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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
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)
To: EveningStar
123
posted on
10/19/2011 1:47:19 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(More rubble, less trouble)
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.)
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.)
To: Fresh Wind
126
posted on
10/19/2011 2:00:29 PM PDT
by
Verbosus
(/* No Comment */)
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)
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.)
To: EyeGuy
preoistion = preposition
Sheesh...
129
posted on
10/19/2011 2:07:35 PM PDT
by
EyeGuy
(2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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.
To: JoeProBono
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/)
To: EyeGuy; Verbosus
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)
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)
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.
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)
To: Calvin Locke
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)
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)
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)
To: EveningStar
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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