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Aug. 6th, 2020 07:40 amA little while ago, my family was talking about The Far Side Mix-Up, and Mom and I decided from there to look around for that. We did find it, but I decided to wait until Marie's here before showing it to everyone, until she told me that she won't be coming over even this month for her birthday, at which point I decided just to wait until Brian and Emily come down one night to chat with our parents.
And that happened just last night. I let them look through some of it before they'd head back up, and they found what they read quite funny.
One example in particular is called "Fort Laramie has exploded," under which I drew a picture of what's supposed to be an explosion, with a wagon sent flying away. That one, along with certain others, refers to The Oregon Trail.
Another one was "The money bank of mermans". At first, Brian thought I was referring to the Mormons, which I actually had not heard of when I was writing the whole thing back in 3rd grade. I cleared that up to mean male mermaids, kinda like Triton from The Little Mermaid.
While the former of those and others had pictures, most others, including the latter, did not. They were just a bunch of words I came up with while looking through a Far Side book from our library, including "The ruined little toaster", "The Spanish Power Rangers", "Top Grunge on a see-saw", and "Too Late. Frankenstein has taken over the world and all the luck." Brian compared them to Modest Mouse, who is known for songs with such word salad titles as Long-Distance Drunk.
Regarding characters, though, there are a few I should specify:
Captain Laser: Actually a roboticized version of Percival C. McLeach, the antagonist of The Rescuers Down Unders, whose name I somehow never picked up on back then. So named, because there is an episode of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog involving Dr. Robotnik using some kind of ray gun to roboticize Captain Blackbeard, and that became something he did to McLeach at some point in The Catalog (also described in the entry hyperlinked above).
Cousin Miles: From The Oregon Trail. Someone you can trade with mentions this name, and I thought he was referring to a child you can also trade with, whom I assumed to be male until I played our library's Apple II version, which specifies said character as female since trading is text-only in that version.
John the Blue Bear and Betty the Pink Bear: The names I gave to these two teddy bears from Duckman, which I had actually seen only a commercial of back then and not much of the actual show ever since. I only found out eventually through TV Tropes that their actual names are Fluffy and Uranus.
Anyway, at some point, maybe I should also show them Konica, something I wrote late in 2nd grade, named after a camera company (I had a thing for the Yellow Pages back then), and dug back up in December '16, that would best represent of anything still surviving what The Catalog was like in general.
And that happened just last night. I let them look through some of it before they'd head back up, and they found what they read quite funny.
One example in particular is called "Fort Laramie has exploded," under which I drew a picture of what's supposed to be an explosion, with a wagon sent flying away. That one, along with certain others, refers to The Oregon Trail.
Another one was "The money bank of mermans". At first, Brian thought I was referring to the Mormons, which I actually had not heard of when I was writing the whole thing back in 3rd grade. I cleared that up to mean male mermaids, kinda like Triton from The Little Mermaid.
While the former of those and others had pictures, most others, including the latter, did not. They were just a bunch of words I came up with while looking through a Far Side book from our library, including "The ruined little toaster", "The Spanish Power Rangers", "Top Grunge on a see-saw", and "Too Late. Frankenstein has taken over the world and all the luck." Brian compared them to Modest Mouse, who is known for songs with such word salad titles as Long-Distance Drunk.
Regarding characters, though, there are a few I should specify:
Captain Laser: Actually a roboticized version of Percival C. McLeach, the antagonist of The Rescuers Down Unders, whose name I somehow never picked up on back then. So named, because there is an episode of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog involving Dr. Robotnik using some kind of ray gun to roboticize Captain Blackbeard, and that became something he did to McLeach at some point in The Catalog (also described in the entry hyperlinked above).
Cousin Miles: From The Oregon Trail. Someone you can trade with mentions this name, and I thought he was referring to a child you can also trade with, whom I assumed to be male until I played our library's Apple II version, which specifies said character as female since trading is text-only in that version.
John the Blue Bear and Betty the Pink Bear: The names I gave to these two teddy bears from Duckman, which I had actually seen only a commercial of back then and not much of the actual show ever since. I only found out eventually through TV Tropes that their actual names are Fluffy and Uranus.
Anyway, at some point, maybe I should also show them Konica, something I wrote late in 2nd grade, named after a camera company (I had a thing for the Yellow Pages back then), and dug back up in December '16, that would best represent of anything still surviving what The Catalog was like in general.