“Barry,” my cousin Mike said, “I think it’s time.” It was clear that my brother didn’t feel the same way, but he only shrugged, which Mike took as agreement. “Dave,” he said, giving the words as much gravity as he could muster, “Go get the dictionary.” I was nine years old, and a tag-along. I’d walked in on my brother telling a story about how—during school that morning—a girl he knew got her period in the middle of French class. And I laughed like the dickens. And then they called me on it. After I’d lugged the dictionary down from the spare room, Mike told me to look up the word period and read out the definition. “The end of a cycle, a series of events, or a single action?” “Keep going,” he said. “The full pause with which a sentence closes?” “Not that.” “An interval of geologic—“ “Gimme that!” He yanked the book towards him, read down the page, and pointed me towards the definition he’d found. Menstruation: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from pu...
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Oh, and The Greatest American Hero, no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
J Wo
Uncle Jesse had a mullet!
1) Superfriends - They were so LAME! Why did I like them? All of their solutions to problems were idiotic. I could have defeated the entire legion of doom myself, and KILLED GLEEK IN THE PROCESS!
2) Spiderman - The backgrounds were so psychadelic. And HOW THE HELL DID HE SWING IN THE AIR WHILE TRAVELLING THROUGH THE COUNTRYSIDE OUTSIDE OF NEW YORK?
3) Rocket Robin Hood - Same thing as Spiderman. NOT TO MENTION THEY EVEN HAD AN EPISODE THAT WAS EXACTLY THE SAME EXCEPT THAT SPIDEY AND ROBIN WERE INTERCHANGED AS THE MAIN CHARACTER DEPENDING ON THE SHOW!
BAh.
Now I'm angru
Just thought you all should know.
Equally shameful - the love of "Knight Rider". The crush I had on David Hasselhof haunts me to this day.
The A-Team.
Pity the fool indeed.
Like you've never wanted to modify a school bus to be a tank!
The marmot had a mullet!
Go back to manufacturing Motorcycles of questionable quality!