Humor Frequency

So I photoshopped Phil into a Bill Cosby ad. Phil laughed at it. It’s good to know we’re on the same humor frequency. What one person will find offensive, others will find humorous. Vice versa. You never can tell these days.
On the other hand, some people find the movie “Vice Versa” offensive because of the bad acting in it. I find the movie ok. It’s kinda like a remake of “Freaky Friday.” I was subjected to watch that movie during my elementary school years. In the days before VCRs, the whole school (K-6) would watch a movie in the school gym. Big screen and projector was setup. We’d watch Disney movies like “Herbie,” “Where the Red Fern Grows,” “The Watcher in the Woods…” You’d get the picture. Our librarian, Mrs. Johnson, would patiently thread the film in the projector and change it out every 30 minutes. This was a big thing back then. Everyone looked forward to movie day. It was usually on a Friday afternoon. We’d all pay a dollar to see the movie. Obviously it was some kind of money making thing for the school. I think we got to see a movie every two months or so. Someone always got in trouble for talking or acting goofy.
Watching projector movies seems so antiquated these days. Kids these days wouldn’t understand it. I remember seeing a VCR for the first time over at my cousin’s house….circa 1984. Watching “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” The VCR was huge. Big ugly knobs on it. I had no idea what it was exactly. I just knew that Willy Wonka was playing and I hadn’t seen it before. The scene where the girl blows up into a big blueberry was horrific to me back then. Could this actually happen? My 9 year old mind was racing.
Then we got our first VCR around in the late 80s. My sister tried to record “Growing Pains” while we were at church Wednesday night, but all she got was snow. She was quite upset about it at the time. Not that Growing Pains was all that funny.