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| 11 January 2019
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Posted on 01/11/2019 11:11:08 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Yardstick
Now that there was funny...
I lost a few super balls on the school roof.
To: Buckeye McFrog
I wonder how Super Elastic Bubble Plastic, with a list of ingredients straight out of a Superfund Toxic Waste Site, managed to avoid the list?Oh man...I can still smell that stuff. What an aroma! I loved it. It's probably the reason for my current drain bamage. It was almost like the smell of a freshly mimeographed quiz that the teachers used to hand out.
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posted on
01/11/2019 12:42:21 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Anything youÂ’ve ever said will be used against you.)
To: snuffy smiff
Blood clots in the wrist from repeated bruising.
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posted on
01/11/2019 12:44:52 PM PST
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
To: NorthMountain
Had a friend named Billy that was older and bigger and could really slam a super ball into the ground.
He stood incorrectly one time and that ball got him right in the eye.
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posted on
01/11/2019 12:47:44 PM PST
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
To: Red Badger
The Asian girls were the best.......It just flew up, and up and up......and was gone!............... I kept expecting the one with the little girl on the high rise balcony to go over the railing and drop out of sight forever, LOL!
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posted on
01/11/2019 12:49:34 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
To: Red Badger
I always wanted a set of
Power Mite tools!
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posted on
01/11/2019 12:53:36 PM PST
by
Spruce
To: NorthMountain
Feh ... the danger of Jarts was only to idiots. It wasnt my girls who were idiots, it was the neighborhood kids who stood in other lines when brains were being handed out. . . the kind of kids who thought that wearing a towel attached to their shoulders would indeed allow them to fly when they jumped off a second story roof. . .
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posted on
01/11/2019 12:55:07 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
To: Red Badger
I had the Battlestar Galactica ship that shot the red missile. It was awesome!
JoMa
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posted on
01/11/2019 12:56:04 PM PST
by
joma89
To: Red Badger
One of the kits had cobalt. Don’t remember the isotope.
5.56mm
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posted on
01/11/2019 12:56:53 PM PST
by
M Kehoe
(DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
To: Red Badger
Every thing was a problem too the Mommy worriers!
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posted on
01/11/2019 12:58:17 PM PST
by
tallyhoe
To: Swordmaker
the kind of kids who thought that wearing a towel attached to their shoulders would indeed allow them to fly Ban towels. Ban roofs.
Banning Jarts showed me, clearly, that America had been taken over by the "safety Nazis", and was doomed. Here we are, now, with helicopter parents and bubble-wrapped snowflake kids wondering how it got so bad.
I can tell you: It got this bad because we let the @$$holes get away with banning Jarts.
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posted on
01/11/2019 1:12:16 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Red Badger
My left foot big toe remembers Lawn Darts. The good ole days!
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posted on
01/11/2019 1:13:51 PM PST
by
BlackbirdSST
(Con-gre$$, the biggest welfare class this country has ever produced.)
To: FlingWingFlyer
we both suspected that the caps were designed to explode and handled them accordingly.You mean with reckless abandon? Always good to have explosives handy.
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posted on
01/11/2019 1:20:58 PM PST
by
zeugma
(Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
To: Swordmaker
the kind of kids who thought that wearing a towel attached to their shoulders would indeed allow them to fly when they jumped off a second story roof. . . It doesn't? Damn!
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posted on
01/11/2019 1:26:05 PM PST
by
zeugma
(Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
To: Red Badger
Fun times.
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posted on
01/11/2019 1:35:11 PM PST
by
pax_et_bonum
(Never Forget the SEALs of Extortion 17 - and God Bless The USA and President Trump.)
To: Red Badger
1. Atomic Energy Laboratory
I had one of those ... really cool back then ... started making plans for my own A-bomb but ....
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posted on
01/11/2019 1:55:19 PM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: NorthMountain
"
""Ban towels. Ban roofs.
Banning Jarts showed me, clearly, that America had been taken over by the "safety Nazis"
My older brother and I got a set of lawn darts for Christmas... had to wait til spring to play with them.
When summer got around we were bored just throwing them into the the little yellow rings so we made it a bit mor interesting....
We decide to throw the darts OVER the house and try to hit the rings...
Which, with a forewarning(Bombs Away!) my brother threw it and I watched for it as it sailed over and eventually into the ring.
So far so good. Well, our little brother wanted to play but his throws were a little short... but the height was prefect.. to spike into the roof of the house.
By next Christmas the lawn darts disappeared as our father wasn't too pleased to have a leaky roof.
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posted on
01/11/2019 2:17:32 PM PST
by
RedMonqey
("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
To: Yardstick
Yes, its Happy Fun Ball! The toy sensation thats sweeping the nation! Only $14.95 at participating stores! Get one today!
Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to Happy Fun Ball.
Caution: Happy Fun Ball may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.
Happy Fun Ball contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture,should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.
Do not use Happy Fun Ball on concrete.
Discontinue use of Happy Fun Ball if any of the following occurs:
itching
vertigo
dizziness
tingling in extremities
loss of balance or coordination
slurred speech
temporary blindness
profuse sweating
or heart palpitations.
If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head.
Happy Fun Ball may stick to certain types of skin.
When not in use, Happy Fun Ball should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration. Failure to do so relieves the makers of Happy Fun Ball, Wacky Products Incorporated, and its parent company, Global Chemical Unlimited, of any and all liability.
Ingredients of Happy Fun Ball include an unknown glowing green substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
Happy Fun Ball has been shipped to our troops in Saudi Arabia and is being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq.
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
Happy Fun Ball comes with a lifetime warranty.
Announcer: Happy Fun Ball! Accept no substitutes!
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posted on
01/11/2019 3:07:09 PM PST
by
Delta 21
To: Roccus
"I wonder just how many engineers and scientists got started on their career paths thanks to A.C. Gilbert" Here's one...
But, in several instances, just studying the ACG ads led to much better "DIY" experiments and constructions...
TXnMA
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posted on
01/11/2019 4:43:51 PM PST
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current Alias | "Barack": Satan's minion | "Muslims": Satan's useful idiots...)
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