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To: rocksblues

There is nothing new under the sun! Back in the '60s, we tortured our Barbies, too. We "dyed" their hair with Magic Markers, cut their fingernails and toenails, used ball-point pens for "makeup", pierced their ears with straight pins...and two Barbies tied on each end of a two-foot-length rope made a neat bolo!


24 posted on 12/19/2005 3:10:03 PM PST by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: mrs. a; Fierce Allegiance
Same decade; I was probably 7-ish. I remember visiting my cousins' house. His sisters insisted on running their Barbies around in their little plastic cars. But I and my folks had recently visited 'South of the Border' on I-95, and I had several M-80's left...

Sometimes I wonder how I and everybody around me survived my childhood with limbs and eyeballs intact.

41 posted on 12/19/2005 3:32:17 PM PST by Heatseeker (Never underestimate the left's tendency to underestimate us.)
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To: mrs. a
"We "dyed" their hair with Magic Markers, cut their fingernails and toenails, used ball-point pens for "makeup",..."

Makes me think of the baby doll my youngest sister had. She always played doctor on that doll - had those toy syringes which she filled with colored water and other liquids. Found that doll later, and boy did it stink! I think it eventually fell apart. : - )

53 posted on 12/19/2005 4:02:24 PM PST by jackibutterfly
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To: mrs. a
...and two Barbies tied on each end of a two-foot-length rope made a neat bolo!

LOL! ...Mother to (future) mrs. a: "STOP THAT! Wait, Till you, have kids of your own." :D

69 posted on 12/19/2005 5:49:19 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
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To: mrs. a
Back in the '60s, we tortured our Barbies, too. We...pierced their ears with straight pins...

Wait a second! In the sixties, she came that way.
Oh, you know what I mean. Mattel pierced her ears.

74 posted on 12/19/2005 7:51:59 PM PST by Graymatter
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