5 a.m. on April 1st:

test pattern at 1900's crib.

Wake up to this:

Or better yet, this:

And the aptly titled

Sweden says good night:

CBS, laughing at itself.

Alice Cooper-esque

Fine lookin' 1934 BBC Television tuning signal. For the handful of TV viewers at that time.

In 1929, the first experimental television service was broadcast by the BBC in collaboration with The Baird Company. At this time transmission took place for 30 minutes per day using the Baird 30-line system.

Grandma?

Before the Indian chief killed him:

Test-pattern fetish, eh Chevy?

That one is very tame by comparision, I have ones that you need welders goggles to look at.

The black and white indian head test pattern was in use when I was a little
kid.For some reason it scared the hell out of me.

Perhaps it was the shrieking sound accompanying it.

Some of Marc Chevalier's scare me now.

The days of test patterns are long gone.TV runs 24/7 now,and after 2 AM it is mostly infomercials.Stations also run public service announcements in the wee hours,so they do'nt interfere with prime time programming.

It's pretty funny to see PSA's aimed at kids in the middle of the night-"Stop,look and listen;remember,never walk in front of moving trains!"

I am finally getting satelite T.V in a week(and moving into the 20th century.)
I will then have more to choose from during insomnia attacks.

You think you will, but you won't.
Read instead.

All those test patterns brought back hazy memories of my old Rocky Horror Picture Show days...

Cat Call: "What the Fuck is a Radio Picture?"

Ah yes,The R.H.P.S days...T.P,rice,hot dogs,squirt guns,newspapers,toast,guys in drag(off-screen),lining up in front of The Tiffany on Sunset at 9P.M to get in first at 12 A.M,my mother putting makeup on my gay friend,nachos at Denny's at 3A.M,sleeping 'til noon, my gay friend sleeping on the floor,and so an and so on each Friday...Let's see,20-some times in a theater.

And then reliving it all on DVD..."I'm going home..."

How many times,Jethrow?And where?Can you remember through the green fog?

32.5 times .... various places. I had the honor of seeing it when it was released first run in the theaters in 1975. Theater was packed when it started, and then before Rocky was born, my buddy and I were the only ones left in the theater.

Most of the viewings were in Stockton, California, 1978-1981.

DG

Hehe... How many times at Rocky? Dont even have a clue anymore...

I actually got recruited by a friend that was in the cast, so my 'virgin' night was spent playing Dr Scott and Eddie. Luckily I had watched it previously on an ancient 30th generation dubbed videotape of Rocky with japanese subtitles. This was all at the Lakehurst Mall Movie Theater in Waukegan, Il. I didnt act in it often, but I attended at the Lakehurst, Mundelein, Deerbrook and various other theaters. Also Acted at a community college campus in Wisconsin for thier March Madness shwoign of Rocky.

Several years later when the whole Rocky Revival and reunion thing when on everyone was into it. Half the theaters disallowed half the extra's, no toast, no rice, no squirtguns, no lighters, no FUN...

I hate going back, but I do every so often... it is usually disappointing...

Yep, it's not like it was when I was a kid!

Jeeze ... I sound like my dad.

DG

I saw R.H.P.S when it first came out ,also-with my dad.

There's nothing like watching a man in drag with your dad.

I've never seen it.

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So to my questions then. First of all, there has been lot of talk about Pernod Tarragona over the years but I haven`t found anything about other varieties of vintage Pernod. So what are the differences between Pernod Eduoard, Pernod Pontarlier, Pernod Couvet Suisse and Pernod Gempp and Pernod New Orleans. I read somewhere that Ned Brew wrote about Pernod New Orleans and how it was popular in States at the time (http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2002-12-17/cover_story.html). I know that absinthe was very popular in New Orleans but didn`t know that there was Pernod named after that.

Then my other two questions are very trivial ones but have just been bothering me for a while. First about vintage Oxygenee. Does anyone know what meant the oxygenation of the absinthe that Oxygenee was proud of and named after. Was that only a marketing trick or did they actually do somekind of oxygenation and did that affect to taste (and what does it actually mean)? Then my third question (dunno If anyone has knowledge for this but here goes nothing). Was there coloring state involved in the making of absinthe before it was handed to Pernod Fils? I mean when it was made in Switzerland and was mainly used as a medicine. One would think that it could have been possible that it coloring state was added when they started to make absinthe for commercial purposes to make it look nicer. So there goes my questions….thanks for reading =) . [/quote]
Pernod Couvet: I've seen that used for the original "Dubied Pere et Fils" (i.e. Henri-Louis Pernod's association with his father in law, Dubied), and for Edouard Pernod's factory in Couvet (founded much later, *after* Pernod Fils was established in Pontarlier). IIRC, "Pernod Couvet" is strictly correct in neither case, as the two factories were "Dubied Pere et Fils" and "Edouard Pernod" in Couvet.

[To make matters more interesting, Dubied also has a son named "Edouard"]

"Edouard Pernod" in Couvet refers to two generations of Pernod (one son of Henri-Louis, but from an earlier marriage, i.e. not a grandson of Dubied!), one son of Edouard Pernod.

"Maison Pernod Fils": Pernod moved to Pontarlier. After Henri-Louis, managed by Louis Pernod, grandson of Dubied (half-brother of the first Edouard Pernod). But it ceases to be under control of Henri-Louis Pernod's descendants (even though the enterprise retains the name *and* the factory for some time after that).

"Edouard Pernod": usually refers to the factory established in Pontarlier by the second Edouard Pernod.

"Legler Pernod" is only related to Pernod by marriage (to the daughter of the second Edouard Pernod, IIRC).

"Jules Pernod" is unrelated, morphed to "Pernod Pere et Fils", and swallowed the company that eventually got the "Pernod Fils" name (but not the factory).

There's also Edouard Pernot with a "t", and that should tell you something. No relation to Emile Pernot (also with a "t"), whose successors in interest are making the "Un Emile" line of products (with some help from Liqueurs de France).

All that this is telling is: there's "Edouard Pernod" and "Pernod Fils", and everyone else tries to get a name that looks like on of these two, so you get the idea wrt the picking order ;).

I think all this mess must've been quite good for the 19th century lawyers, as the companies were reported to defend their trademarks vigorously ;).

The only thing I can't track down is what "Etablissements Edouard Pernod" (Couvet, Pontarlier) eventually became. Were they eventually swallowed by "Etablissements Pernod" as well? [/quote]
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HAHA! I always liked doing that. I know... simpleton.

Never seen it either, same goes for the Lord of the Rings et al.