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1 posted on 07/14/2010 5:20:59 AM PDT by Daffynition
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To: Daffynition
And, I could never make much more than a square....


2 posted on 07/14/2010 5:27:00 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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Hard to believe it's only 50 years. That means I would have been 13 years old at the time. It wasn't like Etch-a-sketch was my favorite toy or that I even owned one, but I do remember the thing. And I doubt that I would have even tried messing with the thing when I was a teen.

ML/NJ

4 posted on 07/14/2010 5:29:46 AM PDT by ml/nj
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As a kid my complaint was that the “magique” didn’t allow you to pick up the stylus and move it elsewhere without leaving a trail. (As the animation has succeeded in doing.) By the way, I’ll never forget the Dilbert cartoon where he tells the boss he needs to hold his laptop upside down and shake it.


5 posted on 07/14/2010 5:30:35 AM PDT by Genoa (Titus 2:13)
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To: Daffynition

Neat graphic cept when drawing the nose and mouth the cursor inexplicably jumped over and down, not possible. The lines had to be connected.


7 posted on 07/14/2010 5:32:22 AM PDT by traderrob6
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beloved. that’s funny. i bet it is the most underused toy in america. everyone buys them but who actually uses them?


11 posted on 07/14/2010 5:37:44 AM PDT by applpie
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It’s a pity they’re no longer made in Ohio, but in China.


15 posted on 07/14/2010 5:40:28 AM PDT by YankeeReb
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Raise you hand if you spent an afternoon trying to completely fill the entire screen.

Do kids even still play with these anymore?


23 posted on 07/14/2010 5:58:16 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (Iran doesnt have a 2nd admendment. Ya see how that turned out?)
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To: Daffynition

My science teacher told me when I was in high school that the aluminum powder in one of these mixed with rust from a box of regular steel wool pads that were soaked in vinegar water and then left out to dry and oxidized would make thermite powder, ratio was 2:1 iron oxide to aluminum powder.

Ignition was done with some 4th of July sparklers or a highway flare.

And then there was something about mixing with Play-do....


24 posted on 07/14/2010 5:59:52 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" G.Orwell)
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ping


39 posted on 07/14/2010 8:16:56 AM PDT by windcliff
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