[machine shop tom]

I see that the man who invented TV dinners has died.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050720/...us/obit_thomas

Rest in peace, dude, you kept me from being hungry many a time.

tom

[HemmiGremmie]

They say his coffin is white with a big piece of thick plastic covering him. HG
I had to. LOL

[ChevelleSS_LS6]

geez, and I don't have a wife to cook for me, (or a girlfriend for that matter but hey whatever), and the tv dinner guy died.

I guess we're all gonna starve! AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!
just messin.

[crazygutgut]

I heard his coffin was compartmentalized aluminum.. I grew up on those...

[RetroJoe]

I find it ironic that the guy that made a piece of meat go from freezer to oven, is well, a piece of meat that is going into a freezer, then into an oven...

[fitzwell]

anyone remember the ZZ Top "T V Dinner " video??

[machine shop tom]

Yep. I remember playing that song in the wedding band I was in during the mid-80s. That song and "Tiny Bubbles".

tom

We used to do "Don't Fear The Reaper" by BOC. I didn't have a cowbell (I was the drummer) so I used to whack my cymbal stand. "MORE CYMBAL STAND!!"

[pigjamelectric]

yeah with that little green stop-motion playdoh guy coming out the tray. makes me think of the movie Ghoulies.

speaking of stop-motion, I never realized at the time how bad the animation in Robocop was for the big gatlin gunner robot. I just saw it again a few months ago. Remember how it squealed like a pig when it fell down the stairs?

I'm getting off topic.

TV dinners: cool tune, bad food.

[ChevelleSS_LS6]

Originally Posted by pigjamelectric

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/\far out user name. where'd it come from. Sorry to hijack your thread "Major Tom" <there is an old school song/ballad thingy about a major tom and I think its about some space guys and they end up getting stuck in space.

[pigjamelectric]

Space Oddity and Ashes to Ashes by David Bowie both talk about Major Tom. They are an allegory for a heroin trip.

In Ashes to Ashes Major Tom is lost in space but he's happy there.

Good tunes. bad junk.

[k-star]

Man Tom i never guess you for a drummer,,,,, Thats cool.. Do you still play???

I know crazygutgut had a tag line that says i need more cow bell????

I love that skit from SNL... Me and my wife laughed so hard the first time we saw it.........

Keith

[RCastle]

TV Dinners are still a major player in my nightly lunchtime menu at work.

[ChevelleSS_LS6]

Originally Posted by pigjamelectric

Space Oddity and Ashes to Ashes by David Bowie both talk about Major Tom. They are an allegory for a heroin trip.

In Ashes to Ashes Major Tom is lost in space but he's happy there.

Good tunes. bad junk.

1. you never said where you got your user name. Mine is from Chevelle Super Sport (thats obvious) and in 1970 the top engine was the 450hp 454, engine code LS6, ta-da. Not real creative but it works. I'm considering Mattnotdoormat as a user name, something different.

2. I never knew it was an allegory for a heroin trip. I did understand that Major Tom was lost in space and seemed happy up there.

3. Is Tom Petty's "mary jane's last dance" an allegory for "smoking the last joint"?

4. Is this the "official Tom thread"... MachineShopTom, Major Tom, Tom Petty, any other Tom's out there?

[machine shop tom]

Peeping Tom, Tomfoolery, Tomcat, Tomtom, ...........




tom

[pigjamelectric]

Originally Posted by ChevelleSS_LS6

1. you never said where you got your user name. Mine is from Chevelle Super Sport (thats obvious) and in 1970 the top engine was the 450hp 454, engine code LS6, ta-da. Not real creative but it works. I'm considering Mattnotdoormat as a user name, something different.

I got it from the new Ford Pig. No but seriously I just made it up. Used to be my hotmail name.