Odyssey + the Real World

[LizzieG]

I was half-watching an episode of The Cosby Show last night when I heard "Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair..." [over a hospital intercom], and the way it was said made me sit up and look at the TV; it sounded very similar to "Dr. Davis, telephone please, Dr. Davis, telephone please" in "Karen"! Speaking of The Cosby Show, I had never seen it before this week, and my first thought was of Bill Crosby from "The Present Long Ago."

And since I'm posting here, one of my textbooks referenced an old TV show called Bonanza, a western featuring the Cartwright family (a la Young Guns Bonanza and the Cartwoods).

EDIT: Whoa, talk about deja vu! Minutes after posting this, I was in my car listening to the radio, and I heard that "Dr. Davis, telephone please, Dr. Davis, telephone please" line as the first part to a commercial. I had just listened to that part of "Karen" to make sure I got the wording right, and so I thought I was hearing things when those same words came out of my radio!

[IamConnie]

Ok, so I teach a worldview class with a friend of mine, and my sister is in this class, so she knows I love Odyssey (my friend knows that too). Anyway, we'll be talking about the depravity of man or something worldviewish and I'll suddenly go, "Oh, oh, oh! This reminds me of the Odyssey episode..." and my sister will roll her eyes. My friend just shakes his head. Since I have all the episodes (including the truth chronicles and lost episodes) on my iPod, I can listen to it at work (which is a library). So I'm sure there are people looking at me funny because I randomly (to them) burst into laughter. It's so funny when I try to explain Odyssey to my co-workers, one of which is my best friend. They just shake their heads at me. It's so nice to have something in common here. I'm finally understood!

[Amethystic]

Yeah, most of my friends are totally lost when I reference to AIO.

[IamConnie]

My sister and my friend get the references, but they're just not as into AIO as I am.

[Dallas R.]

It's great that this post has reappeared. I didn't think we'd come back to using again, but I was just considering searching for it because when I was driving through town on Saturday, I saw a store called, "The Imagination Station" and I really wanted to get out and see what was inside. I I even hoped that I might just jump into the past and experience a bible story if I went inside.

[EMBEE]

Let's see here...
I know a Whittaker family.
I also know a Morton family.
I know an Avery and my 2nd cousin (a girl) was almost named Avery.
My homeschool band director is named Tom Rye (Tom Riley)
A Dr. Meltsner did stitches on my sister a few years ago.
A McDonald's Monopoly stamp that said Marvin Gardens on it reminded me of Marvin Washington.
There is a playground called The Imagination Station near where my grandparents live.

[TigerintheShadows]

My fourth grade teacher had the last name Whitaker (then she married my middle school choir teacher/show choir director), and I absolutely LOVED her.

There was a guy in that same show choir who is a year older than me whose last name is Morton.

And I also know a guy with glasses and straight brown hair (which I have always pictured Trent as having for some reason) who is named Trent and is best friends with a kid named Marvin (who is not black, but is Hispanic, so the skin tone is almost the same). If Trent falls in love with a blond girl named Amanda (or Mandy; one of the two), I'm gonna laugh so hard...

[LizzieG]

I know someone who's engaged to a John Whittaker. Ha, both names!

In recent news, my roommate asked me the other day how to spell "definitely," and I thought of "A Lesson from Mike."

And then I read about the Wootton Bassett of Wiltshire, England in a news article.

[TigerintheShadows]

Whenever anyone in my immediate family has a random moment when they're spacing out, we call it "pulling a Trent." Whenever we have a moment where someone's freaking out, we call it "pulling a Jared."

[IamConnie]

Now, every time I hear the Jared commercials, I'm reminded of Jared DeWhite. "He went to Jared!" now makes me crack up. Why would anyone go to AIO's Jared for an engagement ring? For all we know, he's probably bugged it!

[TigerintheShadows]

If anybody wound up turning to Jared with problems--i.e. Trent, in a time of the reeeeeally ultimate desperation, needs "brotherly advice" on girl problems--I would LOVE to see how that would turn out.

[DanP740]

"And then throw mud on her."

[IamConnie]

Yes, that would be incredibly amusing. However, I think Jared's a little busy at the moment with the whole investigating the president thing to be giving any brotherly advice. What episode did he say to throw mud on her? I can't remember that one.

[Trent DeWhite]

I recently had an experience similar to Connie's in Have You No Selpurcs. In this instance, however, I ordered an item online but didn't pay for it. I didn't expect them to ship the item, since I hadn't finalized the payment. However, I received an email confirmation of my order, and then got the item in the mail a few days later. Rather than sending it back, however, I chose to keep it. But not before completing the online transaction and paying for it.

Man, I shouldn't have paid.

[LizzieG]

Haha, I recently had a Have You No Selpurcsesque moment too.

I ordered a book online, and it kept not coming and not coming, and finally, when the deadline had more than passed and I couldn't get in touch with the seller, I contacted Amazon about getting a refund. They replied that my refund was processing, but to reply such-and-such if the item finally did come. Well, the day they sent me the notification that I had been refunded, I got the item in the mail. I sent the reply email with the "yes I did get it" box checked, but didn't hear back from them for several days, and was in a bit of a quandary about what I should do. Some of my friends advised me to do nothing, since it had, after all, been the seller's fault it arrived so late (advice which also reminded me of that episode ). Thankfully, Amazon came through and did recharge me that amount... though I doubt the negligent seller would've noticed if they hadn't.

[TigerintheShadows]

In church today, we talked about how we are the salt of the earth; the light of the world. One of the teachers mentioned Matthew 7:13: "Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many." I instantly thought of "The Great Wishy Woz."

[IamConnie]

Everytime I eat Macaroni'N'Cheese, I can't help but listen/sing to Ode to Macaroni. I'm going to make it a tradition, I think.

[TigerintheShadows]

Once, I mentioned to my mom that my school was having a talent show, and she told me to wear a sparkly red dress and sing "Ode to Macaroni."

[EMBEE]

Yesterday my family and I were in the car and there was a lady in the lane next to us who (at least from the side) looked exactly like Chris Anthony! I tried not to stare...

[IamConnie]

There's a book called "Graceling" and it's about a girl who has different colored eyes, blue and green eyes. That's the predominant color in the gifted or "graced" people in that world, but there are some with gold and silver eyes. However, the dual colored eyes caused me to think about the stories of Marus, such as Fletcher's Rebellion.