tales of yore

2038-01-19T03:14:07Z

First: when my dad was in something like first grade, for Halloween he made a pirate costume. It was really good and detailed, and he was sent around the school to show it off.

The next year, he and his mom completely forgot about it. He asked her what to make, in a panic. She suggested the mask from the back of a Wheaties box. At the time, there would sometimes be such things on the box. So she suggested the Viking mask from the back of a Wheaties box. My dad said, "what about the rest of the costume?" She said, "Oh, well, they dressed pretty much the same back then."

Which is what he told his teacher when she asked him where the rest of his costume was :)

Second, gleaned from sifting through various old jotted stuff, trying to get them into some sort of order. nullsurface , on a contra caller at NEFFA getting distracted and reduced to saying "partner partner partner partner partner partner": "Yeah, that was really off the heazy."

Josh Burdick (stowaway)

tales of yore