What the hell is a PeeChee?
The only PeeChee I know is a folder for holding papers and such. Used them in high school. They were this weird yellowish color with sports figures, equipment, etc. I think in the inside pocket they had the periodic table and other ueful information. I haven’t seen one in years.
Really?
I am 23, I read a book written in the early 80’s that was about a girl in sixth grade (when I was 10 or so).
It mentioned “Pee Chee” twice in the story.
I think that a folder fits in the context of the story.
You have no idea how much i appreciate this.
I have been wondering about that for years.
But does every question in the world give rise to another question?
After finding out that a Pee Chee was a folder, my next thought was
“why the hell did they name it a Pee Chee?”
Because it’s yellow?
What a horrible thing. It was that name that made that book stick out in my head, and make me hold on to it for years.
I used to wonder if a Pee Chee was a sort of a diaper.
A “Pee Chee” is an unglazed porous ceramic potty. You can coat the outside with grass seed, and depending on your diet, it may bloom into a decorative cross between a green Don King and ZZ Top, or sprout into pathetic yellow stubble and die (looking like a 60’s fuzzy toilet seat or something you left in the cabin fridge last summer)
Seriously, isn’t it a wilderness region in Ontario?
Ummm, I thought that was a Chia Pet?
Yep, Pee Chee Folders. Great for cheating in chemistry class, because they had all the conversions for volume, length, temperature, etc on the inside flaps. Also, you could draw on the sports characters to make them anatomically incorrect, that was always fun…
That was supposed to say “Chia Pot”. Now everyone laugh and tell me how funny that was! Ha ha ha hee hee hee!
:: Grumble grumble :: Bah!
I have read that book I think. I cannot remember the name but is it about a girl named, Helen, who is dislexic? Her uncle sells Kubota tractors and her mom is un-understanding? Her best friend (“Diane”?) likes David Lee Roth rather than Eddie VanHalen? If not, never mind.
There used to be a company that made bubble gum and dime store candy and there name was: O Pee Chee. I think they still exist though possibly not as an independent candy maker.