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Watching Oswald as a 28-year-old, again
And I don’t regret it
I don’t remember the time it was broadcasted, but I vividly remember checking the show timing on the newspaper often. If I missed it due to school, I checked when the re-telecast was. If it was a time allowed by my parents, I would watch it.
Few days back, I remembered Oswald again. I saw a plush toy shaped like an octopus and I wanted to watch Oswald again.
Rewatching it maybe after 15 years made me realize one thing. My vocabulary during school days was shaped by Oswald.
How did I realize it?
I got one of my school notebooks while cleaning up my home library. I was glancing through those pages because it was an English composition notebook — the kind where the teacher gave us a topic and we had to write dialogues or essays or stories on it.
And in one place I had written:
“That’s a swell idea!”
I don’t have the word swell in my vocabulary today.
But the moment I saw that line, I knew exactly where it came from. Oswald used it often.
