Weird local kids from when you were a kid

[progmom]

...which is what I kept reading when I saw the other thread.

Made me think of Timmy Harnacker. Really really smart kid, but he was deathly afraid of balloons. He would scream and pee his pants when he was near one.
Poor Timmy.

[yvr girl]

1. We had a kooky artist known as Manwoman

(who was married to my dentist)

Manwoman's son was called Ivan the Cat. Very strange name, you have to admit.

[progmom]

3. You almost made me pee MY pants!

Her kid was named Ivan the Cat?!?

[yvr girl]

7. Manwoman was a man, but yes his kid was named Ivan the Cat

[tuvor]

8. Manwoman rocks!

Hey, yvr girl, how's it going?

I have a Mr. Death "Catch You Later" T-Shirt and my mom's husband has a Holy Cow print!


http://www.flyfootpress.com/Artforsale/pins_cards.html

[yvr girl]

12. Pretty well actually

How's the island?

Every cubicle in my dentists office had ManWoman originals in it.

[tuvor]

19. Island's cold and it was sleeting earlier today.

Nearly got run over by some b**** in a minivan while in the middle of a crosswalk today. I felt like I was in Vancouver again!

And! We got our first London Drugs last month! How GOOD that feels!

Okay, I'm pathetic. :shrug:

[yvr girl]

25. London Drugs is a wonderful place

My local one is open till eleven. No snow yet here, although I hear it is immanent.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Craig who lived two doors up

wore his Boy Scout uniform all the time. In the summer, he wore the shorts. With his boy scout shirt. He was really strange.

[Indiana_Dem]

4. We had this one kid we called "Boss Moss"

He never talked to anybody but he was always at public events and hung out with the local Civil Defense people. He would ride his bike and stare at you like he was paranoid about you or something. I think he is still around and is the same way.

[Tom Kitten]

5. Fat Albert and Old Weird Harold...

Man, we had the best Buck Buck team in the neighborhood back in the day! ;)

[yellowdogintexas]

6. When I was in high school, there was this little boy who lived up the stre

street from my grandmother. He was maybe 4 or 5 at the most. I am telling you, this kid was a flaming queen at 4!

And yes he did grow up to be gay. His oldest brother is the local pusher, and his sister is rumored to be gay also which I can't confirm
but he was a weird little kid.

And he acted like a parody of gay, even more outrageous than Jack on Will & Grace...so strange in someone so young.

And his father was as stereotypical a redneck as I have ever known.

[progmom]

14. I bet it was hard to grow up in that house

with a stereotypical redneck. You almost wonder if that behavior was a rebellion against his dad.

[yellowdogintexas]

26. hard to say..but he was a strange little boy

[YellowRubberDuckie]

9. I kinda was that kid.

I was a little weird because my mother is socially inept in a lot of ways. So, I was stunted...but wasn't I a cutie in my I love the Dukes of Hazzard nightgown?

Oh, and my mom had so much trouble getting those striped socks off of me. I LOVED those.
Duckie

[progmom]

10. wow

yes.
Did you, in fact, love the Dukes of Hazzard?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

11. More than life itself.

God, they were hot.
Duckie

[RagingInMiami]

22. I used to love that show

But I was a kid and I would watch in front of my parents and I had to pretend that I wasn't lusting over Daisy Duke.

EDIT: You were a very cute kid

[slutticus]

13. Hey! That was me!

I was fucking terrified of balloons when I was a kid.

I would hide in the corner at my friends parties until all the balloons were gone

:(

[progmom]

15. When you were a freshman in high school?

I think that's what made him a little more odd than the regular balloon-phobics from elementary school...

[slutticus]

17. Oh...no.

This was kindergarden

LOL


In high school...I was more afraid of the narcs. And the FCA.

[BigMcLargehuge]

16. we had "crazy Joe"

who would walk up and down the street all day, with one arm crooked, recounting the events of his birth.

when he was on his meds he was nice. When he wasn't he was crazy.

[MuseRider]

18. Fred Phelps Jr.

enough said.

[progmom]

21. Like for real Fred Phelps Jr?

Or he was a foaming homophobe zealot who could have been the wrong reverend's kid?

[MuseRider]

24. He is his kid.

His oldest son.

[Abelman]

20. Crazy Larry

Who claimed to be a boxer having sparred with Mike Tyson, had a father who was a lumberjack and had killed a bear. I don't remember everything he said. He was short, stocky, covered in hair and had crazy teeth.

[progmom]

23. I knew a kid who was a pathological liar too

Tho she wasn't covered in hair.
She would make up these bizarre stories about 3-legged pets and islands owned by her uncle...
I'm not sure anyone was entirely sure it was all a lie until she came clean...in the yearbook!!