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New Post 3/31/2008 2:18 PM
  switters
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Good timing. 
The disenfranchised black single mother with 19 kids, one of whom had cancer of the leukemia and was confined to a wheelchair, got sent to The Magic Kingdom when Tye (sp?) and the good folks over there at ABC's Xtreme Makeover built them and their neighbor a brand new duplex, complete with an elevator and sharks. I balled my eyes out.

You nailed the church basement of the various churches I grew up going to in addition to The Park That Mickey Built. Only been once. The best part was The Home Of The Future, or whatever, a time when every house would have a t.v. It was eerie.
 
New Post 3/31/2008 4:28 PM
  Keifus
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Re: Good timing. 
Modified By Keifus  on 3/31/2008 4:29:56 PM)

Thanks for getting through it.  That one sort of got away from me.  (I keep up that level of unspellchecked purple, and Mike's gonna cut my pay, I'm sure of it.)

We went to the land of the mouse when I was seven or eight.  I remember being excited about space mountain (being both into space and cool rides), and the ride was, in fact, kind of fun, as was that other roller coaster they had.  I liked the visit, but not more than sea world or the couple of cut-rate places we stopped on the drive down.  (Yup, drive.  Really should write about that someday.)  Went again when I was about 14.  Visiting grandma for a week with my brother, with not a lot to otherwise do.  Bad weather and short lines for rides, which was good, but the nth degree schmaltz was already trying (even to the willing), and we could barely afford lunch. 

I feel a lot different about it as an adult, inundated as I am with every level of their filthy marketing.

K ("balled?")

 
New Post 3/31/2008 6:06 PM
  Michael Kenney
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Re: Good timing. 

Nth degree schmaltz? That might be the first time that's ever been written.

Eastern airlines package flew us Kenneys down to Florida the same year Disney World opened. After cutting into a 4 mile line on I-4 and saving an hour, my dad parked the rent-a-car in a tow zone. (My dad understood math and value. Fuck it, I'll pay the towing fee.)

They got even though. No, the car didn't get towed. After we stood in line for 2 hours for tickets, my dad handed the Disney ticket person the Eastern Airlines folder, and she told him that we already had tickets and that we didn't have to wait in line. D'OH!!! Fucking thing still gets laughs at Thanksgiving 35 years later.

A very enjoyable read Keith. Thanks buddy.

Did you say Disney marketing?

 
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