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Hosnon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 08:29 PM
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Poll question: Spirograph is proof that the average human has an innate mathematical interest:
Who agrees?
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 08:29 PM
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1. Not really. It just makes me horny.
:yoiks:
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Hosnon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 08:31 PM
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2. Don't feel bad...orthodontic miniature rubber bands make me horny:)
:hide:
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 10:15 PM
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6. I thought I was the only one!
Just look at that inky little whore up there, just flaunting it. Oooo... I'd draw shape on her all night... Mmmm.... :toast:
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-02-07 09:50 AM
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16. Looking at that hole in the middle, how could it be a him?
:wow:

:spray:
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-02-07 04:36 PM
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22. Wha...?
I thought I called it "her". It better be at least. I ain't having sex with a dude spirograph! I ain't some kinda weirdo! :crazy:
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-02-07 12:37 AM
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11. HypnoToad !
I'll pray to Jebus to save your soul !!! :rofl:
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Bassic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-02-07 09:57 AM
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19. Dude,
everything makes you horny :P
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 09:25 PM
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3. Maybe. I love Spirograph
There's a Spirograph-like machine at the Discovery Center museum in Boise that fascinates the children.
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conscious evolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 10:04 PM
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4. You know some acid head hippie came up with that
Some things you just know that some mindbender had a hand in it's creation.

Spyrograph
Lava lamps
Frutopia ads
Plop Plop Fizz Fizz
Kaliedescopes
I'm sure there are others.
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VenusRising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-02-07 02:07 AM
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12. Check this out!
Edited on Fri Feb-02-07 02:08 AM by VenusRising
Dr Kary Mullis
Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry in 1993 and inventor of PCR, a method for detecting even the smallest amount of DNA in ancient materials. "Would I have invented PCR if I hadn't taken LSD? I seriously doubt it," he says. "I could sit on a DNA molecule and watch the polymers go by. I learnt that partly on psychedelic drugs."


That is so cool!!

Edited to add link: http://www.thegooddrugsguide.com/articles/famous_users/lsd.htm
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 10:10 PM
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5. Agreed, but the pens they were equipped with SUUUUCKED.
Not only would they run out of ink within 20 uses, but the damned SLIPS and PUNCTURES because they simply didn't provide a smooth-enough ink flow . . . It was a good diversion from Legos, Lincoln Logs and Girder/Panel sets, but MAN. How I wish I discovered .5 point drawing pens when I was a kid.
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ironflange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 11:47 PM
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8. Not a problem here
We used those big fat pens with 10 colors, or fine point markers when they came out. Both worked well.

I remember being in Chicago on a family trip, in 1967, when the Spirograph first came out. Fascinating! We got one of course, and I think it's still around somewhere, minus the pens. The old ones worked a lot better because they used push pins, not those pussified plastic dooeys they give you now.
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kedrys Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 10:48 PM
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7. I wish I knew where mine is...
My mom prolly has it somewhere. She hangs on to *everything*. :)
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trackfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-02-07 12:33 AM
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9. Who'd have thought it: threads on Lite Brite and Spirograph on the same day!
Edited on Fri Feb-02-07 12:33 AM by gwbsamoron
What's next? Battling Tops?
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-02-07 06:30 AM
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13. Nope
Edited on Fri Feb-02-07 06:32 AM by hyphenate
Hula hoops or superballs more likely. Oh, and can't forget Silly Putty!
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Jimbo S Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-02-07 09:49 AM
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15. or Shrinky Dinks!
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-02-07 09:50 AM
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17. Those things are evil! (or sponsored by Michael Jackson?)
Edited on Fri Feb-02-07 09:51 AM by HypnoToad
:yoiks:
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chknltl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-02-07 12:35 AM
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10. Which explains why I never owned one.
Spoken like a true Anthropology student!
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-02-07 09:31 AM
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14. I loved it as a kid and I still love it.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-02-07 09:51 AM
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18. Tacky jokes aside, they really are cool...
I wish they still existed; they are more fun than Super Kill'em All Mushroom Land for the Sony Wee or whatever it's called...
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Zavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-02-07 10:08 AM
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20. There's a fair number of them on eBay. Just looked.
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-02-07 11:23 AM
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21. Did you know there was a giant one for making designs on sidewalks?
Not Spriograph brand, another company, but the same concept, and using chalk on sidewalks:
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-02-07 04:46 PM
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23. me too
:thumbsup:
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