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[BigV]

I used to get freaked out when they played the National Anthem at "the end of the broadcast day" and would turn it off before the flag waving in the breeze at the end, because I couldn't face that indian in the test pattern. He just sat there, and that tone, then the static. Then I *knew* I was alone. :shivers:

[Pangloss62]

You take me back, BigV.

Being up late enough to get to that "end of the broadcast day" part made me feel cool; yeah, a bit scared, but cool. That was the entry into a realm unknown to most kids. Hard to get there if you had parents in the house.

Oh. Regarding Zoom. I was lucky to grow up in the Boston area, home of WGBH. The station kept those kids' last names under wraps, lest they get hassled by strangers when they were just trying to be regular kids. One would see a Zoom kid now and again; I recall the dude with the big Jewfro. He was cool.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by BigV

I used to get freaked out when they played the National Anthem at "the end of the broadcast day" and would turn it off before the flag waving in the breeze at the end, because I couldn't face that indian in the test pattern. He just sat there, and that tone, then the static. Then I *knew* I was alone. :shivers:

I haven't seen that in years. That was a not so subtle message that it was way past time for me to get my ass in bed.

[Pangloss62]

Once I thought of that Zoom kid with the big hair, I had to find him. It was joe, the kid on the right.

The blog I found him on noted this about Joe:

"I once met a guy who went to high school with Joe in Boston and he said that the other kids used to taunt him with the nickname “Zoom-fag!”


He's got a good blog:
http://dannymiller.typepad.com/blog/...onna_teac.html