As a child I fantasized that Captain & Tennille were my REAL parents

[mondo joe]

As a child I fantasized that Captain & Tennille were my REAL parents and one day they would come rescue me from my humdrum life.

Now I see it's just as well they weren't.

[Liberal Veteran]

1. But.....but....you'd have had bulldogs and muskrat loving!

:)

[salin]

2. the whole muskrat thing jumped to mind for me as well...

tucked into bed with muskrat songs... sorta ought to put a damper on the whole fantasy... but that's just me.

[Liberal Veteran]

4. But muskrats are sooooo cute....kinda like furry sugarplums.

[salin]

5. or a cross between hamster and opposums ...

ewwww.

[Elidor]

3. Dude! That is so seriously weird.

Why is it just as well? They might have been cool parents. Toni could sing. And the guy…uh, dressed like a yuppie captain real well. Didn't he play piano? It's been a while.

[mondo joe]

7. I'm thinking in the end I'd have been no better off than I am.

Plus I'd have to "come out" about my parents being Captain & Tennille!

[Elidor]

12. Surely they stashed away some slag.

You'd be pimpin'.

[Historic NY]

15. strange do you like muskrats?

[AlCzervik]

6. Did you find out something about them thats bad?

[merh]

8. Why?

Better yet, why admit that? :shrug:

Too weird, but I guess, Love, love would keep you together!

[sakabatou]

9. The people from MXC?

[Blue-Jay]

10. That's so sad I can't think of anything funny to say.

I'm slipping.

[Liberal Veteran]

11. Muskrat...muskrat...candlelight. Doin' the town and doin' it right

in the evenin
it's pretty pleasin

[Blue-Jay]

13. You know what's even sadder?

I know EVERY word to that song. It was on the flip side of the "Love Will Keep Us Together" 45.

Jesus Christ, someone fuckin' shoot me.

[driver8]

14. I worked for the Captain and Tennille...

They used to own a recording studio here in LA that was a well known rock and roll studio. Guns n' Roses did their first album there as did Stone Temple Pilots.

Anyhow, I worked there as an assistant. The Captain lives in Nevada but would come down to LA every three months or so. It is so funny because the Captain is a quiet man in person, but when he gets up on that stage it is like someone flips a switch. He is quite a performer and you can see that he loves being up there.

[puerco-bellies]

16. This may be the weirdest post ever! n/t

[alittlelark]

17. Far too interesting....

I assume your parents were 'boring'?

How did you tolerate the 'music;?

Does this fantasy still re-occur in dreams?