Hyper Gumbo » kids http://wordpress.hypergumbo.com Norms are strange Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:51:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Totally Extreme! http://wordpress.hypergumbo.com/archives/1664 http://wordpress.hypergumbo.com/archives/1664#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:54:38 +0000 Don http://wordpress.hypergumbo.com/?p=1664 For all the talk of kids these days being over-protected, over the weekend I found a bike playground so dangerous I hurt myself just taking pictures of it. Raised wooden platforms, banked turns around and through tree stumps, narry a sign of padding anywhere just a warning marking the course as “intermediate” and “no alternate routes are provided“

]]> http://wordpress.hypergumbo.com/archives/1664/feed 0 You know that old saying… http://wordpress.hypergumbo.com/archives/1335 http://wordpress.hypergumbo.com/archives/1335#comments Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:52:04 +0000 Don http://wordpress.hypergumbo.com/?p=1335 A boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into, and kids are just like boats…that you can’t sell or ride around in the water on.

]]> http://wordpress.hypergumbo.com/archives/1335/feed 0 Nudity and Kids http://wordpress.hypergumbo.com/archives/53 http://wordpress.hypergumbo.com/archives/53#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:04:02 +0000 Don http://wordpress.hypergumbo.com/?p=53  Let's Cut Thru The Naked People Here

Having grown up baptist with all the physical-self-loathing that implies, I’m always amazed to see parents bring their kids to the Fremont Solstice Parade, so they can watch the naked people.
Don’t misunderstand, I strongly approve, I just can’t imagine my parents being that hip and cool.

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