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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-02-07 10:18 PM
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did you read "Goofus and Gallant" when you were a kid?
..in Highlights for children?
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Flaxbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-02-07 10:19 PM
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1. Yes! I loved Highlights...
is it still published?
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-03-07 09:17 AM
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9. It's published out of Honesdale, PA and they have an open house at Christmas.
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-03-07 06:32 PM
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12. My 5 year old got a gift subscription last X-mas
So yup!
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triguy46 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-03-07 06:33 PM
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13. Highlights and Weekly Reader did more to turn me off of reading...
than anything. They were dopey, sappy and not interesting. I wanted airplanes, rockets, boats. It wasn't until 7th grade that I got back into reading, a habit I have had ever since.
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-02-07 10:21 PM
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2. I had that magazine for probably ten years growing up.
This in the '90s/early '00s, too. I loved that thing. I think it's still in publication, too.
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cmkramer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-03-07 06:30 PM
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11. I used to read it too when I was a kid
I'm pretty sure I had a subscription. I used to love the hidden pictures thing and wasn't there a bear family comic too? And Timbertoes or something.
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Cabcere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-02-07 10:52 PM
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3. Heck yes, I did!
:D I was reading "Highlights" in the dentist's waiting room a few months ago, and it's changed so much - apparently Goofus & Gallant are redheads now, and they're drawn differently. :shrug: Still cool, though.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-03-07 06:54 AM
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7. Yes, I prefered the way that they were drawn in the 60s...
when I was a little kid, I thought that Goofus looked like Keith Richard at the time
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-02-07 10:54 PM
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4. At the pediatrician's office.
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LadyoftheRabbits Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-02-07 10:55 PM
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5. Hell yeah, Goofus and Gallant!
I think that's why I kept getting Highlights for so long. :D
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-03-07 05:53 AM
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6. Yup, grew up in the 60's, when my mother subscribed for a number of years.
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-03-07 08:10 AM
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8. Haha, those were funny, yes I got Highlights for years
probably why I was a Republican until I hit 30. LOL.
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MysticalChicken Donating Member (832 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-03-07 05:45 PM
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10. A blog entry I wrote about G&G
Edited on Mon Sep-03-07 05:48 PM by MysticalChicken
http://mystical-chickn.livejournal.com/88816.html

EDIT: My favorite cartoonist, Mike Russell, occasionally draws a strip called "Mr Do and Mr Don't" which is like a grown-up version of "Goofus and Gallant." It's hilarious:

http://homepage.mac.com/merussell/iblog/B835531044/C1759159843/index.html
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lligrd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-03-07 06:36 PM
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14. Best Part Of The Magazine
I wonder how many neocons ever read it. Amazing how similar Goofus and * are.
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Inchworm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-03-07 06:36 PM
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15. I still do
When I goto doctor's or dentist's office I always read Highlights :)

:hi:
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-03-07 06:48 PM
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16. Every time I went to the dentist.
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