(a reference to his age, 99, and a common tactic on his game show, "The Price is Right", of bidding some dollar amount and 99 cents -- bids exceeding target value were disqualified)
I'm an 80s kid, it feels like the end of the old world was around 2000, you could probably draw a line through 911 since really nothing has been the same since. I was 21 in 2001. I feel 90s kids are the last generation to have a decent childhood.
People still went out trick or treating, people still watched tv with commercials which I think made us slow down and talk about things more while we waited for the commercials to end. I love Netflix and chill as much as anybody else and I'm obsessed with AI but as I get older nostalgia hits harder and harder.
I'm not certain I love stranger things for the story or just the nostalgia it brings. Probably both, but I'll watch and probably enjoy anything set in the 80s, or 90s. There seemed to be a lot less political polarity and hatred between the left and right too. that was nice.
I will never forget the time my cousin appeared on the show (how could I - it's immortalized on YouTube.)
She was totally excited about it, of course, told the whole family to watch; I couldn't tune in so I watched a tape or replay or something.
It was actually pretty emabarrassing for her and I just cringed to watch it. They started out on the wrong foot with the announcer mispronouncing her name (how do they do that?!) but she exhibited great enthusiasm and energy as she zipped up to her assigned podium.
Then she bid on a couple pricing games, and was quickly eliminated for being way, way off target, didn't win anything, and went home in shame and defeat.
That is how the cookie crumbles, I suppose, for many contestants, and I believe my cousin had more price-savvy than most, hanging out in thrift stores and auction sites and knowing the values of things, everything but the brand-new drum set they put on display for her to win. (Her husband was a multi-instrumentalist and her very young son was a drummer in a local band.)
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Something about that is very satisfying to me.
People still went out trick or treating, people still watched tv with commercials which I think made us slow down and talk about things more while we waited for the commercials to end. I love Netflix and chill as much as anybody else and I'm obsessed with AI but as I get older nostalgia hits harder and harder.
I'm not certain I love stranger things for the story or just the nostalgia it brings. Probably both, but I'll watch and probably enjoy anything set in the 80s, or 90s. There seemed to be a lot less political polarity and hatred between the left and right too. that was nice.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0b1In9RF7Y
She was totally excited about it, of course, told the whole family to watch; I couldn't tune in so I watched a tape or replay or something.
It was actually pretty emabarrassing for her and I just cringed to watch it. They started out on the wrong foot with the announcer mispronouncing her name (how do they do that?!) but she exhibited great enthusiasm and energy as she zipped up to her assigned podium.
Then she bid on a couple pricing games, and was quickly eliminated for being way, way off target, didn't win anything, and went home in shame and defeat.
That is how the cookie crumbles, I suppose, for many contestants, and I believe my cousin had more price-savvy than most, hanging out in thrift stores and auction sites and knowing the values of things, everything but the brand-new drum set they put on display for her to win. (Her husband was a multi-instrumentalist and her very young son was a drummer in a local band.)