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Old 08-25-2008, 09:47 AM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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how about the MOOD RINGS?
Oh! I had a few of these! My color was usually blue.
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Old 08-25-2008, 09:53 AM
 
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how about that weird stuff that came in small toothpaste looking tubes and had a straw so you could blow bubble shapes. it wound up causing cancer to little people in darfur or something...it was also really flammable

how about the vibrating football set that never worked right and players usually ran around in circles?
Wasn't that weird stuff called "Super Elastic Bubble Plastic"? There was something on the market a few years ago that was very similar. My kids had some, but they never seemed to be able to actually blow a bubble with it that was worth the effort!
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Old 08-25-2008, 09:02 PM
 
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NO one ever asked where the car keys were cause they were always in the car
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Old 08-25-2008, 10:18 PM
 
Location: the 50s and the 60s
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Lets go back in time..I will start.
Remember When ....You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked,
and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?


yeah lil tex, those were the good old days.
"Service" stations.
Tank up the sickle with 100 octane,
pay with a dollar bill,
and get change back.

Remember when......

Truth in Advertising was a real word.

HouseWife was a word.
"You think that was bad,
wait til your Father gets home."

I remember when we put a dime and a nickel in the cigarette machine,
pulled the knob out, and a dose of nicotine poisoning fell out.
Neatly packaged.
One day the price went up to TWO dimes,
and I distinctly remember saying -
"when they go up to a quarter,
I'm quittin".

Anybody play Mumbley Peg?? That one could get dangerous.

Marbles??
I never lost mine. ((debateble subject))

mud
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Old 08-25-2008, 10:22 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Remember when you dressed up to go on an airplane and they gave you treats and robes and toilet kits and playing cards and coloring books and let you sit with the captain in the cockpit?

Man...that wasn't even that long ago...wtf?
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Old 08-26-2008, 07:56 AM
 
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HOw about the paper dolls...i hated them things they would always tear on me..I remember we could play out side all night and not worry about any bad happening
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Old 08-26-2008, 08:20 AM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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HOw about the paper dolls...i hated them things they would always tear on me..
I hated having to cut out the clothes. More than once, I had cut off the tabs!

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Old 08-26-2008, 08:48 AM
 
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I just went through this entire thread and didn't find any mention of Joe Fowler's animated sportscasts in the late-80s (?)
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Old 08-26-2008, 08:49 AM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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I just went through this entire thread and didn't find any mention of Joe Fowler's animated sportscasts in the late-80s (?)
Joe Fowler! *gak* I saw him on some informercial some time back. Can we say "eeeewww?"
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Old 08-26-2008, 09:44 AM
 
Location: San Antonio
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Is the "thing maker" the one that made the bugs? If so, I had one. I loved my water wiggle!!! First time I got silly putty, I would take every thing off my walls & breakables off my dresser, roll it into a ball & slam it against the wall, & play dodge ball with myself! LOL. I remember going to Sat. matinee, and for the rest of the week the neighbor kids & I would play out the movie. Roy Rogers, Tarzan, and we all had to be Cheetah. And the ice cream man, 5 cent fudgesicles or dreamsicles were my favorite!
I just saw Cheetah on TV last night. He's 76 yrs old. He lives in a special house in some zoo or something. They said he was the original Cheetah that played in the Johnny Wisemiller Tarzan movies.
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