phrenicgermal
16th February 2008, 09:20 PM
I don't know if this belongs under The Arts or some other catagory but does anybody remember The Edison Twins? They were a major influence on me as a young child. A lot of the fiction that I wrote in grade school and middle school was basically a plot structured around demonstrating some scientific principle (like when I got trapped on an alien space ship with Elvis and was in a cage with laser bars, and used a mirror to my advantage, or the kiddie cyberpunk when I got sucked into my apple 2e after installing a powerful new card, and found myself to be a string of 8 ones and zeros sitting in a room with a banner saying 'welcome to RAM', and went to speak with lord microprocesser (who looked suspiciously like King Edward) who said that I might be able to get out of the computer via another computer if I can travel there via the modem).
Anyway, I just got a couple of videos in of The Edison Twins. In one, Paul thinks that he sees a flying saucer and tells the press and stats embellishing his story and he learns a lesson about, uhm, being sceptical? In another episode, a spiritualist is using seances (sp?) to rip off a recent widow next door, and Tom and Annie use their detective work to expose the trickery.
Anyway, I just got a couple of videos in of The Edison Twins. In one, Paul thinks that he sees a flying saucer and tells the press and stats embellishing his story and he learns a lesson about, uhm, being sceptical? In another episode, a spiritualist is using seances (sp?) to rip off a recent widow next door, and Tom and Annie use their detective work to expose the trickery.