A sketch from Important Things with Demetri Martin:
The animation is a bit crude, isn't it? (Not that it matters - Demetri Martin usually uses line drawings on a flip chart - but it something I noticed.)
But there was a point in my lifetime when that silly little animation would have been cutting edge. And there was a point in my lifetime when the technology didn't exist to make that silly little animation. That's really weird if you think about it.
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I agree, it's weird. I also remember not being able to play some games because they didn't fit on my 320k diskettes... or because I only had 512k of memory instead of the full megabyte.
Then again, that animation was awesome no matter how cheesy. I lost it when the one rat goes running by with a spork.
That spork is the most highly concentrated awesomeness since the exclamation mark in the "PIE!" sign.
Love that PIE! sign. So great.
But this conversation weirds me out. Because you know the things I remember. Like being in a long-distance relationship and writing letters, on paper, and sending them with stamps.
I wrote a novel where the climactic scene would no longer happen because everyone would have cell phones and be able to warn each other.
So... well. Y'know.
But I did love the spork, too.
Funny -- I placed my recent novel in the mid to late 90s so that the Internet can't complicate things too much! I want to write a cold war novel someday just because it seems so simple. :)
And I had a letter-writing long-distance relationship! So I'm not totally out of touch with you there.
Is a spork a generational thing? Are they ever used any more?
Were sporks every used in real life? I always thought they were just a joke thing. I've seen them IRL, but they've always been something people have as a joke, like a rubber chicken.
They were given out at Kentucky Fried Chicken, back when they used to refer to their takeout joints as "Rendez-vous", before they re-branded as KFC. Maybe they were used elsewhere, I don't know, but they were given out by the Colonel with all seriousness.
I know sporks from school cafeterias. That goes back a long way, but they were used with great earstness then, too.
I'm glad to hear you wrote paper letters, too, M@. It makes me feel less archaic.
Or is that obsolete? :)
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