We didn't have DARE in my school, but we did have Here's Looking At You 2000, a different program. In kindergarten through third grade or so, it was talks about how to say "no" and why addiction is bad. (Pretty much led all of us to believe that there were people out there handing out sheets of paper with little stars printed on them infused with drugs, and if we even touched it, we'd get addicted.) Also, the usual sort of stuff that induced any kid whose parents smoked cigarettes to go home and flush all the cigarettes down the toilet, and led all of us to insist that our parents couldn't drive after having one beer or one glass of wine with dinner.
There was also a parrot puppet named Miranda.
You may have a swollen bursa, sara.
Does that go away in a couplefew hours? Cause these do. They're always caused by a weird twist or stretch.
I have an ISBN and UPC code.
Oooh! You're in the system. This is becoming very real.
There was also a parrot puppet named Miranda.
For the Rights or just coincidentally?
Sounds cartilagey to me, sarameg. But that's an almost totally uninformed guess on my part.
For the Rights or just coincidentally?
I'm assuming coincidentally. Miranda was in the second grade program. I think in third grade we had a fox puppet, but we'd loved Miranda so much in second grade that none of us would pay any attention to the usurping fox, so he didn't get used too often.
I have an ISBN and UPC code.
I'm planning on going to a former coworker's grand opening of her bookstore tomorrow. I'm gonna mention it to her. Not sure what kind of bookstore it is, so may or may not be up her alley. Though she's a big scifi geek, so perhaps...
eta: I'd kind of like to not out my timewasting at work, but still! Anyway, for those locals, it's in old Reisterstown.
Hee. Googling for info on Here's Looking at You 2000 and Miranda, I found a bunch of sites of parents complaining that the program teaches kids to treat their parents as the enemy and turn them in for "deviant" behavior like having a beer.
Anyone remember the Ramona Quimby book where she's trying to nag her dad into quitting smoking?
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Allyson, B says he's only buying one copy, since he's not in it. Pretty sure he's still up for the book party, though. And I'll make sure to pass you the names of the TV people at krav to invite. And I think ColinTV's Hottest Dad will be around then and might have some good ideas.
