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Absolutely! Pizza Hut in Monroe in the 1980s was The Bomb and The Place To Be after every high school event. Once I moved to Madison, I found non-chain pizzas and have for the most part never looked back.
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Gotta bring this back for Mary Ann of Gilligan's Island. Come ON, 2020. https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/dawn-wells-dead-gilligans-island-mary-ann-1234876755/ -
I just want to point out that back in January, I labeled this "not bugging you" thread to cover the 2020s, not just 2020. (Also, congratulations on completing your master's)
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What's not bugging me today is baseball on my birthday. It's not something I can assume on February 25.
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I'm...going to be that "guy" and add that we have had cauliflower-crust pizza, and have bought frozen cauliflower crusts and topped them ourselves. It erases the SO's carb concern and honestly tastes fine to me. The consistency is different, but it's a reasonable alternative for us.
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The Rocky's out at Mineral Point and Tree Lane doesn't deliver? I suppose maybe not because they have the theater and game area? The Roman Candle just closed its Monroe St location last month. They're still in Middleton and on Willy though.
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It is still there! We've never stopped because we pass it basically on the way to ballgames, but it is still there. I think the sign says Since 1957.
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Reticent? I thought about mentioning Pizza hut as a joke... I'm thinking "remiss." So, I grew up in Monroe in the 1980s, when Pizza Hut was the bomb. Now it's only a gut bomb. *rimshot* Nowadays, the SO is diabetic and is reluctant to go overboard on pizza, and I'm not likely to order a full pie for myself. But - the original Ian's location on Frances in Madison is a 5 minute walk away from our libraries and we both enjoy a slice or two there. For SO to opt for frozen pizza at home, he pretty much needs a nutrition label to make sure it doesn't whack out his carb count, so we most often get Di Giorno. Not in bulk or anything. Earlier in our time in Madison, we lived near the first Pizza Extreme location, and used to regularly get their taco pizza. That was a good pie. There's no way SO would eat that much carbness in one meal anymore, and again, I'm not ordering a full pie for myself. But there are times I'd opt for that taco pizza again if it were practical. Another location is not far from our current house, so I experience no shortage of temptations. Rocky's...is a pie I got tired of after the fall semester 1985, when I ordered a sausage slice every Monday and Wednesday before I went to work at my college library gig. We more often go for the salad bar, which for that kind of establishment is more solid than you'd think. I do like Rocky's breadsticks, though.
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New decade*, new space to talk about what's not bugging you. I'll start! No matter how many times the Badgers have been in the Rose Bowl (a phrase I never would have imagined using while I was a UW student in the 1980s), it's always a thrill to see the Badger band march in the Rose Parade. *For those of you who recognize 1/1/2021 as the start of the new decade...it's okay. I'm making the change because two digits changed in the year, not just one.
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I'm marveling that this thread is nearly five years old!
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Me imagining Yelich as a Cardinal:
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I looked at her Twitter feed after learning of her death and the last tweet before the announcement of her death was only a few hours older than the announcement tweet. It's also how I learned about the documentary: http://www.rosemariemovie.com/. Now I'm interested in seeing it.
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MTM's Laura Petrie character is said to be my namesake.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor died on Sunday. She'd had so many health crises in recent years that my first thought was surprise that she hadn't passed previously. In case you're not keeping close track of the Gabor sisters, Zsa Zsa was best known for being married a jillion times and being a guest star everywhere. Her sister Eva was the "GOODBYE CITY LIFE" voice of Green Acres. The third Gabor sister was Magda. http://abcnews.go.com/images/Entertainment/ap_zsa_zsa_gabor_soap_opera_jef_ss_130322_ssh.jpg
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Man, this year. Though I suppose as baby boomers start to approach "tv treasure" status, we should expect more such losses for a while.
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It's not the best year for Patty Duke Show cast members. William Schallert, who had about a zillion TV and film credits (with one of the longer lasting ones being Patty Duke's dad on the aforementioned show), has died at 93. Linkage http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RxMwJdGHuA8/UZ5fHDW3ifI/AAAAAAAABGc/xs-nIXdaJOo/s1600/Travel.jpg
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James Noble died Monday. And now Patty Duke, today. Link
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Does anyone else feel like the pace of this thread is accelerating lately? Anyway, the most recent "TV treasure" loss is Earl Hamner, Jr., who created The Waltons and Falcon Crest. He narrated the beginning and end of every Waltons episode, and the John-Boy main character was based on his life.
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Man. I haven't heard that theme in AGES.
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Aw, man, I remember when Ben Sheets' kids were born.
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More of a film treasure, but her movies are shown on TV: Maureen O'Hara dies at 95 This probably isn't how most of her fans remember her, but I associate her with the 1961 The Parent Trap.
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When I look at clips from The Gong Show nowadays, I wonder if anyone was ever sober on that set. I mean, like ever.
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On Friday (2/28), character actor Gavin MacLeod turned 83. You might remember him from such classic TV roles as Murray Slaughter on the Mary Tyler Moore Show, or as Captain Merrill Stubing on The Love Boat.
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As a self-professed huge nerd for The Waltons, I find this awfully sad - though I admit I hadn't realized Ralph Waite was 85.
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More of a movie treasure than a TV treasure, but Shirley Temple has moved from the "still with us" to the "no longer with us" overnight: Link Even if you never caught her movies (and her heyday predates just about everyone here, I suspect), you've probably seen the TV commercials for the DVD collection of her movies. I had to stop watching the commercials after seeing one scene which was mostly but not completely colorized. The colorizers forgot her teeth, so when she broke out into a big grin, her teeth looked hideously gray in comparison to the rest of her colorized face. Yeah, sadly, that's my Shirley Temple memory.
