A little about me

[beldarzfixon]

Hi, my name is John (but I'll still answer to beldar). Some of you already know me, and some of you don't. So how do I entertain both groups, while giving you an insight into me

Comments

[sarcasmoqueen]

How bad is it that I thought your cousin was giving you acid? LMAO

Enjoyed this, and look forward to reading you this year.

[beldarzfixon]

If it were LSD, it would have been an altogether different adventure =D

[shay_writes]

I thought that too!

[gratefuladdict]

ME TOO!

[momebie]

A noble distinction! And much better than the time someone told me to hold my hand out as a kid and then put a ground puppy into it. So much screaming and crying.

[veronica_rich]

A - a what?

[momebie]

It literally just occurred to me that I have NO IDEA what those are actually called. I've never stopped to consider that they have a real name that isn't that, because that's all I've ever heard people call them. I did a search for 'ground puppy' and came up with, well, puppies, which are adorable and did not make me weep as a small child.

But I have done a horrific google search and can tell you that what I actually mean is Potato Bug? Also sometimes called a sand puppy or Jerusalem Cricket. I will refrain from posting photos, but they get kind of big and they look terrifying and you should not throw them in the faces of young girls. It doesn't end well. I can tell you from experience.

These are of course different from sand fleas, which were also a staple of my childhood.

[veronica_rich]

Oh, if it's a bug, the only really good kind is crushed. I thought you meant an actual type of puppy, but ... like ... ground up?

Yeah, I'm not making sense to me either. I have a respiratory infection and am a little loopy, don't mind me. :-)

[deza]

At least he didn't give you a Coke to drink with them.

[beldarzfixon]

OK, you win the Internets =)

[lawchicky]

Hehehe- I had a feeling they were pop rocks, and I love that two teenage/preteen kids were so excited over them, as I remember being when I was a kid!

[beldarzfixon]

They were a totally new thing in the summer of 1976. In fact, Tate's bag was from test-marketing. In the South, we were the testing ground for Space Dust (totally different from "angel dust," a drug scourge of the '80s) which didn't have as much "pop" as Pop Rocks and died out after a year or so.

[shay_writes]

Great story! I loved it! I remember Space Dust. Ugh!

[beldarzfixon]

Yeah, the Dust never lived up to the Rocks