I loved my Johnny Seven ... although my mom was not thrilled
with the foxhole i dug in the back yard to defend with it. ;o)
Posted on 08/04/2010 2:46:30 PM PDT by lovesdogs
Today is a rough day with the expected court ruling from CA. So here is a little fun.
If time machines were available, I would love to send a liberal gun hating, sex promoting, nanny state educator back to a 1960's classroom filled with kids and the following toys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeilikDkkx8&feature=related
Creepy crawlers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43UU0RBLXNs&feature=related
head shrinker kit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMqd5EQXD-g&feature=related
tommy burst mattel toy machine gun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCrWk96DMHs&feature=related
marx shooting gallery toy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rAiii4LA3k
Suzy homemaker toys
The gun toys would send them into a tizzy straight away. But one could whisper in their ear that kids were thinner and never shot up class rooms back then. The head shrinker toy will likely send them into heart failure over the PC violations. And then there is the Suzy Homemaker set full of hot things, moving parts, and shock hazards. But that would not be the worst of in a liberal's mind...the conditioning of little girls to consider housework fun is soooo demeaning.
A liberal will be so busy being outraged at these toys that they will fail to realize how inventive we kids were back in the day. Cookies were baked in those ovens, but so were worms, dog poo, and other toys. Girls and boys learned about chemical reactions and toxic fumes as well as matters culinary.
Those toy guns were just so much fun. I never had the tommy gun. But I did have some cap pistols that went almost everywhere (my mom drew the line at church) with me in holsters when I was four. Liberals will never understand that the toys were the first step in teaching kids to respect real weapons.
Enjoy the commercials.
Talk about blasts from the past, I once taught in an rural High School that had a shooting range in the basement(no longer in use).
Loved to have had one.
Oh my! I worked with an old anesthesiologist (now retired) who used to talk about playing mummbly peg. I thought he was crazy! Guess not.
But that was nothing compared to what we picked up at the the Army Surplus store. Like de-milled pineapple grenades. We must have killed each other about ten thousand times.
The best part of having a chemistry set was mixing stuff at random just to see what would happen!
Maybe we’re both crazy!!
I remember a toy gun that would shoot this little satellite across the room with great force, if you put it in a kid’s face and shot him in the eye I imagine he would go blind. Then there were “cracker balls” if you threw them on a hard surface they would make a loud sound almost like a firecracker, not some little wimpy snap, this was more like a boom. And they were small and round and in bright colors so I guess some kids would eat them like candy and blow up their mouth so of course they were banned. I remember a lifesize cardboard version of the Mercury capsule, it was great for a kid you could go inside it, nothing dangerous about it but it was really cool. There are some cool toys now too but the element of danger is gone and that was fun. Now the only element of danger is that toys are made in China with all kinds of toxins in them.
I loved my Johnny Seven ... although my mom was not thrilled
with the foxhole i dug in the back yard to defend with it. ;o)
Back when SNL was hilarious at times. Bag-O-Glass was one of my favs!
Modern toys are so...tame. So are modern playgrounds, which appear to have been designed to avoid all chance of a scraped knee or a bruise.
Me and my brothers had both.
Lawn Darts!!!!
$11.98
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53mADuA5aM8
bttt
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