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Tim O Neill
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What was your favorite cartoon growing up? - The Warner Bros. shorts. Preferrably in their original form, with the logo and credits. I didn't like when they were cut off
What was your neighborhood like growing up? - there were seven of them, and they were all different!
Did your school make learning fun? - hell to the no
What was your favorite book as a kid? - "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
What was your summer break like? - It depended on where we lived, but they were mostly good. I have great memories of the New Jersey shore trips with my family - mainly Wildwood. But even a normal summer day was always a treat. Endless bike rides in search of comic books. The deeper into the south we moved, the further the bike rides got!
What was your favorite game at recess? - "Guard the Pins", which seemed to have a different name in each town.
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Joakim Jahlmar
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Joined: 10 October 2005
Location: Sweden
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So, on the food situation, I am very much a fish and seafood person, what with my being a pescetarian. Don't mind soups per se (especially when it's cold) but would add the caveat that, as with most food, it depends on which kind it is.
Arc wrote:
"I have to admit, though, I'm not that nice in real life. Or rather I'm not nice all the time or with everyone."
*gasp* You mean you're human, Arc? ;)
Jodi wrote:
"Arc I don't trust people that are nice all the time."
There's nothing wrong with people who ARE nice all the time, Jodi (well no more than with anyone else, I mean). I think the people you think of (by far more common) are the ones who SEEM nice all the time, but really aren't; i.e. the ones you later learn are the ones talking behind your back and spreading nasty rumours, etc.
What was your favorite cartoon growing up?
Sweden in my youth was NOT a big smörgåsbord of cartoons (which explains the near sanctified position the hour long Disney Xmas special from the 50s or 60s that still air at 15:00 every Xmas Eve, without much change in content), so I don't know if it'd be fair to say I had a favourite.
Beggars, unlike badgers, can't be choosers; and we'd be happy for anything in the cartoon field that we got, basically.
(We did get a lot of Eastern European animation... which while interesting in its own right, wasn't always the strongest appeal to a young mind.)
What was your neighborhood like growing up?
Nice. I grew up in a small town (not far away from Göteborg, but nevertheless small town) and we lived a bit out into the woods.
Did your school make learning fun?
I don't know. But I never disliked school. And I've kept studyng and learning. So that must be some kind of answer.
What was your favorite book as a kid?
I don't think I could answer that any more than I could answer such a question in the present tense. I have many favourites, and had many favourites... probably related to the fact that I'm a bookish type. ;)
What was your summer break like?
Spending time with friends. Later when I finally learned how to cycle (which I did late since I was convinced my parents were trying to kill me... much to the delight, I'm sure, of my father who used to be a competetive cyclist in his youth) that involved cycling around a lot. Reading comics.
What was your favorite game at recess?
I do remember liking a game we called "king", which involved a small square court dividided into four squares. One of the squares was the top position and the point was to get that position. The game was played with a tennis ball (or sometimes with a bouncing ball, which was trickier, both in terms of size and bounce), where the "king" served and the match went on till somebody missed the ball after it hit their square or simply shot it outside of the other squares upon a return. There was usually a line of people outside of the court, so whoever got bounced out had to go to the end of the line and the line and squre positions moved up accordingly.
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Tom French
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What was your favorite cartoon growing up? Toss up between Super Friends and Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour.
What was your neighborhood like growing up? I lived in a little farm town in upstate New York -- pancake breakfasts at the firehall, etc. VERY community driven
Did your school make learning fun? No -- except music and art for me. (Sometimes PE, which we called "gym" in those days)
What was your favorite book as a kid? Charlotte's Web, PEANUTS treasury
What was your summer break like? Swimmin' at the creek (pronounced "crick") helping on other friend's farms, living at grandma's for weeks at a time. Was fun. (Still is.)
What was your favorite game at recess? Freeze tag (or TV tag)
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Arc Carlton
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*gasp* You mean you're human, Arc? ;) ____________________________ Oh yes, I am human after all.
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Donald Miller
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What was your favorite cartoon growing up?
Loved Saturday morning...Super Friends
What was your neighborhood like growing up?
I had a good size group of kids my age to play with...
Did your school make learning fun?
HA! I guess so...but i usually made my own fun.
What was your favorite book as a kid?
yeah and which breath of air was the best...I'll go with have spacesuit will travel...it introduced me to Heinlein
What was your summer break like?
Free range chaos!
What was your favorite game at recess?
Slaughterball !
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Jodi Moisan
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What was your favorite cartoon growing up?
Merrie Melodies, which was shown on different kids morning shows, with Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry and Jonny Quest right behind
What was your neighborhood like growing up?
Great, had all boys that I hung out with, we rode our bikes everywhere, played baseball, basketball, kickball and matchbox cars. In the summer as we got older we stayed out until late, in a friends garage, playing cards and being completely goofy.
Did your school make learning fun?
More so than now, we actually got snow days, Christmas, Halloween and Valentines parties. Also the lunch food was soooo much better than it is now.
What was your favorite book as a kid?
Comic Books are what I read most, but I had a teacher that read Little House in the Big Woods and LOVED that.
What was your summer break like?
Riding our bikes everywhere, playing pick up games of sports, going to my grandparents who lived a block away and eating fresh tomatoes out of the garden. Going to art camp at the neighborhood park. Staying out until 9pm and getting up as early as possible to do it all again. When I got in middle school I got a horse and the summers were spent going to the barn and taking care of the horse and riding it.
What was your favorite game at recess?
These all tied: Jump rope, jacks, two and four square, kickball.
I enjoyed reading everyone's responses.
Steve your neighborhood sounded like the one we live in now, kids don't play outside and have no idea what to do when they do go out. Jackson loves playing outside but his friends act as if i am punishing them if I make them play outside. One beautiful summer day there were 7 kids in my family room and I told them they had to go outside. They did and after about 5 mins Jackson knocks on the door and says "We don't know what to do" .
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Al Cook
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Huh. Arc is human. Whodathunkit.
There goes my theory that he's a genetically-enhanced, highly literate super-science-evil goat bent on world domination.
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Ed Aycock
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That made me laugh but also makes me sad, Jodi. Whatever happened to imagination? Building up forts and then destroying the rival forts? Treehouses? Bicycling. I'm an indoor person by nature but even I remember spending most of the time out of doors.
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Victor Manuel Fernandez Patiño
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I'm a indoor person too... But as a kid I loved to play outside.
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Jodi Moisan
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Ed it made me sad too, Jackson is a skateboarder but all of his friends would rather be inside. I think we are raising a generation of followers, because they are either inside playing video games or outside playing organized sports, where a coach tells them what to do.
This last summer I showed them how to play flashlight tag and you would have thought I invented a cure for cancer, they were so excited.
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Victor Manuel Fernandez Patiño
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Have you ever read "Silence - A Fable"? I love Edgar Allan Poe!!! It was in one of the many books I used to read as a kid... Some nights I used to read tales to my friends in the park -we always hanged till very late at night-.
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Arc Carlton
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There goes my theory that he's a genetically-enhanced, highly literate super-science-evil goat bent on world domination. _______________________________ Well... can I be that and human at the same time? That's the way I like it.
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