Bored enough to post a headline:
When I was a kid, we made "snow cones."
Now it's an issue of weather or not it is ok to "lick your gloves" if you are a kid out playing out in the snow.
Any thoughts as to why this would be a headline?
Comments
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wombat said on Mar 04, 2008....
Licking a little snow off a glove is probably OK. "A meal of snow" is not.Just back to say I went back to copy and paste this line from the segment. -
wombat said on Mar 04, 2008....
(I hate spelling errors I can't correct, too.) -
Twylarants said on Mar 04, 2008....
"Don't eat the yellow snow". That's all we were told when I was a kid.
But I never ate snow anyway. Too cold...brrr!
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wombat said on Mar 04, 2008....
I wouldn't eat "yellow snow" either, but just wondered why it makes headlines "not to make snow a meal." Kind of scary. -
Twylarants said on Mar 04, 2008....
Oh. Slow news day? -
wombat said on Mar 04, 2008....
I have alot of "slow news" days around here.... -
bluegum said on Mar 05, 2008....
ok ok someone tell me why ????blue. -
quietone said on Mar 05, 2008....
snow news today? nope... its back to snice news today! hey I ate a good deal of snow when I was a kid... no yellow snow though. I think if you live in the country where there is just plain fresh fallen snow...... why not!! I have seen worse things in kids mouths.... like glue! LOL
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Fallyn said on Mar 05, 2008....
i just finished reading Ramona the Pest to my kids.
this reminded me of things i was thinking as i read that book.
the kids are in kindergarten in this book.
they are walking to school unchaperoned.
at least two blocks.
ramona's mother leaves her at home alone before kindergarten so she can take her older sister to a doctors appt. and leaves it to ramona to get to school on her own.
in one scene....ramona lays down on the floor of the car so she won't be seen by someone while her mother is driving.
i remember all these things when i was that age.
i remember not wearing seatbelts. (i'm not saying kids shouldn't have to wear seatbelts)
i remember walking myself to school almost two blocks at 6 years old.
there were other things too.
but it makes me mad. and sad.
i can't leave my very responsible eight year old home by herself now because it's against the law.
but when i was little it happened all the time.
it was normal.
i guess i'm just rather fed up with all of it.
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secretlife said on Mar 05, 2008....
sometimes you gotta live dangerously.i tell my kids not to eat yellow snow.other than that, putting a handful or two of white fluffy stuff into their mouths is probably not the most dangerous thing they will ever do. -
skald said on Mar 05, 2008....
Yes we ate snow and it was clean. I did not read the article but maybe it is not clean enough for the kids now. -
wombat said on Mar 05, 2008....
bluegum: Because of bacteria and pollution, according to the article.... Not something we heard about when I was little, and there was of course, less pollution.quietone: I grew up out in the country, too. And my mother made "snow cream" or some such, with flavoring. I can barely remember it, though--I think she put vanilla in it.Fallyn: I remember those days...no seatbelts etc.... I remember being very sick with Red Measles (or was it German Measles?) when I was about 5, and my sister who was 10 missed school to stay home with me--out in the country alone--for quite a few days.secretlife: You are probably right. I just figure they are right, and it's not as clean as it used to be back when I was little.skald: I had never heard of "bacteria" being in it, but the article says it's no more than what kids pick up everywhere. -
mobil said on Mar 05, 2008....
What's all this talk about not eating yellow snow? No one ever mentioned this to me, is it wrong? C'mon let me in, what the big deal about yellow snow all of a sudden? -
quietone said on Mar 05, 2008....
wombie, that vanilla now didn't make "yellow" snow cream did it? ahahaha -
wombat said on Mar 05, 2008....
mobil: That explains alot..........ha.....!quietone: Ha...You know I must have been really little, because I can remember the taste, but not really much else. I think an image of my mother going out with a pan to bring in some snow. I am pretty sure it was vanilla from that old brown bottle she mixed in. I don't know what else, if anything, or what color it was. Brownish maybe? -
GrapeKoolaid said on Mar 05, 2008....
"Watch out where the huskies go, don't you eat that yellow snow".
A bit of ancient Eskimo wisdom brought to you by Frank Zappa. :)
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dyingman said on Mar 05, 2008....
Oh yeah, we eat snow.
Pack a cup tight with snow.
Pour your favorite juice over the top.
Nutritious slurpee!
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wombat said on Mar 06, 2008....
GrapeKoolaid: I had heard that before, I think, but couldn't remember where.!dyingman: I should try it with "GrapeKoolaid"----ha!
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