Try "ancient tablet" on shutterstock. It brings up an old lady with an ipad and a horrible brightly colored background.

"MARILYN MONROE WORE A SIZE 12!!" -also across many facebook walls.

That sounds indescribably dreary.

A) I was given one for a birthday once.
B) No.

"I understood that reference."

*Takes off sunglasses*

Oooh, Golden Holden in glorious technicolor? Yes, please!

Thanks for all the ideas! I was so frustrated that I'd resorted to kicking the root masses out.

That's not a bad idea. Whatever particular type of vine I'm contending with is has about 8 inch wide root masses that are just terrible to pull out (admittedly upper arm strength is not something I have in abundance).

I think "awkward" is the wrong word, but I think the author (like myself) was probably one of a large majority of children who saw this movie without the context of having read the Baum books first and only having a reference point of the MGM film and was subsequently in for a shock. When I was six I just thought…

My great-grandfather once ate at a Sizzler that had a big food poisoning outbreak later that week. He was about 90 at the time and it was no joking matter.

Why are there so many little girls in this film?

It's like the internet will never learn.

OF ALL TIME!

Recess - best after school show of all time!

Re-reading Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons (who I think is largely under-appreciated). It's a really wonderful retelling of the Cinderella story.

I spent my whole weekend gripped in an epic battle with ground cover ivy. It was not pleasant.

There is Gwyneth Paltrow.

How about Lincoln Logs?

I kid you not, the closed captioning translated some of this into "slimy Irish gas mysteries"