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Submitted by Eric M
I never had a subscription to Highlights, but I did get to read it at the dentist’s office, making it the only good part of visiting the dentist. Anyway, Highlights was super popular and featured great stories (and mediocre jokes) every month.
Anybody remember Goofus and Gallant?
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My 4 y/o loves “High 5″,
the one for minis!
I remember one time I was in the bathroom and there was no toilet paper left. I grabbed this Highlights mag. off the shelf and used it for cleaning my behind.
you are a stupid troll!
Goofus wipes his ass with whatever’s handy. Gallant makes sure there’s TP on the roll before he drops trou.
I loved the “how many wrong things” on the back cover!!!!
I know! That was the only thing I ever looked at myself. The only other thing is the sheet of multi-colored smiley face stickers that came every once in awhile.
Goofus and Gallant is a classic win! I received it at home each month. Great book for youngsters.
I remember getting that. My grandmother bought me a subscription. At that age having something come addressed to YOU was a great ego-boost.
My grandmother got me a subscription too. I remember becoming too old for it and being disappointed with getting the world wildlife federation magazine instead. I had a massive stash of those to read in the bathroom. I liked Goofus and Gallant (we made up a female version called Messy and Mindful) and the Timbertoes. And the rebuses were fun too. And the crafts section.
How does one become too old for the hidden pictures?
when we stop finding Jesus, Mary and John the Baptist on wheat toast?
ahh, good old highlights. made waiting at the dentist’s office – and waiting for my piano lessons – that much better.
When I was in the 5th grade back in 1970, my teacher sent in a poem I wrote and it got published. I was awestruck….I still am kinda humbled. How dumb is that?
We always found it at our doctor’s office. I loved to read Goofus and Gallant! And you got to read a magazine just like mommy!
Man I loved Highlights. I actually won a contest when I was in the sixth grade and had a story published in Highlights.
Best. Magazine. Ever.
Actually that award goes to Playboy.
Well, maybe for some people, but I’m talking about when I was six.
holy hell i remember this. had a subscription. it was pretty cool.
man, highlights was awesome. remember the timbertoes? that was my favorite part when i was learning to read. i cant wait til i have a kid, ill buy a subscription so i – i mean they – can read it every month.
I loved the Timbertoes too! I will totally get this for my kids, when I have them!
Boys, girls, black kids and white kids all playing together in a cartoon book during the 90s! WOO!
Throw in a kid in the wheelchair and you’ve collected all of the situations that never occur outside of a politically correct fabrication.
I don’t have a problem with what they are trying to do, but stop lying to me. This never happens.
Also: Incoming response saying I’m wrong from the guy who claims to have friends from every color of the rainbow.
I know, I HATE it when people do this! It’s so… fake!
I have a half black half asian, handicapped friend. Beat that.
Sorry to disappoint you, but this is typical of my kids school. The parents get along, too.
I’m sure they do. You have tons of black, white, asian, hispanic, gay, straight, jewish, christian, muslim friends. You also sit around and do arts and crafting while smiling unnaturally large smiles constantly.
Prepare your kids for the real world please.
So the kids should associate with a-holes, such as your self, to prepare for the real world?
Is it lying, or is it portraying an ideal that we might want to get to someday? I agree with preparing kids for the real world, but do they really need to find out about what’s going on that early? I get irritated with the rampant political correctness sometimes. It’s probably worse than in the 80s when I was reading it. Still, it’s good to get the idea that interracial friendships are possible into a kid’s mind, because they are possible. They happen all the time actually. That’s not a bad thing.
I got nothing to add to this but:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FiveTokenBand
(The cast of “The Puzzle Place” in particular boggles the mind.)
Actually, all you have to do is make a civil reply to this post and voila, you’ve just gotten along with a person in a wheelchair.
See? It’s not so hard.
…but do you have a helper monkey?
No, just a really helpful husband.
:Hides screen before he reads this:
Just because people keep to their own race and gender where you live doesn’t mean it’s like that everywhere. I’m a white female, and I had several male friends as a child, and two black and one Indian friend in high school.
For me it’s become
Highlights For Bored Teenager At The Dentist’s Office.
Add “Bored Thirty-somethings waiting on an oil change” for me…
::grin::
I loved this magazine as a kid, and yes, I do still pick it up if I’m in a waiting room and happen to see one. To me it’s interesting to see the various reading levels and topics that are in there.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who may be seen picking this magazine up and giving it a gander. Better than most of the other mags I usually see around the waiting room. I don’t like looking at pictures of people’s perfectly decorated homes.
I read Nick mag at Great Clips. And please tell me I’m not alone when I say I watched Pokemon. You cannot be a 4-8 year old boy in the 90’s/early 00’s (I guess you can call them that) and not have even watched at least one episode and liked it. Pokemon should deserve it’s own Nostalgic Win page… too much for one post. The games, the show, the trading card game, the marbles (yes, I had Pokemon themed marbles), the theme song ([i wanna be] the [very] best [that no one [replace x with the next word] ever was. to catch] them[is my r]e[al te] s[t, t]o[ trai]n[ them is my cause. I will travel across the land, searchin]g (x) [far and wide for Pokemon, to understand, the power thats inside! Pokemon! Gotta Catch em all! (It's you and me) I know it's my destiny! Pokemon (Ooooh, you're my best friend,) In a world we must defend!]
k im done…
Of COARSE you’re not alone when you say you watched Pokemon.
Pokemon was freaking huge.
It’s still freaking huge… but it’s not really nostalgic-ey anymore. Ash sounds like a fag now, and the Pokemon are too complex. There’s what, 500 of them now?
I feel the same way! Usually I look for the Hidden Pictures first!
Ever wondered where Goofus and Gallant ended up?
I sometimes think that Goofus grew up and became happy and successful, while Gallant became a serial killer and is locked up in a prison or high-security psychiatric hospital.
Probably.
They still have them. I worked for Highlights for about 6 months of last year and this year.
I used to work for Highlights (the beginning of this year and end of last year)
They still have the goofus and gallant strips!
They have brown hair now. I liked the old ones better.
Goofus quietly sold his shares in Enron and left before the end. Gallant stuck around and was set up as the patsy. Goofus invests in startups from a beach in the Caribbean. Gallant pays for protection in cigarettes at FCI Allentown.
Yeah, Gallant always was a naive prima donna.
I mainly read it for Goofus and Gallant, and the ‘what is different’ pictures.
I Had One Of Those!!
I LOOOOOVED Goofus And Gallant
It was at the pediatrician’s office, and the awesomest feature was the “find the hidden things” bit (unless some bozo actually marked them – that was so annoying!).
My local Planned Parenthood clinic has Highlights.. I will pick one up every so often if I read all the Rolling Stones and am still waiting. Totally not as epic as it could be..
It was okay, I mean, it got me to read and that was all mom wants, though I never was a fan, though the hidden pictures, they rocked! I actually had an official highlights hidden picture calendar too!
My mom got me a subscription <3 Man, I loved that magazine. Plus they sent me so much extra stuff, like stickers, and booklets, and whole books of "find the object in the picture", which could double as colouring books, since they were line drawings.
You colored the hidden pictures! For shame!
*laughs* My grandparents got me a subscription to this when I was little; I just thought it was the coolest thing to get something with my name on it in the mail and yeah, it was a great ego-boost. XD I got a scholarship to an art school, (I finished my session last week,) and my teacher was actually a lady that has worked very extensively with Highlights as an illustrator, (her name is Anni Matsick.) I just thought it was really cool to work with someone who had a part in making a childhood magazine I loved. WIN =D
Another fun learning experience from my childhood. (happy sigh)
NONONONONONONONONO!
Good mag, but…
My school used to effing make us sell subscriptions to raise funds for the school and the penguins got a new station wagon every year.
Then I’d pick up a copy in later life and saw that some little ankle biter had beat me to the games page-I would check to see if the little beesturd got all the words in the Word Search right.
god, i couldn’t live without highlights when i was little. I remember once they did a article on Eugine Clark, and I wrote them and told them I wanted to be just like her when I grew up. They sent me back a letter and said they forwarded my letter to HER! She sent me a letter, a book list, and an autographed pictures. It was better than getting an autograph from any celebrity, I’ll tell you that! lol
“I tell you what, this Goofus fellow is a jackass.”
-Hank Hill
I had a story published in Highlights Magazine once when I was seven. They sent me a free copy as well as my normal subscription issue. It was great.
Ah, Highlights. Even as a kid I thought Gallant was a goody goody douche bag.
I recently read through a Highlights at the mechanic while waiting for my car. For some reason all the other magazines were women’s magazines. Anyway, they now have podcasts you can download for some of the features, and as for Goofus and Gallant… Well, I hate to say it, but Goofus is going to be the successful one in life. The issue was privacy, and Gallant was stuck in the 1950s, stopping a classmate from opening someone else’s diary that had a big heart on the cover and a padlock. Meanwhile, Goofus had entered the high-tech and profitable world of computer hacking by figuring out a classmate’s email password, all at the tender age of 10.
i had a computer game based on this magazine, i never got to see the magazine
I still read it! I love the comics in them, and I like taking one of the riddle questions, and using an answer to a different riddle. For example:
What do firefighters put in their soup?
A monkey, a turkey, and a donkey.
What do zoo animals wear when they go swimming?
Firecrackers.
Highlights, Highlights, Highlights…
I used to always write letters to them for advice about my evil sister
and we didn’t only subscribe to Highlights, but we also subscribed to Mathmania, Puzzlemania, and Which Way USA. My parents wouldn’t get us the subscription to Top Secret though :/
And to think Highlights For Children inspired baby boomers (and everyone else) to have a little fun. (I’m surprised Mad Magazine hasn’t made OUAW yet!)
Goofus and Gallant was so funny! Let me make up one now…”Goofus surfs the Internet unsupervised. Gallant asks his parents if he can go online”
I LOVED what’s wrong. The stories were lighthearted, the pictures colorful and fun. I liked the think about it page, it had questions like “what is taller, a hill or a mountain” and “where would you like to go on vacation”?
Oh man, I used to love these! My favorite thing when I was little was turning to the back to see the hilarious version of what picture was on the front cover. Not to mention looking at the submitted artwork and seeing where the artists were from (I learned a ton of countries that way! XD)
Yup, I remember Highlights from back when I was in elementary school, in the late 1960s/early 1970s. I had totally forgotten about it, until I got into a friend’s car a few weeks ago — in the back there was a CURRENT issue of Highlights, from one of his kids. I was totally surprised that it was still around!
The only magazine I rem that I had a subscription to. And it was the best! I, too, still look at it when I see it in a waiting room. It brings back memories & gives me something to do!
I could never get into it… I liked the ‘What’s Wrong’ thingie, but otherwise I was more fascinated by the coffee tables in the dentist’s office.
(I rather like coffee tables.)
Probably too much Ranger Rick and such early on.
yeah… the good old days… but subscription? no…
Yay…loved doing the things where you search for hidden objects. Also one of my pictures that I drew was published in one issue and it was like the major highlight of my childhood
I could never find that porpoise. Where is the porpoise?
I still have a partial sheet of smiley face stickers around somewhere…. I use them sparingly on cards sometimes. I always loved the dinosaur stickers too.
I got this mag in the late 70s/early 80s. I once found a plagiarized poem a kid sent in as his own and I wrote to Highlights to alert them to the plagiarist. I know someone is going to call me a nerd for doing that, but even as a kid I wondered why Highlights didn’t have fact checkers. At least Highlights sent me a letter thanking me.
Also, I often call my five year old son by the nickname “Goofus Gallant” because the sound of it makes me giggle.