crayons
Brad magical things, really. Wax, pigment, and paper... hours of entertainment, ages 1 to adult. So many connotations, so symbolic of youth in any generation from the fifties into the twenty first century 000516
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moonshine My dog used to munch up all my crayons when i was little...and the popcorn garland off the tree. That dog ate everything except jello. it MOVED. 000517
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daanuh I always had the black crayon. No one everwanted the gray or white ones. I felt sorry for them. at least they had each other. 001114
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guitar_freak Anyone ever see the Mr. Rogers show where they went to the crayon factory? that show is still implanted in my memory today!!! 001115
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silentbob I like crayons
they taste waxy!
- Kelli
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MollyCule When I was in kindergarten, the passing out of crayons worked like this - the teacher put them all in a basket, which was then passed down the rows of kids alphebetically, each child taking 3 or 4. Well, my last name srats with W, so by the time they got to me, all that was left was black.

Many years later, when I was 15, I was heavily into Marilyn Manson, wearing about 4 times the eyeliner I needed to and cutting myself, I told my therapist it all went back to Kindergarten and having nothing to color with but black crayons. Who knows, it might even be true.
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kitty Prang makes soybean crayons! you can layer and blend the colors all nice, much better than those crappy crayola things. 001117
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sweetheart of the song tra bong I saw the Mr. Rogers with the crayon factory.

Those images still float around in my head too.

Crazy stuff, baby.
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(for your dove) Dude, me too! 010516
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again_unnoticed_romeo i used to eat crayons in Thursday school with one of my friends, my pastor thought i was crazy and i thought he was an asshole 010611
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Casey Mine always broke on me 010624
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Persona I knew a little african girl in primary....I'd ask her to pass me the skin color crayon so I could draw my sunny day family. After much confusion: I stopped referring to the peach crayon as "skin color" and began calling it by the correct name 010624
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baby satan when all else fails, eat them. 010625
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kingsuperspecial did you ever notice how big the write "NON-TOXIC" on the side of the crayon box? It's just begging you to eat them.

if you can read that is.

I was quite dissappointed when I found they all taste the same, though.

I'm surprised there aren't an baby_satan's_snack_tips that include crayons. Seems right up your...

uh...
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thea "i don't like crayons. they barely have any flavor at all."
-calvin & hobbes
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jane shen had a big box of 64 the other day and i colored for so long and i asked her to get me a box of 64 for my birthday
i'm so excited to get my crayons!
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lo you ever leave crayons out in the hot sun? fun stuff...well i was 5 when it happened but it's still probably cool lookin. 020823
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girl_jane pink ones 020823
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Tildan cpper ones.

I was banned from using them at uni. :(

I'm really good with crayons, but I guess I overused them.
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girl_jane I'm in a sign language class. I've only had two classes, but I already know how to say crayon(s)-along with basic colors and a few other words...I like my sign language class. 020826
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girl_jane UNI as in Univerisity of Northern Iowa? 020826
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Elzbieta I always wanted the BIG pack of crayons they sell that comes with the sharpener in the back. But I never got more than the 12 pack. 020827
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SymmetricChaos a friend once gave me a packet
i used them a few times
and left them in my school bag
my bag kept on smelling like crayons
till i threw it away
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daxle the europeans I know refer to college as "uni"... that may be what they meant 020827
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optic discretion the only things left to brighten your world when all else fails 020828
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Tildan heh. I'm australian, and we say uni as in university.

so, no, University of Technology, Sydney
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birdmad drawing of a stained glass window,

image of a rose in bloom against a sea of green leaves and other smaller flowers

done in pencil

coloured in crayon

took the drawing, covered it with wax paper and pressed it with a warm enough iron to let the colors bleed and seal their little sections

i wonder whatever happened to it
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gbkiss My wall is yellow. Bright yellow. Once I got some "Bath Crayons", you could use them to draw on walls because they come out easily. In my yellow window I drew a very big insect... I think it's green and blue, with red eyes... funny I don't remember because it's still there... funny a grown up girl draws an insect on her wall. That's what crayons do to you... I agree, they are magical little things. 020828
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daxle oh i meant college as in university... college means something different over there too... 020903
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