. :-)

Yea! Superfriends and Schoolhouse Rock!

I still want to hang out with Aquaman. I wonder if that Wonder Twins movie I heard about is ever gonna get made? Wonder Twin Powers Activate!!!

Course I was getting up at 6 AM for a creepy show called Scooby Doo with a few old cool, Beetles tunes thrown in for good measure.

Well...I'm off in search of Land of the Lost Photos.

Someone should throw a costume party where ya have to dress up as your favorite old cartoon character. Whoo Hoo! I'm just full o ideas today.

I loved those Schoolhouse Rock Cartoons. In fact, I've used the Grammar Rock videos to teach my elementary students. Nothing like a catchy tune to make a point.

Heh, the best revenge is to be successful.

I remember the misery of school bullies. Girls are more verbal and crueler. I'd have taken getting my clock cleaned anytime to the verbal abuse.

But then you get to grow up and make your own life, and that is all behind you.

In your case, you were successful. So who's the loser now? Not you.

Schoolhouse Rock...yes that was THE show to watch on Saturday Mornings. Ive seen the episodes on DVD, not sure why I haven't bought it yet.

Yeah, Sing it loud!! I'm geek and I'm proud!

*starts humming it's a small world theme in her head then smacks herself because it is now stuck in her head*
I was a Total Geek in school too. Still am, but yeah. I was also The Fat Kid and The New Kid. Fun times! ...yeah not really. lol. Imagine being a non-skinny girl named Jenny when they had just started doing those 800 number commercials for Jenny Craig. :-/
Wow, I am so babbling. Sorry about that, this is the first time I've ever commented here.
Have a great day!
Jenny

I'm proud to say I that while I am not a total geek, I was a friend to the geeks. We hung out in the English/History dep't. classrooms at break and lunch, dagnabbit. We talked about the coolness of Imperial Star Destroyers and such.
I would have been there for you, Wil, all the way!

"Slice", that was too funny..
I LOVE (present tense) Schoolhouse Rock and when I saw the commercial for the DVD set, I said to myself "It will be mine. Oh, yes. I will be mine."

has anyone else notived how wil looks like scott stapp?? Innit! Older men are soo much better than lanky teens :)

"honey to the bee thats you and me"

Posted by Joseph J. Finn:
~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Cool kid grows up to be a Chemistry Teacher, and the Total Geek an Actor/Writer.
~~~~~~~~~~~~

*ahem*... that's WRITER/Actor...

;-P

OK... following what Wil says WAY too much....

Hee hee hee... OK - sounds much cooler than it actually is... but I didn't tell them that.

"...so we unpacked our adjectives" (fav)

Too bad that kids now a days don't have Schoolhouse rock followed by Superfriends. That was a great Saturday morning line up.

Do you still find yourself singing the "Preamble Song" just to remember it? I don't think I could remember the whole preamble without singing it.

Ooh. Nice blue hair there, Will. :)

that preamble song helped me pass a test one time. I could never remember the whole thing without that song.

To agree with The Slice....

You need to either take apart his car and rebuild it in his bedroom, implant a speaker device in his teeth and talk to him, pretending you're God, or explode a giant bag of Jiffy Pop around him.

Of course, no matter what you do, he'll still be a guy named "Kent" and you'll be a guy named "Wil" with one L.

(And in you story, when he said "Hey, Wil, do you watch Schoolhouse Rock", shouldn't the "Wil" have been spelled "Will" since that change didn't occur yet? Or did it?)

Buntz,

Wil was born Richard Wheaton i believe so the Wil(l) change is a different story. One I'd like to hear if Mr Wheaton would share it.

Being picked on sucks ass.

Good to see you're enlightened and haven't sent your crack team of Ninja Assasin Monkeys round to "deal with him" and the ambiguous tone of your post is admirable.

Big words from the small petty man that I am...

duhduhhh dadududuh duhduh duduhdunhdaduuuuuunh

The Superfriends! hehe God, I used to wake up early for them, as well. *swooshy electronic sound as the logo flies out of frame* Man, memories!

Next time you're in Australia we'll play golf and discuss the finer points of the Superfriends versions of Superman and Batman; Great or Groan? Hero or Wusso? heh (uh, it's late... realising I sound like a d0rk... shutting up now...)

Hello all,

Just wanted to ask for some well
needed MOJO while i fly to Minisota today...

First flieght gince 09/11 and i wouldappreciate some help here.... :(

Any helpwould be nice here in San Jose, Ca.

Paul

It's like the old saying, "Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach." You're a doer, Wil. Never doubt that.
I'm a geek, you're a geek, we're all geeks. Hell, I even married a geek, and that's the best thing for a girl to do. Be proud. Geeks are the ones everyone now fears. Mess with a geek, and your computer will magically begin to slow...then smoke...and your whole email/internet world will collapse!
I'm getting Schoolhouse Rock on DVD for my brithday Jan. 21 from my wonderful husband!

Seems like it's always the way, with the role reversals. The Cool Kids end up in a boring job (due to the fact that their creativity is never brought out into the open since their friends are copying MTV), and the Total Geeks end up getting a cool job (since they had to be creative to get themselves up in the morning).

My 4th grade teacher Grady Tate was involved in schoolhouse rock.Mine was the last class he taught before moving on to do that. While he taught us though played the guitar and sang a lot and he did some moonlighting at a local(Port Orchard Wa.) radio station.
He was a cool teacher!

School house Rock was Fun! Hope Anne is healing well. You two are like my kids to me. How did the kids react to Anne's bite?? Colleen - a nurse.

School House Rocks and Superfriends, oh the memories! All good ones. Aquaman and Spiderman(and I hate spiders) were my all time animated favorite super heros. Gosh, I want to to be six again, haha.

Schoolhouse Rock on DVD... how could Santa have forgotten that in my stocking?????

Jodie wrote: "Posted by Joseph J. Finn:" Actually, it was Cherish who said that and I had that same thought. The cool kid as chemistry teacher. Ha!

Amber wrote:
"I'm a geek, you're a geek, we're all geeks. Hell, I even married a geek, and that's the best thing for a girl to do. Be proud. Geeks are the ones everyone now fears."

-Reminds me of the end of Revenge of the Nerds.

And what did the Schoolhouse Rocks experience teach Young Wheaton?
"And this above all, TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE."
(my academic contribution)

Or, I hope that's what he learned. Either that or it taught him ignore those kids.

You were doomed from the start, man, lose-lose situation. If you did admit to watching "Schoolhouse Rock" the Cool Kids would never admit they did.

I have always really admired the person who put the Preamble to the Constitution to a melody and made it almost rhyme so kids like me could get through Civics class. Let's see them try it with a Form 1040.

I remember waiting with anticipation for the Superfriends' first season to start, about 1972 I think. That was about the same time that Star Trek The Animated Series aired. Wonder how Wesley would look in acetate and ink... . The networks would run an evening special the week before the lineup aired, to promote the shows to us kids, anyone else remember that?

The Preamble....a great song I (still) know by heart!

Way back when, my high school history teacher told us to recite the preamble for extra credit. I think there was only a few kids who didn't know the song, but since we had a week, they learned from friends. When that Monday came, the teacher was very suprised when we sang our assignment! Afterward he asked where we got the song, and we explained the whole Schoolhouse Rock series being on between Saturday morning cartoons years before. Needless to say, we all got the extra credit, and to this day I thank Schoolhouse Rock for boosting my grade!

Excuse me, as now I have to go buy the DVD!

Wil,
School house rock saved me a lot of time with some school work. It is great how much can be remembered from a song. You really should have learned how to stay out of the way of those dodge balls. Fear made me very quick. You would have driven those bullies crazy.

FG

It's funny how we remember those 'cool kids/ mean kids.' Even their last names and EXACTLY what they said (not to mention where and who was also there!). There are a few good kids we hardly remember though- it's that unfortunate?

sigh...
all the best wil

Gee - I remember those grade school days well. To fit in at my school, though, we had to play 4-square....if there were 3 "Cool Kids" and 1 "Total Geek" (The geek being myself) they'd gang up on the Total Geek to completely humilate them. Amazing how day after day we uncool kids would subject ourselves to such treatment just to fit in.

I, too, enjoyed the irony that the cool kid is a chem teacher and you're an actor/writer. Go Wil!

lol

What makes this any different than anyone elses geek of the week stories? You didn't suffer much Wil if that is all you had done to you! What about the thousands of kids a day that get the shit beat out of them and then you have some that kill because they are tired of being bullied. You won't find sympathy here. I'm sure it was uncool but as a wise relative once told me, 'if you're looking for sympathy it's in the dictionary between shit and syphilis'. I still love ya!

Chewie,

WRITER/Actor!!!

This is all starting to sound like one of

"Rob's stories".. for other monkey's........

GEEKS RULE!!!

Who said I was looking for sympathy?

Talk about missing the point.

*stares at the person who thought wil wanted sympathy* Wow, you really did miss the point.
Anyway had to make a super important comment on Super Friends: "Wonder Twin powers, activate!"
That cracked me up every time....and hey, didn't they have a pet monkey or something?

Lol... Aww!!!! Did you get hit in PE? lol....

Thats happened to me countless times... now i just tell what i think.... screw making up shit... I like being Odd!

Man, I love School House Rock. I watched it all the time in grade school. Good Times, Good Times!

Actor/ Writer Writer/ Actor.

First of all...I was seeing if anyone else would perceive the difference.

Secondly...Wil. What have I been telling you?

So now I can officially tell you...I TOLD YOU SO!

hahaha.

Mr. Purser isn't that bad , although he is one of "the cool teachers" now, as much as an oxymoron as that sounds like. I still stand by my statement that he looks like a goat.

I hate dodge ball too.

To thine own self be true.

Don't give in to peer pressure. :-)

MrP

Hey didn't Data utter that phrase in a TNG ep w/ Q?

i have this mental picture of the guy going online, and dialing up ol uncle willies website, reading all this and saying 'hey..i do NOT look like a goat!'....

hey wil, once again, great story...

like you i used to love school house rock..
although i live here in canada, and some of the civics stuff kinda through me....
....and yet, 'im just a bill on capital hill' was always my favourite!

cheers wil, and for the record..i think most of us (well, ALL of us probably except one) read this without thinking that you were fishing for sympathy for some long forgotten schoolyard trauma....
i thought the story was a pretty funny recollection, and something most of us can relate to....

cheers wil, if we were ever to have to select a 'leader of the geeks' you'd be number one with a bullet...

especially with a posse like us.. ;)

Richard William Wheaton III

Wil have you ever met Wil Wheaton Jr.?? Funny to see that you once played a 'Scottie'.

Just stuff I picked up from www.imdb.com, an interesting career thus far Wil. I had no idea you were so busy but then I'm only used to seeing you on TNG.

Wil were you aware of this site?? http://tinyurl.com/449v

Yes, Jena. There are some sick fucks out there.

Hey Wil Saw the ST Nemesis film and my husband and I have come up with the reason why Wesley isn't in the film except for the begining. Wesley would have solved the problem too quickly and wouldn't have made obvious errors in judgement like the grown-ups. Wes 1 trillion points Adults Zilch. SORRY for the ST fan girl trip. I just got back form seeing the flick.

geez and I thought I was the only one who got picked on.
My problem is that I'm so short, under 5 ft that is and that is one reason I got picked on.
It is weird to hear that you Wil got picked on in school.
But you know what?
It just makes you stronger as a person and it made me realize that some other kid could be going through the same thing!
nanny

It's always interesting to see where your grade school bullies ended up.

James Chicago --

Yep. I think it was when Riker (who had been given the powers of Q) wanted to make him human.

MrP

Geez,

You guys actually remember the names of kids with whom you were in elementary school? Gods forfend! I *can* remember the kids from high school, but there were only 8 of us.

Astounded,
Thumper

You know what to do with the address...

innnnn-terjection! shows excitement! and emotion!!

i laughed very hard that that last sentence. and since i had a rough weekend... thank you, wil wheaton. may you're good karma benefit you soon.

eric
fargo, nd

I remember seeing snippets of the show in between the cartoon shows I watched. The only ones I remember are how a law is made and "Conjunction Junction"...every now and again I get that ditty stuck in my head. Like now... *sigh*

I used to get picked on because I was a chubby little one. =/ I felt the pain. But now you have a big following of 5000+ monkeys on your website. I'd say that's a sweet kind of revenge for that kind of rejection you suffered in grade school. :)

Rock on. =P

It's funny how reality morphs, Wil.
When the kids would torment me on the school yard in 5th grade I would usually slip into a daydream of you pulling up in a limo and wisking me away to some far off lair, where I would bare you 7 children by the names of:
Dustin, Pepper, Louis, Tara, Sara, Michelle and Adam.
Ok so maybe the fantasies weren't that indepth but they were frequent. You being my crush ever since I was four. You were always my hope when things were looking dire. There were also many "Gordie" sightings around my small city.
Now, at the tender age of 20 I have learned to rely on my own skills and determinations, not fanciful imaginary heros.
Also I don't need to try and fit in with the cool folk...I gave up long ago. My boyfriend and I are both geeks and "dorks" as we love to chime at one another.
I still get a little star struck when I come here...just a little. I guess that's the magical part of being a child, conjuring up these escapes from reality...coping mechanisms...yah. Some don't easily fade.

I am an amendment to be yes an amendment to be,
and im hopin that they'll ratify me...

Cuz there's a lot of flag burners,
who have got to much freedom
i wanna make it legal for policeman to beat em,
cuz there's limits to our liberty...

forget the rest...simpsons!

"Drew (Barrymore) represents, more than anyone else in the movie, where we are at that time as a country," says costume designer Renee April.

"It looks like she has a lightbulb inside her face."

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/03/in.look.style.barrymore/index.html

Hey, what about us klutzes (sp?) who always got picked last at any physical game like dodge ball? The one everyone aimed at first? Although I did get to be pretty good at dodge ball, so maybe there's an upside to that condition.

How about being a bookworm, too? Being one probably leads to being the other. How about a bookworm klutz who wears glasses?

Sure wish I had been able to figure out back then that it was OK to be what I was. Doesn't mean you can't change, but you shouldn't feel that you have to change so that you meet someone else's idea of what is normal.

Lolly Lolly Lolly - get your Adverbs here!!!!

Wil - I love you more and more everytime you take us for a stroll down nostalgia lane. I was also the total geek who loved Schoolhouse Rock.

The cool thing for me is American Forces Network (being at Ramstein Air Base, Germany), still plays those clips from time to time. Yes, I'll still pause long enough to watch one.

THANKS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

Brock

IF YOU CHANGE YOUR TEMPLATE IT WILL MAKE EVERY ONE HAPPY!

Five!Ten!Fifteen!Twenty! Twenty five!Thirty!Thirty five! Fourty!Fourty five!Fifty!Fifty five!Sixty!Sixty five!Seventy! Senty five!Eighty!Eighty five!Ninety!Ninety five!One hundred!

Ready or not, here I cooo-oooommmmmme!!

AGGGH! Dammit you, Wil! It took me twenty years to get that song outta my head!

Schoolhouse Rocky, a chip off the block!

4.47.99.54

Does ANYONE have any idea, what the point of dodgeball WAS??? Besides making me fear Gym with mortal terror???

-David (the artist formerly known as CartoonBeagle. ICQ# 26215015)

Hey Wil,

Did it ever occur to you that no matter how you answered the question about School House Rocks, that it would have always been the wrong answer? If you liked it, they would have guffawed about what a little baby you were, and if you didn't like it, they would have called you "uncool" which is basically what they did.

The best revenge is not to do better than the people in the past that had made fun of you (that is all relative). The best revenge is to be happy and I believe you have already exacted it.

-Rinky

Wil,
That is freaky!! My 4 1/2 yr old daughter was just asking me about SHR over breakfast this morning!!!! It must be in the air!!!
Also, I always dated geeks in highschool & college & even married one. That was not my plan & I liked alot of cool guys but they seemed to treat their girlfriends horribly. I'm glad I stuck w/ the geeks!!!!

Rinky- It was 5th grade. I was 11.

I was eleven once.

I spent most of my school days watching the "cool kids" of the early 80s evolve into the convicts of the 90s.

I always find it funny to think about the fact that the very same girl that used to do anything she could to make me look dumb in grade school ended up being the first date, the first kiss and the first...Well, you get the picture ;) If I hadn't moved so far away our first year in high school, I probably would have married her!

Funny how some things turn out like that.

Anyway, in reference to this post from earlier:

"Anyway had to make a super important comment on Super Friends: "Wonder Twin powers, activate!"
That cracked me up every time....and hey, didn't they have a pet monkey or something?

Posted by Jenny Finster at January 5, 2003 01:43 PM"

The Wonder Twins did in fact have a pet monkey, named Gleek :)

The grammar rock ones were pretty good, but the History Rock ones were pretty unabashedly Republican in their outlook. Just check out "elbow room" if you don't believe me. You can almost hear the German version:
"Leibensraum, leibensraum, Ich benötige einiges kleine leibensraum."

Seems a point was missed here by a number of folks. Luckily, the rest seemed to have gotten it. The nostalgia trip was fun for me too. We bought a couple of the Schoolhouse Rocks videos on tape for our kids, and I will be hunting them down on DVD now that they're available.

I watched Saturday Morning cartoons for years, then I suddenly realized that I could read books on the weekends instead. No more cartoons.

Geek, I am.

hey uh wil, why did you delete my comment? and why did you put up my ip address? hopeing that one of your devoted fans is a hacker and will attack me? thats just wrong wil my man. i even went and saw you in TNG Nemesis. I was just making conversation with you unlike these other people who are just posting things like you're just the greatest. whats the problem wil? i just wanted to see why you were nominated so many times. sheesh. can't take a little a criticizm huh? too bad. maybe that's why you got your scenes cut from the movie :D

Oh, I meant when you were older! Please, when I was 11 the only wisdom I had was to get in lunch line really early when they were serving pizza otherwise it would run out :-)

I was never 11.

"OOh! That smarts!"
"Ouch! That hurts!"

"YOW! That's not fair, givin' a guy a shot down there!"

Grr.

I had JUST gotten this stuff out of my head from my brother's recent visit.

Now, you bring it back.

You bring it all back like it was YESTERDAY!!!

Damn you, Wil Wheaton! Damn you all to HELL!!!

*snicker!*

:-)

100th message!

A friend of mine had me put the constitution and noun or verb train on a cd for him, it was really funny cause the whole rest of the cd was all hardcore metal bands, then all of a sudden "Conjunction Junction" would come on and people would be like "WTF??" And he'd just say "It's Schoolhouse Rocks man! Everyone loved that show".

The memory of taking a dodgeball to the face and breaking my glasses remained happily repressed for almost 15 years...ah well, better to deal with it now than later.

Schoolhouse Rock....rocks :-)

I hope THAT DICK RICK BERMAN got his ass kicked plenty in school ;)

I'm right there with you Wil.

By the time 6th grade rolled around I was rather tired of this line of questioning. When ever a "cool kid" asked your opinion about ANYTHING out of the blue, the result could never be anything but bad.

When I moved to a new school in the middle of the year (one of those k - 8th deals) they had everybody pile into the MPR for a puppet show. (Which was cute and funny, so I laughed. My classmates sat stone-faced for some reason, I looked around and noticed that all the grades above and below us were all laughing and singing along, so I continued to enjoy the show.) After the show a group of girls walked up to me and asked if I enjoyed the show. And my answer was something to the effect of "No matter what I say, your opinion will be the opposite. Which is more childish and lame then any puppet show could ever be."

My answer was met with blank looks followed by the "head girl" stating that I was "such a dweeb" and they walked off.

But they more or less left me alone after that. Which I suppose is the best outcome as anybody could hope for. :D

SuperFriends rocks! Weren't Wonder Woman, and the female Wonder Twin, the hottest??

Glad you survived the experience. Absolutely, after getting caught in a comment like that one, your rivals would have "+2 To-Hit" your Armor-Class 10 head with their "Whistling Balls Of Death" :) :) Great story!

I remember that; I used to beat up kids a lot back in Elementary School. That was fun. I wasn't a cool kid. I was the cool kids' hired thug. Of course I had injuries such as a rock between the eyes and kicked in the nose and so on. But it was fun stuff. Then this girl showed up in 6th grade and I tried to impress her by not fighting. Didn't work at all.

Hi Will,

Ah! Yes, Schoolhouse Rock actually Rocked.

However, the healthy snack dude in the often-ran ABC PSA creeped me out. Remember that there were two and it was either about cheese or make your own popcicles...

YOU CAN MAKE STACKS OF SNACKS!
Creepy Dude: "You can make a wagon wheel!". Then he was all like: "I'm hankering for a hunk of...a slab a slice or chunk of...I'm hankering for a hunk of cheese."

What about the popcicles - "Don't wait until it rains to try this nifty trick, you can have a fun time making sunshine on a stick!"

Freaky little dude. I told my little sister that he was modeled after the same guy that played the child-snatcher on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

I can still hear her saying "BUT WHY would the child-snatcher show us how to make snacks..." Like she was trying to figure out the evil plan that lurked behind the sunshine on a stick.

Take Care!

Hi Wil,

Irony Alert. Did you know that the actor who played Will on Land of the Lost (you know, "Marshall, Will and Holly on a routine expedition...")is actually named Wesley in real life?

Do you know more about this ironic Wesley/Will connection?

I will continue to search out more examples in pop culture...this does not work with Will Robinson on "Lost in Space".

More meaningless trivia later...

There you go, feller. Nosce te ipsum - know thyself.

And it's much tougher partner: To thine own self be true.

Sorry to hear you had rough times at school, chap, but from one cartoon-watching, book-learning type to another.... ne te confundiant illigitimi.

So, what you're saying is that you tried to be fraudulent to meet someone else's expectations, and you were exposed? Cry me a river.

PS...I don't think that's ironic geek grrrl(see above)....coincidence maybe...irony could be (and is) defined as an 'incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs'...

I'm laughing that some of you posting were/are again trying to get those lovely little SHR songs out of your heads. I like those songs those were such happier carefree years for me.

I'd much rather like to be able to get the bills I have to pay out of my head not to mention my wallet. Such is life I guess. Speaking of songs caught in the head I can't stop with "Mr. Blue Sky" by E.L.O.

Save me unca Willie please!!!

I'm going to try this one more time for the slow kids: I was 11.

I'm sorry that you continue to completely miss the point.

Perhaps you should learn. To. Swim.

..::Who gonna stop 200 balloons?::..

some shall never learn

Wil, that is a losing battle I'm afraid, my friend. You could spell it out with neon lights and billboards and still some people will never be able to get the point.

But reading your post took me back to my 5th grade year. I was actually 12 years old since my parents put me through 2 years of Kindergarten (Yea, laugh all you want! ;} I still don't know why they did that!)

Anyway, the "cool kids" consisted of J.W. (never knew his real name, he always went by J.W.), Danny Thompson, Jason Johnson, and two brothers named Gary and Mike. At the time, the Atari 2600 was the biggest thing on the market and it seemed that everyone had one. I used to hear the "cool kids" always talking about the games they liked, the cool games, the sucky games, you know, the normal kind of "cool kid" chatter. One day in class the teacher had stepped out of the room for whatever reason, and as would usually happen, the "cool kids" would start talking and making noise and just being obnoxious. Most of the time I would it in the back corner of the room and keep quiet and stay out of everyone's way but on this day, they started talking about their Atari systems, and since my parents had just bought one for me a few days earlier, I thought I could fit into the conversation. Naturally that was really going to work out right? I mean I had an Atari now! I was pretty cool just like J.W. and Danny and Jason and Gary and Mike...

Yea. Right. First I got that look...you know, the one the cool kids would give you for speaking to them, that contemptuous "You're stupid! How dare you talk to me" look? Anyway J.W. was the first to tell me to "shut up nerd". Then Danny started in with the "you're such a dork" speech. Ultimately, since I was an overweight child, I finally got the barrage of fat jokes coming from all of them, while the rest of the class looked on, laughing at my inability to respond to their comments with anything more than "shut up!". The last thing J.W. said to me before the teacher returned was that I was a big Tub-o-lard and my whole body would jiggle if someone poked me. Almost every day after that, at least once a day, someone in the class would poke me and start singing the Jell-O song "Watch it jiggle! See it wiggle" and anyone around would just laugh it up.

Being at that age where "telling" was such a babyish thing to do, I took it everyday and never did anything more than yell "shut up!" whenever I thought the teacher was within earshot and might rescue me...

I was *so* glad that my family decided to move to Ohio the following year! :)

This is a Grade 5 flashback for this female Canadian too. I took a lot of verbal shit for my non-caucasian genetics from three Grade 4 boys in my split grade class. The biggest boy was from a Mediterranean family. In grade 8 he was drinking;partying;car accident;wheelchair. I saw him 10 years later and still; so what? He will have gray hair one day just like gray ex cons who'll also be seeking respect. They were a bully possé that beat on anyone smaller; 3 on 1; male or female.I remember their matching puke green hockey jackets, the torment, anger shame and fear that kept me from standing up for the littler kids.

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It's something about 5th grade and those tormenters... you try to make the judgement call to figure out what they want to hear, and muck it up (and remember it forever).

When I was in fifth grade, a couple of the guys in my class came up to me and asked me if I were a virgin. I'd never heard the word before (a clue that I didn't grow up Catholic, I guess), and it sounded a bit like a "bad word" to me-- something I also assumed based on the boys asking me. I didn't want to admit I didn't know the word, so I said "no." They of course, cracked up.

Oh, that answer has haunted me ever since. *shudder*

~ Mel. (a fellow gamer geek)

Bless your heart.

What the hell is up with FARK.com?

Sorry for the interuption.

Thanks.

yo my boyfriend brock up with me after 2 years i hate you it is all your fault . how can you live with your pathetic self.if you had a life this would not have happend.

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Haha! You should send that story to the Onion fo Pathetic Geek Stories..

I desperately wish that another person would touch my wee wee.

210.18.215.204

Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, get your adverbs here,
Father, Son, and Lolly, get your adverbs here...

HEY! WIL I WANT TO GO OUT WITH U, IM IN 4TH GRADE N IM SO KOOL. CU AT SKOOL WIL, CU L8R GUYZ

Am I the only one here that watched geek tv before remote controls? We had maybe five channels. We'd bang the rabbit ears to try and get snowy reception from PBS in Boston. A show called Zoom,I wrote every week asking for a "Danny" card (the cutest) and never got one. Kids were filmed creating their inventions and their instructions were on the Zoon kids promo cards. There was a show on after it called Electric Company. Is that the same Conjunction Junction song?

"Nine Oh One Two Fourrr...Send it to ZOOOM!!!"

A friend of mine is hooked on forwarding emails with a deep thought moral story. People on the internet don't copy and paste the date, origins, or credit the author. The following was at the end of the story sent last weekend. So the below is from ???

People will forget what you said...
People will forget what You did......
But people will never forget how you made them feel.

I remember even as a Canadian watching SHR and Zoom. What a hoot PBS was with all those shows. They still have some of the higher quality shows out there such as Nova. I am proud to say I was one of those geeks, like you, that watched those shows. We continue to be the people in this world who are actually making a difference in all aspects of life...
You make us all feel good!!
Keep it up Wil!!

Kent Purser sounds like an ass.

Nuff said.

No dice on Ebay. My Zoom cards were thrown out in a fit of rage by my dad on a hot summer road trip with three kids in the back seat. Long for him til he threw them out. Long for me after.

I'm thinking Doug has a "Danny" card.

Do ya? Do ya?! heh heh

I am so hot right now

did this joey carnes go to school in Savannah, Georgia?