Posted on 07/02/2010 10:31:26 AM PDT by MissTed
Wasn’t listed, but I remember playing “MASH” (Mansion, apartment, shack, house) in elementary school to determine which boy I was gonna marry. It was wildly inaccurate. ;op
How about the Slip and Slide? Lots of fun but make sure there are no rusty sharp objects protruding from your lawn.
The guitar player in my old band threw one and it stuck right in the top of his brother’s head. His nickname was “Chrispy”.
A few they missed: Mop Top haircuts (bangs), Pukka shell necklaces, POW/MIA bracelets, Spiro Agnew watches (I still have two!), peace symbol stickers, Zots, parachute pants, bell-bottoms, hair nets (Mexicans), dickies, stacks, Hush Puppies, Gilligan hats, CB radios, Schlitz or Stroh’s, MD 20-20, leather pants, Farrah-do’s, Izods (collar up), black-light posters, the Bic Banana, Space Food Sticks, custom vans, pull tabs, “Keep On Truckin” & “Dyn-O-Mite!” shirts, Hot Rod Monsters stickers, Peter Max...
The top best/worst that's not on the list: The ads in the old comic books. The best was they promised magical things. The worst was that the most interesting part was figuring out how they were lying to you in the ad. The list has the "Sea Monkeys" that are really brine shrimp. I also remember the X-Ray device that let you look through walls. Many years later, I found a book that was written by the guy who made most of the rip off ads. He did the X-Ray device thing after buying a couple of thousand of those door peepholes. Oddly enough, the ad didn't mention you'd have to drill a hole in the wall to see through it. That was one of his more honest ads.
I’m going to market one of those that has removeable and replaceable color stickers.
Perfect for today’s “self-esteem” culture.
Make a million, I will.
What made it the worst was that acetone ate the plastic. Yeah, not a good thing to wear in chem lab.
One of the only times in my life when I have had an allergic skin reaction.
Speaking about what you could buy from a comic book. Anyone else remember POLARIS SUB? I so much wanted one, but $6.98 was unreachable when I got $50 a week allowance. IF I got my chores done.
The Ad
http://www.michaelchuck.com/the_submarine.htm
Actual photo of the Sub
http://boingboing.net/2007/06/14/photo-of-comic-book-.html
Should of included Sting-Ray Bicycles.
Pogs were the Vanilla Ice of the toy world
wiffle ball bats — stick bottle rockets in the hole at the end and use them as rocket launchers against your friends, ha ha ha.
I had to Google them, but I remember now. :)
OT....is FR loading slowly for anyone else? This is the only site in which this happens to me and it's been going on since that last time it was down for a day or so.
Some things never change, I had a desk drawer full of them at the end of the school year.
I’d go with the Rubix cube for me, when I was a kid.
As for the cheap charms.... it didn’t work that way. I wore pretty gold charms on a gold loop around my neck, never a cheap bracelet. Maybe that was just fashionable for where I lived?
For my kids, from my perspective... the beanie babies when he was tiny, tiny.
Those plastic animal bracelets she’s wearing, now.
Also, they gave you the eight ball that is on your desk at work.
Anyway I loved going to the stationary store and buying it.
The first edition is selling on Ebay for $7,000.
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