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The most politically incorrect toy in history!
youtube ^ | 12/25/2008

Posted on 12/25/2008 8:59:35 AM PST by Soliton

This Mattel toy set would peobably get you arrested today.

I want one.


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: christmas
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1 posted on 12/25/2008 8:59:36 AM PST by Soliton
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To: Soliton

Me want one!
Used to enjoy cap guns a lot. Probably too much so my parents stopped buying the caps.


2 posted on 12/25/2008 9:02:15 AM PST by flushing_kenny (870 square feet of living space and proud of it)
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To: Soliton

Was that Otis from the “The Andy Griffith Show” playing the bad guy?


3 posted on 12/25/2008 9:04:06 AM PST by Treefiddy
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To: Soliton

Cap guns! My favorite toy from childhood in the late 50s!
I can still remember saving my pennies so I could buy the little box that had the roll of red paper with tiny explosive “dots” on it, that you could feed into the gun.
I can also still smell the acrid but exciting gunpowder smell whenever you “got a shot off”.


4 posted on 12/25/2008 9:05:12 AM PST by supremedoctrine ("One was drawing funny faces, but his own was grave"--Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica)
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To: Treefiddy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4h7u3Jjtgs

Otis as Santa in a Christmas commercial


5 posted on 12/25/2008 9:05:55 AM PST by Soliton (This 2 shall pass)
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You’ll shoot yer eye out kid!


6 posted on 12/25/2008 9:07:05 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: supremedoctrine
I can also still smell the acrid but exciting gunpowder smell whenever you “got a shot off”.

I read it and smelling it now. Strange but wonderful!

7 posted on 12/25/2008 9:07:16 AM PST by Soliton (This 2 shall pass)
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To: supremedoctrine

I love that smell too. If the boys didn’t have a gun available, they would just use a rock. I should get a cap gun for one of my boys on his birthday.


8 posted on 12/25/2008 9:07:22 AM PST by HungarianGypsy
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To: Treefiddy

Yes!


9 posted on 12/25/2008 9:07:42 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Nemo me impune lacessit.)
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To: Soliton

My wife and kids gave me a Daisy Red Rider BB gun for Christmas! I have not had this much fun in years!


10 posted on 12/25/2008 9:08:01 AM PST by Edgar3 ("Is there a Patriot in the house?")
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To: flushing_kenny
Used to enjoy cap guns a lot. Probably too much so my parents stopped buying the caps.

I remember cap grenades. As soon as someone got hit in the head with one my mom took them away.

11 posted on 12/25/2008 9:08:58 AM PST by Soliton (This 2 shall pass)
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To: Soliton
This Mattel toy set would peobably get you arrested today.

You are under arrest by the spelling police....you have the right to remain silent..

12 posted on 12/25/2008 9:09:22 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: supremedoctrine

I went through a lot of those cap rolls, but the pistol I really wanted, never owned, was a 6-shooter with a working cylinder that took round paper loads with 6 caps. I guess they came out just before Pearl Harbor. Wonder what one would bring from collectors today?


13 posted on 12/25/2008 9:10:28 AM PST by 19th LA Inf
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To: Edgar3

Thats great!


14 posted on 12/25/2008 9:10:34 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Edgar3

A few years back, I went to my parent’s house (both gone now). They grew a few thousand tomatoes more than the western hemisphere could consume and I had a ball shooting tomatoes from ever increasing distances. Daisy made great little guns.


15 posted on 12/25/2008 9:11:34 AM PST by Soliton (This 2 shall pass)
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L0L! I recall those


16 posted on 12/25/2008 9:11:38 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: supremedoctrine
My mother wouldn't let us have toy guns so we bought caps and smacked them with a hammer. Sooner or later we would lose patience with the singles so we would whack a whole roll. Invariable my mother would come running out of the house hysterically asking "what was that!!"

Later in life, I helped her get familiar with my father's .38 S&W. She was better than an OK shot.

17 posted on 12/25/2008 9:12:26 AM PST by pfflier
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To: mylife
L0L! I recall those

I don't recall them, but it's my era. I had lots of cap guns, but never full auto!

18 posted on 12/25/2008 9:12:57 AM PST by Soliton (This 2 shall pass)
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To: Soliton

http://www.prankplace.com/fun_grenade.htm


19 posted on 12/25/2008 9:15:29 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Soliton

I bet I can still scrape up the $7...at least until January 20th...


20 posted on 12/25/2008 9:16:58 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion)
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