Eweser

Somewhere my mom bought a bike like this. That's what I grew up riding until I was like 21. My two nieces and my sister were trying to ride it (not at the same time of course ) and could not figure out how to brake. My brother and I were saying "push back on the peddle". They were looking at us like we were nuts.

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"Whoever wrote this episode should die!"

rockogre

Really, really pushing back the wall of tv past. Crusader Rabbit anyone? I had an offical Crusadar Rabbit hat with the ears and everything.

Yogi Bear
Huckleberry Hound
Tom Terrific
Quick Draw McGraw
All wooden Tinkertoys
All wooden Lincon Logs in the really huge round box
Superman in black and white
Only having 3 tv channels
Cars without air conditioners
Phone numbers starting with two letters
Sputnik
Wondering what the hell a "Honda" was

Sitting at the airport watching planes come and go. Really, with my folks, we took a blanket and a picnic basket. We would lay on our backs on the hood of the car. Car hoods were actually made of stuff back in the day and our 58 Chevy hood was quite roomy.

No car seats, we would just stand in the middle of the front seat. Mom or Dad would catch us when they stopped the car.

Slide rules, and I can still operate one.
Captain Kangaroo
Bozo the clown
The Wonderful World of Disney every weekend, with Walt Disney himself.

My first bike seemed huge at the time. It had the big tank with headlights, full fenders, and a luggage rack. My dad was so excited! We took it out in the back yard and he was pushing me on it, of course he finally let go and I was biking. He did, however, forget the whole how to stop thing. I get to flying down a slight slope and, I'll never forget this, got scared so reached out and grabbed the fence. BAD plan! Got bonus ice cream out of the deal though.

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Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you,
Jesus Christ and the American G. I.
One died for your soul, the other for your freedom

Elphaba

Dr. Demento

Bill O'Rights

You forgot Wally Gator and Snaglepuss. Ah, Hanna Barbera. What would my childhood've been without 'em.

Interesting thing about sliderules. We have 8 engineers on staff where I work. Not one of 'em know how to work a sliderule. True. Sad, but true

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"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony

"Hedonism with rules isn't hedonism at all, it's the Republican party." - JumpinJesus

It is indisputable that true beauty lies within...but a nice rack sure doesn't hurt.

maleficent

howard stern as a local ny dj when he was funny.

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Ample

*holds up hand* I Do. I Do.

Remember the front plastic wheel would break and a big chunk would be missing and you would keep riding it anyways. Man you could do some serious 360s by slaming on the breaks and turning in those things. Lots of good memories with that toy.

Who remembers slime?
(kind you bought in a can at the store, and the kind on Double Dare)

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Her juju beads are so nice
She kissed my third cousin twice
Im the king of pomona

maleficent

back in my day, those hp programmable calculators that you can buy for 9.99 at target were several hundred dollars... slide rules were the cheap way to go and very efficient.

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rockogre

You and I could run that cartoon list for a while. Our engineers can't operate a slide rule either. I've shown mine to some of the younger engineers and they are just confused that we sent folks to the moon with them. Not a one could even figure out how to multiply using one!

If all the computers die, you young folks will all be at our mercy. BWAH HA HA HA!

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Jesus Christ and the American G. I.
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Sultana

Let's see:
Land of the Lost (Sleestacks! Chaka!)
Witchy-poo...I can't quite remember that show (something about a dragon?!? And a magic talking flute?), but I do remember an affiliated show about Sea Monsters and the son monster was actually nice...Grrr, what were those called? "Brothers" was in the title, I think.

The life-sized Barbie-doll head that you could put on her makeup and do her hair.

EZ-Bake Ovens! Loved those things, but my mom refused to buy the tiny brownie packets for the same price as a box of regular-sized mix ("But Mooooommmm! They taste so much better from the 'EZ-Bake oven!'" LOL)

Strawberry Shortcake dolls with that awful, plasticy strawberry and whatever scent.

Pop corn poppers

Lite Brite

I remember making innumerable pot holders with some kind of plastic "weaving" form and raggy strips of cloth--that you had to buy, ha!

Latch hook rugs

Spirograph!

Electronic Battleship--man, I was like a psychic on that thing, and was certain that eventually the Navy would recruit me for real-life ship hunting. Yup, always the egomaniac, but at least I was patriotic about it.

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"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath.
At night, the ice weasels come." -

Matt Groening

My goal? To fulfill my potential.

rockogre

HR Puffnstuff!

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Jesus Christ and the American G. I.
One died for your soul, the other for your freedom

Ample

etchasketch, trying to draw a circle or a curve was a sonofabitch.

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Her juju beads are so nice
She kissed my third cousin twice
Im the king of pomona

Bill O'Rights

Damn...beat me to it.
Tell me that whoever dreamt that one up wasn't on a bad trip.

I still have mine. All the paper inserts are shot, but I still have the "hard"ware.
I still have that, too. I'm sure that after 30 some odd years, the pens are dried up, though.

I also still have my original etchasketch, and my original "Operation" game.

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"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony

"Hedonism with rules isn't hedonism at all, it's the Republican party." - JumpinJesus

It is indisputable that true beauty lies within...but a nice rack sure doesn't hurt.

maleficent

Who shot JR...
The Krystal Alexis catfight that ended up in the pool...

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Grancey

Kologne Kiddles? Anyone? I had gardenia. I still have the bottle.

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maleficent

I remember those... never had one though...

Growing up Skipper - barbie's sister that grew boobies
Dawn dolls
Baby Alive - the doll that shat

Rock 'em Sock 'em robots-- you could make the red robot's head fly off

Nerf anything

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Grancey

Dancerina.....she had a tiara on her head that you pushed to make her spin

Clackers.............. the dangerous ones that were banned

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Lady Sage

grape ape, captain cave man, jabber jaws, the jetsons, thunder cats, voltron, robotech, tranzor Z
skids (pants)
Z cavaricci (sp)
slouch socks that you had to wear 2 colors at a time and buy shoes 4 sizes too big so you could wear both pair, leg warmers
hyper color, she-ra and he-man, popples, rainbow bright, strawberry shortcake, skip-it, ewoks, my buddy and kid sister, teddy ruxpin, my little pony, puffalumps, pogo balls, my pet monster, care bears, pound puppies and purries....

shall I stop now or keep going???

rockogre

Super ball
Silly putty
Smokey the Bear
Caps, good old rolls of red caps, sitting out on the porch on a slow afternoon with a roll of caps and a hammer.
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
Popcicles from the ice cream truck
going barefoot allllllllllllll summer
Sha Na Na

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Jesus Christ and the American G. I.
One died for your soul, the other for your freedom

Toaster126

Gobstoppers and Big League Chew can be found at QuikTrip, so anyone in KS, MO, OK, IL, IA, NE, GA, TX, or AZ can relive their childhood whenever they want. :P

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Brewmaniac

How bout Suzy Snowflake, Hardrock, Coco & Joe, Garfield Goose - Ray Raynor.

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warrrreagl

Puffa Puffa Rice
Quisp vs Quake
Ah ah ee ee tookie tookie
Uh oh, Chongo!
Eep opp ork ah ah

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ngdawg

I have in my basement, the toy from Mattel called "vacu-forms'. It was a machine with a handle that, when turned on, created a flow of hot air. You put a plastic square over a hard plastic mold ( it came with little molds like toy cars), pumped the handle and it'd suck the plastic sheet down over the mold and Ta-dah! you had a toy. It's still in its original box, has most of the forms, thenow- dried up paint bottles and probably a few sheets of plastic. The box says copyright 1964-I think we bought this a couple years after that.
I have a Chatty Cathy that still talks(but I got her a few years ago from an estate sale)
Remember the bar of floodlights your dad had to hold up while filming with his Super8 movie camera? All our home movies have us kids squinting

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Don't blame me. I didn't vote for either of'em.

PayUp

Wachu talkin bout Willice??

Speed Racer and the Mach 5

Pong

Atari

Colecovision

Slipe-n-slide???
I got some of the worst "road rash" in my life from one of those. Brilliant idea. Long ass strip of plastic wet down with the hose and run like the wind. I think a good slide a kid easily could hit about 130+mph, until ya hit the grass at the end.Ouch

De plane, de plane.

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Born to Lose.

maleficent

How about the crying indian for the anti-pollution commericals..

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Glory's Sun

Voltron -- Greatest Ever

Thundercats -- Duh

You Can't Do That on Television -- SLIME!

as far as candy went.. I liked the Astro Pop thingies that always stuck to your teeth and if you bit too hard.. you couldn't open your mouth for 20 minutes. I used to put them in the sun and get them a little hot and give them to the kids I hated. Of course when they'd bite down.. I laughed and laughed as they cried because they couldn't open their mouths.

Sultana

Q-bert
Pac-Man
Shrinky-Dinks!
Mad Libs
Zork--text based, ha!

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"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath.
At night, the ice weasels come." -

Matt Groening

My goal? To fulfill my potential.

ngdawg

Why am I not surprised?

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Don't blame me. I didn't vote for either of'em.

Dane Bramage

Moose & Squirrel

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Kurt Vonnegut - Sirens of Titan

pan6467

Vincent Price advertising "Shrunken Heads" (you'd make a face in an apple dehydrate it down and it woulkd be a "shrunken head"

local TV movie hosts: The Ghoul, Big Chuck and Houlihan (now Big Chuck and li'l John), Superhost

Waking up Sunday mornings to watch old "Blondie"/ Abbot and Costello/ Martin and Lewis movies

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

Grancey

Watching Roy Rogers and Charlie Chan films on Sunday mornings.

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Sultana

OMG OMG! *runs around the room squealing* I havent thought about that in years, and I wanted one desparately!

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"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath.
At night, the ice weasels come." -

Matt Groening

My goal? To fulfill my potential.

laconic1

Wacky Wallwalkers!

I remember back when they actually put cool toys in the cereal box instead of making you collect a bunch of UPC codes and mailing them in. For awhile I used to eat HotWheels cereal not because it was good, but it came with a free HotWheels car.

Also Bonkers candy. I used to love that back in 84-85, then I couldn't find it anywhere for years. I stumbled across it in a convenience store in '93, and haven't found any since. I was feeling pretty nostalgic back in '93 when I foundit.

pan6467

I had one as a kid.... used it once and it was just not as fun as it looked.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

captobvious

I remember those things. I never heard about the story about a kid sucking his eye out though. I do remember that they hurt pretty bad if you stuck them to yourself though.

Mark23

Just a note on the candy cigarettes. Did you know they used to be called "candy cigarettes" until some time in the 1980s when they had to be changed to "candy sticks". Apparently the government were worried that they would be promoting smoking to children. Of course, the new name change didn't work. Most children know anyway that they are supposed to resemble cigarettes.

maleficent

what about those annoying garfield suction cup thingies that you stuck to the rear window of your car... (thoughI swear I never did... )

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RedCometChar

I think I remember that. Wasn't it about this department store with a mannequin that came to life at night? He dressed like Rudy from Fat Albert.

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Killing that robot makes me want to go home.

cookmo

I remember that. I loved that show. In the opening he would slide down the rail of the escalator. And there was that mouse that lived in the playhouse.

lindalove

Holly Hobby!

Lady Sage

Raggedy Ann and Andy