Are Kids Still as Stupid as I Was?
Cracked magazine has a funny little segment called 12 comic book ads that made us cynical. There you will find a list of nifty products, several of which i purchased when flipping through my Richie Rich comic books. (Yes, I know those are the dorkiest comic books, and perhaps even morally corrupting, but I was a young republican at age 5. My brother wasn’t. I recall him at four years old crying when Jimmy Carter lost to Reagan. I’m pretty sure he thought Carter had been killed, but I don’t know for sure. Turns out, in any case, he had more foresight than I did.) I won’t say which products I bought, but let’s just say I find it remarkable that I wanted to see through blouses at that tender age.
May 26th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
i definitely bought the “money maker” out of a comic when i was young– it’s actually a really neat magic trick! i don’t know how many times i took a $5 bill from one of my grandparents’ friends and turned it into a blank sheet of paper! it’s unfortunate you can only get away with tricks like that when you’re a kid, else i would be a millionaire! [btw, like the new blog!]
May 29th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
I think my father suggested I not buy that one. For much the same reason he suggested I not take a mailorder class in lock-pickery.