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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: ScaryTooth on Saturday, October 07, 2006, 09:50:54 PM

Title: How Crayons are made.
Post by: ScaryTooth on Saturday, October 07, 2006, 09:50:54 PM

Ahhh, memories. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJJcZ4BGPnc)

Title: Re: How Crayons are made.
Post by: idolminds on Saturday, October 07, 2006, 09:56:48 PM

This just made me all warm and fuzzy inside.

Title: Re: How Crayons are made.
Post by: TheOtherBelmont on Saturday, October 07, 2006, 11:20:26 PM

Sesame Street was such an awesome show, my mom said I used to watch it all the time and was probably one of the reasons I was reading so well by the time I actually started school.

Also, not to derail the thread but on that video link I noticed a related video on the side of the page of Mr. Rogers speaking at a senate hearing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWRKnFBlXaE&mode=related&search=) about funding for PBS which Nixon was about to cut in 1969.  I had no idea Mr. Rogers made this kind of a stand for PBS and its pretty damn cool that he ended up saving the station and its funding back in its early days.  I still watch a good chunk of PBS, especially NOVA.

Title: Re: How Crayons are made.
Post by: Xessive on Sunday, October 08, 2006, 02:02:04 AM

Man! Thanks for the serious flashback haha! Holy monkey, that was like a brick to the back of the head kinda flashback! :P

Title: Re: How Crayons are made.
Post by: Raisa on Sunday, October 08, 2006, 05:37:57 AM

sesame street...

hhah
letter b, letter b!

i watched it every day.

Title: Re: How Crayons are made.
Post by: Quemaqua on Sunday, October 08, 2006, 09:13:33 AM

So weird.  Pyro and I both remembered it like it was yesterday.  Crazy.

Title: Re: How Crayons are made.
Post by: Ghandi on Sunday, October 08, 2006, 11:01:20 AM

Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow were the jam. Funny to think how probably none of those people in the video had that job 10 years later.

Title: Re: How Crayons are made.
Post by: gpw11 on Monday, October 09, 2006, 01:56:53 AM

You know, I wouldn't really be suprised if it was pretty much the exact same process used today and there were still roughly the same number of jobs in the factories.  It could very well be cheaper to just keep things the same for years on end rather then upgrade an entire interconection series of industrial machines set up in such a specialised way.  I'd imagine you'd possibly have to scrap a lot of working machinery to do so, and by that point most of the jobs that could be easily replaced by machines probably would have been.  And unions...damn.  But you mentioning that actually has me curious now.

Title: Re: How Crayons are made.
Post by: Raisa on Monday, October 09, 2006, 05:24:31 AM

Quote from: Ghandi on Sunday, October 08, 2006, 11:01:20 AM

Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow were the jam. Funny to think how probably none of those people in the video had that job 10 years later.

Reading rainbow.. I had forgotten about that!! ahh memories.. i swear, the shoes nowadays for kids suck compared to what we had! well art attack is pretty cool though.

Title: Re: How Crayons are made.
Post by: idolminds on Monday, October 09, 2006, 08:23:03 AM

Art Attack ran for a very short time here, but I loved that. I also liked 321 Contact.

Title: Re: How Crayons are made.
Post by: ScaryTooth on Monday, October 09, 2006, 06:43:36 PM

What was that show with the kids with special pens, and they could communicate with a ball of light, and solve mysteries and stuff?

Title: Re: How Crayons are made.
Post by: idolminds on Monday, October 09, 2006, 06:57:29 PM

Ghostwriter

Title: Re: How Crayons are made.
Post by: ScaryTooth on Tuesday, October 10, 2006, 01:10:59 PM

That was it! I remember liking that show when I was about 9 or 10.