How To Make Fun Dip Not Fun
For my son’s Valentine’s Day party at school we went to the store and picked up a box of Fun Dip. If you were a child of Fun Dip of the 80′s you should remember this stuff. What Fun Dip was was an edible stick (similar to the candy cigarettes of years past) that you [...]
The prehistory of the IM
Most people that have been online have used an instant messenger at one time or another. But, if you think about it, the IM has been around a lot longer than that. Go back to when you were in elementary school (people my age or older will understand this more. When you used to sit [...]
Like, OMG!
Something very strange happened when I was in sixth grade. It was sometime between 1983 and 1984, when this strange even occurred – all the girls changed. One day, they were all ‘normal’ then a switch was hit and they started speaking a new language. Enter the Valley Girl. The Valley Girl was this strange [...]
Hunger and grocery shopping
My mother told me this story some years ago: When I was a small child (maybe 2 or 3), my mother would always bribe me to go out with her by taking me out to eat. (If you look at me now you can tell that she bribed me a lot of times!) This one [...]