Posted on 08/15/2014 9:54:14 AM PDT by Drew68
CREEPY CRAWLERS!!!!
I loved that toy. I asked for one for my birthday. My dad kept telling me it wasn’t for girls. But of course he bought me one anyway.
I grew up in the seventies. Great time for toys. My dad always bought me great stuff. Kites, bikes, etc. Made me the best forts. I sure do miss that old man.
I remember having "wars" were we took tennis balls, propped them on top of fence posts, poured gas on them, lit them and then hit them at each other with baseball bats.
ahhh the good old days. Damn I miss them.
Well, a whole roll of the paper ones under a rock or hammer was louder than those plastic caps. But yeah, in the toy gun, the plastic ones were WAY better/louder than the paper caps.
Wasn’t that called a WASP gun? I had a black one like a .38 snubbie.
how may injuries per game VerySad?
My thanks as well. Enjoyed old memories to share with kids and grandkids. Used to take my son out to shoot model rockets and his son just had a model rocketry camp two weeks ago.
LOL! You had me laughing at mom and Old Milwaukee. Hubby is much better about using the emergency brake than I am.
Inner tube from an airplane. Tube big enough to curl up inside. Friends roll you around. Get tired of that, lay it down and voila, trampoline!
this is the best thing I have read in years. Thanks too D68.
“your wife would be worth her wait in gold in the near future.
With the cost of healthcare, and the fact that healthcare service quality will be like employee customer service at a downtown McDonalds, a man or woman who can do all what you posted will be invaluable.”
The doctor, my wife worked for, retired last June to avoid Obozocare.
A year plus later, basically every time we go out shopping, walking or to eat, we run into former patients, who have found out what a good deal they had with my wife and her doctor re patient visits and costs for an ER visit. Most docs now send patients to the ER instead of triaging them in their office and then if necessary sending them to the ER.
If you aren’t a welfare patient or an illegal, a simple ER visit starts at about $2k and takes a few hours out of your day.
So their patients today can easily spend more money on a single/simple ER visit than they did a year or more of visits with my wife and her doctor.
Also, they have found out the grim reality of the costs of deductibles before their insurance kicks in.
Our current FP chided both of us for not really seeing a md when we first went to him, a year ago. We have a couple of chronic problems that are handled with RX renewals or over the counter drugs for allergies. A year later with zero visits due to no new illnesses or an chronic disease getting out of hand. He told us that if everybody was as healthy and knowledgeable as us, with my wife as the primary knowledge bearer, he wouldn’t have a practice.
Then he talked about our younger 40 something son, who hadn’t seen doctor for over a decade. He went to another doctor in the same group for a physical just to have a fp. That doc told him to gain a few pounds and keep on doing what he was doing, and to see him in a couple of years unless he had an acute problem.
Our son’s doc told our new doc, “if everyone was like him, they could eliminate about 90% of the docs in the group. Our doc told the other doc, in spite of being in our mid 70’s, we were basically the same as our son.”
We may try to get our Doc to go to the computer visit program and get paid $40 for a computer visit and to renew our few Rxes until we need him.
I don’t remember any serious injuries. I remember hitting my chin a few times.
I was also thinking ... Mom and the kids on the bikes have this really creepy similarity to Chief Justice Roberts’ family.
Like Stepford-level creepy.
Believe it or not, they still sell a version of the “Thing Maker”.
The device that heats the ‘things’ is no longer like a hotplate, but is more of a miniature oven, with a door that locks shut while the creatures are cooking, but my son still enjoys it.
PS - the safety lock on the oven door is easily bypassed, for those who are so inclined.
That was one of my favorite childhood memories... exploring the long, winding, underground storm-drains throughout the neighborhood. The muck, the slithering critters, and the whole creepy atmosphere. It emptied into a nearby bayou, black water and all. Never dared tell my parents of these exploits. Took several friends with me on different occasions, and I hope they look back on those memories with the same fondness.
I think I fancied myself as an intrepid explorer, teethed on the safaris I’d see in old “Jungle Jim” movies, which were still commonly aired on tv in the ‘afternoon movie’ slot back then.
Yes, with a little imagination, stinging insects can provide hours of fun!
With jelly that was made with SUGAR... OMG, it’s a wonder anyone’s alive.
:)
I just thought of another evil genius invention. Jr High I walk into the library and an epic spitball fight is underway. Creative genius Kevin And Jim pull out the big guns.
They had taken the typical clear plastic bic pen, removed the inside so its now just a hollow shell and taped up the little hole (remember that hole?).
They then cut a metal hanger up so that its a small ramrod like piece. You put a spitball into the bic tube, force it down towards the end using your ramrod. You then take another spitball and push it into the front tube section and leave it.
Now, when you ram your metal ramrod into the tube, the force and pressure from the first spitball makes the spitball at the end explode out of your bic spitball gun and you will win the war. Amazing how loud and powerful that device was.
I wish I still had my Tonka trucks from the early 60s. Real steel, with rubber tires, and no plastic except windshields and such. Had a whole bunch of them.
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