Reminds me of something I saw on the Simpsons. A bunch of kids are sitting in the living room, twiddling their thumbs. Bart runs in and asks if anyone wants to play stickball? They all say "yay!" and then ... run over to the nintendo to play.

So true, so sad.

But then, I'm something of an optimist -- there will always be a place for catalogs like Back to Basics Toys.

--Phil

> Hey Rooster! Here is a story for you. I just
> taught my 11 year old son about 3 weeks ago
> how to play chess. When i was a child we
> used to play chess and checkers during
> recess at school. I told him that now he can
> play against his friends. He looked at me
> with a funny look and told me no one in his
> class plays chess or even knows how. He said
> why would they play chess?? MOst of his
> friends have a game cube or a playstation.
> I was shocked. I told him when i was a child
> we didn't really have those things. We had
> an Atari but most of us still played chess.
> It just shows how technology has even taken
> away a simple past time like checkers and
> chess. My 11 year old son told me so.

> The big Dog!