The Oldies Thread

....I had nits back in the day. Mind you, I had hair back in the day;

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Nitty Nora bug explorer does not exist anymore in schools. Something about not hurting kids feelings by telling them they've got nits - or the desire of government not to spend peoples money on the people or something.

I absolutely adore the word ointment though. Absolutely one of the finest words in the language.
 
....they tend to be cyclical. There are some odd ones about, and even stranger the way parents burden kids with odd spellings of their Christian name, but it’s good that some of the old traditional names are making comebacks.
Like Archie? But not Archibald I notice!
 
Nitty Nora bug explorer does not exist anymore in schools. Something about not hurting kids feelings by telling them they've got nits - or the desire of government not to spend peoples money on the people or something.

I absolutely adore the word ointment though. Absolutely one of the finest words in the language.
In australia its endemic in schools, supermarkets sell nit stuff with the ordinary shampoo
It used to have a stigma, now its mainstream.
Strange days indeed
 

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