We could see the horizontal stripes on the kids' gray, fuzzy chests, and the vertical stripes on the parents, whose markings look more like bark, which is why they are nearly impossible to see, perched in the cavity of an old tree.
Ms. Waldman created a Facebook group to commemorate the incident: "over 40 is 'facebook creepy.'" It's no secret that Facebook, which started as a networking playground for college kids, is graying, and that the percentage of active members who are over 25 years old and out of school has risen to some 40percentt of the overall population of about 45 million.
The college kid, in a gray engineering T-shirt, looked back at the screen with an accepting frown and nodded, "O.K".
These drawings are so peculiar -- pale, dry-ice gray kids next to children rendered in saffron-yellow alongside boys and girls with Jolly Rancher green skins -- that the idea of the indigo-blue pooch Spot choosing to join them and pretending to be a boy almost made sense.
I don't know—I don't but the Times went around and bothered college kids and their graying "friends," trying to get a sense for what's going on.
The A.V. Club reviewer Zack Handlen summed Adventure Time up as "a terrific show, and it fits beautifully in that gray area between kid and adult entertainment in a way that manages to satisfy both a desire for sophisticated (i.e., weird) writing and plain old silliness".
Again, I am reminded that I must help my kids to practice navigating the "gray zone" as its a key to a content and successful life.
It was a gray, chilly morning, and kids were riding skateboards and BMX bikes in the skate park next door.
"It's very disappointing for the kids," said Weatherall, dressed in a gray Marquette University hooded sweatshirt.
On Labor Day weekend, he arrived in Phoenix — heavier and grayer than the skinny kid Ms. Mabry had last seen.
