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RE: A Snippet of My Life as a Child: To Flush or Not to Flush
This reminds me a little of, "To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With" by Cosby.
This reminds me a little of, "To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With" by Cosby.
Was that Cosby's earlier work? I don't know much about him or his stories.
I was born in 1974 so I mostly know Cosby from Captain Kangaroo and The Cosby Show. However, this one album I heard and it was fantastically funny. On one side he tells the story of growing up and sharing a bed with his brother Russell. When they were supposed to be asleep they would cause trouble -- general kid stuff pushing and shoving -- and they got louder and louder until they woke up their father and he came in an roared at them and they were scared and deathly silent.
When I heard it I was around 10 or so and it was the funniest story I'd ever heard because I could imagine my younger brother and I in this story. The album was recorded in the 60's so it must have been over 20 years old, but great comedy is timeless. In a couple of years I could probably put this on for my daughter. (Admittedly, references to the corporal punishment of children is no longer relevant, but this can be easily overlooked.)
I remember the Cosby Show and old reruns of Fat Albert, vaguely.
I think when it comes to what we all did as kids versus what our parents actually knew about us and how we were dealing with their behavior, many can come up with a similar story as above or how you describe Cosby's.
Kids these days got it good. They fear having their phone taken away. We feared for our lives.
I had forgotten about Fat Albert. The cartoons back then were pretty great.
The youth these days may be spoiled in many regards, but the cartoons they have are pretty awful.
I remember coming home from high school and seeing by brother watching Captain Planet and thinking, "This is awful. Why would you watch this?" I didn't realize at the time that this was the beginning of the end of non-edutainment cartoons.