I remember watching Mr. Rogers all the time as a young girl.  I liked him, but didn’t fully appreciate his particular brand of self-esteem building until my son began watching.

Yes, he seems a bit old-fashioned in this day and age, but what is so wrong with that?  His message is timeless, the delivery perfect.  I’ll admit that the puppets are a bit too slow in this era of lightning-quick cartoons, though.   Even I found them to be a tad tedious at times.

But that doesn’t mean I don’t love him still.

How well do you know Mr. Rogers?

Go and take the quiz!

And lordy, how much do I love that picture up there??

I’m in the mood for some fun and games, how about you?

This famous musician sure was a cutie as a young boy, he must have had a really good experience taking this picture. Can you guess who it is?

If everyone is having a really hard time, I’ll post another hint. There’s one up in the sentence above.

From the Manolosphere’s old friend Candy Kirby, proud blog mama of the new LaughingStork site, comes Pregnancy Bingo, sure to provide you with hours of embittered fun. Race your equally-pregnant friends to see who can complete a whole row first! While most of these inane remarks have been popular since the invention of language, a couple are more recent; I’m relatively sure the latte remark will date this to future anthropologists as accurately as carbon analysis.

Glinda, how many of these have you got covered so far?

After all the weirdness of the Manolosphere lately, I’m not even slightly tempted to post anything fancy. So, naturally, I found this cool quiz and couldn’t wait to post it. Hopefully it won’t bring the server crashing down, however popular it may turn out to be.

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

I am happy to see you.

No, there is not a gun in there at all. You caught me (see also: sidepipe).

Take the quiz on BuzzFeed.com

Let’s have some fun! Who didn’t love these as a kid? I made this one up all by myself, hope you enjoy!

And hey, go ahead and copy the HTML code for your results and paste it in the comment section so that everyone can have a good laugh.

Letter to Santa
FAMOUS PERSON
ADJECTIVE
NOUN
TYPE OF ANIMAL
NOUN
RELATIVE
ADJECTIVE
VERB ENDING IN “ING`
NOUN
NOUN
VERB ENDING WITH “S”
PLURAL NOUN
NOUN
TYPE OF CANDY
PERSON IN ROOM

On the advice of counsel and having read the results of this quiz, I have no further comment at this time except to say it was not ME who squeezed from the middle of the tube. Also, I was buying toys for orphans at the time.

While I’ve long suspected I would not flourish in the era, it must be admitted that I love watching Thirties movies, and am slightly addicted to the bizarre hats of the period.

But it’s not a problem. I can stop wearing those hats any time. Seriously. And I’m sure the staff at Home Depot and the grocery store wishes I would.

But now comes scientific(ish) proof, once and for all, that I’d be an absolutely rotten Thirties housewife. I find solace in the fact that so would Katherine Hepburn and Myrna Loy. Oh, who wants to be that insipid martyr Mrs. Stephen Haines, when you could be the fabulously kooky Irene Bullock or the witty and wonderful Nora Charles? They’d both be fabulous failures in this quiz, too.

23 As a 1930s wife, I am Very Poor (Failure) Take the test!

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So what did you get?

If it makes you feel any better, you can answer for your husband on the 1930’s Husband Quiz as well. Don’t tell him the results; it would only upset the poor darling.

Hmmm, more people should take this kind of test in advance, if you ask me.

If you are already a parent (and why else would you be reading this blog) then take my advice: just keep re-taking this quiz and tweaking the answers until you get the result you want, then post it in your blog and if the kids give you any sass at some point in the future, you just point and say “random internet quizzes DO. NOT. LIE.”