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Originally Posted by edbro
The Dick and Jane Series.
"See Spot Run. Look Jane, look".
I just don't get it now. 
(if you didn't grow up in the US in the 60's you won't understand) |
I beg yo pardon, Edbro - I remember those tomes with great joy - along with Dumbo the Elephant, & others I can barely remember. Among them one [obviously American] about a Summer Camp, where the hero wore Keds basketball boots, which I HAD to have. My parents somehow found a supplier here, and I got 'em for a birthday. Black and white,canvas, great thick comfy soles, long white laces- brilliant, I was the envy of the whole school ! [They must have been very expensive, I didn't get anything else that Birthday. ]
The story contained a description of a "new girl" in school, that I have never forgotten............
"She had a smile like the front end of a Buick" !
She had braces on her teeth - which seemed to us a very strange thing to have inflicted on someone !