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geodeticman.5 · 07-15-2008, 11:31 PM

Nightingale

Yeah, whichever one was the old B&W one, with the acid pit and the skeleton pushing people into it -- and I gotta say that poor old skeeelatin (as I pronounced it when I was a kid per my parents lol ) looked like a nerfball would send him blown apart into the acid pit himself.... well THAT movie I saw on a Saturday afternoon on TV, and I got so scared by myself downstits in a BIG house - not expensive just BIGGGG, that I got sick to my stomche from fear.

So I matter of factly according to my mother years later told me that I turned the movie off, came upstairs, and said "Mommy, that scary of a movie is not right for a kid my age, it makes me sick I get so scared. So, lets not allow me to watch that "spooker" theatre on Saturdays anymore, OK mommy ?" LOL she said she tried very hard not to laugh, choked on her coffee (she was in a neighborhood coffee "klatch" [ is that correct nomenclature?] and I had said all of this in front of her friends in hats and gloves and stuff and she lost it.....

And so I went back outside into my glorious woods behind my house, climbed a rope in a tree, jumped in leaves (it was near Halloween as I recall) and thought I was the first man to ever explore the trails I went on, having just read the night before one of the science-series books my folks subscribed me to, to "stimulate my mind....", this one was on "Surveying and Mapping" and in the woods I remembered fancying myself to be the weatherhardened nd gravely serious mathemetician standing on the mountain-top, while his "assistant operated the short wave radio". Great memories and scary movies.... later....

07-15-2008, 11:31 PM	#44
geodeticman.5 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eastern Slope urban corridor, Colo. USA Posts: 1,007	Re: Midwest flooding Nightingale Yeah, whichever one was the old B&W one, with the acid pit and the skeleton pushing people into it -- and I gotta say that poor old skeeelatin (as I pronounced it when I was a kid per my parents lol ) looked like a nerfball would send him blown apart into the acid pit himself.... well THAT movie I saw on a Saturday afternoon on TV, and I got so scared by myself downstits in a BIG house - not expensive just BIGGGG, that I got sick to my stomche from fear. So I matter of factly according to my mother years later told me that I turned the movie off, came upstairs, and said "Mommy, that scary of a movie is not right for a kid my age, it makes me sick I get so scared. So, lets not allow me to watch that "spooker" theatre on Saturdays anymore, OK mommy ?" LOL she said she tried very hard not to laugh, choked on her coffee (she was in a neighborhood coffee "klatch" [ is that correct nomenclature?] and I had said all of this in front of her friends in hats and gloves and stuff and she lost it..... And so I went back outside into my glorious woods behind my house, climbed a rope in a tree, jumped in leaves (it was near Halloween as I recall) and thought I was the first man to ever explore the trails I went on, having just read the night before one of the science-series books my folks subscribed me to, to "stimulate my mind....", this one was on "Surveying and Mapping" and in the woods I remembered fancying myself to be the weatherhardened nd gravely serious mathemetician standing on the mountain-top, while his "assistant operated the short wave radio". Great memories and scary movies.... later....