"I'll go get the soap, you and Timmy go get the rubber suits and nipple clamps!"
Posted on 10/28/2007 6:33:28 PM PDT by skimbell
"I'll go get the soap, you and Timmy go get the rubber suits and nipple clamps!"
I checked snopes.com and surprisingly there’s no reference to this legend either way.
You must know my husband? *laugh* He did horrid things to his . . .
For him it was the Han Solo action figure, frozen in a block of ice from the end of one movie to the beginning of the next (when Han was un-frozen) — at which point Han had to be busted out of said block of ice — with a BB gun I think, or maybe he was melted, or maybe it was both . . .
Gosh I remember when G.I. Joe was a REAL AMERICAN HERO! Unfortunately, some G.I. Joes got the mange when their hair got wet. I always had my Barbie marry G.I. Joe because he was more manly than Ken.
Huh. The New York Times is quoted on the cover saying, “The Finest of all War Movies.”
I wonder if Pinch would let anyone say that now?
I guess I’ll have to look that one up. I seem to have missed it. Someone should send a reminder to the makers of the prospective new GI Joe movie.
I have one - never opened - that Mitch Paige autographed for me...he laughed when I referred to it as a doll, suggesting that even “action figure” was hard enough ofr him to stomach.
Wasn’t Sgt. Slaughter a one-time member of GI Joe?
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NTSA... Not This Shit Again. Is Hollywood pushing NWO through the tube?
"Well I suppose that I can manage that," Santa replied, "but doesn't Barbie normally come with Ken?"
"No," answered the little girl, "She just fakes it with Ken. She comes with GI Joe."
My thanks to the freeper that I stole this joke from.
The only way I can reconcile your experience, this thread’s story and the account given by the creator of the original action figure is that Levine left Hasbro in the early 70’s when Joe was well into being neutered as an action team figure instead of a military hero. Since those days, Joe disappeared and, now, has reappeared as a conscript of UN type missions. I think that the size of the figure has been changed, the articulated joints are gone and the original head is different.
This may be the source of the discrepancy.
I thought I’d look around a bit and see what I could find about commemorative Joe’s. Here’s some interesting reading about some of the people honored by Hasbro as Joe figures in the past ... maybe this explains things.
http://www.islandoflosttoys.com/gi_joe.htm
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