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Some Grown-Ups Go Silly for Buying Putty in Bulk
Wall Street Journal ^ | 9/10/02 | Susan Warren

Posted on 09/10/2002 7:37:35 AM PDT by Xenalyte

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:47:04 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: Constitution Day
Is the "70" in your screen name your birth year?

Yes

41 posted on 09/10/2002 9:55:39 AM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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To: Xenalyte
All your silly putty are belong to us!
42 posted on 09/10/2002 9:57:23 AM PDT by NeoCaveman
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To: MotleyGirl70
I was born in '70 too! Check your FRmail.
43 posted on 09/10/2002 9:57:55 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: MotleyGirl70
The 80's. What a great decade to be a kid.

I beg to differ my friend - the prime years were 1967 to 1971 - we saw the Monkees, Batman (& batgirl yum), the Green Hornet,Deputy Dawg, Gunsmoke, Ponderosa, Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom with Marlon Perkins, Wonderful World of Disney,Bannana splits, Lancelot Link, Josie and the Pussycats, Scooby, ....and any looney tune, little rascals or Laurel and Hardy short - yes - Wonder Woman was in there somewhere (time & date unimportant)

44 posted on 09/10/2002 10:32:27 AM PDT by Revelation 911
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To: general_re
"Whaddaya mean you're out? Dude, I gotta have my fix. I'll take anything you've got - shavings, anything. Come on, man - I'm jonesing bad here. I can't get through the morning without lifting 'Beetle Bailey'..."

Soon, there will be Congressional hearings, with obligatory testimony from recovering "Putty" addicts about the evils of Silly Putty. Laws will be passed. Federal agencies created. And the PEA (Putty Enforcement Agency) will soon have undercover agents roaming the country rounding up Putty users, as prices sky-rocket and gangs and organized crime fight each other over inner-city "Putty turf" ......

sound familiar?

45 posted on 09/10/2002 11:17:47 AM PDT by longshadow
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To: longshadow
There'll be a lot of money to be made in the WOSP, though, on both sides ;)
46 posted on 09/10/2002 11:37:55 AM PDT by general_re
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To: MotleyGirl70; Xenalyte
I personally preferred Spyrograph and Lite Brite. :)
47 posted on 09/10/2002 11:52:30 AM PDT by Hap
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To: MotleyGirl70
You owned any cassettes.

LOL

I still have about 200 that I mean to convert to mp3's (or download from the internet).

And you forgot the Rubix Cube. I still have mine.

48 posted on 09/10/2002 12:08:44 PM PDT by Dementon
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To: general_re
There'll be a lot of money to be made in the WOSP, though, on both sides ;)

That has a familiar ring to it...... I can't imagine why....

49 posted on 09/10/2002 12:22:25 PM PDT by longshadow
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To: Dementon
You owned any cassettes.

Foreigner (Foreigner Four Records) LOL!

Michael Jackson (Thriller)

Edie Brickelle and The New Bohemian's

Amongst many others. I have no idea where these CD's are anymore. I hope they found a good home.

50 posted on 09/10/2002 12:37:05 PM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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To: MotleyGirl70
Amongst many others. I have no idea where these CD'scassette's are anymore. I hope they found a good home.
51 posted on 09/10/2002 12:39:51 PM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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To: Revelation 911
Evil Knievel stunt motorcycle with action figure

LOL!!! Now that brings back memories. Early one Christmas morning (or maybe the night before) I was awakened by this strange sound. Kind of like a revving, whiring sound. That sound was followed by a couple of crashes and bangs. Later that morning, I found out what the heck it was. Instead of wrapping the gift, Dad was playing with the Evel Knievel stunt cycle and crashing it into the other presents under the tree.


52 posted on 09/10/2002 12:55:15 PM PDT by al_c
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To: al_c
too funny - we spent weeks abusing the rubber doll in the driveway - winding the stunt cycle up to unbelieveable revs for huge jumps - wetting down the driveway for big burnouts etc - we ultimately nailed him to the garage wall and the neighbor kid set him alight to a very putrid odor - later after he cooled he became the first quadraplegic stunt cycling doll - those were the days
53 posted on 09/10/2002 7:02:53 PM PDT by Revelation 911
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To: Constitution Day
cant say I had a SMDM action figure - It was a cool show though - and the highlight of visiting my aunt in california was visiting Universal and driving through the "tube" they used in a scene of Steve Austin and Bigfoot ! LOL
54 posted on 09/11/2002 5:16:27 AM PDT by Revelation 911
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To: al_c
Oh cool! I had one of those too.
I also had an Evel Knievel BMX bike.

Man, I thought I was cool.

55 posted on 09/11/2002 5:19:20 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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