NancyDrewFilesFilter: The one where she's pushed into a tank with a Great! White! Shark! I can't remember the title, and the sites I've found that list all the titles in the series don't include summaries. [more inside]
posted by inging on Dec 15, 2009 - 6 answers

Here's a semi-tough one (at least, I think). TV show from the 80's, had at least one character that was a mannequin who would come to life after you placed his cabbie-hat on him... [more inside]
posted by pedmands on Apr 16, 2008 - 11 answers

In your childhood memories, how do you know how old you were? [more inside]
posted by creasy boy on Mar 28, 2008 - 45 answers

Help me find a poem I read over 10 years ago and have hazy memories of! It's about termites that eat steel. [more inside]
posted by InnocentBystander on Mar 1, 2008 - 3 answers

Anyone familiar with nursery schools or grade schools in the East Los Angeles or Pico Rivera, CA, area in the mid-to-late '70s? A name to go with the memories would be most welcome. [more inside]
posted by bonobo on Dec 14, 2007 - 2 answers

My first memory is fighting with my twin brother over a set of markers. I'm trying to figure out what kind of markers they were, and I'm going crazy! They were about four inches long and flat-- the cross section would be about 1 inch by 1/2 inch. The bodies were mostly black. They were in a set of two or three tiers, somewhere around 20 colors. [more inside]
posted by scose on Dec 9, 2007 - 9 answers

1980ish - western massachusetts I had a newsprint publication abot 50 - 80 pages with a bunch of single page indy comics in it. what the heck was it called? [more inside]
posted by darkpony on Aug 18, 2005 - 10 answers