Know Your Pocomoke: Answers Revealed

1. I actually thought that Big Cat and I had this one wrapped up, having first met in September of 1992. But it turns out that Old Bear and Bex beat us by a year: the two of them met in the fall of 1991. There is no general consensus on when Big Cat and Bex first made each other's acquaintance (seriously).

2. The place was named Clarendon Kaleidoscope and it was owned by the father of a friend of ours. Having a friend whose dad owns an arcade where you can play all the games for free sounds pretty cool, right? Like a dream come true for a couple of 13 year olds, you might say. Well, the dream lasted for approximately two hours before Big Cat and I managed to screw it up. I won't go into the circumstances surrounding our banishment - just know that it involves a harrowing tale of deceit, lies, deception, and minigolf.

3. Your reckless comments seem to have only encouraged Big Cat. Hey, did I ever mention the time that he tried to take a lit tiki torch into our kitchen?

4. I was originally thinking of something a little more generic, along the lines of "Our House" by Madness or the theme song from Family Ties. But the readers have spoken (all three of them) and "Istanbul, Not Constantinople" it is. If Big Cat goes through with his fire plan, he can take "Burning Down the House" as his personal anthem while the rest of us adopt "We Didn't Start the Fire."