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I loved Margaret Cho's routine about her show-biz aspirations as a kid watching American TV:
"Someday...I could be a hooker on *Vegas*!!"
"Thank You, Mistah Eddie's Fatha'!"
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As far as The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan goes, there are some ethnic stereotypes, but it's not awful.
What struck me seeing it a couple years ago were two of the kids. Anne was a tomboy who wore a ball cap and a T-shirt and jeans (all the other girls in the family wore dresses). Alan was kind of quiet, bur he wore an outfit that included a bright pink vest and pink glasses. Those seem to be stereotypes of a different kind.
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That's pretty funny, given that caps, t-shirts and jeans were pretty much the norm for girl's clothes by the 1970s, at least where I'm from.
"Cartoon logic." Gotta' love it.
I think that I might have had pink eyeglass frames once, back around the 3rd Grade or so...
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When I was in 4th grade at recess I would play hopscotch with another boy.
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Who usually won, though?
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I can't remember. He was taller than me, so I think he had longer legs. I don't know if that helped him.
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if you can't remember, you must have lost.
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I wonder if there'll be nul-grav hopscotch in the 31st century...
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Just so it doesn't involve a lab full of goats.
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Instead of "ashes, ashes", when we played "Ring Around the Rosie" when I was little, we said "hopscotch, hopscotch". I'm not sure why.
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"Ring Around the Rosie" is such an innocent childrens game about the Black Death. Next you'll be telling me that in the original Cinderella, the wicked step-sisters get their eyes pecked out by birds.
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Actually "Ring Around the Rosie" is not related to the Black Death at all. That's an urban legend.
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Still, the wicked step-sister did get their eyes pecked out.
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