Q: What's cool for gals, not so much for guys?

• A: Bullets that look like flowers. Doh.

Too Cool? Must Be Old School.

Waking up at 3:30AM and feeling like blogging is rather strange. It's pitch dark out, pouring rain, and I should be climbing back under the covers. Instead, I reach for my virus-harboring laptop (I just love the 2 minute browser start-up time) and jump into Fun Alley. Hey, it's been a while and I missed posting to you guys. Topic du jour: Old School

With my gf out in Evanston, I spent the v-day night playing poker with a few friends. {Well, can you call it playing poker if you only play seven hands? Note to self: I suck.} The host had a vintage Voltron toy in the living room and we all marveled at its awesome old school majesty. As we basked in the warm glow of the fun stuff of our childhood, I thought I'd toss out a few gems of my own for no reason other than thinking about them makes me say "Ah! That was the best!". Enjoy.

- Alf (acronym for ...?)
- MacGyver (first name was...?)
- Hey Dude (ah, crazy Mr. Ernst)
- After these messages, we'll be riiiiight back...!
- "I'm proud to be a Chinese American!"
- Mr. Robinson, Mr. Robinson, I broke your window with this ball, that I do confess!
- Mathnet
- The He-Man with the rotating dents in his armor
- How stupid Rodimus caused Optimus' death
- MASH (the paper game)
- Garbage Pail Kids (and the big pictures they formed!)
- Snorks
- Metal lunch boxes w/ thermoses that always smelled a little funny
- Squeeze-Its
- Gremlins
- Roos (with the pocket for coins)
- Pegged pants
- OG Space Quest/ Police Quest/ King's Quest
- Friendship bracelets
- Jelly bracelets
- Bloody Mary
- Heads Up Seven Up
- Buns Up
- Tetherball (SO hurts the hand, SO not fun)
- Scholastic Book Fairs (where everyone but the Chinese kids ordered books in class)
- Choose Your Own Adventures (where you keep your fingers at each of the decision points ... just in case you died)
- Silly Ramona Quimby
- Clifford
- Making sounds by blowing a blade of grass through your fingers
- Making farting sounds using your armpit
- Doing that weird thing where one arm is in your shirt and the other arm goes through the other sleeve. Then you pump up and down .
- Those pencils that consist of a bunch of mini leads. When one would get dull, you pull it out and the next one slides out. Then you put the used on into the back of the pencil.
- Cool pencil holders with compartments that pop out if you push certain buttons
- Trading lunches
- Watching Friday the 13th tv show and not being able to sleep

OK, speaking of not being able to sleep, I better try harder! Forget counting sheep, next time insomnia hits, just count old school stuff.