Chubby Thoughts from the White Board - Nov 3

And here is my first White Board post since the blog came back up.  You know, I wish I had a highly relevant piece of wisdom to share here.  Hmmmm...  Oh, I've got it!  Here is something a video game nerd might love (and probably already has; I'm not exactly the fountain of cutting news around here these days).  Apparently one of Chubby Checker's last recorded songs was a promo for the video game Dig Dug.

What?  You don't know Dig Dug?  Well it was a really cool old-skool game that had you digging underground, harvesting vegetables and using a weird pump gun to over-inflate bad guys with names such as "Fygar" and "Pooka."  And - fun fact - the Atari 2600 version was my very first home video game for that system.  Cool, huh?

I actually had the game for most of the day before I received my Atari 2600 console.  I was at a friend of the family's home most of the day, I recall.  I sat and read the instruction manual over and over, and even went so far as to start peeling the cartridge's label a bit in nervous anticipation.  Funny, I remember that waiting time better than I remember actually playing the game.  They say it's the wanting more than it is the getting,a nd perhaps they say true. / Source: videogameobsession.com

As to who Chubby Checker is/was, he was the guy who sang "The Twist," which was the tune that inspired the creation of chocolate and vanilla swirl soft serve ice cream.  I think. If it wasn't, then it sure ought to have been.

For more details, including a link to the Chubby Checker Dig Dug promo song, hit the links below.

Listen to Chubby Checker Sing About Dig Dug on a Lost Demo Tape

Then there is the song that made Chubby Checker a household name.


Hey!  Dick Clark was young once!  I'll be darned...
 

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for. - W. C. Fields

If TV is so bad for you, then why do they have them in every hospital bedroom? - S. Mueller

When an elderly and distinguished scientist tells you that something is possible, he is very probably right. When he tells you that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. - Arthur C. Clarke

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. - Bill Vaughan

 

The parting comment:

Source: LOLSnaps.com

I can just make out something...  looks like "7 meters cubed"...  could that be the size of the bear?  I can recall a test or two in college that would have begged for this sort of response to at least one sticky question.