Favorite toy as a kid....just for grins.

[Snapper]

I think mine was a box of "lincoln logs" that my dad made when I was 5. They weren't exactly like the store bought, but gave us years of use...means alot more now than at the time...don't even remember most of the storebought stuff...

and #2 would probably have to be "stompers"..we tended to modify them, replacing the "aa" batteries with wiring to 9volt, large flashlight batteries and slot car triggers.....and mud pits or obstacle courses built from the above metioned box of building blocks.

[ansonsdad]

Speaking of Atari 2600, I remember playing the Asteroids game until I got 1MM points. My damn thumb cramped up so bad after that, that I had stop playing for nearly an hour. If you don't remember, 1 hour was roughly equivalent to an eternity when jumping off the Atari rotation with other brothers and friends waiting their turn.

[KC Hawke]

Cool Wis,

your Dad retired?

My Dad got transfered from Topeka to Lawton to work for the Goodyear Plant there . My folks live out on the west side of town, same house for over 20 years.

My Dad's 68 . . . I'm hopin he'll retire soon . . . January marks his 40th year with Goodyear.

[Jeff_000]

Yosef--
You and my sister should get together. And by the way, you didn't grow up in Raytown, did you? I had a friend (supposedly a friend) smash about a dozen of my hot wheels, including my favorite: A Starsky and Hutch Torino. I loved that thing <sniff>.

Bricky--
Yep. The controllers have a switch on the back to change lanes. You needed that to get around the pace car ( a grey Vette). Mine's at my folks until Saturday. I'm going to run the track around our Chritmas Tree. The wife isn't too sure, but once I get her started, she won't be able to stop.

MM
--Gotta leave soon. Check back later.

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ROTFLMAO - Yosef - about blowing crap up. This sounds mean, but 10 year old boys in SW okalahoma did this kinda crap. We'd catch "horny toads" (little flat horned lizards)and stuff a firecracker in their mouth. They couldn't spit em out! We'd light em and they take off runn'n and BOOM!!! Sick but funny!!!! [img]http://www.chiefsplanet.com/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img]

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CRP - my dad isn't retired quite yet - couple of years to go. He is the plant manager at Farm Fresh Bakery on the South side of Lawton. He's been in the bread/milk/grocery business for about 40 years. I wish he would retire though so he could come up here to Wisconsin more often.

Mark- Naaaw, it wasn't me. I grew up in the sprawling metropolis of Mulvane, KS.



[This message has been edited by Yosef_Malkovitch (edited 12-01-2000).]

We didn't blow them up, but used to catch those little leopard frogs (there were about a billion of them in the ditch out in front of the house) and thump 'em on the back of the head with our finger. It would knock 'em out for about 5 minutes. We'd stretch them out on the hot pavement and when they'd wake up, they were all dried out and were funny to watch.

[Yosef_Malkovitch]

Bob Dole:

Ahhhh, carbide cannons....

Take a clean paint can, put in a few chunks of carbide rocks, poke a hole in the side around the bottom of the can. Close the lid on the paint can, stick a piece of paper or paper towel in the hole, let the pressure build up and then light the paper.

Sounded like cannon fire on the artillery range.

mark
*******

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Damn Dole that is FUNNY! I'm about to piss my pants right now. Everyone in the office is looking at my like I freakin nuts laughing so loud!!!

Can you even buy carbide any more?

That's funny Dole.

We used to put peanut butter on the roof of our dog's mouth. She would walk around sticking her tongue out over and over trying to eat it all. Looked like she was licking air.

Want real quality entertainment? Put a small piece of scotch tape on a cat's foot. Every step he takes, he'll shake his leg to try to get it off. Funny stuff, man.

Better yet, put tape on all four of his feet. Hilarious. Looks like a nerve gas victim, the way he twitches his legs.

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Yosef - no way man, you put balloons on a cat's feet - all four - then you spray it with a water hose - NOW THAT IS FUNNY!!!

LOL that sounds great! I gotta go visit my parents soon, they have a cat. I gotta try it!

[JOhn]

Yosef,

Is that why the pic on Bob Dole's page looks like it does?

Disco - oh - yeah. I remember that game well. I never had one but a couple of buds did and we played it for hours. Much better than MTV.