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and the most amazing game ever for that time 😂😂
Question for older folks
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Go anywhere in the world and not leave your living room !!Endlessly trying to fix that tape so you could hear THAT song
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Endlessly trying to fix that tape so you could hear THAT song
Yes sir, but you could fix it!
Try fixin a USB stick or a SSD music device.
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We have a woman who works 2 days a week in our office who still has a Betamax in her living room and still uses it to record "her shows" every single night - - I even helped her find some blank tapes on Amazon some time back - - - yea you can actually still find them
and yes she is older, turned 80 last December
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Slinky.
There were a few cool tricks you could do with a slinky like walking it down the stairs but they got boring quickly and you would always stretch it out as far as you could between two kids and let go at the same time. The tangles were epic. Average Slinky life = 15 minutes.
Yard Darts or Jarts. Yep, our parents gave us weapons of moderate destruction.
Never got in trouble with these.
GI Joe
And my personal favorite store-bought toy when I was a boy, the Johnny Seven Gun!
A plastic toy with multiple eye-putting-out projectiles. Even the trigger mechanism disengages to become a pistol that fire plastic cartridges. Imagine taking this to elementary school show and tell.
Now that I think about it, this explains a lot about me.
Johnny Seven!
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Slinky.
There were a few cool tricks you could do with a slinky like walking it down the stairs but they got boring quickly and you would always stretch it out as far as you could between two kids and let go at the same time. The tangles were epic. Average Slinky life = 15 minutes.
Yard Darts or Jarts. Yep, our parents gave us weapons of moderate destruction.
Never got in trouble with these.
GI Joe
And my personal store-bought toy when I was a boy, the Johnny Seven Gun!
A plastic toy with multiple eye-putting-out projectiles. Even the trigger mechanism disengages to become a pistol that fire plastic cartridges. Imagine taking this to elementary school show and tell.
Now that I think about it, this explains a lot about me.
Johnny Seven!
And your still playing with the same kind of stuff
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I can't believe y'all can still remember! 😜
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I can't believe y'all can still remember! 😜
Shit, I can still remember how hard everything was before we got dirt!
You kids have it soft today!
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little green army men - me and all my friends would spend hours setting up battle fields and then blow the entire thing up bombing it with rocks and dirt clods and as we got older perhaps a firecracker or 2.
I remember later when the younger kids started playing with the first G.I. Joe's - me and my friends just didnt get it - - G.I Joe's were fricken dolls - basically a ken doll dressed up to look like a soldier - - - Boys didnt play with dolls - - had to be something wrong with those kids - mama's boys maybe
as a funny side I actually have a little green dude sitting on a shelf in my office at work - not even sure where I stumbled across it, but its still pretty cool
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You had better gotten to know her real well if you wanted to make a phone call
And that was even before flip phones
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Lite Brite
Etch-A-Sketch
Slinky.
There were a few cool tricks you could do with a slinky like walking it down the stairs but they got boring quickly and you would always stretch it out as far as you could between two kids and let go at the same time. The tangles were epic. Average Slinky life = 15 minutes.
Yard Darts or Jarts. Yep, our parents gave us weapons of moderate destruction.
Never got in trouble with these.
GI Joe
And my personal store-bought toy when I was a boy, the Johnny Seven Gun!
A plastic toy with multiple eye-putting-out projectiles. Even the trigger mechanism disengages to become a pistol that fire plastic cartridges. Imagine taking this to elementary school show and tell.
Now that I think about it, this explains a lot about me.
Johnny Seven!
In 3rd grade, I had my Mother bring in a muzzle-loading rifle that had been in my Dad's family for generations. I also brought in the empty powder-horn,but wasn't allowed to bring in any percussion caps. I showed the kids how it was loaded and fired. Good thing I didn't have any powder or caps, because a few years later my Dad took it to a gunsmith to get the trigger repaired (it wouldn't cock) and the gunsmith called him back and said he'd fix it as soon as he got it safely unloaded!
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Wow, you all are taking me down memory lane. Didn't see mentioned a party line for the home phone. It was a buck a month cheaper to share a line with others. Hours of entertainment when mom wasn't home. In 1969 McD's burgers and fries were 15 cents each, and we had just started selling a roast beef sandwich on a steamed bun. Dad had an open account at a gas station, Roger just kept the tab open. When Dad died I had to go settle up the account, it was like $14 owed. Drug stores or Woolworths diner counter? Never happened to me, but remember when the cops would just follow the drunk home and make sure he was safe instead of hauling your butt to jail?
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Display Morelittle green army men - me and all my friends would spend hours setting up battle fields and then blow the entire thing up bombing it with rocks and dirt clods and as we got older perhaps a firecracker or 2.
I remember later when the younger kids started playing with the first G.I. Joe's - me and my friends just didnt get it - - G.I Joe's were fricken dolls - basically a ken doll dressed up to look like a soldier - - - Boys didnt play with dolls - - had to be something wrong with those kids - mama's boys maybe
as a funny side I actually have a little green dude sitting on a shelf in my office at work - not even sure where I stumbled across it, but its still pretty cool
My Aunt passed last year, we found my brothers whole collection in a box in storage. This is just a part of it.
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I remember heating up lead in a pot to make soldiers from a couple of forms we had.
didn't matter if you broke them in play battles, you just put them back in the pot and remelted the lead.
hmmm, breathing lead fumes may explain some my quirks
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little green army men - me and all my friends would spend hours setting up battle fields and then blow the entire thing up bombing it with rocks and dirt clods and as we got older perhaps a firecracker or 2.
I remember later when the younger kids started playing with the first G.I. Joe's - me and my friends just didnt get it - - G.I Joe's were fricken dolls - basically a ken doll dressed up to look like a soldier - - - Boys didnt play with dolls - - had to be something wrong with those kids - mama's boys maybe
as a funny side I actually have a little green dude sitting on a shelf in my office at work - not even sure where I stumbled across it, but its still pretty cool
I had the real molded lead soldiers
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didn't matter if you broke them in play battles, you just put them back in the pot and remelted the lead.
hmmm, breathing lead fumes may explain some my quirks
I remember playing with mercury in science class and everyone getting a chance to put some in your palm and sticking your fingers into the container of it.
That explains the extra finger i grew that year
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Up this way when I was a kid there was street hockey games going on everywhere. There wasnt a street that you couldnt find kids out playing a game of road hockey. I havnt seen a street hockey game in years when we drive around. And the bicycle gangs we had, we terrorized the neighborhoods with our hockey cards cloths pinned to the forks so they hit the spokes and made noise.
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little green army men - me and all my friends would spend hours setting up battle fields and then blow the entire thing up bombing it with rocks and dirt clods and as we got older perhaps a firecracker or 2.
I remember later when the younger kids started playing with the first G.I. Joe's - me and my friends just didnt get it - - G.I Joe's were fricken dolls - basically a ken doll dressed up to look like a soldier - - - Boys didnt play with dolls - - had to be something wrong with those kids - mama's boys maybe
as a funny side I actually have a little green dude sitting on a shelf in my office at work - not even sure where I stumbled across it, but its still pretty cool
“Boys didnt play with dolls - - had to be something wrong with those kids“
Not so sure I agree with that....
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Even after all these years, I still miss my first babysitter
