Google ain't all THAT
I'm a big proponent of Google. When someone asks me a question at work, I say "Google it". When I hear something on the radio that I want to know more about, I Google it. When I need to research most anything, I Google it. But Google isn't always the answer. While there are lots of retro sites on the web that have old TV shows, commercials, and the like, I've yet to find one that has captured the snippets of my childhood. Oh, yes, you can find information on the Blizzard of '78, when I got stuck in a snowdrift over my head on the way home from school. You can see that Brownsburg won the state football title in 1985, beating Boonville at home in the semi-state. But here are two things you can't find.
1. When I was in elementary school, there was a ventriloquist that visited during an assembly that had a frog puppet. The frog sat on a log and told a story that built a song.
"Sittin' on a log
In the woods
Eatin' flies
Munchin' on skeeters
And runnin' from snakes!"
The wacky comedy of Jeff Dunham is what comes to mind, but I can't find anything on the web that indicates that Jeff started his career on the elementary school circuit in southern Indiana.
2. During my teen years, I went to church at First Assembly of God in Evansville. In college, I attended First Assembly of God in Bowling Green. It was at one of these churches that a traveling singing group sang a song that incorporated my favorite bible verse, Phil 4:13 (the first one I ever remember memorizing, on the way to Peoria with Aunt Linda).
"I can do all things
Through Christ who strengtheneth me (yeah, me).
There's nothing more I want to be
Than to be what he wants of me.
Anyplace or anywhere I go
I can go with this in mind,
My God is there beside me
And He's there with me all the time."
I'm hoping that the thous... hundre... doze.. couple of readers that visit my blog might remember these and set me in the right direction. Faithful readers, even if you can't, is there something from your youth that isn't on the web? Post it and link back, so others might find it too.
1. When I was in elementary school, there was a ventriloquist that visited during an assembly that had a frog puppet. The frog sat on a log and told a story that built a song.
"Sittin' on a log
In the woods
Eatin' flies
Munchin' on skeeters
And runnin' from snakes!"
The wacky comedy of Jeff Dunham is what comes to mind, but I can't find anything on the web that indicates that Jeff started his career on the elementary school circuit in southern Indiana.
2. During my teen years, I went to church at First Assembly of God in Evansville. In college, I attended First Assembly of God in Bowling Green. It was at one of these churches that a traveling singing group sang a song that incorporated my favorite bible verse, Phil 4:13 (the first one I ever remember memorizing, on the way to Peoria with Aunt Linda).
"I can do all things
Through Christ who strengtheneth me (yeah, me).
There's nothing more I want to be
Than to be what he wants of me.
Anyplace or anywhere I go
I can go with this in mind,
My God is there beside me
And He's there with me all the time."
I'm hoping that the thous... hundre... doze.. couple of readers that visit my blog might remember these and set me in the right direction. Faithful readers, even if you can't, is there something from your youth that isn't on the web? Post it and link back, so others might find it too.
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1 Comments:
i loved this post...memories, sigh...life in boonville, who knew, could be so cool!!!
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