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tscheese
03/11/09

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Can I post comments yet? Test, test!
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AuntieBee
03/11/09

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Nice try, John Mayer. But you will NEVER out-Kanye Kanye.
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stealthird
03/11/09

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I had that trapper keeper, the one with the unicorns with lollipop tails. And the rockinghorse people in graham cracker jails.
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MadFab
03/11/09

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Oh, hello childhood. I don't know if the nausea I'm experiencing is because the colours are blowing my mind or if I'm dizzy from long-repressed adolescent angst.
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Don't Get It Twisted (don't take mah starhhh!)
03/11/09

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Hip Hop. Yo Yo Yo.

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Don't Get It Twisted (don't take mah starhhh!)
03/11/09

@Don't Get It Twisted: At school we identify "adult learners" as students above the median age range who generally have roller bags & Lisa Frank folders. They are my favorite people in the whole world.
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MerryLilly
03/11/09

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I want to be a kid again!! *throws a tantrum*
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kaiwhakamarie
03/11/09

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Man, just the other night hub and I were discussing all the things from our childhood we'd like to bring back for our baby. Lisa Frank stickers were one of mine, and he thought of trapper keepers.

I would also like to bring back light brite, spyrographs, and this cool Barbie toy I used to have - it was a beach set, complete with umbrella, bar and little chairs that looked like coconuts. The bar doubled as an ice shaver, and the little coconut chairs could be served as glasses. It came with packs of kool aid so you could shave the ice, add kool aid and make sno cones. It was awesomeness.
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Cafezinha
03/11/09

@kaiwhakamarie: Lite Brites are still around, or at least I believe I've seen them in a toy store recently. I bet they're not as cool as they used to be.

Sr. Zinha has been trying to find me an old Spirograph for YEARS. I have been pining for one forever. It was one of the few trendy toys I ever owned as a po' kid. LOVED IT.
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megscissorhands
03/11/09

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Like others posting (whom I would reply to, but for some reason I can't reply to anything right now), Lisa Frank was too expensive for me to buy a glut of it, so I only had one or two little things. One was an eraser with a white tiger on it, and i SCRIMPED with that eraser. I mean, unless I wrote 2+2=Vagina, or something totally ridiculous and embarrassing, I wasn't going to erase it.
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Cafezinha
03/11/09

@megscissorhands: I cannot stop laughing at your vaginal math problem.
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f-words
03/11/09

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The other day, I realized I was wearing what Lisa Frank would wear to the gym - purple shorts and a fuschia tank top. But hell, you can look like an 8 year old at the gym.
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daisen-in
03/11/09

@f-words: Sounds like she'd shop at American Apparel!
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rocknrollunicorn
03/11/09

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Um, please see my name. Is it not obvious that I am hugely inspired by Lisa Frank, every day, in everything I do?
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argle-bargle? or fou-ferraw?
03/11/09

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i had a lisa frank trapper-keeper. it was purple and yellow leopard print with a huge pair of hot pink lips and a giant tube of hot pink lipstick... i wish i still had it. hhhhhh.
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daisen-in
03/11/09

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Reminds me of the amazing Asher Sarlin comic:

[www.ashersarlin.com]

I can only hope that heaven is filled with rainbow unicorns and kittens.
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Cafezinha
03/11/09

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OH DEAR GOD.

Put Lisa Frank into the Google image search and you will find even more eye-popping goodness.

Excuse me while I go do a j and come back to be dazzled.
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daisen-in
03/11/09

@Cafezinha: not afraid to get servicey on your ass.: Ha, the phrase "do a j" combined with the Lisa Frank reference is causing some pretty interesting Lebowski crosstalk in my brain.
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Cafezinha
03/11/09

@daisen-in: Imagine an animated Big Lebowski...done in Lisa Frank style.
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daisen-in
03/11/09

@Cafezinha: not afraid to get servicey on your ass.: Now stop that! I'm not going to get any work done at all today if I stare at the ceiling and try to imagine that.
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Cafezinha
03/11/09

@daisen-in: Back to work, you! I am unemployed, so I shall take up the slack on ceiling staring.
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hydrogen_jukebox
03/11/09

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I absolutely ABHORRED Lisa Frank stuff when it was hot way back in 2nd grade. Some of this was due to the fact that I was a weird kid who liked to go against what was popular, and part was because if I looked at anything that colorful and saccharine-sweet for too long, I'd get a pounding headache.

Though I do remember being impressed when I read in my American Girl Magazine that Lisa Frank was a real woman.
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the dodo, the cuckoo, and the nene
03/11/09

@hydrogen_jukebox: I wasn't a big Lisa Frank fan either, but I do remember the Lisa Frank article from American Girl magazine. I was also impressed that she was a real woman!
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daisen-in
03/11/09

@hydrogen_jukebox: What an American Girl smash that would have been. "Meet Lisa Frank." "Lisa Frank Learns a Lesson"...
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megscissorhands
03/11/09

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In my mind, the blind item catfight went down between Tyra Banks and Naomi Campbell. Tyra heard Naomi was starting a new reality show called USA's New Super Tall Chick, and, feeling threatened, she tried to tear poor Naomi's extensions out using only her Magnum eye glare and pout. When that failed, she rolled up her sheer sleeves, unbuttoned her leather vest, pulled off her 6-inch wedge heels and went at it, old-school style. Naomi was almost down for the count when Karl Kaiserroll Lagerfeld looked past his chilled wine cooler and decided it was time to step in.

Gamely pulling the girls apart with a brute strength that seemed unmatched with his sleek, boyish figure, he intoned:

"Dear kerchief puppets, don't zoom about so, for the moon's pupils dilate every time a moddle cries harikari, and for true are your maudlin, Vicodin-laced puddingcups too delectable and drink-up-able for such hamburgler-esque hanky-panky. Also, every oompa-loompa in the ionosphere is invited up to my suite tonight. Ole!"
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