Comments on: Chipmunks, Hamsters, and Squirrels

By: Adrian Jones

Adrian Jones — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:48:56 +0000

Floyd Robinson is at the top of my list of friends. Floyd, where are you?

Adrian Jones

By: Kathy Partlow

Kathy Partlow — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:48:40 +0000

I was briefly cheered by the mis-recognition of Floyd Robinson as one Floyd Robertson, as played by Joe Flaherty on SCTV. However, it is evident that the real Floyd has considerably less talent and should never have been released upon the public’s innocent ears.

By: Dan Bouchard

Dan Bouchard — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:15:12 +0000

I use to have the 8 track And I cant find this song anywhere and I want it “Hey Shirley (This is Squirrely)”

By: davros

davros — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:51:11 +0000

yea me
the music does not play for me
so i do not have music memes destroying my brain

By: Sue Blue

Sue Blue — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:12:49 +0000

Chipmunks for Christ, Gophers for God, Mice for the Messiah. I think I’ll just open that second bottle of BV. Maybe that’ll finally blot out the hideous little anthropomorphic imp’s squealing voice.

Like Lady R, I’m friggin’ traumatized here, Ron!

By: LadyRavana

LadyRavana — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:42:27 +0000

*blinks*

Dude, the grammar in my last post is atrocious. *winces*

…I’m decently educated, I swear.

And Ron, you’re pure evil. You do know this, right? I have that awful, awful little voice stuck in my head.

*pops in her Within Temptation CD to drown out the obnoxious super-Christy helium cartoon hamster voice*

By: Ron Britton

Ron Britton — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:57:59 +0000

Actually, he did get sued. That’s what ended Charlie’s career. I was saving that tidbit for a future post. I also have two non-Charlie songs from Floyd Robinson that you’ll have to wait for. (Oh, the anticipation!)

By: LadyRavana

LadyRavana — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:53:09 +0000

I find it surprised this guy wasn’t sued for copyright infringment. Didn’t they have copyright laws back then, late 70′s-early 80′s?

But then, I guess Charlie’s fanbase didn’t amout to enough, and that this bizarre singing critter wasn’t even a blip on the pop culture radar.

By: Parrotlover77

Parrotlover77 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:11:15 +0000

Touché!

I’m a Microsoft guy by trade, so I guess I’m a bit biased.

Yes I’ve seen some pages that discuss it. They all invoked Poe’s Law as I could not tell if they were real or not.

By: Ron Britton

Ron Britton — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:15:58 +0000

ParrotLover:

I left Apple out of that timeline, because I was talking about cheap, crappy knockoffs.

BTW, somewhere on the internet there’s a fake ministry that’s griping about the whole Darwin/BSD thing. I’ll try to find it later.

By: Parrotlover77

Parrotlover77 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:03:05 +0000

Minor historical correct, Ron. Apple ripped off Xerox with the Mac a decade before Microsoft did. Microsoft’s first “windowed” UI was a far, far departure from the de facto Xerox/Apple standard. Windows 1.0 was, well, original at least. But, frankly, it sucked hard, which is why Microsoft then adopted the more familiar Mac/Xerox style for Windows 2.0, which has been the base for the UI we are all familiar with ever since. Pretty damn amazing that Xerox PARC did what they did when they did it!

Oh yea and somewhere along in there “X Windows” came into the Unix world, but seriously. Who cares?

Oh and to bring this back on to topic (well, sorta), Apple’s core OS being code-named “Darwin” has got many a fundie’s panties twisted into a tight knot. And they even kept the little devil ears from the FreeBSD project’s logo in the Darwin logo (Darwin shared a lot of sour code with FreeBSD). I may not be fond of Apple for my computing needs, but WOW can I respect ol’ Steve Jobs for that one!