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The 8 Most Wildly Irresponsible Vintage Toys
Cracked.com ^ | October 19, 2011 | Tracy V.

Posted on 10/19/2011 11:11:00 AM PDT by EveningStar

These days, if a stuffed animal's plastic eye so much as wiggles, that toy is recalled faster than you can say "class action lawsuit." Back in the day, though, child safety consisted of just getting out of the way and letting natural selection do its thing. If a kid was too dumb to play with a toy the right way, well, he'd just have to learn to get along with one less eye.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: childsafety; dangeroustoys; nannystate; toys
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To: Fresh Wind

Good catch !


121 posted on 10/19/2011 1:44:09 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I cheated, the name is in one of the comments.


122 posted on 10/19/2011 1:47:10 PM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: EveningStar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFObOcjALvQ


123 posted on 10/19/2011 1:47:19 PM PDT by Bobalu (More rubble, less trouble)
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To: EyeGuy

LOL, I loved those things. We’d place em under the pegs of a toilet lid. When sat on, they blow and scatter sand on the back of the legs. Or lay em on the road for cars to drive over. Boom, flat tire? Great fun!!


124 posted on 10/19/2011 1:55:03 PM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: SgtHooper

I had a little steam engine. Add water, add a little fuel cake and light it, after a couple minutes, that engine was a screamin driving a piston and wheel faster than ever. Blow the steam whistle. A nice hot little boiler bomb. No shields, no nothin.


125 posted on 10/19/2011 2:00:11 PM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: Fresh Wind

I have one of those.


126 posted on 10/19/2011 2:00:29 PM PDT by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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To: Fresh Wind

Yeah, today even the preoistion “of” would be considered politically incorrect by the professional offendees.

More importantly, that is a wonderful image. Thanks!


127 posted on 10/19/2011 2:05:23 PM PDT by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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To: frithguild

I had two of those. Good for plastic armymen when you couldn’t go outside and use slingshots.


128 posted on 10/19/2011 2:07:20 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: EyeGuy

preoistion = preposition

Sheesh...


129 posted on 10/19/2011 2:07:35 PM PDT by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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To: gunnut
I have a set of lawn darts and you can have them when you pry them from my cold dead hands.

Same here, right up in the attic. It's been a few summers since I broke them out for a family party, but threads like this one are a healthy reminder.

130 posted on 10/19/2011 2:08:20 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: JoeProBono

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPhZsauluXM


131 posted on 10/19/2011 2:12:12 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: frithguild

Looks more like sex finger!


132 posted on 10/19/2011 2:19:09 PM PDT by THE_RAIDER (http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/10/05/the-occupy-wall-street-fools/)
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To: EyeGuy; Verbosus

I scanned the whole Remington 34 brochure, I believe it’s from 1932. If anyone’s interested it is here:

http://i55.tinypic.com/2exslqg.jpg
http://oi53.tinypic.com/210k7yt.jpg

Enjoy!


133 posted on 10/19/2011 2:23:52 PM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: Fresh Wind

Thanks!

For me, there is something undeniably honest, wholesome and positive about those old images.


134 posted on 10/19/2011 2:35:48 PM PDT by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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To: EveningStar

I don’t think I ever saw, much less wore, a seat belt until I was about twelve. And the dashboards were made out of steel back then.

Somehow we survived.


135 posted on 10/19/2011 2:45:46 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EyeGuy

Agreed. There’s freedom, responsibility, and self-reliance on display there. Eighty years ago, those images wouldn’t have been remarkable. From today’s perspective, they truly are.


136 posted on 10/19/2011 2:53:05 PM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: Calvin Locke
NSFW; Strong STRONG language; Vimeo; George Carlin - Its Bad For Ya (2008) I miss ya George!
137 posted on 10/19/2011 2:59:55 PM PDT by Daffynition (“There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord.” ~ Homer)
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To: JoeProBono
Nothing beats a Defender Dan Machine Gun!


138 posted on 10/19/2011 3:02:59 PM PDT by Daffynition (“There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord.” ~ Homer)
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To: GraceG
LOL...have you ever been frightened by a Ouija board?


139 posted on 10/19/2011 3:06:53 PM PDT by Daffynition (“There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord.” ~ Homer)
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To: EveningStar

What, no clackers????


140 posted on 10/19/2011 3:14:14 PM PDT by BreitbartSentMe (ATLAS SHRUGGED was supposed to be a warning, NOT a newspaper.)
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