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[Pimp_skitters]

  I knew it would happen someday.

[Doc]

Yeah that's a good one. Can't wait till this generation grows up and we see angsty pokemon fan fic and shit.
Actually I'm sure there *is* angsty pokemon fan fic, but please don't feel the need to link any.

[Pimp_skitters]

 

Yeah that's a good one. Can't wait till this generation grows up and we see angsty pokemon fan fic and shit.
Actually I'm sure there *is* angsty pokemon fan fic, but please don't feel the need to link any.

   I can't help myself.
   Actually I'm from the Pokemon generation, and no amount of catharsis will dislodge the shame that I went to see the opening night of the Pokemon movie. When I was 12.
   
 

[theinevitable]

I will never understand-- my school somehow didn't get the whole pokemon thing. actually, we did, but not in the Junior High division... only the elementary-school kids were into it. My grade was never into it.

[Doc]

I managed to experience both pokemon and power rangers by proxy of my brother while still being able to be slightly too old (and therefore 'too cool') for them. Which I don't mind too much because the games actually were quite addictive, worryingly probably my first experience of a turn-based rpg.

[Pimp_skitters]

I managed to experience both pokemon and power rangers by proxy of my brother while still being able to be slightly too old (and therefore 'too cool') for them. Which I don't mind too much because the games actually were quite addictive, worryingly probably my first experience of a turn-based rpg.

  I remember power rangers! I remember when I got a black and gold coloured toy of the power rangers *****s before they were officially sold in Canada: I was the coolest six year old that week! Funny how no-one ever questioned the fact that Angel Grove was miraculously rebuilt each episode.
  As for my pokemon fandom, it ended about two months before my thirteenth birthday. In fact I remember the day. I was at this Pokemon card game match and I looked around and saw kids younger than me enjoying themselves as kids can. I saw kids older than me, they seemed awkward, out of place and taking it all way too seriously. I knew I was on the borderline between the two. I knew I didn't want to be the latter. It all dropped away in less than a week after that, and everything Pokemon left my life, much to the joy of the recipients of my card collection. I kept the gameboy games though, and they came in handy in times of boredom in later years.

  PS: A list of things the spell check wants to change fandom to:

  random
  condom
  phantom
  tandem

[slink]

  PS: A list of things the spell check wants to change fandom to:

  random
  condom
  phantom
  tandem

I'm just amused by the prospect of a Pokemon condom. Marketing at it's very worst, although possibly a strange way to defeat the American method of teaching birth control...

[KeithHernandez]

I was part of the pog generation.  That and Ninja Turtles were my only childhood obsessions.

Also sports, lots and lots of sports.

[V-Adore]

I was part of the pog generation.  That and Ninja Turtles were my only childhood obsessions.

Oh, man, pogs. I am sad to admit that my major triumph the semester I was Student Council president at my elementary school was convincing the principal not to ban pogs. A few weeks ago, while packing for graduate school, I found my old slammer -- this giant brass thing with a holographic dragon on it (!). Suddenly, all of sixth grade came flooding back, and that was severely unpleasant.

[theinevitable]

man, I was in like 3rd grade for pogs!

you'd think you were 3 years older than me, or something!

[Pimp_skitters]

I'm just amused by the prospect of a Pokemon condom. Marketing at it's very worst, although possibly a strange way to defeat the American method of teaching birth control...

  STDs: don't wanna catch 'em all!

man, I was in like 3rd grade for pogs!

you'd think you were 3 years older than me, or something!

  I was in Second Grade. This and other statements makes me think you're a year older than me.
  Pogs was one craze I didn't get into as a kid, as I was so awfull at it. I kept buying really nice looking pogs, and losing them in games. After the third batch was gone, I gave up and stuck to video games.

[afterMonday]

Our school had a Pokemon phase which, within a few months, turned into a YoYo phase. 

I don't know if I see the link, though I did and still do love YoYos.

[Doc]

Aw man, Yoyo's they used t come round like every 3 years at my school and then get promptly banned, think they were in fashion with 6th graders about 3 times while I was there.

[KeithHernandez]

Oh, man, pogs. I am sad to admit that my major triumph the semester I was Student Council president at my elementary school was convincing the principal not to ban pogs.

They totally banned pogs when I was in 4th grade (maybe my school was ahead on the pog thing, because I am like 3 years older than the inevitable) because they said it was gambling.  That basically ruined playground time for a week until everyone just started playing basketball or climbing on stuff again.

Aw man, Yoyo's they used t come round like every 3 years at my school

That is exactly how it was here.  Like, all of a sudden there would be all of these stands in the mall walk ways selling yoyo's, then they would be gone.  Then, out of nowhere, they would be back in a couple years.

[slink]

It's all down to whenever Twirl King visited the school.  Same happened in my schools.