Strange Train of Thought

[laura_seabrook]

Kevin and I are watching an episode of Blake's 7, the one with the "Mad Max" clones in it from season 4. Anyway, he said that one of these guys looked like a "Chav". I'd never heard the term before so I looked Chav up on the Wikipedia. Apparently the word is connected to the Australian slang "bogan". Then I noticed that there was a disambiguation for bogan and looked it up. Turns out there's  Bogan River, a Bogan Shire (with an estimated average income per wage and salary earner of $32,823 99th in New South Wales) and a Bogan Gate. The Bogan Gate made me think of a rejected State Motto that I'd read about ages ago "Illinois: Gateway to Iowa". Most likely a joke, though some of the reference pages for this are funny.

I have a curious train of thought sometimes.

We're watching the final scenes with eight wheeled vehicles going all over the place Kevin burst out into song with the Banana Splits theme. Hmmm, right (quietly backs out of room).

Anyone else remember the Splits? I used to watch them all the time (especially Danger Island) when I was young.

 

Comments

[gauky-1976.livejournal.com]

Yes I remember the Splits and they bring back many happy memories of Saturday mornings in front of the TV...

Does being able to remember this mean I'm getting old now?? *Looks scared*

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

Well, you may be older than you think if you remember either. I think the last time they repeated this was the late 70s.

[gauky-1976.livejournal.com]

That makes me feel somewhat better as I was born in 1976...

But if the saying "You're only as old as you feel" is true...that must be why I feel like I'm 150 years old!! :P

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

How could we forget the Splits and Danger Island..

[carly-kai.livejournal.com]

oh yes...

[yuriverse.livejournal.com]

The Banana Splits Show was a staple of my childhood to be sure! I even think the kid who played Huck Finn in the "Adventures of Tom Sawyer" segments was my first crush. So, I could claim that the Splits made me gay.

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

Golly - Huck Finn? I don't think we got that with the Banana Splits here - it was a seperate show. If I remember correctly, there were always trying to find "Injun Joe" while falling into a different time each week.

[stephen-dedman.livejournal.com]

Who could possibly forget the Splits?

(If anyone needs an alibi, I suspect they were repeated at Swancon at least once.)

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

Indeed - perhaps in South Fremantle somewhere too!

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

I remember the Splits, although not well, and can play their theme song on my guitar (badly, probably).

I've some Blake's 7 episodes on tape, but not that one :-)

[yeopenbooke.livejournal.com]

Oooh buy "We Aren't The World" by The Dickies! They played a cover of the theme, sped up.

"A one banana/two banana/three banana/four!"

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

..four bananas make a bunch and so do many more :-)

[strang-er.livejournal.com]

Danger Island was always my favourite bit, especially the Skeleton Men.

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

Mutan was a bit of a dope, though, wasn't he?

[strang-er.livejournal.com]

Was he the leader of the Skeleton Men? I just remember liking his look, with the white wig and facepaint.

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

No, he was the leader of the pirates.

ohio or iowa

[rashelleym.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember that one of the Merekin state grabonators actually and seriously proposed a license-plate motto reading: "State of minds".

I do remember noticing The Banana Splits. But Jonny Quest (and Yogi Bear, and Huckleberry Hound) I enjoyed, because first encountering them before about age 10 or so. Interesting that the wiki article indicates that Splits was loosely based on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (a live weekly comedy-only production), because I was very very into Laugh-In at the time. And bubblegum pop, actually. Such a relief after the Bee'uhls were DONE. (Compare and contrast "speaking words of wisdom/let it be" and "yummy yummy yummy/I got love on my tummy".) But I digress.

Re: ohio or iowa

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can see the similarity between the two. I like Johnny Quest as well, which is why I bought the Venture Bros DVDs.