Goo

About two years ago, I bought a plastic bottle of Nickelodeon Splat, a sort of polymer compound — goo — that slowly oozes and drips and makes most adults queasy at the sight of it. (That's why kids adore it.) The first bottle I bought was a brilliant, almost radioactive green, to be followed in time by somewhat less impressive shades of orange, purple, and dark blue. (I passed on the red.) My son and I loved playing with it.

(We had something similar when I was a kid — remember Slime and Slime with Worms?)

I brought it out today for the first time in six months, perhaps longer. It turns out this substance does not age well — apparently, the older it becomes, the less viscous and more adhesive it becomes! We quickly discovered that there was no way to get it all back into the plastic bottle, much less off of our hands! We had to give up and wash it off in the sink (and even that took no small effort).

Sadly, I don't think Splat is sold any longer — I haven't seen it in a toy store in ages. The adults have won.