Don’t touch your screen!!!

Cooties! My brother’s daughter is being married tomorrow and Clare & I arrived in town today. We had lunch with my brother and my sister’s family. Later in the day, we visited an antique shop in the area and saw this display. It has to be the post for today! Read the wikipedia page about “cooties” and “Cootie”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cootie_(game) !

Aside. I took an image of one of the “Cooties” and filled out the online form to submit it to BAMONA for identification. Concerned it would be a frivolous use of the web site, I didn't submit it, but I did a screen capture and sent the image itself along with the screen capture of the web form to my regional coordinator. Roger appreciated the humor and added, “We should give it a name since we have to enter data by scientific name. How about Plasticus multicolorus?”!

One year ago (“A brisk day on the lake, but a great row!”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-10-11
Two years ago (“October surprise”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-10-11

[Rick Schies]

The ones we had as children were smaller, but we loved playing

[Vicki Dixon]

the ones they make nowadays are not nearly as good!

[Thom Mitchell]

@vickisfotos Why impression, too, Vicki! There's one other image on 365 tagged with "cooties" and they just aren't the same!

[Vicki Dixon]

lol...I just noticed your name on the chair seat! very clever

[Thom Mitchell]

@vickisfotos Thanks, Vicki. It's one of the things I do occasionally to keep things interesting for me. (Thank you Photoshop!) The other semi-OCD thing I try to do is set my name in a color that's in the image. As my wife might say, “You'’re weird.” Yeah, but that’s never been an issue!

[Vicki Dixon]

LOL! nothing wrong with weird!

[Thom Mitchell]

@vickisfotos Find it here, http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-10-23!

[Mags]

LOL!