Date:  Wed, 22 Mar 1995 09:56:08 -0500

From:  Elizabeth Martinez <MARTINEZE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]COFC.EDU>

Subject: Re: DARE queries--maple seeds



> I've been hunting in my memory for what we called maple seeds back in

> the Bronx in the 1930s--we used to open them an put them on our noses too.

> I'm not sure, but I thin it was pol(l)y noses or could it have been

> pol(l)wogs? Is there anybody else around from that time and place?



> Francine Frank

> fwf[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]cnsvax.albany.edu

> University at Albany, SUNY

Hi Francine. I grew up in NYC in the 60's and we called them pol(l)y noses.

I've also heard them called pol(l)ywogs.