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(5,946 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)I always wanted one.
rug
(82,333 posts)When I finally ordered it and it arrived, I suffered my first of many existential disappointments.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)And btw you cannot train (*#$ Sea Monkeys
rug
(82,333 posts)malthaussen
(17,216 posts)I may still have a few of those guys in one of the old boxes I keep failing to throw away. Fought a lot of wars with them, though. I used to have an aluminum pan filled with sand. I'd build forts and start fires. Then watch the buggers melt.
-- Mal
rug
(82,333 posts)He put a matchbox on his pillow and put a board on his bed and lined them up single file. He then put the first one flat on the matchbox and cut its head off with a single blade razor. He removed the body and then proceeded to move the whole line up, one by one, placing the first one in line on the matchbox.
He had a fine little collection of heads by the time he was done. Me, I just started brooding about the nature of capitalism.
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)Funny little choice of words, there.
I suppose he's now a Senator?
-- Mal
rug
(82,333 posts)I made a slight, very slight, exaggeration.
onethatcares
(16,184 posts)I would think.
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)There were also ads for Mercury space capsules, and I really wanted one of those.
In the early '70s, there was a house not far from mine that had a full-size Apollo capsule mock-up in the front yard. But the property was later sold for an industrial park.
-- Mal
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)"You will be real disappointed"
Smart man
hunter
(38,326 posts)I found this on the internet:
http://secretfunspot.blogspot.com/2007/12/polaris-nuclear-sub-photo.html
My own parents, artists, would encourage us to make our own adventure vehicles from stuff we found, maybe not for any educational reasons, but because they rarely had any money.
$6.98 could buy food other than fish, rice, and pasta, maybe even let us turn on the heat in the house sometimes.
It's not that my parents didn't have money, it's that it was all tied up in their home and any spare change was spent traveling around like gypsies. We even made it out of the United States a few times, my parent's calling what we did "camping," which isn't what most people consider camping, but more like how the homeless live.
I did learn to be creative however. Eventually my home-made adventure vehicles had real rockets.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)hunter
(38,326 posts)JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank
http://www.amazon.com/JL421-Badonkadonk-Land-Cruiser-Tank/dp/B00067F1CE/ref=pd_sbs_indust_5?ie=UTF8&refRID=0PBFX1KH4E1SG7P0CSXP
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Only $75 for a gallon of milk. Those must be some amazing cows there in the Tuscan. Probably for the 1%
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Only to receive a dead monkey in the mail.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)I can't believe someone had this setup as mail order!
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)No wonder they're bitey.
cloudbase
(5,525 posts)than the sub the North Koreans are cobbling together from Russian scrap.
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(503 posts)marzipanni
(6,011 posts)onethatcares
(16,184 posts)I should have spent my allowance on identity changes available on the inside back cover of the Rolling Stone magazine.
Special Prosciuto
(731 posts)marzipanni
(6,011 posts)That's when we started using zip codes.
Does anyone remember when there were two digit postal zone codes, used between the town/city and the state in the address?
I remember the one for my town, and it's now the last two numbers of the zip code, but my husband says he only remembers them being used on magazines, not first class mail.