Word: pails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even more trashy games and retro chic, head to virgin.net/games for mini-golf, pool, football and celebrity trivia, and the world-renowned "big ass card game." For the Garbage-Pail-Kid generation, Pacman, Frogger and Arkanoid are still alive and kicking. Chat rooms are not integrated into these games--but did you ever want to hand over the joystick to Player...
...Despite Stevens's complaint that "it's not much fun rummaging through a bathroom garbage pail," he did so admirably. And in the garbage can, he found his wallet with its contents strewn around the barrel along with a pair of shoes from another room. (Earlier that morning, Rubin had noticed the sneakers in the trash, but thought little of it, thinking just that they were somebody's "old kicks.") At the bottom of the barrel, Stevens found Gibson's backpack with his TI-86 calculator and history of the USSR notebook. Stevens' Harvard I.D., his debit card...
...best person to teach your child? What if your kid yearns to clamber up the school steps every day clutching her Hello Kitty lunch pail? "When people are trying to teach unwilling children," says Dorothy Werner, a 1970s "unschooler" from Chicago, "it doesn't work well. But home schooling is very affirming to children because they get a tremendous amount of attention...
...upstate New York, it's still the economy, stupid. Since 1960 the city of Utica, for example, has lost half its population--down to 64,000 from 125,000--and much of the region has scarcely benefited from the boom of the 1990s, suggesting that the same lunch-pail issues that delivered New York to Bill in 1992 could help deliver it to Hillary in 2000. Her signature concerns--economic fairness and child welfare, education reform and affordable health care--won't carry the largely Republican upstate against Giuliani, but they could keep it close enough...
...last thing--I'm a little short on cash. Would you guys mind if I sell my complete Garbage Pail Kid collection...