Gregory Morrow wrote:

>
> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>
>> Gregory Morrow wrote:
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>> >
>> > Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> >
>> >> Following up to my experiment with TJ's "Goddess", while I was at my
>> >> mainstream chain supermarket today I scanned the whole section for any
>> >> kind of goddess-related products. Nothing at all, not surprisingly.
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > Yeah, I did that at several stores, too. I guess Green Goddess dressing
>> > went the way of avocado appliances...
>>
>> One of which would be my refrigerator.
>
>
> Hey, it's "retro", ya might get big bux for it...and I could really dig that
> bright aqua Frigidair washer - dryer combo that my folks bought in 1967,
> that was top 'o the line.
>
> :-)
>
> There's some new show called _Life On Mars_ that's about a 2008 NYC cop who

That is one of the few TV shows I make it a point to watch.

> is somehow transported back to the world of 1973 (IIRC it was originally
> a UK/BBC series). Never seen it, but ___1973___ ??? '73 was not *that*
> different, they didn't have all the internet and tech stuff that we have

Watch the show. It was quite different.

> now, but daily life and even styles and fashions are fairly
> unchanged...apparently some of the plot line is that the guy meets his
> mother or other folks from his present that were young 35 years ago.

Last week, he met - and helped - his mother, a single mom, who was into a
loan shark (ahem) for more than she could handle and was being roughed up
and threatened. He also met himself. And the very young cop who would
end up being his mentor and lifelong friend.


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