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From: topher@cyb-eng.UUCP (Topher Eliot)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Cleaning up after "artistic" kids
Message-ID: <684@cyb-eng.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 14:55:07 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 29 14:55:07 1985
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Organization: Cyb Systems, Austin, TX
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When we were kids, my father got some (masonite? fiberboard?  that brown
stuff you can break with your hands, like pegboard without the holes) and
some green "chalkboard" paint.  He covered the doors to our rooms, inside
and out, with these chalkboards, and put little trays along the bottoms for
chalk and erasers.  A box of giant "sidewalk" chalk in all colors completed
the setup.  We all enjoy these graffiti-boards to this day.

I never felt an urge to draw on the walls, and the only evidence of anyone
else doing so is the "I hate naps" that is still engraved in the wallpaper
next to where my sister's bed was.

An additional plus was that when you got mad, stomped into your room and
slammed the door, you got the satisfaction of hearing the chalk fly out of
the tray on the outside of the door and go bippity-bip across the room.
Madness could be measured by distance of chalk travel.

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Cheers,
Topher Eliot                Cyb Systems, Austin, TX               (512) 458-3224
         {gatech,ihnp4,nbires,seismo,ucb-vax}!ut-sally!cyb-eng!topher

(Q:"How did it go?"  A:"Bippity-bip")