Friday, February 29, 2008

Boyhood

I was in the grocery store the other day and I was looking at the different butters when my eyes fell upon the Land O'Lakes package that is still pretty much the same as it was in the early 60's when I was a lad.It triggered something I had not thought about in awhile and that was how the Land O'Lakes box was in my day usually a boys first dirty picture.I can't imagine who figured it out and why but I'll never forget the first time several of us were at our friend Dennis's house and he took the box out and cut it so the Indian Maiden's Knees became her breasts.I was amazed someone had thought of that but even then I wondered how and why someone had thought of that.I don't recall any of my friends getting caught with the naughty butter box hidden under the bed or desk drawer and wonder if boys of a certain age still do this in the age of computers and video games.I can see a father somewhere telling his son that in his day we had to make our own porn.We just didn't turn on the computer to see it while mom and dad wern't home.It was a simpler time but the Box is still there on supermarket shelves just waiting.

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