Can the adults please smoke?- Page 66

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 2:33pm

Handwriting...

Practicing cursive...so it matched the handwriting chart over the blackboard in the classroom.

I have to admit that, as a former teacher, I have 'classic' cursive... my friends even tease me about it...

Updated On: 8/2/04 at 02:33 PM

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 2:36pm

In Catholic school we weren't allowed to write with a pen until our penmanship was perfect. Then we had to use a fountain pen...I still have a lump in my finger from those pens and pressing down on the paper.

[mominator]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 2:47pm

Fashion statements
Gator shirts,
Plaid skirts with a gold kilt pin,
Argyle socks,
Faire Isle sweaters,
Bermuda bags, and of course the "Annie Hall" look.
and Spirographs were so much fun! Did anyone else have a Super Spirograph? I seem to remember seeing them at like Wallyworld or Toys-R-Us.

Updated On: 8/2/04 at 02:47 PM

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 2:48pm

fountain pens! I would have had ink everywhere...

Remember those big, fat red pencils from kindergarten/1st grade?

And, getting new school supplies every year!
New pens and pencils and erasers.
A compass - with a sharp point and a stubby little pencil.
Notebooks.
Making covers for text books out of brown paper bags.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 2:48pm

Does anyone else on this thread LOVE that new Staples commercial with Alice Cooper as much as I do???

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 2:49pm

I had Fair Isle sweaters (also Deans sweaters) in every color of the rainbow!

And skinny hairbands to match...

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 2:49pm

The new Staples commercial is brilliant!!

[mominator]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 2:50pm

Love it!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 2:51pm

Remember getting your desk all organized for parents 'back to school' night...and my parents would always leave me a little note to find and read the next day.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 3:13pm

NYadgal...my send off to the 1st day of school was...here's your book bag, lets see...you got your uniform on..you're all set..see you later.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 3:18pm

Awww...boobs!


We did the whole 'first day of school' picture thing...and my sister always slept over in my room the night before so we could talk about the new year, and I had my outfit all picked out..
I loved the first day of school!

Updated On: 8/2/04 at 03:18 PM

[Marc Shaiman]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 3:22pm

what a fab thread!!!

since my criteria for a fabulous thread is that my name or a movie I worked on is in the title, I hadn't looked inside!!

before I read 70 pages, has anyone mentioned eating Yodel's one layer at a time?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 3:23pm

Marc, I STILL do that.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 3:24pm

Nooooo!

Yodels were mentioned - but not by eating them one layer at a time. Good one!

(and when you have a spare day or two...go back and read. it's very entertaining!)

[Nina]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 3:39pm

I mentioned the Drakes cakes earlier, Yodels, Ring Dings, etc. I just assumed that everyoen ate them taht way and the Ring Dings were peeled of the chocolate layer first.

The Super Spirograph was wonderful. It kept me occupied for hours at a time. I palstered my walls with groovy Spirograph designs and posters of David Cassidy.

I also loved painting everything I owned with Day-Glo paint and then turning on the black light.

Did anyone mention Laugh In, The Tom Jones Show and The Flip Wilson Show?

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 3:52pm

Dan Rowan and Dick Martin and the Fickle Finger of Fate award!

smoking away on tv...

[Bobby457]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 3:54pm

How about "The Dean Martin Show", Drink in one hand and cigarette in the other.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 3:56pm

Ah, the Rat Pack.

Style!

Updated On: 8/2/04 at 03:56 PM

[Marc Shaiman]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 4:16pm

Nina,

point for point, every word of your last post completely summed up my childhood

SPIROGRAPH!!!! I was OBSESSED!!!!!

even though the pins never stayed in good, therefore ruining my art with horrible sudden pen swooshes

now I am having a sense memory and want to crawl under my desk and cry

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 4:20pm

Marc, it's okay. That used to happen to me too but I was too embarrassed to mention it on this thread. I was a spirograph retard.

[Nina]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 4:21pm

That's right, the Spirograph pins didn't stay. That happened to me all the time but, in my adult persepctive looking back, it always worked perfectly. Thanks Marc for killing a memory I had built into something wonderful by reminding me of the reality.

I just want to believe that Easy Bake Oven treats were delicious, Spirograph always worked, Silly Putty never got filthy from newspaper comics ink, The Partidges sang and played the instruments themselves and Franco American canned macaroni and cheese was a delicacy.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 4:23pm

wait...what about the Partridges? They didn't? What?

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 4:23pm

and Santa Clause.

It's all true!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/2/04 at 4:24pm

Summer camp -

My mom kept all my letters that I wrote home from summer camp...

send money. send candy. send stamps...

Posted: 8/2/04 at 4:24pm

I was only sent to camp once - VERY against my will - so I shot the archery instructor in the leg 'by accident' - I got sent home