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Mattel Tommy Burst TV commercial 1960s! (vanity, old TV ad)
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Posted on 04/15/2014 8:09:14 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

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To: ConservativeStatement
I had one of those. AWESOME!!!! That and my Atomic Cannon, I was ready for a commie invasion.
21 posted on 04/15/2014 8:55:55 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: ConservativeStatement

I desperately wanted one of these for Christmas when I was a kid, but naturally I didn’t get one. However, being a budding wood worker, I built two wooden Tommy Guns, one for myself and one for my younger brother, and we would have running Tommy Gun battles.

BTW, Kurt Russell appears in one of these ads.


22 posted on 04/15/2014 9:08:55 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

OMG! It’s an ASSAULT TOMMY! Ban it, ban it! Do it for the chillrun.


23 posted on 04/15/2014 9:12:05 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Slump Tester

That’s Otis Campbell from Mayberry!

I know he was the town drunk!!!


24 posted on 04/15/2014 9:52:42 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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OH YEAH!

Rockets and grenades! Can I take it to school for 'show and tell'?

25 posted on 04/15/2014 9:58:12 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Its my freedom. YES. I will be keeping it.)
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To: Mastador1
In 1960 I was about 9 years old and visiting my cousins in suburban Philadelphia for what was supposed to be a summer vacation. The cousin closest to me had a birthday shortly after I arrived so we went to the local toy store and picked out a couple of Tommy Burst machine guns - one for his birthday, one for me. We spent the next two days burning up rolls of caps and generally waging war against the neighborhood and each other. At the time I had no clue what “pacifist” or “liberal” meant so I was perplexed when I found myself on a bus three days later back to Cape Cod, my Tommy Burst tucked away in my suitcase.

Now I understand. It also explains why the Philadelphia clan sat in suspicious outrage listening to my deeply conservative father wax on about the ‘good old days’ tromping around Europe with George S. Patton and the 3rd Army.

26 posted on 04/15/2014 9:59:01 PM PDT by T. Rustin Noone (the angel wanna wear my red shoes......)
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To: ConservativeStatement

lol

I had that set...


27 posted on 04/15/2014 10:10:51 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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So I’m shopping with my friend, at walmart, she asks “Where’s the face illuminator”.

We’re in the makeup section and I’m not stoopit or anything. So I pull out my flashlight and shine it on my face asking “Will this work?”.

Non sequitor


28 posted on 04/15/2014 10:13:48 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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These days boys can get automatic airsoft guns. There’s a couple of BB guns that can also shoot automatic. The difference is you won’t see them advertised on TV.

No, the difference is that these days instead of drawing a smile from the local cops, it'll have them drawing their guns and shooting the boys!

29 posted on 04/15/2014 10:54:16 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

It was a must have to play army with the cool kids on my block.


30 posted on 04/15/2014 11:01:58 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: ConservativeStatement

I had the burb gun! Ate a roll of caps in one windup!


31 posted on 04/16/2014 2:18:53 AM PDT by Renegade
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No, that thing was sold till the 70s.


32 posted on 04/16/2014 4:59:44 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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It HYPNOTIZES the criminal or commie allowing you to take them out!


33 posted on 04/16/2014 5:00:36 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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It HYPNOTIZES the criminal or commie allowing you to take them out!

Reminds me of black & white TV days; Captain Video and his Video Rangers. You could buy the Cosmic Smoke Gun which put the alien bad guys to sleep!

34 posted on 04/16/2014 8:06:18 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Mattel Tommy Burst doesn’t stand up to Defender Dan!


35 posted on 04/16/2014 8:22:20 AM PDT by Mashood
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