Word: young
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ADDICTION POTENTIAL Young boys may love characters that can kick that Pikachu thing's yellow butt...
...Ping-Pong, sex and playing the accordion. "I Kiss You!!!!!"--runs the greeting of the Mahir home page--a normal enough salutation in his native Turkey but a thrill to the hordes of fans who have sent e-mails recommending his site to friends. Cagri, who "invitates" any young women coming to his hometown of Izmir to stay in his home, has provoked Clinton-based parodies, flash animations and a large Web fan club. He told the Turkish press that the site was a joke perpetrated on him by a teenage hacker, and reported the theft of his original...
...know how geeks like to quote movies, thinking that cultural references make them cool? Well, who do you think makes e-mail viruses? This reference is to the Seinfeld episode where the gang meets a sick young man who has to live in a bubble. The corrupted e-mail registers the recipient in his or her Outlook Express program as "Bubbleboy" of "Vandelay Industries" (a reference to one of George Costanza's fictional workplaces). Melissa, an earlier e-mail virus, makes a similarly hip reference to the Simpsons when opened, but the name itself supposedly came from a stripper...
...minutes of the Pokemon TV show, and that particular episode must have been the antidote to the one that provoked seizures in 700 Japanese kids; it put me near to sleep. So as I describe my exasperation with Pokemon: The First Movie, be gentle in your derision. Sometimes the young have to indulge their elders...
...broke out at a high school football game in September. None of the teenagers used a weapon. If the six who still live in Decatur (the seventh has left the area) don't get back into class fairly soon, they will in all likelihood become permanent dropouts--which, for young black men, often translates into a one-way ticket to jail. They obviously ought to be disciplined for taking part in the fight, but not more severely than the student who threatened to blow up a Decatur high school last summer and was expelled for only a year...