Friday Ephemera

” As a child of the 80s/teen of the 90s I recall by high school my (male) friends and I seeing the changes that were being made to playgrounds we grew up on and all thinking no good would come of it. ”
Similar.
When I got into school they had just banned marbles. I’m told now schools will institute these bans because the craze du jour – marbles, swap cards, conkers- will at some point lead to fights. You know, ‘wah wah, he stole my marbles’. Teachers ban it mostly because it’s easy for them.
But banning *tag*! (We called it ‘Chasey’). It’s hard to think of a more innocent game. And with kids, well…. rushing around is kinda their natural state….

I’m guessing cootie shots are definitely a thing of the past.
No doubt, but now they’d have the SWAT team out to take down players of mumblety-peg and other pocket knife games we used to play at recess, and grief counselors out for anyone who accidentally saw them playing.

MIScasting I said, I did 
Right you did, you caught me — the paste feature wasn’t working on this thingy so I hand-copied the quote. Then in preview I saw Spelchek, that dope, had changed it to “podcast” — I’m not making this up! I scrubbed it out without re-reading the original, hence MISquoting.