Posted on 09/28/2005 5:58:42 PM PDT by pissant
I used to do that in a bottle, cork it and set it off with a magnifying glass!
It would be interesting. There is a comedienne, I can't recall her name right now, who does a spot on routine on playgrounds...then (we play on steel bars, 8 feet off of concrete ground...and today, round plastic edges two feet off of mulch. With hand sanitizer to be distributed after play...). Too funny...
You forgot Barbie!
Balsa Wood Gliders were great too. I could buy one with my own money whenever I wanted.
And when I decided to fly a kite, I'd spend hours at it. But my favorite toy was a bbgun, and just behind that was my go cart. My fishing pole probably falls in the top 10 as well.
Can't forget about the walkie talkie either.
Mattel's Six Shooter with greenie stick on caps and little plastic bullets that would actually shoot.
I still have my 2 foot tall GI Joe doll. Fuzzy beard and kung fu grip are NOT sold separately.
But my favorite football game as a kid was this from Mattel in 1977.
I think half the boys in my class had one.
On that Halloween, one of my neighbors (who later sported a Kerry/Edwards bumpersticker years later) pointed out to me that Sheriff Woody, being a Pixar Disney character wore empty holsters. I pointed out to my neighbor that my 7 year old son was a pro-second amendment kinda guy. The neighbor didn't know what to say... ;)PaMom
ding ding ding....we have a winner!
I couldn't find those for years! I'll look there.
On that Halloween, one of my neighbors (who later sported a Kerry/Edwards bumpersticker years later) pointed out to me that Sheriff Woody, being a Pixar Disney character wore empty holsters. I pointed out to my neighbor that my 7 year old son was a pro-second amendment kinda guy. The neighbor didn't know what to say... ;)
LOL, that's perfect! How rude though, what some lefties won't do to pretend they are compassionate! It's a costume, for heaven's sake. I like the way you handled it!
Sure it's fun until you start losing all of your allowance money because you didn't take the points. Yeah, I'll say it's unpredictable! 8>)
I heard this from my grandmother, his mom, first hand thirty-some years ago. I usually have this toy at my home, so I know it is real.
I had him recount it himself, only a few weeks ago, so I know I have it precisely and it is the honest truth and not a second-hand story.
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. He wanted a bicycle.....
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. Grandma thought they were too dangerous....
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. He was a kid who had an older kid pull him on his sled behind a model Tee, so she had a right to be prudent.
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. So, she bought him a shotgun instead.
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.410, breech loading, but a shotgun, none the less.
Wanted him to be safe...after all, he was a little reckless for a ten year old, and you know bicycles can kill.
Who's that? The first German to orbit the earth?
Clue
Monopoly
Tinker Toys
Candy Land
Chutes and Ladders
View Master
Bill Dings (If you remember these you ARE old) :>)
Childhood my big blue eyes. You just described my adutlhood.
Much depends on one's age.
In my era...........Johnny Seven OMA ("One Man Army"), one of the coolest all-in-one destructive weapons ever devised in the mind of a toymaker. I never owned one; jealously watched the commercials.
Now, this was back when 'war toys' such as submachine guns, etc. were COOL and not politically uncorrect. You'll never find such toys now.
But when I think of my grandparents, I think of their nesting dolls.
I still have a bunch of the army men. I should have grabbed them when I was back on the east coast visiting. Now my GI Joe saw lots of hand to hand action with the other iterations of GI Joe on my block in NE Philly. There was an episode or two of the army men having to conquer the invading 12 inch GI Joe from some off world location. My brother had an GI Joe who was black. I don't recall seeing many of those
Oh...oh...........Creepy Crawlers. What a COOL toy. You got this set with liquid colored plastics.....you squeezed the liquid into molds........I think you heated 'em up a bit?......and voila!!! Got yer own rubber/flexible plastic/whatever spiders, etc. GREAT toy. Hours o' fun.
Yes!!!! .....and her lacy underthings covering her nubile young body that..........ummmmmm.......wait.............................................never mind.
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