Assorted Ravings of the Slightly-Weird

"My Spidey Sense Is Tingling"

When I was small (and Christmas trees were tall) there was a show called Electric Company. And on that show they had a Spiderman segment that always involved a mute Spiderman (the poor guy couldn't talk through the mask since there were no holes for his eyes or his mouth) using mostly his web, which looked suspiciously like a thick fishing net, to catch hapless villains. Once the fishing net was thrown over the villains, and it wasn't even big enough to cover them, they would roll around on the floor in a vain attempt to convince 5-year-olds that they were indeed hopelessly trapped by the fishing net.

Interspersed with the live action, and I use that term loosely, were cartoons of Spiderman with speech bubbles that was basically a plot advancement device. Anyway, having gone through all this drivel my point is that one of the speech bubbles featured the phrase:

"My Spidey sense is tingling!"

Which then leads me to say, since my own spidey sense is hardly ever wrong:

I KNEW IT!

and I will have told you so...

Posted by scrabbyfoo at January 3, 2005 10:42 AM