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Mar. 26th, 2006 03:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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calliopes_pen and I were talking and the subject of Choose Your Own Adventure books came up, as well as this site: http://www.gamebooks.org/cyoalist.htm I was as happy as a pig in a happy-pig-place to see this! I used to have a huge bundle of these as a kid - twice! (I got into them, got out, sold them, a year later got in again). The local second-hand bookstore was a most excellent source for these.
Loved the books, loved the cover design too (they were mainly the white-border-covers just starting the whole-block-colour editions back then). Just seeing the pictures again brought on so many memories - just scrolling down I was all "Survival at Sea! Underground Kingdom! Mystery of Chimney Rock! Inside UFO 54-40! I remember all these!"
And yes, I used to keep my fingers at key choice-pages just in case I chose the way that got me killed. :lol: Gosh, I can almost smell those old books now. I even had one with me one day when Dad took me along on his courier job one school holiday back in '89 - not that there was much reading available when there was a ute-load of bricks to unload! And I still remember I got a Peppermint Crisp bar from a deli at some point during that day.
I was watching the interviews at the end of the first season set of 21 Jump Street earlier, and Dustin Nguyen mentioned something in his interview about a cast appearance at a mall with these see-through elevators, and this got me thinking. City Arcade in the city used to have its own clear lift, it suddenly reminded me. It had a small pool around it, with waterfalls around the Murray Street Level (the lower level, in that part of town the different elevations of Murray and Hay Streets are quite noticable) running over clear glass walls on the non-door sides, with water plants with large leaves arranged on those glass walls and pool. The lift and pool were taken away about a decade ago, now the only sign that they were ever there is a small platform on the Hay Street Level walkway which used to be the egress-point (and of course the huge gap in the Hay Street Level floor with two walkways around, quite useless now without the focal point - in fact, a damn pain to walk along when crowded). Strange that something so obvious before is now almost forgotten about, and it takes an interview on a DVD with a man on the other side of the world to awaken that memory.
Another funny thing occurs to me about these DVDs - the advertising is all about how "Ooh, such-and-such star-of-the-90s appeared first in this season"... I'm not caring less here, and not recognising them anyway when they appear. Yet when someone from Sci-fi shows turn up, then I'm right on it! "Hey, the principal is General Hammond!" "That teacher's Cigarette Smoking Man!" and perhaps the most obscure observation "Agent Annorax!"
Just because it's been a while since any of these found their way into an entry:
I had a feeling I might tend more towards the Hobbes side.
*is not hooked in to the Great Machine, nope…
…well, any more than normal ;)*
calliopes_pen and I were talking and the subject of Choose Your Own Adventure books came up, as well as this site: http://www.gamebooks.org/cyoalist.htm I was as happy as a pig in a happy-pig-place to see this! I used to have a huge bundle of these as a kid - twice! (I got into them, got out, sold them, a year later got in again). The local second-hand bookstore was a most excellent source for these.Loved the books, loved the cover design too (they were mainly the white-border-covers just starting the whole-block-colour editions back then). Just seeing the pictures again brought on so many memories - just scrolling down I was all "Survival at Sea! Underground Kingdom! Mystery of Chimney Rock! Inside UFO 54-40! I remember all these!"
And yes, I used to keep my fingers at key choice-pages just in case I chose the way that got me killed. :lol: Gosh, I can almost smell those old books now. I even had one with me one day when Dad took me along on his courier job one school holiday back in '89 - not that there was much reading available when there was a ute-load of bricks to unload! And I still remember I got a Peppermint Crisp bar from a deli at some point during that day.
I was watching the interviews at the end of the first season set of 21 Jump Street earlier, and Dustin Nguyen mentioned something in his interview about a cast appearance at a mall with these see-through elevators, and this got me thinking. City Arcade in the city used to have its own clear lift, it suddenly reminded me. It had a small pool around it, with waterfalls around the Murray Street Level (the lower level, in that part of town the different elevations of Murray and Hay Streets are quite noticable) running over clear glass walls on the non-door sides, with water plants with large leaves arranged on those glass walls and pool. The lift and pool were taken away about a decade ago, now the only sign that they were ever there is a small platform on the Hay Street Level walkway which used to be the egress-point (and of course the huge gap in the Hay Street Level floor with two walkways around, quite useless now without the focal point - in fact, a damn pain to walk along when crowded). Strange that something so obvious before is now almost forgotten about, and it takes an interview on a DVD with a man on the other side of the world to awaken that memory.
Another funny thing occurs to me about these DVDs - the advertising is all about how "Ooh, such-and-such star-of-the-90s appeared first in this season"... I'm not caring less here, and not recognising them anyway when they appear. Yet when someone from Sci-fi shows turn up, then I'm right on it! "Hey, the principal is General Hammond!" "That teacher's Cigarette Smoking Man!" and perhaps the most obscure observation "Agent Annorax!"
Just because it's been a while since any of these found their way into an entry:
Mostly Hobbes You are 30% Calvin and 70% Hobbes |
You've got elements of both Calvin and Hobbes, but over all, your sensible side wins out over your wild streak, and you tend toward the tiger. As the picture below indicates, the head is the first place that people usually turn to the darkside (i.e. Calvin): symptoms include irresponsible behavior and crazy ideas. You're liable to both. But beneath that you have a heart, a sensitive side, and this more often than not carries the day. |
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| My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Calvin Or Hobbes Test written by gwendolynbooks on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test |
I had a feeling I might tend more towards the Hobbes side.
Congratulations! You scored 91%! |
My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Babylon 5 Trivia Test written by penguinkraft on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test |
*is not hooked in to the Great Machine, nope…
…well, any more than normal ;)*
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Date: 2006-03-25 07:57 pm (UTC)Same with me. I think I did that exact same thing.
And yes, I used to keep my fingers at key choice-pages just in case I chose the way that got me killed. :lol:
The scary part? I wanted to see the most horrible choice. :lol:
I usually ended up cut in half by a ninja's blade, possessed, or shot out the airlock. Or all three.
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Date: 2006-03-26 10:08 am (UTC)I'm not surprised by that. :D
What's more surprising is *me* selling stuff :lol:
The scary part? I wanted to see the most horrible choice. :lol:
I'm most definitely not surprised by that :lol:
I usually ended up cut in half by a ninja's blade, possessed, or shot out the airlock. Or all three.
Ewwwwww... *duct tapes her back together*
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Date: 2006-03-25 07:59 pm (UTC)You are 40% Calvin and 60% Hobbes
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Date: 2006-03-26 10:20 am (UTC)Well, now you've got something to look out for in the secondhand bookstore, young Phoenix :D
Like Calvin, you're weird, a bit insecure, and can be a trouble-maker. But like Hobbes, you're down to earth and sensitive... I'll bet you're smarter than most.
No commentary, and true ;) :D
any one made from equal parts of each is a force to be reckoned with.
I reckon! :D