" And sure enough, when we walked into that great big department store, and walked past aisles filled with slightly out of fashion woman's clothing, cheap suits, inexpensive furniture and housewares..."
You sure you weren't at Honest Ed's? ;-) Forgive me, no on outside Toronto will get that one... Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: William Robb <[email protected]> Sent: December 26, 2012 12/26/12 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: OT, kickstarter for Acme catalogue poster On 23/12/2012 3:38 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > I'm sure that someone on the PDML needs a catalogue for the Acme corporation > > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fringefocus/the-acme-corporation When I was a kid back in the early 60s (gads, that makes me feel old), there was a store in town called ACME Novelty. Of course, in my 6 year old mind, it had to be part of the ACME Corporation. I bugged my parents for months, to no avail, that I had to be taken to that store to see the wonders that surely must be on the shelves. Certainly, there would be 10,000 pound weights, and cases of dynamite, rocket powered roller skates, all the things that the Coyote bought could surely be had at ACME Novelty. Finally, one Saturday my parents relented, even though they knew, deep in their great big hearts, that they were setting me up for what would surely be the greatest disappointment of my childhood. And sure enough, when we walked into that great big department store, and walked past aisles filled with slightly out of fashion woman's clothing, cheap suits, inexpensive furniture and housewares, I was ever hopeful that if we went around just one more corner and into one more aisle, we would come to the section of the store that catered to Wiley Coyote. But it was not to be, for ACME Novelty was not really part of the ACME Corporation, or at least not part of the ACME Corporation that I was familiar with from spending hours watching the Roadrunner outwit his hapless nemesis. Friends, I was inconsolable. I led my parents through that entire store at least twice, ever hopeful that we had managed to miss the one aisle in the entire world that held the wonderful products that I had seen on TV. Finally, with tears of disappointment streaming down my cheeks, they led me back to the car and we drove home, my father being the very kind man that he was, told me that it was probably just that we lived in such a small city, perhaps ACME didn't put their full line of products into this store. He tried, but I recall being put out like only a 6 year old child can be. I'm sure I was insufferable for days. -- William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
