Kapow | Saturday, September 07, 2002 - 11:58 pm     Another blast from the past...chinese finger tortures? Those woven things that trap your fingers? Or any type of kid gizmos found advertised in the "Weekly Reader" that you got in school.... |
Snee | Saturday, September 07, 2002 - 11:58 pm     ooh, i had a set of klackers (not sure i should word it that way!) but there was this story that a kid (somewhere) was klacking them and they smashed themselves to smithereens and the kid was seriously hurt. umm, and then there was this kid who ate some pop-rocks and then drank some coke. died, that kid. |
Lyn | Saturday, September 07, 2002 - 11:58 pm     My mom bought us those as kids, not knowing what they were. I got to play with them once before she threw them in the garbage - the noise drove her crazy and she was afraid we'd kill ourselves
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Lyn | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 12:00 am     BTW are we allowed to post pics here is they relate to the topic or did I do a no-no? |
Whit4you | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 12:08 am     OMG I loved my clackers LOL I played with them for how many hours? Prolly not as many as my spirgraph - legos - lincoln logs tops oh and my etch-a-scetch wich I played with oh 523432432 hours lol .... and such but - they were definately one of my fav toys so's this aint 'off topic' I think they should provide the HG's with some of these childhood toys and see what they do with them dont you. LOL |
Draheid | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 12:08 am     Lyn It's fine .. in fact, before you posted I had been scouring the web looking for an animated picture of those ... couldn't find one so that works fine!  |
Draheid | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 12:10 am     How about a giant set of Lincoln Logs, an Erector set, Tinkertoys, and TIDDLY-WINKS!!!
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Suitsmefine | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 12:11 am     Oh, who cares Lyn, just seeing those things again brought such a laugh from me...THANK YOU< needed that....Yes there were all kinds of horror stories that went along with every great toy we had......everything would put your eye out or kill us!!! They still sell pop rocks, the first time I let my kids get some and they experienced it.....they loooked at me like I was crazy for ever liking them!!!! We must have truely been deprived !!!!!!ROTFLMAO!!!!! things just seemed soooooo much beter then. |
Whit4you | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 12:13 am     Suits - one of the best threads ever (if I do say so myself since I stared it lol) hundreds of posts I think... was one called "Do you remember when..long haired...short people" (regarding days of old) in the general discussion area here - now long archived but if you ever get board check out that archive - would be hmm gen archives 00 I'd guess) Or start a new one over there - If ya don't know how to get there..well... read that thread called "We are talking about YOU" (or something to that effect) I started here earlier LOL. or just keep this here convo going here - they can always move it if they wish eh? Just make sure someone relates it to the BB house now and then and maybe they'll cut us some slack and let us keep this thread here lol |
Suitsmefine | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 12:18 am     Growing up, my father owned a gas station, and the BIG treat was getting a coke (in a BOTTLE) out of the machine and putting a bag of shelled, salted peanuts in it!!!!OMG, it was SOOOOOOO good!!!!!! I don't think I'm really dating myself, because we lived in a small town( even smaller then) and things were out of date before they even reached our town to become "in"..... |
Lyn | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 12:46 am     What I'm trying to figure out is what kind of games they are giving the hgs. They don't seem too be familiar with the rules or how to play them. Why not give them the classic games from our childhood...heck they might even forget about playing BB and start their own tournament of ker-plunk |
Snee | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 12:58 am     kerplunk was the best!!! did anyone else have a pogo stick? i hopped around on mine soooo much. there were fairly big, round bolts on the sides of the stick though, and they rubbed my legs and created these Great Big Ugly bruises. sneemum was afraid the school would send social services! |
Whit4you | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 01:17 am     Hehehe Lyn way to keep BB in the topic.. speaking of the HG's... I wonder if any of them played with paper dolls growing up? Or if any of them made those silly gum wrapper chains - I'm dying to remember what we called those uh lol how to explain this - ok we'd fold up a piece of paper with sayings on the inside and put them on our fingers and do some opening and closing of them and then read the inside - anyone have even a remote idea of what I mean? LOL |
Allietex | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 01:23 am     they were called Kunockers. Don't know if this is the way they were spelled. |
Lyn | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 01:25 am     My niece makes those all the time! I don't remember what they're called but I know what you mean. (They used to say things like "you are a nice person" "you love Johnny" "you have cooties") What about the hgs playing tug-of-war over a muddle puddle for the food competition. Messy and fun! The loser eats PBJ. (Anyone else have a talking Mrs Beasley Doll?) |
Allietex | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 01:30 am     Whit are you talking about the fortune telling? We used to fold papers with fortunes in them. You wrote things like names numbers names of towns etc. then someone asked you a question like who are you going to marry and you opened the section and some dorky boy was there. Maybe the houseguests could make these to tell who is going to win the game. |
Whit4you | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 01:31 am     LOL ther you go Lyn - lets think of by-gone things we used to do they could use for a POV comp or a challenge etc....hehe.. I didn't have a Mrs Beasley doll but I did have a Charlie Vantriliquist doll... Lyn - ask your neice what the heck they call those thigns lol - when I was in school we played with those ALL the time (gawd knows why - aww the days when 5th graders were innocent eh?) Remember those games we used to play for hours on end with a string on our hands lol... um dunno what we called that either. These hg's are not to creative or they could certainly find a string.... and see if that game is still fun LOL. Oh ya and that game where we'd clap the back of our hands together with someone and then front and then our thighs and then clap our hands and then (you remember that one?) C C OH PLAYMATE come out and play with me...... Definately something Amy could relate to |
Whit4you | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 01:32 am     Allie yup! Don't remember us calling them fortune telling but yup that's what I'm referring too Gawd knows how we didn't get bored with those but I really remember us doing that all the time in 4th? 5th? grade. LOL |
Lyn | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 01:39 am     I remember the clapping and the string (I sucked at that) but I can't think of the names...being old sucks lol What about tic-tac-toe/Mississippi with a piece of sewing elastic around your ankles (then it moved up to your knees, waist and neck)? Rhyme: In out, in on, in out, tic-tac-toe (I think this thread will be gone in the morning ) |
Dmarcomb | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 01:45 am     Lyn, I did! I did!! I loved Mrs. Beasley. You can actually still get her and loads of these other nostalgic toys through a catalog/website called "Betty's Attic - Where memories of yesterday live on today." Check out the Betty's Attic Website. The current catalog has a talking Mrs. Beasley on the front.
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Starshadow | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 01:46 am     A nice trip down memory lane going here! Does anyone one remember sleepover partys and playing "Bloody Mary"? If I remember right you went into a bathroom and closed the door and turned out the lights and called out "Bloody Mary" three times and when you turned on the lights "She" would appear in the mirror. Oh the nights I stayed awake cuz I knew I seen ol' Bloody Mary herself!!! Hey the HGs can do this but call for "the devil" to appear...and in the mirror hmmmmmmm is it Roddy or Dani? I can't tell from here |
Allietex | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 01:49 am     Re my earlier post. Didn't make myself clear. The clappers (or were they balls) on the strings were called Ku Nockers. Least they were in my part of the country. |
Lyn | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 01:50 am     That's the one I had, Dmarcomb! Thanks for the link, it's full of memories. I also found out the name of the string game, Whit - Cat's Cradle |
Whit4you | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 01:54 am     Thumbs up anyone? LOL Don't tell me you don't remember that!
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Dmarcomb | Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 01:58 am     Easy Bake Oven Hands Down Mousetrap LOL...I love these memories! I have a HUGE smile on my face. Thanks for starting this thread Suits! |