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I absolutely loved this when I was younger! Looking forward to watching it again after so many years. On the rare occasions when I play a game of pool, a littl
by Cyranix 11y ago
I absolutely loved this when I was younger! Looking forward to watching it again after so many years.
On the rare occasions when I play a game of pool, a little piece of my brain remembers the pool-table section from this video as I try to make bank shots.
- cmiller1 11y agoI don't have anything to add to this other than me too. I think I watched the VHS about a million times in the 80s when I was a wee one.
- rhizome 11y agoI remember this being the kind of thing that I hoped would result in VHS being invented.
- dstyrb 11y agoDitto. My pool skills are remarkably improved from my youth though.
- kbenson 11y agoWow, I used to think of this when playing pool as well, but at some point I internalized it and completely forgot where I learned it. Well, not forgot, but he memory became disassociated from the action, until you reminded me.
- bcoates 11y agoI'm pretty sure The Phantom Tollbooth, Alice in Wonderland, and Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land have merged in my brain into one school animated film blob. Which one had "Inchworm" in it? P.S. It's a billiards table. You got one, two, three, four, five, six pockets in a table. Pockets that mark the diff'rence Between a gentlemen and a bum With a capital "B," And that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool!
- philsnow 11y agoAll week long your River City Youth'll be fritterin' away, (I say your young men'll be fritterin'!) Fritterin' away their noontime, suppertime, choretime too! Get the ball in the pocket, Never mind gettin' Dandelions pulled Or the screen door patched or the beefsteak pounded.
- michaelmior 11y agoWow. I don't think I've come across anyone else who has even heard of The Phantom Tollbooth. I haven't seen it in years but it was one of my favourites. I don't remember an inchworm in either that or AiW, and I haven't seen the linked video.
- kbenson 11y agoMy teacher read it to us in elementary school. I don't recall if I ever saw it as a movie, but I might have. The only thing I remember is from the very beginning, a spelling bee (insect)?