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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: palmerizedCaddis

“Two MS Degrees in engineering fields sort of debunks the IQ drop with every use”

No it doesn’t...you might have had 4 MS degrees!(tee hee...just kidding)


81 posted on 10/19/2011 12:26:13 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (Christ came not to make mankind into God but to put God into men!)
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To: EveningStar

Used up many cans of mom’s hairspray and a book of matches... fire ants hate flame throwers. Another fond memory involves snap n pops at the mall, 2 boys on the second floor. Said memory ends with mall security if I recall.


82 posted on 10/19/2011 12:26:34 PM PDT by cloydlloyd
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To: THE_RAIDER

Clackers!!

I still have a set of the glass ones. Before they got all wussie and started only making them in plastic.


83 posted on 10/19/2011 12:26:48 PM PDT by Hoffer Rand (There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
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To: Scythian
In 1977, at the height of the Lawn Jart popularity craze, an estimated 120,000 people died each year due to Lawn Jart accidents.

Do you have a source for that figure? It seems unimaginably high to me. Could that perhaps have been the number of injuries rather than the number of fatalities?

84 posted on 10/19/2011 12:28:54 PM PDT by Bob
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To: Alex Murphy

85 posted on 10/19/2011 12:30:02 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: dead

“M80s also made it perfectly acceptable for boys to play with Barbie dolls”

Depending on what location of the body they exploded upon?


86 posted on 10/19/2011 12:33:25 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (Christ came not to make mankind into God but to put God into men!)
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To: Daffynition

I am certainly familiar with both of these “toys”.


87 posted on 10/19/2011 12:34:27 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: EveningStar

I somehow survived having a chemistry set as a kid and even did glass blowing experiments. I also played with fireworks and rode my bicycle without a helmet as did my friends. Strangely I never was injured and only had one friend suffer a broken arm falling from a swing set. According to today’s nannies at least half my generation should never have made it to adulthood.


88 posted on 10/19/2011 12:35:21 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that pretty soon you run out of other people's money" M. Thatcher)
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To: gargoyle
It wasn't even an airshow, it was an air race. I can just hear it "When airplanes fly, people die".

Indy car racing next??

89 posted on 10/19/2011 12:41:16 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: The Great RJ

It is an ongoing fight I have with my wife. I refuse to make our son where a helmet riding the bike in the neighborhood.


90 posted on 10/19/2011 12:42:38 PM PDT by wolfman23601
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To: PowderMonkey

I can still remember that smell ...

91 posted on 10/19/2011 12:43:20 PM PDT by frithguild (Restricting access to capital - liberalism - the sharpest tool of big business, banks, etc.)
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To: Daffynition
I did the American Basic Science Club kit a month.

About all I remember from the nuclear kit was that it came with a bit of radium painted on head of pin and stored in a cardboard tube to protect it from abrasion.

I don't recall any uranium.

And yes, it did say to get dry ice to "see" the particle decay.

Oh, and that "projector/illuminator" was came in an earlier kit, maybe the photography and/or optics.

92 posted on 10/19/2011 12:43:46 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: JoeProBono
MY EDC rig in 1962:Mattel Tommy Gun
93 posted on 10/19/2011 12:46:27 PM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
real bows and arrows for Christmas

They were in the Sears Christmas Catalog.

94 posted on 10/19/2011 12:51:37 PM PDT by frithguild (Restricting access to capital - liberalism - the sharpest tool of big business, banks, etc.)
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To: buffaloguy

“We used to cast Tiki heads and put them on a leather thong.”

Somebody’s going to really misunderstand that.


95 posted on 10/19/2011 12:55:01 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: Fresh Wind

I had something like a bazooka called the Sonic Blaster - boy, was that loud.


96 posted on 10/19/2011 12:56:27 PM PDT by 12Gauge687 (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
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To: cloydlloyd
Used up many cans of mom’s hairspray and a book of matches

You should have tried Endust - it had a wide dispersion nozzle and an amasing orange flame!

97 posted on 10/19/2011 12:57:14 PM PDT by frithguild (Restricting access to capital - liberalism - the sharpest tool of big business, banks, etc.)
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To: Scythian; sten; Bob
In 1977, at the height of the Lawn Jart popularity craze, an estimated 120,000 people died each year due to Lawn Jart accidents.

I suspect that you were having a bit of fun when you posted this, because the actual number was a bit closer to...four. As in four total, not per year.

98 posted on 10/19/2011 12:58:03 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative (Of the declared candidates: (1) Perry, (2) Cain. I'll happily vote for either if he's the nominee.)
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To: PowderMonkey


99 posted on 10/19/2011 12:58:48 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: EveningStar
I still have an iron like Ruth has. And it still gets hot.
100 posted on 10/19/2011 12:59:58 PM PDT by pigsmith (Gun control means using both hands.)
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