Whatever happened to ...
 

Elevator music?

Not that I miss it I just wonder what happened to it. I'm kind of glad its gone. I don't remember when it was but I remember feeling really old when I was in an elevator a good while back and a song I felt really cool for liking back in the 70s or 80s had been "Muzaked" - converted into a soothing instrumental. I, for one, did not appreciate that.

There are other things that were there when we went to sleep but gone when we woke up. Somebody is hoping we don't notice these things but we are the Cellar and somebody's got some splainin' to do.

What else has been taken from us without our explicit approval?

Cutomer service. Well-manufactured products. . . . Representational government.

Chocodiles are no longer available in the eastern half of the country...fuck Hostess!

WTF is one of those?

And, are you saying you can no longer procure the services of a Fuck Hostess?!

Hey Beestie, have you seen the elevators that run the Captivate news service (or other similar programming)? That's basically the replacement for elevator music.

SonofV telephoned his cousin who lives a mile away. He listened, then handed the phone back to me saying "Something's wrong. It's going 'baaaaap baaaaap baaaaaap baaaaaap'."

It took longer than I expected to explain the concept of a busy signal to him.

What happened to independent bookshops?
I haven't seen one in years now.

I think they were run by benign aliens, who decamped sometime around the late nineties, giving us up as a lost cause.

We still have a great one here in St. Louis.

There's a few in Providence. Haven't seen any here in Fresno, but I don't get out much.

It's my fault.

I used to regularly go into bookstores and drop upwards of $100 at a time. And this is back when books were cheap, people.

Then, in 1996, I made my first purchase on amazon.com.

I still love browsing used bookstores. :cool:

And for years I have missed Fizzies! :rolleyes:

Elevator music can still be found all over the internet. Just type in the name of your favorite song, and then add .mid
You'll soon be singing along with "Muskrat Love."

Fizzies were the best thing going. Haven't had one since 1969. Somebody tried to resurrect them a few years ago but I'm not sure what came of it.

About 3 inches of any candy bar or frozen pizza. :D

Elevator music went straight to hell. I am not looking forward to it's return......

But, but, what about the sing alongs... I heard that's where Lawrence Welk discovered some of his biggest stars.

And the dances, where will children learn to dance so they will be socially adept... think of the children. :headbag:

I don't know about where you all live, but elevator music is alive and well around here in stores and restaurants. Although I call it "shitty too loud music."

No one in this town likes it. Hey, that makes me like this town! They all do satellite and have the good grace to pick ok music or keep the dumb stuff on low volume.

just watch Blues Brothers to get a Girl from Ipanema fix

The elevators at work talk to ya. "floor 3, financial aid." Wouldn't it be funny if you could cut in with something like "floor 3 financial aid...don't yell at those poor people just 'cause you can't get your shit together."

:)

I just saw my toilet seat do a 180 in Mississippi. You can actually sit and spin now. :)

The Powerhouse candy bar was my favorite when I was a kid.

You and millions of your friends.

Amazon along with Barnes and Noble and Border's killed the mom and pop book store.

Nicola's Books in Ann Arbor is alive and kicking and awesome. As are a few other cool indie stores -the Shaman Drum, for example. but we're a college town, I guess that makes it easier....

Our mom and pop book store is alive and kicking. But then, they bother to read and stock the shelves with things worth reading. Plus they are sweet adorable little old ladies who, you can tell, are wild and crazy in the sack.

I mean judging by the books they carry.

No shit? I thought it was Wal-Mart's fault.

:D whheeeeeeeee!!! :D

It was. But WalMart allowed the other evil big conglomerates to prosper. What am I saying? WE allowed it to happen. fucking pussies that we are. Buy as cheap as you possibly can, because you know, that extra 40 cents you save on a book is really going to help your pocketbook.

Not sure what the rules are on this, so if I'm committing a faux pas, I apologize in advance for making a mistake. My brother asked me to pass the word though...

"In this day and time, especially with our economy spiraling downwards, one would think that exceptional customer service would be a paramount issue particularly during the holidays correct? WelL I am here to tell you that at BARNES & NOBLES they couldn’t care less! I received a CD as a Christmas gift and last night went in with the intention of simply exchanging the CD for another artist because I already have that particular CD. Well the snotty nosed young customer service fellow told me that they could not help me without a receipt. Now mind you, the CD cover was in tact, the BARNES & NOBLE bar coding label and all in pristine condition but too bad, no help you!

I don’t know about you but I was shocked and even further when I called the store manager and his response was no better. So, I told him, that whereas I was originally intended to simply exchange the CD that NOW due to their unfriendly customer service and unfriendly consumer policies that I was going to go to the trouble of trying to attain a receipt from the person that gave me the gift and then I was going to come back and not exchange it but refund it and I would NEVER shop at BARNES AND NOBLE AGAIN! To me it is just really bad policy to ruin customer relations over a $15 CD!

Some of you in Hawaii may recall when COMPUSA had really terrible customer service and an attitude like this and look where it got them...they are now closed down.

This is the only power we have as consumers to share with others the good and bad and I am sharing this BAD info with you. I will never shop there again. This also happened to me about 15 years ago with Hewlett Packard and I swear I have never bought a Hewlett Packard product since then. Spread the word!

P.s. A word to the BARNES & NOBLES CUSTOMER SERVICE.COM....there are about 200 people BCC on this email. Just imagine how many others they may send this email out to. All for a lousy CD! What a looser policy!"

I ran into something similar at Staples, returning something that not only had their labeling, it was their store brand. The manager said they demanded a receipt to prove it wasn't stolen.

Whatever happened to:

push lawn mowers

and apples that taste like apples

What ever happened to:

HR Puff and Stuff?

Marathon Bars.

Just the right combination of caramel and chocolate, and it was huge (or looked it anyway, there was a lot of empty space in the wrapper).

Did they have peanuts in? In which case they became "snickers" here, which is not a good idea in my view ...

Marathons here are like Mars Bars in the UK. (from what i recall in the children's halloween candy.... just the caramel and milky way stuff. Milky Way = 3 Musketeers, i think)

Whaaat???? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Push lawn mowers got pushed over a cliff when peple found self propelled power mowers, and apples that taste like apples disappeared after Merrill Streep decided Alar was bad for someone.

... Baby Jane?

Nope. Snickers Bars are Snickers Bars here still. Chocolate, Caramel, Nougat and Peanuts.

The Marathon Bar I'm talking about was just caramel and chocolate, and was extra long ... reinforced by have a ruler printed on the wrapper, just to reinforce the long-ness over other candy bars in the Late 70s/Early 80s.

There appears to be a similar product called The Curly-Wurly.

Not quite right, but closer. The Curly-Wurly page includes some details about the Marathon.

Oh, you silly Brits.

A Three Musketeers Bar is just the fluffy nougat stuff, covered in chocolate.

The Milky Way is the nougat with a ribbon of caramel over the top covered in chocolate.

The Snickers is nougat with a ribbon of caramel and peanuts added.

Just to make things more confusing, there are now flavor variations of each.


Say, has anybody noticed it's darn near impossible to find a single Baby Ruth bar, but you can get bags of them around Halloween? Wouldn't have occurred to me, frankly, but a cow orker had a friend visit from Ireland and she was totally nuts for Baby Ruths, but couldn't find any.

Didn't Constable Goody have a Curly-Wurly melt in his pocket?

/obscure?

Whatever happened to:

Elvira

Portland Wrestling and that wake up guy. Whatever his name was.

The day when TVs actually went off the air for the night. Free and entertaining. Why do we need 70 paid channels of nothingness.