I have heard "Krispy Kreme sack" in a country music lyric. It was weird.

Here is the other video (a.k.a. "film" - I guess music video as a term didn't exist yet) that was cut from the hour-long version):

One quibble - I think moral authorities mostly moved on long ago.

At times that sounded like a demented version of that guy who used to explain Monty Python references.

Ginger actually makes sense as a word - as a blond myself, I think it would sound pretty stupid if the standard word were "yellowhead." I just am startled that its British origins have been forgotten so quickly. "Bum" (as in rear end, not street person) is another one - as with ginger, for a while I only heard it…

A friend of mine has actually started using the word "ginger" in casual conversation with no self-consciousness whatsoever. The first time I interrupted and said, "Say 'redhead' - what did we fight the Revolution for?" The second time I realized it was a lost cause.

A cover can still be a great song. She made it her own.

Yes, in my experience (on both sides of the desk) A+s are generally not available in college. All As/4.0 is as high as you can go. We had A+s and and the possibility of a GPA above 4.0 in my high school, though.

I don't think anyone in this thread is denying that. Maybe some creep out in the world at large thinks that, but no one here has said that Cosby should get off the hook. You are fighting against a straw man.

Billy Bob Thornton became famous for rudeness to an interviewer who treated him as an actor dabbling in music instead of a legitimate musician. One of the things he said was "Would you ask Tom Petty that?" This Ghomeshi guy (I never heard of him before) was aparently the interviewer in question.

There were many such songs in days of yore.

I was wondering why I never saw it. Maybe it never came near me either.

I find it interesting to see a geography segment on Sesame Street at all. They mostly limited themselves to letters and numbers (and general social etiquette) in later years. As great as that was, a more diverse range of topics might have been even better.

The article says there used to be 130 new episodes a year, although now there are fewer. IMDB is not always reliable for shows that air hundreds of new episodes a year, especially when it is hard to obtain checkable copies of old episodes. Look up soap opera stars (e.g., Susan Lucci or Eric Braeden, as I just did -…

I think I watched this having no idea what pinball was or that this was supposed to depict it.

My false memory was "carton of milk" and "container of butter." (My family never bought butter by the stick - actually, I think we were really buying margarine.)

I feel kind of the opposite way - I never considered it my absolute favorite show as a kid, but in retrospect it was clearly the best. I can remember plenty of segments verbatim while I can remember hardly anything about Alvin and the Chipmunks or Transformers or even Ducktales.

I assume I was watching the show at age 3 (which I was in 1983), but I have no memory of Mr. Hooper as alive (or of this episode). I would have assumed he died c. 1980 or 1981.

Hmm - really? I'm trying to think of the last time I heard, say, Johnstown (of eponymous flood fame) pronounced out loud, but maybe I never have! Billy Joel certainly pronounced the w in Allentown, not that I would rely on him as a guide to anything.

Well, in a way one of them did.