Fortunately, I can listen to music in the background while I work or whatever. I recently learned that all the music you could ever want to hear is available for free on the internet, so I went over to Youtube and found the album! I kinda wanted to hear it, but maybe I just wanted to “own it” (as the oldies would say about recorded music) to actually listen to all 19 songs sounds like a bit much. ![]() Truth in labeling, people! None of the tracks are by R.E.M., which is too bad cos their covers are great, but of course I respect them more for not being on this kind of crappy concept album that I love so much. Pufnstuf, even though it’s not actually a cartoon. I really have no need at all for my yellowed copy of “Total Television: A Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present.”Īnyway, this internet search led me to the album, Saturday Morning: Cartoons’ Greatest Hits, which appeared in 1996 and features various somewhat-gritty boomer and x-er rockers such as Liz Phair, Butthole Surfers, Violent Femmes, etc., covering cartoon classics-and also the theme from H. The internet has lots of issues, but one thing it’s good at is providing detail on classic and not-so-classic TV shows. I’m still humming it in my head, at least when my brain’s not being occupied by the even more memorable Banana Splits theme song, which has the extra benefit of being associated with that unforgettable water slide image. But I remember it! Maybe not so well as its hat-themed sister show, Lidsville, or The Houndcats, which I absolutely loved for its elaborate plots (I’d never seen an actual episode of Mission Impossible and had no idea that this was what The Houndcats was ripping off), but that theme song. Pufnstuf, also airing for only one season, had a much smaller cultural foonote. It’s been often noted that The Jetsons have had an outsized influence on popular memory given that it was only on the air for one season (later forgettable reboots notwithstanding). Pufnstuf, can’t do a little cause he can’t do enough.” What can that possibly mean, I always thought? Can’t do a little cause he can’t do enough? I still have no idea. Pufnstuf, as anyone who happens to be exactly my age and grew up in the United States and watched too much TV-ummmm, I guess that would be just about everyone my age who grew up in the U.S.-was a Saturday morning cartoon-actually, it was not a cartoon according to Wikipedia, it was a “live-action, life-sized-puppet program.” Like any other kid, I much preferred cartoons to live-action anything, but given the options on TV, we watched whatever was on in those long weekend hours.Īnyway, thinking about that show brought to mind that infectious earworm of its theme song: “H. Pufnstuf in the Greatest Seminar Speaker competition as he’s not a real person. I was trying to come up with a good set of 8 of these people, and the name “H. ![]() Eliot (alternatively, he could go into the always-crowded “bigots” category), etc. Good (his “device of imaginary results”), and that got me thinking of famous people who are known by their initials: A. Anyway, that’s neither here nor there the relevance of this particular digression is that one of the other references in the paper is to the statistician I. This is not one article, it’s 4 different articles, each of which includes a friend, and none of which I’d heard about until my colleagues and I started looking into the topic. Then today I was working on an article on equivalent sample size for Bayesian prior distributions-it’s funny, there are a bunch of articles on the topic, all of which include people who I know personally: Peter Mueller, Rob Trangucci, Xiao-Li Meng, and Sebastian Weber. ![]() We were going through a few possible categories-I’m actually forgetting most of these, but I’m sure my consultant has them written down somewhere- in any case I do remember that we only had 6 or 7 out of the necessary 8 categories, and in the back of my mind I was trying to think of one or two more. It all started last month when I was talking with my social media consultant about planning our next Greatest Seminar Speaker competition.
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