June 3, 2008
The Mic is On: It’s About When We Were Kids…
ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 7:00 pm
It’s Like Open Mic Only Different
Here’s how it works.
It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME.
The rules are simple — be nice.
There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.
Let’s start with:
- The first “kids” we kissed
- The traditions we had
- The stories we made up about neighborhood folks
- The games after dark
- The things our parents never knew
And, we’ll talk about whatever else comes up, including THE EVER POPULAR, Basil the code-writing donkey . . . and flamenco dancing (because we always get off topic, anyway.)
Oh, and bring links about when we were kids to share!
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Brooke said
Good evening! Am I in the right place?
ME Liz Strauss said
Hi Brooke,
You most certainly are. How are you? Been to any sunshiny places lately?
Brooke said
Hey Liz! Good to be here! We’ve been in MN - it was very sunny here alllllll weekend!
Brooke said
You know - I’ve been thinkin a lot about “Red Rover”. Did you ever play that?
ME Liz Strauss said
Oooh!
That sounds like fun! Did you play any games or do anything silly?
ME Liz Strauss said
Oh yeah, I had six cousins. So we could play games like that in their neighborhood, because there were tons of kids.
Joe said
Hey Liz,
Hey You!
I was a kid once
A Long Long time ago
In a galaxy far far away…
Brooke said
With ” Red Rover” or other games? TV Tag, Freeze Tag, Simon Says, Ghost in The Graveyard (oooohhh that would be fun!), Kick the can…
Brooke said
Hey Joe! Good to talk at ya!
ME Liz Strauss said
Green light, yellow light, red light STOP!!
Joe said
Sorry, when we played “kick the can” in my neighborhood, it meant something completely different.
ME Liz Strauss said
Hi Joe,
What games did you play as space alien child?
Carol said
Just jumping in here for a few. Not new to the blog, but new to this discussion night.
Trisha said
Hello everyone!
we be in and out tonight - have to watch the primary news
Joe said
Hey Carol,
Let me be the first to welcome you to OCN (unless Liz beat me to it again)
ME Liz Strauss said
Hi! Carol!
Welcome! Great to see you. Jumping in is exactly the way!
Carol said
I think the game I remember the best, and that was the most fun was the neighborhood baseball game we played at the nearby grade school. We might not have known it at the time, but we learned all sorts of life lessons just playing together.
Brooke said
Red Light Green Light was fun. Joe - kick thee can WOULD mean something different to you.!
Hey Carol! Welcome!! What games did you play as a kid?
Trisha said
will be I mean - haven’t been thinking clearly all day
Joe said
Liz,
We played “Dodge the little Moon’
“Tag, you’re the meteor”
“Ring around Your Planet”
things like that1!
ME Liz Strauss said
Hi Trisha!
Great to see you! Any games that you played only in your neighborhood?
Angela Maiers said
Hello All! How is everyone tonight! Liz-what a great summer topic!
ME Liz Strauss said
Hi Angela!
I loved playing in my backyard by the river. I think that might be what prompted me.
Joe said
Sitting out on the patio enjoying the evening, Have the Tiki (Hurricane for as windy it is tonight, almost thought I was in Chicago again) Lamps. :-0
Brooke said
Hey Angela, Hey Trisha!
Char said
Hello everyone, I’m back. The past few weeks have been beyond crazy but I am determined to stop in for a while tonight.
Games we played as kids - Red Rover, Ghost in the Graveyard, Four square, Dodgeball, Whiffle Ball, Kick the Can and anything else we could concoct.
ME Liz Strauss said
Never played “Ghost in the Graveyard.” Not sure that I’d want to.
Angela Maiers said
My backyard was the cemetery-imagine how fun hide and seek was for us! Especially late late at night!
ME Liz Strauss said
Oh Angela,
I had a friend who lived in the apartment above her dad’s funeral home. Same deal.
Joe said
Didn’t anybody ever play “TAG”? (You’re It0
Angela Maiers said
Hey Brooke, Char, Trish, Joe, and Carol! Hope I did not miss anyone!
Brooke- love the Maslow quote!
ME Liz Strauss said
Yeah! Joe!
We played plenty of tag. Frozen Tag was my favorite.
ME Liz Strauss said
Wait, maybe flashlight tag was my favorite.
Angela Maiers said
Joe - TAG was my favorite! My kids play it now-only with lazers! How times have changed!
Joe said
we used to play tag where you had to hold the place on your body you were tagged. ie arm,leg, back, head!
Made for some weird chases!
Char said
The kids at our gym have some great games! I’m going to write up a quick post on one we played the other day that the kids loved and it made the coaches laugh!
Brooke said
Frozen tag?? Freeze Tag! Angela! A graveyard would be FREAKKKKYYYY! Ghost in the graveyard is great! Spooky at dusk ot at night!
Thanks Angela!
Brooke said
I forgot about flashlight tag!
ME Liz Strauss said
Isn’t that funny, Brooke? You didn’t know it by my name — frozen tag. We’d scream, “Tag! You’re frozen!”
Brooke said
We would just say…”freeze.”
ME Liz Strauss said
Goes to show you how things get shortened over time. . . . Where did you grow up, Brooke?
Brooke said
What’s round on the ends and high in the middle?
OhiiiiiiiiiiO!
ME Liz Strauss said
We had a friend named Owen that’s how we greeted him when he came over to see my brothers.
O hi O!
Angela Maiers said
Brooke -
Another Midwest girl! I am from Iowa!
Charlene said
Jumprope, from sunrise to sunset. That’s my fav summer memories.
Char said
Brooke - I lived in O-hi-o for 6 years as a kid. Some of my best memories from that era.
Charlene said
Ah yes, flashlight tag. More popular when we were older.
Mary-Lynn said
When I was a kid, I was in Girl Scouts. My first true camping experience was going to
Camp Widjiwagan. Pronounced Wid-gee-wah-gan.
http://tinyurl.com/53nssd
At least it wasn’t camp “wedgie”wagan!
Joe said
Moving inside, storm blowing up.
Back to lurk in a minute or two. (probably 10 comments)
ME Liz Strauss said
Huge apologies, Mary-Lynn and Charlene!!
Two great friends and I leave you sitting moderation. I think someone should tie me to a tree in the back yard.
Brooke said
Angela - my grandmother grew up in IA. We are there once a year.
Char - where in OH? I had a great time there too!
Charlene said
No special tree bow required. Glad you tweeted so I could pop in to say howdy.
ME Liz Strauss said
Absolutely Great to see you my friend!
Charlene said
To IA and OH - did you have big corn roasts as a kid? Everybody you knew chomping on corn fresh off a row of grills? Big vats of butter? Mouth waters to remember!
Char said
Hi Charlene! That’s my name too
Brooke - we lived just outside Dayton.
ME Liz Strauss said
Camp Widjiwagan
Mary-Lynn this is too cool.
I went to Camp Tuck-a-batchee myself.
Mary-Lynn said
Liz, no need to tie you to a tree. Instead, maybe we could just go play in a mud puddle? Growing up, in one of the places I lived, we had a field behind our house that would look like a lake after a big rain. That was fun to play in!
We’ve had a lot of rain in East Central Illinois today, with more coming!
Hi to my fellow Midwestern gals Char and Brooke.
ME Liz Strauss said
Sweet corn festival in Mendota. More sweet corn every 5 steps.
Brooke said
Corn roasts? Nope - not in OH.
How do you all remember the names of your camps? Good memories!
Char - I was between Cleveland and Akron for 10 years.
ME Liz Strauss said
Hey Mary-Lynn,
Ever make a mud slide? A big strip of land/mud where you ran first and slid as far as you could?
Charlene said
Another Charlene - sweet! And Liz, I figured you came from corn country. Just saw your pal from that town near you - the rival school - in Atlanta a few days ago. She says howdy.
ME Liz Strauss said
A Char and a Charlene in this conversation. By the way, Char is a fabulous web maven designer. Charlene owns a far reaching PR firm.
Charlene said
Would love to learn about everyone’s fun summer memories, but dinner bell just clanged. Gotta dash. Will try to schedule better next time! C ya, the “other” Charlene!
Brooke said
We had a fire engine come. They had the hose really high and had it spray soooooo much water. The we had a HUGE mudfight! That was FUN!
ME Liz Strauss said
THAT fire engine event sounds unforgettable. I wonder how many towns wouldn’t allow that today.
Joe said
I’m back, made it in 10 comments, but couldn’t get a word in with you guys talking bout corn roasts and camps and all!
Brooke said
It wasn’t my girlscout troop - I wonder wwhy we did that? Oh well - it was fun!
Angela Maiers said
Hey Charlene! Nice to meet you!
Many small towns in Iowa have summer sweet corn festivals! Local stores and restaurants serve all you can eat sweet corn, grilled burgers, BIG garden tomatoes, and for dessert…sweet watermelon! It doesn’t get any better than that!
Not until early August when the corn is sweetest-but you are all invited to a BBQ at my house!
Mary-Lynn said
Never did the mudslide thing…but that sounds fun!
Since corn is a topic, we have a nice sweetcorn festival here every year. I never buy any corn b/c I hate to eat it off the cob!
I prefer to cut the corn off the cob, so I don’t get all that gunk in my teeth!
Brooke said
ahhhh - poor Joe!
Joe said
Who needs a fire hose to cool off? We use the actual Fire Hydrant!
No kidding, we used a monkey wrench to open the coner hydrant…
ME Liz Strauss said
Charlene, Angela is an educator. She was at IRA in Atlanta this year.
ME Liz Strauss said
Joe,
You’re a city boy through and through.
Joe said
Liz, you can tell?
ME Liz Strauss said
Only a little, Joe. Only a bit.
Mary-Lynn said
I know this is off topic, but just wanted to give Liz a pat on the back for being mentioned in a recent Chicago Tribune article
http://tinyurl.com/4tulqm
That’s awesome! Makes me want to jump rope and cheer for you!
ME Liz Strauss said
Thanks, Mary-Lynn!
It was fun to be noticed. It would have been more fun if she dropped in a link.
jeff sable said
hello from marlborough, ma
(I’m enjoying all of your confessions from growing up, remembering some of mine, and hoping my kids…)
Troy said
Kudos and congrats, Liz!
ME Liz Strauss said
Hey Troy!
Thanks! I was seriously, just thinking about you.
Angela Maiers said
Liz -that is GREAT! Thanks Mary-Lynn for sharing!
Charlene - do you teach?
ME Liz Strauss said
Hey there, Mr. Jeff Sable!
Great to see your smiling face around here!
Char said
Here is a link to the game the kids I teach love right now. http://tinyurl.com/64wso6
Mary-Lynn said
I have to run out to the store, so I must go. I’ve enjoyed chatting here, although it has left me hungry for sweetcorn and girl scout cookies…followed by a mudslide!
Angela Maiers said
Mary - Lynn -
Great piece on Stephen. He is incredible! I have learned so much from him!
ME Liz Strauss said
Good night, Mary-Lynn.
Next time, we’ll have to get Stephen over here too!
Joe said
Good job Liz, now if only the MSN “journalists” would realize that a link is a good thing…
Troy said
Just thinking about me? Good things, I hope.
Brooke said
Good game Char. We are having our 3rd annual 4th of July party and I am looking for some fun games for the kids!!
ME Liz Strauss said
Print journalists think about circulation not traffic. They don’t understand the connections and relationships a link represents.
Brooke said
Great artcle Liz! That’s great they talked to you!
Char said
Brooke - that is the perfect game for the occasion. Pinata’s are also ideal for the occasion.
ME Liz Strauss said
Thanks, Brooke.
It was a fun thing, most certainly.
Brooke said
oooh - pinata! We are having a Mexican theme - perfect!!
Brooke said
Well - I am off guys! Thanks for the walk…that was great! And thanks for the party ideas Char!
Nite all!
ME Liz Strauss said
Great fun having you around tonight, Brooke, as always!
Joe said
Talk to ya soon Brooke.
ME Liz Strauss said
We’re a little tired from playing tag tonight. -eh?
Joe said
What, is it just the 2 of us Liz?
ME Liz Strauss said
I don’t know. I don’t think so Joe.
Timothy Johnson said
Sorry to be Johnny come lately…. did I miss the party?
Joe said
Wow, this is early, even by Central Time,huh?
ME Liz Strauss said
Hi Mr. Tim!!
How is the life of the relaxing professor? What games did you like best as a kid?
Joe said
Hey Tim, we were thinking it was just Liz and I!
Timothy Johnson said
Hmmm, let’s see… nuclear physics, metaphysical tag, math relays…
Nah… pretty much tag and “cops and robbers” - typical kid stuff
Joe said
Hey Tim, that article today hit close to the heart. Really…
ME Liz Strauss said
Did you guys re-enact TV shows and movies?
Timothy Johnson said
oh yeah, Speed Racer, Batman and Robin, Bonnie and Clyde… our block had great imaginations.
Karen Putz / DeafMom said
Hello everyone! Just got home from a date night with the hubby. How’s everyone doing?
ME Liz Strauss said
Hi Karen!
We’ve been having a great time, playing tag and such things. Joe took the cap off a fire hydrant and just about drowned the rest of us.
Joe said
You know what we used to use to make guns to play Cowboy’s or Cops & Robber?
Clothes Pins! clip 2 together to make a gun… Not to PC now, but it was fUN way bck when.
Timothy Johnson said
Hi Karen… how’s life?
Timothy Johnson said
Yeah, Joe, gets a little irritating that kids are getting expelled for even pointing their fingers and going bang-bang. Good ol’ control activists are doing a great job of educational brain-washing.
Joe said
Times, they are a changin’
ME Liz Strauss said
Tim,
We got into a conversation today abuot chocolate cigarettes. I can’t imagine how scandalized my son would be when he heard about them.
Timothy Johnson said
I remember the chewing gum cigarettes. We’d pretend we were smoking. And amazingly enough, I grew up a non-smoker. Go figure.
Karen Putz / DeafMom said
Ah, life is good, thanks for asking! I just finished your post– that really rocked!
Joe said
Speaking of Chocolate…
Anyone for some Klondikes???
Here, catch!
Timothy Johnson said
on the cops and robbers thing… the funniest part is that I get to play it as an adult, too. I’m helping the police out with raid training this month as a role player (i.e. bad guy). I’m so stoked about it!
Karen Putz / DeafMom said
You know, it makes me sad that my kids are leading a more sheltered life than I did. I can remember being gone for hours and doing adventurous things. I don’t even let my kids out of my sight much…
Karen Putz / DeafMom said
Hey Liz, that was a great article in the Tribune!
ME Liz Strauss said
Pass the Klondikes, Joe!
I’ll have a Heath!!
Joe said
Hey Karen,
Unfortunately, #114 stands too true.
Timothy Johnson said
Thanks, Karen. It was a very tough post to write. It stemmed from a conversation Erik Potter and I had on the way home from SOBCon08. He’s the one who encouraged me to write a post about it.
Glenda & Suzie in Vancouver coffe shop said
so we thought we drop and say hello to everyone before we go and dine
Trisha said
Been watching TV - didn’t play anything special in my neighborhood. Not that many kids around really. I did play a lot though.
ME Liz Strauss said
Tim,
Every time you talk about that I wonder whether I would enjoy it or find it boring . . . or both.
Joe said
You are so lucky I didn’t eat all the Heath’s myself, catch Liz, plenty left.
Timothy Johnson said
There’s a lot of “hurry up and wait” to police scenario training, as I’ve learned over the past year.
This one should be especially fun because the police and the bad guys will be armed with “simunition” weapons - sort of a cross between bb guns and paintball guns. I will actually get to shoot at the police and it will be legal. Of course, I’ll get arrested, cuffed, frisked, and roughed up numerous times for it. All part of being a good volunteer, though
Karen Putz / DeafMom said
Joe, sadly true. Last weekend was the first time I let the oldest ride the ATV by himself. I realized that “I” have to let go and let ‘em live too!
Suzie Cheel said
seems we got moderated trying to be the terrible 2, we are here in a coffe shop in Vancouver thought we would surprise you
Suzie & Glenda, & Darryl
Karen Putz / DeafMom said
Glad you listened to Erik– it’s a powerful reminder to the rest of us to grab life and live it.
ME Liz Strauss said
Karen,
I had worries about the sheltered nature of my son’s life too. Growing up, he talked about villains and strangers in ways that I never worried about them.
This information age has a downside to it. Being close to each other isn’t always a gift.
Karen Putz / DeafMom said
That police stuff, isn’t that every guy’s dream?
Timothy Johnson said
Yeah, Karen, it really is [Tim smiles sheepishly].
Every cubicle-dwelling male almost starts drooling when I tell them what I’ve been up to in researching my book. Even now that the research is over, I still get to stay on as SWAT photographer and particpate in training like this. We boys never really grow up, do we?
Joe said
Actually for me, Karen, it ws always the LONE RANGER and Tonto.
ME Liz Strauss said
Hi Suzie,
Sorry for the moderation.
Great to see you all here!! Enjoy your time together! I’m so smiling thinking of you!
Suzie Cheel said
it is wonderful, weather is not so welcoming, but these 2 are speedy around the streets
ME Liz Strauss said
Tim,
I bet the folks you see out on the SWAT things take you for the real deal.
Suzie Cheel said
we are heading off for food enjoy the kids memories
Glends will see you next week, I will be flying home
ME Liz Strauss said
Suzie,
Write down ever detail for us.
Joe said
Liz, are you saying that Tim looks like a *whispers* c-r-i-m-i-n-a-l?
Karen Putz / DeafMom said
Liz, the information age is indeed scary. It’s hard to keep tabs on the kids without resorting to spyware. I know a lot of parents who do that nowadays.
Karen Putz / DeafMom said
What’s that, Joe? Speak up, I can’t hear you!
Joe said
Suzie, TAKE PICTURES!
Karen Putz / DeafMom said
Bye Suzie! Make sure the other two don’t speed!
ME Liz Strauss said
No, Joe, I’m saying he looks like a c-r-i-m-i-n-a-l c-a-t-c-h-er.
Timothy Johnson said
Liz - do you mean they think I can be a real bad guy? I’ve done some role playing for them, but I think my mild-mannered white-collar persona comes through too often.
Or did you mean that I could pass for a SWAT operator myself?
Joe said
I love you Karen
ME Liz Strauss said
I agree Karen,
We had that issue. We put a light on the computer because our son would get up at 3 a.m. to go on it and we wanted to know when he did.
We never resorted to spying on him, but he often got the conversation about people pretending to be what they’re not.
Timothy Johnson said
It’s the shaved head, Liz. You follicled individuals just wouldn’t understand.
ME Liz Strauss said
Aw Tim,
I think it might be the same kind of thing as being a blonde, only different.
Timothy Johnson said
Hey Liz (and the rest of you, too). If you know of any organizations, professional associations, or events looking for a keynote speaker or workshop leader, would you keep me in mind? I’m trying to round out my fall speaking schedule.
ME Liz Strauss said
Tim,
We need to start a speaker’s forum that includes all of our friends that speak and what they speak on.
Joe said
You Public Speakers are so lucky, I can barely be a good listener!
Timothy Johnson said
That would be great, Liz. So many of the speakers bureaus around the country are 1) difficult to work with; 2) don’t understand my topics well enough to sell me; 3) take too large of a cut. A bloggers speakers bureau would be very cool
Karen Putz / DeafMom said
Aw, Joe I love you too.
Karen Putz / DeafMom said
Hey, that’s a great idea. We can call it the “Bloggers Bucket.” Just dip right in and pull up a speaker!
Karen Putz / DeafMom said
I just checked my Adsense revenue today, $1.16. At this rate, it will take me a few years to buy that jetski that I want.
ME Liz Strauss said
Hey Karen,
I don’t know that I’d want to be in a bucket with some of them.
Smiles.
Joe said
Karen,you may want to try TLA. They are worth a lot more to me than AS. I make 3 times as much from them in 1 month than I do with AS in 3 months.
Just my thoughts!
worth a little drop in PR and still keep both
Meikah Delid said
Hewow! It has been a while for me to be here. Hope everything’s A-OK with everyone.
Are we talking about kids? or how it is like to be kids again?
Kids are kids! They are gregarious, can be annoying but always lovable!
Timothy Johnson said
Karen - what’s the latest with snake & shake?
ME Liz Strauss said
Hi Meikah!
What were your favorite games as a child?
Karen Putz / DeafMom said
Joe– what’s TLA?
Karen Putz / DeafMom said
Steak ‘n Shake apparently saw the video on Diversity, Inc. and they now want to have another meeting to discuss “the incident.” So we meet again in July.
Timothy Johnson said
LOL… you’ll come out on top yet.
Karen Putz / DeafMom said
Hi Meikah, just visited your site. Steak ‘n Shake needs a lesson from you.
Karen Putz / DeafMom said
Timothy– Snake ‘n Shake– what a clever Freudian slip.
Joe said
Tag You’re It
Let’s play Hide and seek
Kick the can
You are such a sneek
With Fire hoses a spraying
In Fire Hydrants we are a playing
When we were kids and innocent
No worrys about an untoward incident
Now-a-days things have grown up
On the Internet beware the ugly chump
But if we remeber when we were young
The kids today can still have fun
We just have to teach them well
By our experiences the story tell
That things can be good and pure
If we let kids be kids, they will endure.
Burma Shave
Nite Liz
Nite All
ME Liz Strauss said
Karen, That’s great news that something got their attention again. I’d love to follow the story with you.
ME Liz Strauss said
That was one of your best ones yet.
Good night, Joe!
Sleepy Swell!
Karen Putz / DeafMom said
Joe– you rock! g’night!
Timothy Johnson said
G’night Joe
Timothy Johnson said
Liz, I’d better hit the hay as well… I’ll have to miss the next two-three open mic nights due to the raid training. I’ll be with you in spirit, though.
Big blogospheric hugs to all.
ME Liz Strauss said
Thanks Tim,
Be a great raider!!
Karen Putz / DeafMom said
Time for me to round the kids up to bed. Night, Liz and all!
ME Liz Strauss said
Good night, Karen.
See you soon!
Meikah Delid said
As a child, I enjoyed playing house with the cooking, cleaning. But now that I’m grown, I don’t like household chores at all!
Our favorite family past time: scrabble, boggle, and monopoly. For sports, we enjoyed swimming, volleyball, and badminton. We still do these things.
Meikah Delid said
Karen, you have to tell me first about Steak ‘n Shake, though.
ME Liz Strauss said
Hi Meikah,
I liked playing records, painting, and practicing ballet.
Meikah Delid said
Hi, Liz! Are you still there? Sorry I was sidetracked as usual! (._.)
Ballet is cool, though I didn’t go to ballet school because I chose piano lessons. But I always like to see how ballet dancers move even when they are not dancing. Their movements are so fluid.
Meikah Delid said
Have a good night rest everyone!
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