Big C
09-19-2008, 04:16 PM
Are any of you guys familiar with the site Retrojunk.com?
It has a lot of old commercials, and you can write your own articles on whatever you feel like.
Littlebelle wrote an article on there and so have I.
Here are some links to what we've written (not together; these were separate)
http://www.retrojunk.com/details_articles/2695
http://www.retrojunk.com/details_articles/3126
http://www.retrojunk.com/details_articles/3202/
The following is an article I wrote, but never got approved.
I have only shown this to LB, but now I'll show it to all of you guys.
The Greatest Day Of My Life
Before my family moved to Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1994, I was born and raised in Buffalo since 1984.
I lived there for 10 years, and I have experienced many things- four Super Bowl losses, countless Sabres victories at the Aud, hot crushe, and developing a taste for great foods that I would grow to love as I got older.
But, as great as all that was, it can't compare to the greatest day of my life- Friday, October 25, 1991.
That day, I had to take a very difficult spelling test, where I had to not only write out the words, but put them in a proper sentence. This was a bit tricky for me at the time, and I wasn't exaclt feeling confident heading into class.
Somehow, things clicked for me that day. I was able to figure out what to use in the right way to write correclty, and I aced the test!
Later, when I went to lunch that day, my sudden good luck kept on rolling. At lunch, they were serving S'Mores, something I had only tried once in my entire life.
After that, I discovered something that was almost gigantic to me.
Growing up in Buffalo, I naturally was a fan of the Sabres. When I got home, before I told my parents about my good grade on the test, I turned on SportsCenter and heard the big news:
My Sabres had traded Pierre Turgeon and three others to the New York Islanders in exchange for Pat LaFontaine and two others.
I instantly gained a new hockey hero.
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/7/lafontaineaf3.jpg
While I had admired many Sabres, such as Turgeon, Dave Andreychuk, Phil Housley, and Darren Puppa, I never truly looked at them to the degree of worship.
But in LaFontaine, I finally had what I could call a true hockey hero, someone I could truly admire.
Riding off the emotional high of the news that Lalalalalafontaine was now playing for my team, I told my parents about the 'A' I got on the tets.
We had previously agreed that when I get my first 100% A+ on a test, we would go out to Baskin-Robbins.
Before that, however, I watched some TV- TGIF, to be exact, for we would leave at 9:00 eastern (8:00 central).
I'm sure most of you remember growing up when TGIF was incredibly popular, with shows like 'Family Matters' and 'Perfect Strangers' and others.
That night, at 8:30, 30 minutes before my family and I were to leave to get the aforementioned ice cream, I watched an episode of a show I had never seen before- 'Step By Step.'
While watching that, I noticed a girl- roughly 15-16ish, portraying the ditzy, yet gorgeous Karen Foster.
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/7029/image00054eh6.png
Her name was Angela Christine Watson.
I immediately fell head-over-heels. Finally, I had a fantasy girl to keep me up at night- someone I could always fantasize about in ANY scenario.
Off yet another sensational emotional high, my family and I then went to Baskin-Robbins, where I had quite the ice-cream treat.
No, I didn't order 31 flavors.
http://www.bfeedme.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/hot-fudge-sundae-day-7-25-07.jpg
Instead, I got the biggest hot-fudge sundae of my youth.
By the time that was done and we headed home, I was clearly at an all-time emotional high with everything that transpired, and I went to sleep- the first of many, many, MANY dreams of Angie followed.
That day, I gained a heartthrob, a hero, and a permanent sweet tooth- all in ONE DAY!!
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/7029/image00054eh6.png
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/7/lafontaineaf3.jpg
http://www.bfeedme.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/hot-fudge-sundae-day-7-25-07.jpg
It has a lot of old commercials, and you can write your own articles on whatever you feel like.
Littlebelle wrote an article on there and so have I.
Here are some links to what we've written (not together; these were separate)
http://www.retrojunk.com/details_articles/2695
http://www.retrojunk.com/details_articles/3126
http://www.retrojunk.com/details_articles/3202/
The following is an article I wrote, but never got approved.
I have only shown this to LB, but now I'll show it to all of you guys.
The Greatest Day Of My Life
Before my family moved to Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1994, I was born and raised in Buffalo since 1984.
I lived there for 10 years, and I have experienced many things- four Super Bowl losses, countless Sabres victories at the Aud, hot crushe, and developing a taste for great foods that I would grow to love as I got older.
But, as great as all that was, it can't compare to the greatest day of my life- Friday, October 25, 1991.
That day, I had to take a very difficult spelling test, where I had to not only write out the words, but put them in a proper sentence. This was a bit tricky for me at the time, and I wasn't exaclt feeling confident heading into class.
Somehow, things clicked for me that day. I was able to figure out what to use in the right way to write correclty, and I aced the test!
Later, when I went to lunch that day, my sudden good luck kept on rolling. At lunch, they were serving S'Mores, something I had only tried once in my entire life.
After that, I discovered something that was almost gigantic to me.
Growing up in Buffalo, I naturally was a fan of the Sabres. When I got home, before I told my parents about my good grade on the test, I turned on SportsCenter and heard the big news:
My Sabres had traded Pierre Turgeon and three others to the New York Islanders in exchange for Pat LaFontaine and two others.
I instantly gained a new hockey hero.
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/7/lafontaineaf3.jpg
While I had admired many Sabres, such as Turgeon, Dave Andreychuk, Phil Housley, and Darren Puppa, I never truly looked at them to the degree of worship.
But in LaFontaine, I finally had what I could call a true hockey hero, someone I could truly admire.
Riding off the emotional high of the news that Lalalalalafontaine was now playing for my team, I told my parents about the 'A' I got on the tets.
We had previously agreed that when I get my first 100% A+ on a test, we would go out to Baskin-Robbins.
Before that, however, I watched some TV- TGIF, to be exact, for we would leave at 9:00 eastern (8:00 central).
I'm sure most of you remember growing up when TGIF was incredibly popular, with shows like 'Family Matters' and 'Perfect Strangers' and others.
That night, at 8:30, 30 minutes before my family and I were to leave to get the aforementioned ice cream, I watched an episode of a show I had never seen before- 'Step By Step.'
While watching that, I noticed a girl- roughly 15-16ish, portraying the ditzy, yet gorgeous Karen Foster.
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/7029/image00054eh6.png
Her name was Angela Christine Watson.
I immediately fell head-over-heels. Finally, I had a fantasy girl to keep me up at night- someone I could always fantasize about in ANY scenario.
Off yet another sensational emotional high, my family and I then went to Baskin-Robbins, where I had quite the ice-cream treat.
No, I didn't order 31 flavors.
http://www.bfeedme.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/hot-fudge-sundae-day-7-25-07.jpg
Instead, I got the biggest hot-fudge sundae of my youth.
By the time that was done and we headed home, I was clearly at an all-time emotional high with everything that transpired, and I went to sleep- the first of many, many, MANY dreams of Angie followed.
That day, I gained a heartthrob, a hero, and a permanent sweet tooth- all in ONE DAY!!
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/7029/image00054eh6.png
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/7/lafontaineaf3.jpg
http://www.bfeedme.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/hot-fudge-sundae-day-7-25-07.jpg