Huge Encyclopedia Brown fan as a kid here. I was always about 50% on solving the mysteries in each book, but there were some extremely absurd ones that totally frustrated me as a kid. I remember one where a girl purposefully lost the final round of a contest (I can't remember why, but it may be because she broke the…

Men at Work is how I began my life long hatred of both cops and rent-a-cops.

Did you not bother looking at the other comments before posting?

Is this a pimple or a boil?

"It was an art and I was good at it."

This song instantly reminds me of summertime. And by that i mean it is just as uncomfortable, oppressive, and painful as the summers I have to endure here in Phoenix.

Very true. I cannot believe I forgot what was in the box.

I'm not sure how I knew about it, but I was 13 in '95 and I was visiting my grandma in Flagstaff, AZ and made her take me to Toy's R Us so I could get my copy the day it came out. She thought it looked interesting so she got a copy for herself. We both loved it out of the gate, and played it endlessly for the next few…

That guy looks mighty familiar.

Maybe I'm mis-remembering, but aren't there actually only 5 deaths?

I went every year from '98-'03 in Arizona. '98 and '99 were at the Celebrity Theatre parking lot and there is no fucking way I'd go to that again. Phoenix, late June, 100º+, on blacktop? Fuck that.

I got both in 1995 and I have to say, I've played through Chrono Trigger just once, but I've played through Earthbound at least 10 times. As you said, it's so fun and charming that I don't think I'd ever get bored of it.

I just recently sold my Earthbound. It was indeed a sad day and I would never have done it if I weren't in dire need of money after my divorce, and if my grandma didn't tell me she would leave me her copy after she (hopefully not for years to come) passes away.

Mine were Jaws, Die Hard, and Major League. My dad finally just broke down and recorded BetaMax copies of them for me. I would spend hours just rewatching them while building with Legos and warping my 8 year old mind.

That wasn't as much "gritty" as it was "painfully stupid." If it actually had the feel of a television show credits sequence maybe it wouldn't have been so horrible, but as it kept going on and on I just realized they had half an idea (a real 9 year old doctor would be totally immature and do stupid immature things,…

That reminds me of the only Dilbert comic I can ever actually remember:

I don't mean to be a jive-turkey, but can someone clue this square into what SJW means? I'm not hip to the lingo that you cool cats use nowadays.

We made the pie higher!

As I said, this was not a rule that was mentioned at any time before I turned in my report. I'm sure she would have let it slide for something she considered a "classic," but certainly not from the previous summer's biggest blockbuster.

I was as obsessed with Jurassic Park as pretty much every 11 year old was in 1993 and read the book over the summer after seeing the movie in the theatre (9 times! 3 times just on opening weekend!). I wrote a book report about it in 6th grade and the teacher failed me because she didn't allow books that had been made…