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MikeTheKnife

I don't have kids, and I haven't watched Sesame Street in years.  Years upon years.  And yet today I have had a couple songs stuck in my head from that show.

The first one goes
1 2 3...4 5 6...7 8 9...10 11 12
and they all played games at the ladybug picnic
1 2 3...4 5 6...7 8 9...10 11 12
and something else at the ladybug picnic
They played jumprope till the jumprope broke
Then they all sat around telling knock knock jokes
The ladybugs 12, at the ladybug picnic.

(possibly stuck in my head due to reading a post about a knock knock joke earlier today)

And then that brought about another memory:

12345 678910 11....12!
Do do do dodododo doooo do do do dodo doo DO! do do do do!
TWELVE!
(and then this jazzy little instrumental that will always be stuck in my head)

I remember this song was playing during some type of cartoon with a pinball machine. It was one of my favorites because I have always loved pinball, maybe that's why I remember it.

Yes...I remember these songs from when I was a small child. About 28 years or so ago. It's weird how the human brain works. I can also remember my phone number from that time, the first one I had to remember.

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Baine·
I remember that damn one from the pinball machine..it was to trippy for children. I think it was on another show. Maybe the Electric Company or something like that.
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rabbmasterflash·
that is so funny, the second song I always have stuck in my brain also\r \r how about the Electric Company you ever watch that?
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Drost·
I went to sleep last night with the complete theme song to Different Stokes playing over and over in my head.
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rabbmasterflash·
That is so weird I went to sleep last night whacking it to the chick from Different Strokes\r \r or Willis, I don't remember
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MikeTheKnife·
It may have been the Electric Company. The main thing I remember from that show is the Spider-Man live action portion.\r \r Also--the more I think about that pinball thing, the number changed depending on what number they were focusing on that day.
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Baine·
I can't help but think that DIfferent Strokes is just fundamentally wrong to name that show. Don't tell me that creepy white dude didn't pop a tent whenever he tucked those tender young boys into bed.
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rabbmasterflash·
do you remember that episode where some fucker kept Arnold in his apartment?
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KuruptU4Fun·
[link]http://youtube.com/watch?v=oJWjZM3TH28[/link]\r Just for you bud....
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KuruptU4Fun·
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oJWjZM3TH28
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JeepChick·
RRIIIIIIINNNNNNGGGGG.....dip-dipdip-dipd....remember those guys? Bnama-nuh
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rabbmasterflash·
yip yip yip yip yip yip ah huh ah huh ah huh
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Baine·
I remember the one where they caught the kids playing strip poker.\r \r What you talking about MR. Drummond.\r \r Oh wait..nm..that was fan fiction.\r
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Baine·
Did you hear the one about the interupting cow?
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GroovyElm·
My priest always wanted to reenact that episode Rabb.\r \r No means No.
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rabbmasterflash·
no but I heard the one about the stealing jokes from rabb
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Baine·
But when I do it, they become tha funah..\r \r mooo
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rabbmasterflash·
From Wikipedia...\r \r \"In another episode, Kimberly and Arnold were abducted by a deranged man, who initially acted as a \"Good Samaritan\" by giving the two of them a ride, and inviting them to his apartment.\"\r \r mmmm, kimberly
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GroovyElm·
Also From Wikipedia...\r \r Plato (Kimberly) went on to pose for Playboy, and she also appeared in softcore pornography. Plato was later arrested twice (once for armed robbery, again for forging a prescription for Valium).
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Baine·
Kimberly had nubblies..hehehehe...\r \r
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Baine·
mmm..plato\r
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Baine·
mm...softcore pornography...I know what I am looking up when I get home\r
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GroovyElm·
In yet another episode, the family discovered that Kimberly was suffering from bulimia after witnessing her devour an entire sheet cake, and then go to the bathroom to vomit.
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rabbmasterflash·
I bet she could suck start a lawnmower
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GroovyElm·
Now, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum, \r What might be right for you, may not be right for some. \r A man is born, he's a man of means. \r Then along come two, they got nothing but their jeans. \r \r But they got, Diff'rent Strokes. \r It takes, Diff'rent Strokes. \r It takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world. \r \r Everybody's got a special kind of story \r Everybody finds a way to shine, \r It don't matter that you got not alot \r So what, \r They'll have theirs, and you'll have yours, and I'll have mine. \r And together we'll be fine.... \r \r Because it takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world. \r Yes it does. \r It takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world.
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MikeTheKnife·
BRRRRRRRRRRRIIIING!!! !yipyipyipyip\r \r I remember those guys.\r \r And thanks Kurupt for the video!
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BigBlue·
the pointer sisters actually sing the pinball song.