Archive for the 'Daily Flashback' Category
Ah, the Vic-20, with 5k of RAM (but only 3583 Bytes available to the user). All I did with this was play games. If only I had tapped into my inner geek back then, I could be a great programmer by now. Stupid Vic Avenger.
Wish I had a dollar for every time I listened to this song in the 80s.
Awwww, no, I don’t even think I liked this one, but I do remember it. Some characters, most in fact, should not get their own shows. America agreed and it only stayed on for one season.
Didn’t that line just make you hate her all the more? Yes, it’s Kelly LeBrock, she who married Steven Seagal and starred in such classics as Weird Science and Hard to Kill (links are to movie trailers so even more flashback).
I have never repeated a short grocery list so I could remember it, without flashing back to this Sesame Street Segment.

I actually had the 45 of this (that’s a record for you younger folks and a record was a way of listening to music). I think it came free with Coca-Cola or maybe you had to send away for it. I remember that the song, and the ad, kind of got on my nerves.
I don’t care if Mondays blue
Tuesday’s grey and Wednesday too
Thursday I don’t care about you
It’s Friday, I’m in love
Can’t find a version that I’m allowed to imbed in this video so the link will have to do. You’ll be singing this the rest of the day.

Tina Chaulk is a writer who lives in Chamberlains, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, with her husband, two sons and dog. Her second novel, 

