@rixatrix: I think it's the latter, I've heard similar things before.

@LikeChai: A friend of mine gave the apt descriptions of these scans, "They're like Etch-a-Sketch versions of a naked person— not sexy at all."

@OakMotYouthCenter: And now I'm hungry— it's too close to lunch for food conversations!

@OakMotYouthCenter: I've heard greasy pizza cheese has better insulating properties, but I bet the sloppy joe worked okay too!

@rubesmanubes: No body snarking, please.

@Artemis47: The Gallery of Regrettable Food [www.google.com] has a whole section on Coke recipes such as the one you note, and some that are even meat-based!

@boobookitteh: So long, and thanks for all the fish!

@Eleanor Ramilly: Oh god, your poor mom! Seven kids fighting would easily drive me to throw a pot against the wall. Now that you're grown, what does she say about the incident? Does she laugh, or is she touchy about it?

@LutherNipperkin: Right— it just thankfully would at least give you a reason to send them home to change.

@DrOttoScratchansniff: That's what they were already doing, but somehow people were only remembering the red Xs, I guess, and not the red 95%, or the red smily face, or the red C, or the red check marks. Seriously...

@rikki-tikki-tavi: Ha! I should have refreshed before commenting, since you beat me too it! And pretty much with the same colors too :)

@clevernamehere: The smacks on the hand were a controlled, explained punishment. We were told we were going to be "spanked" (and I'm so sorry it offends you that we called it that in my family), and then we had to put out our hand palms down, and then it was sharply smacked. It stung, so it got our attention and was…

@KaneBaker: Here in the States I've heard plenty of stories about teachers who are told not to use red pens to mark up students' assignments, because it's "too negative", since red is associated with being wrong.

@plzprettypuss: Oof, I googled the Crystal Child, and from the first couple of results I read, it sounds pretty...flaky.

@clevernamehere: And there's the rub to all this— in my household that was considered a spanking, in others it might be leaving welts on a child's bare backside with a leather belt or a switch.

@badmutha: I've seen big cats (lions, etc) nip and swat at misbehaving cubs— I think that could be seen as the equivalent of a spank (not a beating).

@annewithaneee: This is the type of spanking I got as a young child (and only until the age of 5 or so), and I think it was only a few times total. But when it did happen, we had to put out our hand ourselves.

@first man: Yeah, I can see that being the case. I think in these situations it's best to come up with an alternative negative consequence that will resonate with the kids.

@msmoneypenny: Oof, the name written on it is somehow chilling.

@cristanann: Just because she was with James Cameron at the time, though, doesn't mean he's the biological father of her daughter—making the blind item all the juicier.