Nostalgia For Early Works Mugs

'To be frank Benjie, I don't think you've ever really recaptured the edgy brutality of your early potato-man period.'

"Lassie, go get help!" "Oh Timmy you idiot! Not again!"

"In high school, I was quite the star in metal shop."

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

"I'm going to talk about the summer before last, it was much more fun."

"String ... you mean it doesn't have a remote controller to operate it?"

'It's one of Larry King's earliest shows.'

'Dewey! Grandpa's stuck again. Give him a couple of whacks upside the head.'

"We made all the wheels out of old coffee tables and chandeliers."

'I think I'll stay in and try to catch up on my reading.'

Before the Internet

'Take my tip,sonny and say it with jelly babies.'

'Bring out yer books!'

"In my life, I've had seven cars, six jobs, five houses, four bypass operations, and three wives!"

"I remember him before he was getting hte winter fuel allowance."

'I don't care what the Hares have. Dial-Up is good enough for us!'

"Remember back in the day when I was a real heartbreaker?" "Riiight... now the only thing you break is wind."

"Tell me again, Grandpa, about how you let your freak flag fly."

'Jerry's 'old school'.'

"It's probably just seasonal."

"More quarters! For God's sake, more quarters!!"

"It seems like only yesterday that Dad told me I'll be an adult before I know it."

"When I was young my parents couldn't afford to give me too much, too soon."

Paul goes home for the holidays

"I can remember when having a '212' phone number still meant something in this world."

Fun (circa 1955)

'New Game'

The Paper Route

'Thirty years from now, this will seem terribly quaint and awash in charming period detail.'

Three kids in a trench coat, twenty years later.

"My inner child wants to have a playdate with your inner child."

Before pagers,mobile phones and the internet.

"I'm thinking of getting the old band back together."