Comments on: Trivial Associations http://www.geezersisters.com/culture/trivial-associations Austin, Texas novelist Ruth Pennebaker, who's old enough to call herself "fabulous," writes about family, politics, marriage, friendship, feminism, aging and whatever else occurs to her. Her latest novel, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough, was published by Berkley in January 2011. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:24:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cindy http://www.geezersisters.com/culture/trivial-associations/comment-page-1#comment-773 Cindy Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:08:26 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=869#comment-773 Remember "plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is"?  Whatever happened to commercial jingles?  When my husband and I were discussing the demise of jingles and I burst out with the plop-plop one, my daughter looked at me like I'd grown a third eye.  And remember "sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't"?  Another long stare from my daughter. To me, these were well-known cultural phenomenons.  To her, it's really weird trivia. Remember “plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is”?  Whatever happened to commercial jingles?  When my husband and I were discussing the demise of jingles and I burst out with the plop-plop one, my daughter looked at me like I’d grown a third eye.  And remember “sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t”?  Another long stare from my daughter. To me, these were well-known cultural phenomenons.  To her, it’s really weird trivia.

]]> By: Sophie http://www.geezersisters.com/culture/trivial-associations/comment-page-1#comment-772 Sophie Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:51:21 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=869#comment-772 I have a similar affliction in that I remember song lyrics. Obsessively. Including ancient commercial jingles. So, "Knock on any Norge. Knock on any Norge. Hear the solid sound of quality, knock on any Norge. Years from now you'll be glad, it's a Norge." That one dates to, oh, about 1965. I have a similar affliction in that I remember song lyrics. Obsessively. Including ancient commercial jingles. So, “Knock on any Norge. Knock on any Norge. Hear the solid sound of quality, knock on any Norge. Years from now you’ll be glad, it’s a Norge.”

That one dates to, oh, about 1965.

]]> By: rachelbirds http://www.geezersisters.com/culture/trivial-associations/comment-page-1#comment-771 rachelbirds Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:51:00 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=869#comment-771 I love trivial bits -- they gather like lint and are cleaned out, sometimes.   <a href="http://www.thehaikudiaries.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">www.thehaikudiaries.wordpress.com</a> I love trivial
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]]> By: ruthpennebaker http://www.geezersisters.com/culture/trivial-associations/comment-page-1#comment-769 ruthpennebaker Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:54:52 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=869#comment-769 I knew it all, except for the first item.  (What can Ruth be <em>thinking</em>?)  My sister and I fell in love with trivia by reading about the Tudors.  We never quite got over it. I knew it all, except for the first item.  (What can Ruth be thinking?)  My sister and I fell in love with trivia by reading about the Tudors.  We never quite got over it.

]]> By: Cynthia http://www.geezersisters.com/culture/trivial-associations/comment-page-1#comment-768 Cynthia Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:30:12 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=869#comment-768 And did you know that Nino Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsberg are actually BFF's in real life?  And Julia Child was a spy with the OSS (predecessor to the CIA) during World War II?  And Olivia De Havilland and Joan Fontaine were sisters who hated each other and were estranged during their entire Hollywood careers?  Oh, man, this stuff is fun.  Who couldn't love it! Thanks. And did you know that Nino Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsberg are actually BFF’s in real life?  And Julia Child was a spy with the OSS (predecessor to the CIA) during World War II?  And Olivia De Havilland and Joan Fontaine were sisters who hated each other and were estranged during their entire Hollywood careers?  Oh, man, this stuff is fun.  Who couldn’t love it!

Thanks.

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