Forgotten Toys Open Thread

Some toy commercials, and a couple of videos looking at older toys.

One of the toylines shown is the "Ding-a-Lings," a line of robot toys. Terrible name, cool toys. They've got a big giant robot that's piloted by a smaller robot that goes inside his head. The smaller robot is "Brain."

And obviously, you have your Star Wars, Steve Austin, Evil Kneval, etc. Also "Action Man," which was (I think) the UK's version of GI Joe. Not sure if they were sold in the US.

And if you're just a little younger than Almost 29: Here are lost toys from the 80s and 90s.

Posted by: Ace at 02:00 PM

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1 My parents told me it was a toy but I knew that it was really just an empty shampoo bottle from the neighbor's trash can.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2024 02:03 PM (muwun)

2 Merry Christmas Horde!

Posted by: Czech Chick at December 25, 2024 02:04 PM (fpVC1)

3 Doh. Stopped to read the content.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 25, 2024 02:05 PM (ZmEVT)

4 My parents told me it was a toy but I knew that it was really just an empty shampoo bottle from the neighbor's trash can.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

You got the whole bottle ???

Luxury!!!

Posted by: The Yorkshire Chillren on Christmas with their Shampoo bottle caps. . . at December 25, 2024 02:07 PM (qz+gL)

5 A ghost gun eh! Can't have that.

Posted by: BATFE at December 25, 2024 02:07 PM (i0xsb)

6 Dinner soon

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2024 02:07 PM (fwDg9)

7 I want you to play with my ding a ling.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2024 02:08 PM (LkLld)

8 1 My parents told me it was a toy but I knew that it was really just an empty shampoo bottle from the neighbor's trash can.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2024 02:03 PM (muwun)

Empty? I got a full one, but not full of shampoo.

Posted by: davidt at December 25, 2024 02:09 PM (i0F8b)

9 forgotten toys?

when i was about 5 or so, i was in a couple of tv commercials. one was for potato bug, kind of a mr. potato head but with bug parts. the other was 'copter kite, a kite that had a rotor spun by the wind instead of a big flat sheet that caught the wind.

i can only presume that my involvement in the commercials doomed the toys.

oh, yeah. my earnings? mom used it to buy shoes for all us kids. i was disappointed.

Posted by: anachronda at December 25, 2024 02:09 PM (IKg+A)

10 Doof adopted "Ding-A-Ling" as the name for a body part earlier this week.

IIRC, it was to be prefaced with "cute".

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2024 02:10 PM (a3Q+t)

11 Oh yeah, I had one of those big Shogun guys from the second video.

Was anyone else into Micronauts? I had a crapload of those, and read all the comic books, and was really disappointed that the last Ant Man movie didn't feature them in the quantum world.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at December 25, 2024 02:10 PM (wdBxn)

12 I got a nerf blaster for my daughter to teach her gun etiquette.
We'll see how it goes.

Posted by: Accomack at December 25, 2024 02:10 PM (GxmKP)

13 Don't play with your food.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 25, 2024 02:11 PM (2vTK0)

14 Are Etch-A-Sketches still around?

Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2024 02:11 PM (v6JzV)

15 Oh, and Merry Christmas, Ace.

Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2024 02:12 PM (v6JzV)

16 Take it away Chuck.

https://tinyurl.com/396f8rmc

Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2024 02:12 PM (LkLld)

17 Merry Christmas all you happy pipples.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos (meh, it's a living) at December 25, 2024 02:13 PM (IQhz0)

18 Watching the 1970s Toys You'll Never See Again video, I feel cheated.

I used to hang a pair of pantyhose over the mantle every Christmas, but Farrah Fawcett was never in them on Christmas morning.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2024 02:16 PM (a3Q+t)

19 Most memorable Christmas presents was when I got a foldable brush and a t-shirt that said “I want it all”

My parents basically canceled Christmas that year

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at December 25, 2024 02:16 PM (HYKHz)

20 Are Etch-A-Sketches still around?
Posted by: Bulg

* search *

The wikipedia link was first, the Amazon link was second.

So, still around, but barely. Any merchandise that doesn't deserve SEO is just about dead.

Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2024 02:16 PM (DgGvY)

21 7 I want you to play with my ding a ling.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2024 02:08 PM (LkLld)

Child please …

Posted by: zombie Chuck Berry at December 25, 2024 02:17 PM (TTAGa)

22 My son’s second Christmas was at the height of the Tickle Me Elmo craze. I somehow acquired one for him. Another random Santa gift was a set of muffin tins. He played with the muffin tins all day and totally ignored Elmo.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 25, 2024 02:17 PM (u73oe)

23 14 Are Etch-A-Sketches still around?

Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2024 02:11 PM (v6JzV)
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Very popular with the current White House denizens. Hunter does great lines.

Posted by: Ciampino - Talking of FJB at December 25, 2024 02:17 PM (i0xsb)

24 Major Matt Mason was my favorite. An astronaut GI Joe with better movement. Came with a space capsule, a moon rover, and a backpack jetpack. 50+ years later all I have left is the visor from his helmet. Wife thinks I'm looney for keeping it.
Also miss the creepy crawler make your own candy critters that turned out to cause cancer.

Posted by: Sharps45 at December 25, 2024 02:18 PM (STWC5)

25
All the children in the 70s were killed by Jarts.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2024 02:19 PM (dxSpM)

26 https://youtu.be/hdIhNQKgMdg?si=g_MEtYiyHtj-eLW4

"Gas the bastard in the mall"

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 25, 2024 02:20 PM (2vTK0)

27 There are no good toys in PMIA prison, but you do get PMIA, so there's that.

Posted by: Sean Diddy Combs at December 25, 2024 02:21 PM (paSBy)

28 Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2024 02:12 PM (LkLld)

I had no idea ( and just learned this) that Chuck Berry had a father who was a deacon in the Baptist Church or that he only was married once for about 40 or more years. He was a great musician, but I rdon't think that Beethoven would really "roll over" 😉As musicians they'd probably have a lot of talk about as long ad they could get over the language barrier.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2024 02:23 PM (LCCzK)

29 I just yesterday wrote my friend Paul's z"l widow to tell her the story of when we were about 8 years old, he got a Verti-Bird

That was the must-have toy that year.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2024 02:24 PM (RIvkX)

30 Merry Christmas, Morons! It’s been a Griswald level disaster so far. But all is well…eventually.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 25, 2024 02:25 PM (mokJ5)

31 I got a Stretch Armstrong doll. My brothers, Thing One and Thing Two, each got one as well. Took about six months for the goo to start leaking out of those. I presume that now it would be six minutes and the goo would be toxic waste from China.

My grandad used to tell us that if we weren't good, we would get a bundle of twigs from Santa. I was a teenager before I heard it was a lump of coal. One year for a joke Mom and Dad left each of us a bundle of twigs under the tree. We stared at them in confusion and then started swatting Dad with them. Easy to do since he was on the floor, laughing. They did bring out the real presents, eventually.

I remember getting a LiteBrite and an Easy Bake Oven also.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 25, 2024 02:25 PM (4XwPj)

32
Erector Sets. Gilbert Chemistry Sets.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2024 02:25 PM (dxSpM)

33 Super Toe!

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 25, 2024 02:25 PM (Dm8we)

34 Battling Robots was fun.

I'm still convinced most parents could give their kids huge boxes, some art supplies and the kids will keep busy with that for weeks.

Posted by: Stateless at December 25, 2024 02:26 PM (jvJvP)

35 My daughter wanted a Teddy Ruxpin, a teddy bear that "read" a story. The bear's mouth and eyes moved as it did. She was maybe four at the time, entranced watching the commericials. She was thrilled when she got one at Christmas--until it actually started reading to her. It scared her to death, she started crying, and we never spoke of it again.

Posted by: Lirio100 at December 25, 2024 02:27 PM (izAv/)

36 Doof adopted "Ding-A-Ling" as the name for a body part earlier this week.

IIRC, it was to be prefaced with "cute".
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2024 02:10 PM (a3Q+t)

You're thinking about my ding-a-ling on Christmas day? That's both flattering and creepy at the same time.

Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2024 02:27 PM (BSDFI)

37 I want a lemon filled with rocks.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2024 02:28 PM (63Dwl)

38 I didn't know they had the 6 million dollar man robot sasquatch. I had the rocket with steve austin.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 25, 2024 02:28 PM (Y6IkP)

39 It’s been a Griswald level disaster so far

Shitter's full?

Posted by: Cousin Eddie at December 25, 2024 02:28 PM (mH6SG)

40 Circa 2000 some co workers said they were going to every place that sold toys, buying a large action figure of Tarzan which had "spear throwing action" spear included but not in Kung Fu grip like hand. Package had the action lever arranged so you could demonstrate. But since the arm was folded down, it looked like Tarzan was fapping. Hilarious collectable.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 25, 2024 02:28 PM (2vTK0)

41 31 Loved Lite-Brite. I was so happy when I finally got one for Christmas.

Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2024 02:28 PM (v6JzV)

42 >>I had no idea ( and just learned this) that Chuck Berry had a father who was a deacon in the Baptist Church or that he only was married once for about 40 or more years.

Chuck was complicated like all of us. But a brilliant entertainer.

Broken toy as it were.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2024 02:29 PM (LkLld)

43 It’s been a Griswald level disaster so far

Shitter's full?
Posted by: Cousin Eddie at December 25, 2024 02:28 PM (mH6SG)

Family Truckster blew up?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 25, 2024 02:29 PM (VNX3d)

44 On that King Charles - Cadbury split:
As a bachelor on my own for the first time in Cambridge, MA - 1974-5, my typical evening meal was something that would heat up in a tiny toaster-oven while I watched Ch 56 - Star Trek or a Bruins game. This would be around 6 PM. In that hour I would eat a large Cadbury Milk Chocolate and drink a large glass of milk. Thus dessert first.
That Cadbury was imported from Ireland.
Early in 1975 the taste changed and I noticed it was now made in NJ. I don't remember who made it there but they screwed up the formula. I scoured the shops in Cambridge and Boston, with my future Mrs helping but eventually I ate all the imported stuff. It was never the same again except for the South African one which remained true.
I notice that Cadbury is now owned by 'others'. If accountants then I see why the loss of royal charter.

Posted by: Ciampino - Talking of sweet tooth at December 25, 2024 02:29 PM (i0xsb)

45 Aside from Slinky's and Barbie and Easy Bake Oven and an hand made doll house, I don't recall much about other toys of my childhood. I think I was out a lot playing outside, going to the pond, trying to catch frogs, etc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2024 02:29 PM (MQJVv)

46 Handheld video games were a big deal when I was a kid. I didn't even watch football, but I played the hell out of my Mattel Football II with the little red lights. Then around 6th grade I got a Microvision player with interchangeable game cartridges. I remember Blockbuster and a Star Trek-themed shooting game.

Posted by: PabloD at December 25, 2024 02:31 PM (yHP5w)

47 Erector Sets. Gilbert Chemistry Sets.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2024 02:25 PM (dxSpM)

Yep. And Lionel Trains, every one of which still are part of my basement layout. Oldest one is from 1949, my third Christmas. Thanks Santa...er...mom and dad.

Posted by: the margins - now with a permanent smile at December 25, 2024 02:31 PM (iODuv)

48 45 Fen, did your mandate also include weird bugs?

(Calvin and Hobbes reference)

Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2024 02:31 PM (v6JzV)

49 I got a drum set when I was 5 or 6, which I promptly lost for 2 weeks after I woke everyone up at 4:30AM one Christmas morn....

Those were the days.

Posted by: jsg at December 25, 2024 02:31 PM (Fg0Nr)

50 Off damned margins sock!!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 25, 2024 02:31 PM (iODuv)

51 Since drunken axe throwing at bars & clubs are ok,
can we bring back Jarts?

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 25, 2024 02:32 PM (E7mWg)

52 I just talked to JT and sent him all your Christmas greetings. He wishes you all a very Merry Christmas and thanks for thinking of him.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 02:32 PM (XTmTf)

53 The shitter being full and the truckster blowing up would be par for the course.

We leave for London tomorrow. We took the dogs to be boarded. Except the fucking place overbooked and there was no place for our dogs. Ultimately we got it settled…went to another place and got a chunk of money refunded…but it killed a bunch of time we didn’t have.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 25, 2024 02:32 PM (mokJ5)

54 I was an easy child to shop for: legos and cash.

Posted by: Accomack at December 25, 2024 02:32 PM (aHqhe)

55 Oooh! One year we came out to find a ginormous box by the tree. A box the size of a washing machine. It was for all three of us. We lived in a small trailer at the time and that box took up most of the living room floor. We tore it open and found.... Sleeping bags! One for each of us! They were awesome.

We spent the rest of the day playing in the box.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 25, 2024 02:32 PM (4XwPj)

56 Creepy Crawlers by Matel in the mid-60's. Iron molds, hot oven, plastic goop, noxious smells. It was awesome.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2024 02:33 PM (hoCmQ)

57 The vintage toy I will always want:
https://tinyurl.com/36xn8mnr

Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at December 25, 2024 02:33 PM (1VvJB)

58 Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2024 02:31 PM (v6JzV

Not that I recall except catching fireflies. I used to enjoy that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2024 02:33 PM (MQJVv)

59 Loved Lite-Brite. I was so happy when I finally got one for Christmas.
Posted by: Bulg

Fist bump. Making the spiders and centipedes with the fishing lure plastic.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 25, 2024 02:34 PM (E7mWg)

60 >>> Was anyone else into Micronauts? I had a crapload of those, and read all the comic books, and was really disappointed that the last Ant Man movie didn't feature them in the quantum world.
Posted by: Cave Johnson at December 25, 2024 02:10 PM (wdBxn)

I had the Micronauts. One of my favorites along with gijoe. The minotaur dude with magnets shot real projectiles that could hurt. I'm sure millions of eyes were put out so they were banned. Lots of shooty things.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 25, 2024 02:34 PM (Y6IkP)

61 I just talked to JT and sent him all your Christmas greetings. He wishes you all a very Merry Christmas and thanks for thinking of him.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 02:32 PM (XTmTf)
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Hiya JT

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2024 02:34 PM (RIvkX)

62 I just talked to JT and sent him all your Christmas greetings. He wishes you all a very Merry Christmas and thanks for thinking of him.

Thank you, Ben Had.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 25, 2024 02:34 PM (mH6SG)

63 TCR Racing. The first race set that was magnetic so you could switch lanes. But the cars always flew off the track.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 25, 2024 02:34 PM (Dm8we)

64 Merry Christmas Ben Had!!!🎄🎁

Posted by: lin-duh at December 25, 2024 02:34 PM (7r9lR)

65 Lite-Brite.

Luxury. We got a book of matches.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 25, 2024 02:35 PM (2vTK0)

66 I remember being thrilled to get Tinker Toys...and a Mr. Potatohead. Back then Mr.Potatohead had a little pipe.

Christmas music was the (mentioned on the ONT) Firestone Christmas LP's.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 02:35 PM (XeU6L)

67 Thanks, Ben Had.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2024 02:35 PM (hoCmQ)

68 We took the dogs to be boarded. Except the fucking place overbooked and there was no place for our dogs. Ultimately we got it settled…went to another place and got a chunk of money refunded…but it killed a bunch of time we didn’t have.
Posted by: BCochran1981

Sorry. You should have gotten every dime refunded and then some. Overbooking isn't your problem.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 25, 2024 02:36 PM (E7mWg)

69 My Christmas gift to California is I am running Governor when Newsome leaves office.........

You voted for me for POTUS, now you can vote for me to be your Governor !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cackle..... Cackle......... Cackle......

Posted by: Kamal Harris at December 25, 2024 02:36 PM (l8kJx)

70 Not that I recall except catching fireflies. I used to enjoy that.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2024 02:33 PM (MQJVv)

Wiffle ball bat and August evenings.

Until that sucker glowed...

Posted by: jsg at December 25, 2024 02:36 PM (Fg0Nr)

71 The only toy I ever got that I was never allowed to open or use was the wood burning set. My mom figured I would accidently burn the house down. My mom had pretty good intuition.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 25, 2024 02:36 PM (Y6IkP)

72 Atari 2600. And later Intellivision.

I bought my young god-daughter a talking Barney doll one Christmas. It wasn't long before someone would activate him and she would just say "Shit up Barney!"

Posted by: Stateless at December 25, 2024 02:37 PM (jvJvP)

73 I just talked to JT and sent him all your Christmas greetings. He wishes you all a very Merry Christmas and thanks for thinking of him.
Posted by: Ben Had

Yay! And Merry Christmas to you, Ben Had.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 25, 2024 02:37 PM (E7mWg)

74 lin-duh, Merry Christmas and thank you for the picture of your lovely chil--- young adults now.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 02:37 PM (XTmTf)

75 Lite-Brite.

Luxury. We got a book of matches.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism
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Pfft. A small chunk of flint, and a rusty pocketknife.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 02:38 PM (XeU6L)

76 Present I miss the most? Daisey Red Ryder.

Yeah. No eyes shot out, but did get a buddy's ear.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 25, 2024 02:38 PM (E7mWg)

77 65 Lite-Brite.

Luxury. We got a book of matches.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 25, 2024 02:35 PM (2vTK0)

You got the whole book?

Luxury...

Posted by: jsg at December 25, 2024 02:39 PM (Fg0Nr)

78 Lite-Brite.

Luxury. We got a book of matches.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism
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Pfft. A small chunk of flint, and a rusty pocketknife.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 02:38 PM (XeU6L)

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Flame decals.

Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at December 25, 2024 02:39 PM (1VvJB)

79 I remember getting a Verti-Bird that was integrated into a styrofoam coast guard cutter. Must have been the Big Gift that year, one of my Uncles loved playing with it.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at December 25, 2024 02:39 PM (L1omb)

80 My favorite was Hot Wheels.

I believe I had over fifty cars and the track to race them.

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 25, 2024 02:40 PM (0rdRL)

81 Not sure my favorite but at least whish I still had them was Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2024 02:41 PM (fwDg9)

82 Stevens Model 311 12 ga double barrel. Christmas before my 12th birthday.

Posted by: Eromero at December 25, 2024 02:41 PM (LHPAg)

83 Remarkably the football game on Netflix hasn't crashed. I wonder how much Netflix spent on computer hardware since the last time it streamed a game.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 02:42 PM (Q8Bj8)

84 I miss my cap guns.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 02:42 PM (XTmTf)

85 My favorite toys were probably hot wheels and the plastic race car tracks. That's what I remember playing the most with when little. Then classic car or airplane plastic model kits for some years, then I got a C64 and I fully transitioned into a nerd.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 25, 2024 02:42 PM (Y6IkP)

86 The visible V8 engine. Whet my appetite for engineering. When I finally put the two D cell batteries in it and the Vaseline lubricated pistons started to move and the lights came on for the spark plugs I was hooked. I remember being mesmerized by the valve train.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 25, 2024 02:43 PM (dg+HA)

87 Furbies are still in the toy aisle. Along with yappy motion activated toy dogs.

Then there's the customers with their emotional support yappy tiny dogs.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2024 02:44 PM (4pGuH)

88 I got a BB gun for my birthday one year. Dad took it away for awhile after the BB gun battle in the woods behind the house. I shot a friend of Thing One in the hat. I was aiming for his nose but he ducked very quickly. Dad was very not pleased because he had told us quite sternly and often not to shoot at other people. All three of us lost access to the BB guns for a few months.
Pappymayhem didn't play.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 25, 2024 02:45 PM (4XwPj)

89 My Dad gave me a B-B Gun one year for Christmas. And you know what, I did not murder anyone or try to shoot the neighbor's dog.

Times were more rational back them and we did not have all these medications for every problem you had as a child. Got beat up by the bully, you lived with it and the neighbor's parents were not sued for a million dollars and the government did not to show up to throw the neighbors in jail for some social justice BS Crime.

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 25, 2024 02:45 PM (0rdRL)

90 I remember Stretch Armstrong , my buddy had one and he got Stretch’s head stuck in a branch so he hung on it and his neck stretched out like 12 inches and wouldn’t go back. One of the funniest things I ever saw!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2024 02:45 PM (7MHHr)

91 13 Don't play with your food.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 25, 2024 02:11 PM (2vTK0)

One exception.

Posted by: Kamala! at December 25, 2024 02:47 PM (smiC4)

92 Stevens Model 311 12 ga double barrel. Christmas before my 12th birthday.
Posted by: Eromero
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Remington Model 511, Christmas when I was 10 yrs. old.

My dad retained possession of the bolt for 2 years, until he was convinced by weekend shooting that my demonstrated handling and judgement were responsible.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 02:47 PM (XeU6L)

93 My brothers had the race track with the orange plastic tracks.

Those damned things hurt when Mom was pissed and grabbed the closest thing at hand to whack your butt or legs!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 25, 2024 02:48 PM (4XwPj)

94 86 The visible V8 engine. Whet my appetite for engineering. When I finally put the two D cell batteries in it and the Vaseline lubricated pistons started to move and the lights came on for the spark plugs I was hooked. I remember being mesmerized by the valve train.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 25, 2024 02:43 PM (dg+HA)
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LOL
I wrote a simulation in MC6809 Assembler for a green CT-64 SWTc 9" terminal using block graphics. It was cool to watch.

Posted by: Ciampino - Talking of nerds at December 25, 2024 02:49 PM (i0xsb)

95 Merry Christmas Ben Had.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2024 02:50 PM (LkLld)

96 Had a Puff Basketball Hoop in my bedroom. Loved the Sixers and Dr J and pretend to be Dr. J and Slam Dunk with the Puff Basketball hoop.

Today I would be sent to anger management and be put on Ritalin

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 25, 2024 02:50 PM (0rdRL)

97 I think I was 13 when I received a Fox Model B side-by-side, 20 Ga., 26 inch barrels, improved and modified. Nice bird gun.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 02:50 PM (XeU6L)

98 Bag O' Glass. Packaging what the kids want.

Posted by: Irwin Mainway, Pres. Of Mainway Toys at December 25, 2024 02:50 PM (R/m4+)

99 The Rude Awakening of Optimus Prime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq1_6D9QS9Y

Posted by: I Stand with No One at December 25, 2024 02:51 PM (1tjz1)

100 Maybe the best ever present was a full-sized Schwinn bicycle. Suddenly, the world was my oyster.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 02:53 PM (XeU6L)

101 Wasn't action man a TV show?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2024 02:53 PM (HsOwE)

102 JackStraw, a very Merry Christmas to you and Elvis.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 02:53 PM (XTmTf)

103 I miss my cap guns.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 02:42
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PSA. Do not hide caps from your brother in the floor lamp. Got my hide tanned over that one.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2024 02:54 PM (hoCmQ)

104
27 There are no good toys in PMIA prison, but you do get PMIA, so there's that.
Posted by: Sean Diddy Combs at December 25, 2024 02:21 PM (paSBy)

Well, YOU are toy in Soviet Russia.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2024 02:54 PM (HsOwE)

105 LOL
I wrote a simulation in MC6809 Assembler for a green CT-64 SWTc 9" terminal using block graphics. It was cool to watch.
Posted by: Ciampino
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Was that using one of the Southwest Tech computers?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 02:54 PM (XeU6L)

106 One year we got the proverbial pony.
Rein was under the tree. Shetland in the walkout basement.
Meanest little shit that ever was. I'm sure Pop got him at a good discount.

Posted by: MkY at December 25, 2024 02:55 PM (cPGH3)

107 We are mixing dressing, can't stuff a ham you know.

Posted by: Eromero at December 25, 2024 02:55 PM (LHPAg)

108 I miss my cap guns.
Posted by: Ben Had
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I still have mine.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 02:55 PM (XeU6L)

109 Anybody else remember these little "monster trucks" that had little foam rubber tires and ran on a single AA battery? We'd take them to school and make little obstacle courses for them out of pencils, books, etc. They were all the rage for about 3 months, and then something like the Rubik's Cube came along and distracted us.

Posted by: PabloD at December 25, 2024 02:56 PM (yHP5w)

110 We did early Christmas morning with the kids today. The girl spawn won the best gift given sweepstakes. She did a drawing for her brother and his lady of their first dance at their wedding. Knocked out in a couple of hours in the wee hours of last night. It is beautiful and perfectly accurate.

That girl is a helluva good artist.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 25, 2024 02:57 PM (4XwPj)

111 107 We are mixing dressing, can't stuff a ham you know.
Posted by: Eromero at December 25, 2024 02:55 PM (LHPAg)

Honestly, the biggest downside to ham as a holiday meal. If you cannot stuff it with oyster-sausage cornbread dressing, what is the point?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2024 02:57 PM (HsOwE)

112 can't stuff a ham you know.
Posted by: Eromero
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If there's a will, there's a way.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2024 02:57 PM (hoCmQ)

113 Maybe the best ever present was a full-sized Schwinn bicycle. Suddenly, the world was my oyster.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Also, I didn't have to walk to school anymore.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 02:57 PM (XeU6L)

114 My first bicycle coincidentally was a snow storm year, remember riding around massive snow piles

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2024 02:57 PM (fwDg9)

115 What were those round toys you sat in, and had 2 big hand-cranked wheels?
We had two younger sisters that got a pair one Christmas, and we older boys wore them out.

Posted by: MkY at December 25, 2024 02:57 PM (cPGH3)

116 105 LOL
I wrote a simulation in MC6809 Assembler for a green CT-64 SWTc 9" terminal using block graphics. It was cool to watch.
Posted by: Ciampino
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Was that using one of the Southwest Tech computers?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 02:54 PM (XeU6L)
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We had one of those. I did better when I changed jobs and had them get me a Gimix 6809. The SWTc terminal came with it.

Posted by: Ciampino - Talking of nerds at December 25, 2024 02:58 PM (i0xsb)

117 Kids needs Happy Fun Ball again.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 25, 2024 02:58 PM (aXxgO)

118 Merry Christmas to all the Horde and those whom they love!! ❤️

Posted by: The man from Athens at December 25, 2024 02:58 PM (3YGdZ)

119 Merry Christmas to you all!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 25, 2024 02:58 PM (4XwPj)

120 We are mixing dressing, can't stuff a ham you know.
Posted by: Eromero at December 25, 2024 02:55 PM (LHPAg)

Wanna bet? Woooowooo!!

Posted by: P. Pig at December 25, 2024 02:58 PM (iODuv)

121 >>>> I miss my cap guns.
Posted by: Ben Had
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I still have mine.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 02:55 PM (XeU6L)
*******
I found mine, I don’t know how, but it’s now displayed my bookshelf.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 25, 2024 02:59 PM (XsuFr)

122 We had one of those. I did better when I changed jobs and had them get me a Gimix 6809. The SWTc terminal came with it.
Posted by: Ciampino
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I recall that SWT had a couple of 6809 based...was there a 'Tiger'?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 02:59 PM (XeU6L)

123 Never punch happy fun Stretch Armstrong.

Posted by: eleven at December 25, 2024 03:00 PM (iziT8)

124 Lincoln Logs were OK; LEGO was better, before the extra-super customized kits where almost every part is unique.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 25, 2024 03:01 PM (aXxgO)

125 Anybody else remember these little "monster trucks" that had little foam rubber tires and ran on a single AA battery? We'd take them to school and make little obstacle courses for them out of pencils, books, etc. They were all the rage for about 3 months, and then something like the Rubik's Cube came along and distracted us.
Posted by: PabloD

Stompers!

I had some of those. Not anymore. Still have my Rubik's Cube, though.

Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2024 03:01 PM (DgGvY)

126 My brother put together a big box. Open the box and there's note. "It's not a carburetor. It's not a phone book. It's not used oil filter"

First I find a carburetor, then the phone book and then the oil filter.

At the bottom was a boatload of caps. Rolled caps.

Mom had bought me a cap rifle. It was great.

The poor crap metal on the rifle failed before Christmas day was over.

But it was fun while it lasted.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 25, 2024 03:02 PM (ZmEVT)

127 If a tree falls in the woods and Mrs. Athens does not hear it is it my fault?

Posted by: The man from Athens at December 25, 2024 03:03 PM (jxVvT)

128 "Stompers!"

Ho Lee Fuk, I can't believe you remembered the name - but I googled it and, yep, those are the ones we had.

Posted by: PabloD at December 25, 2024 03:04 PM (yHP5w)

129 BiL got my wife a penis shaped charcuterie board. She got him a candle saying "Light when (BiL) farts." I'd say they're even.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2024 03:04 PM (hoCmQ)

130 Tonka trucks. Man those were awesome. Hunks of real metal with potentially sharp edges moving dirt, rocks, and sticks. We loved the smell of tetanus in the morning.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 25, 2024 03:04 PM (aXxgO)

131 Honestly, the biggest downside to ham as a holiday meal. If you cannot stuff it with oyster-sausage cornbread dressing, what is the point?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2024 02:57 PM (HsOwE)
We're making oyster dressing and regular cornbread dressing. Mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, and cranberry sauce. And pecan pie. And perhaps whiskey.

Posted by: Eromero at December 25, 2024 03:04 PM (LHPAg)

132 >>>>>If a tree falls in the woods and Mrs. Athens does not hear it is it my fault?
Posted by: The man from Athens at December 25, 2024 03:03 PM (jxVvT)
******
Silly rabbit, of course it is. Pay attention.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 25, 2024 03:05 PM (XsuFr)

133 Best toy ever was Lawn Jarts…

Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2024 03:08 PM (PCK5/)

134 If a tree falls in the woods and Mrs. Athens does not hear it is it my fault?
Posted by: The man from Athens
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Yes. You should've gotten her those new Apple ear buds featured in that nice tear-jerking commercial of theirs.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2024 03:08 PM (hoCmQ)

135 Tonka trucks. Man those were awesome. Hunks of real metal with potentially sharp edges moving dirt, rocks, and sticks. We loved the smell of tetanus in the morning.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 25, 2024 03:04 PM (aXxgO)

Didn't get many toys as a kid but I do remember the Tonka truck. Used it to haul the cat lumps out of the sand box.
Seriously. I was a little kid. What did I know?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2024 03:08 PM (W/lyH)

136 olddog, hahahaha.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 03:09 PM (XTmTf)

137 122
We started with their 6800 SS-50 board. After about 6 months they came out with a 6809 SS-50 board so we swapped that in. I got offered a job at another campus and that's where I got myself a Gimix 6809, also SS-50. Gimix changed name to GMX later.
Ran FLEX OS as single-user or UNIFLEX for multi-user. Later Microware Corp. came out with OS/9 which was a very nice OS. This would also run on the Tandy Color Computer (CoCo).
Still around in embedded systems as it was ported to other processors.
What's your familiarity with SWTc?

Posted by: Ciampino - Talking of nerds at December 25, 2024 03:09 PM (i0xsb)

138 Sit 'n Spin.
Hippity Hop.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 25, 2024 03:09 PM (Dm8we)

139
Leftover hamhock and bean soup for lunch. Food that tastes better for having sat and reheated.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2024 03:10 PM (dxSpM)

140 Ahhh. Christmas is not complete until I've had to dig through the garbage looking for the one missing gift card.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2024 03:10 PM (W/lyH)

141 Heartstring pulling Apple ear bud commercial.

https://youtu.be/EvnJhwIwqds?si=0T4bDq5kcWv-ihSt

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2024 03:10 PM (hoCmQ)

142 141 Heartstring pulling Apple ear bud commercial.

https://youtu.be/EvnJhwIwqds?si=0T4bDq5kcWv-ihSt
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2024 03:10 PM (hoCmQ)

That is a great commercial..

Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2024 03:11 PM (PCK5/)

143 One year my Dad aka "Santa" bought me a Remington black and chrome .22LR with a scope. Unless we were out plinking, with or without camping involved, it was chained to a gun rack that was placed high on the wall over the stairway to basement. The logistics of getting a ladder setup on that stairway was sufficiently terrifying to dissuade my ill formed tween brain from ever attempting that. Plus, by then, I had developed a healthy relationship with firearms and understood it was best left alone until the next time we went plinking. Society truly was different then.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 03:11 PM (Q8Bj8)

144 If I gotten a pony I might have become a nuclear physicist instead of a horse trainer.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 03:12 PM (XTmTf)

145 Diogenes: "Didn't get many toys as a kid but I do remember the Tonka truck. Used it to haul the cat lumps out of the sand box..."

Thank goodness you didn't get Litter Critters.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 25, 2024 03:13 PM (aXxgO)

146 Dad gave me my first gun when I was eleven. I was totally capable of using it responsibly.

Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2024 03:13 PM (PCK5/)

147 I had some of those. Not anymore. Still have my Rubik's Cube, though.

Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2024 03:01 PM (DgGvY)

They have 4 x 4 and 5 x 5 Rubik's cubes. Cool.

Posted by: Stateless at December 25, 2024 03:13 PM (jvJvP)

148
Got a $125 Amazon gift card from the search firm I do work for. Spent, at her request, $85 on a 25-foot heated RV water hose for Her Majesty.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2024 03:13 PM (dxSpM)

149 I just talked to JT and sent him all your Christmas greetings. He wishes you all a very Merry Christmas and thanks for thinking of him.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 02:32 PM (XTmTf)

Thank you for that good news, Ben Had.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2024 03:13 PM (8zz6B)

150 149 I just talked to JT and sent him all your Christmas greetings. He wishes you all a very Merry Christmas and thanks for thinking of him.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 02:32 PM (XTmTf)

Thank you for that good news, Ben Had.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2024 03:13 PM (8zz6B)

Have no idea what is wrong with but hope he recovers.

Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2024 03:15 PM (PCK5/)

151 Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2024 03:10 PM (W

Sorry. It did make me laugh though and I can relate

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2024 03:15 PM (JvXtq)

152
Happy that JT got remembered on this here fine day. Thank you, Ben Had.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2024 03:15 PM (dxSpM)

153 Departed comrades… Bander, Vic, and not so recent Chavez…

Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2024 03:17 PM (PCK5/)

154 Merry Christmas everyone.

I still cherish the Christmas I got, not one but TWO bricks.
Man those bricks went with me everywhere.

Posted by: Reforger at December 25, 2024 03:17 PM (xcIvR)

155 Chevrolet 2023, A Holiday to Remember.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDzXb6pRv_I

5.5 mins

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2024 03:17 PM (hoCmQ)

156 tubal, that is his information to share. Hopefully we should have him with blog access right after the new year.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 03:17 PM (XTmTf)

157 If I gotten a pony I might have become a nuclear physicist instead of a horse trainer.
Posted by: Ben Had

That is great. I have known a few ex-farmer's kids who concluded, after getting run over by pigs, kicked by a cow, and mucking out barns, that anything had to be better. Life's twists and turns and how they play out are special mysteries.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 03:18 PM (Q8Bj8)

158 Merry Christmas everyone.

I still cherish the Christmas I got, not one but TWO bricks.
Man those bricks went with me everywhere.
Posted by: Reforger at December 25, 2024 03:17 PM (xcIvR)

I got a rock. -- Charlie Brown

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 25, 2024 03:18 PM (VNX3d)

159 >>Ahhh. Christmas is not complete until I've had to dig through the garbage looking for the one missing gift card.

My dad used to love pranking me on Christmas by hiding the best gift. After the socks and underwear and other assorted whatever presents he would wait until I was thankful but clearly disappointed and then spring the real present on me. He'd ask me to go to the garage of the basement to get him something that he lost and there is was.

My dad was the best. I'd give back all presents to have him around for another day.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2024 03:18 PM (LkLld)

160 Yes, thanks, Ben Had. That was kind of your to arrange that I hope to see him back on the board before too long with his humor and birdbath status updates.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2024 03:18 PM (JvXtq)

161 156 tubal, that is his information to share. Hopefully we should have him with blog access right after the new year.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 03:17 PM (XTmTf)

Oh absolutely BH… just miss his birdbath status reports….

Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2024 03:18 PM (PCK5/)

162 Got a $125 Amazon gift card from the search firm I do work for. Spent, at her request, $85 on a 25-foot heated RV water hose for Her Majesty.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

For a serf, you have a pretty good life.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 03:19 PM (Q8Bj8)

163 My dad was the best. I'd give back all presents to have him around for another day.
Posted by: JackStraw

You and me both.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 25, 2024 03:19 PM (u82oZ)

164 tubal, that is his information to share. Hopefully we should have him with blog access right after the new year.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 03:17 PM (XTmTf)

Oh absolutely BH… just miss his birdbath status reports….
Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2024 03:18 PM (PCK5/)

Here's hoping he has a birdbath - or at least a bird feeder - where he can see it where he is.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 25, 2024 03:20 PM (VNX3d)

165 Another great thing I got for Christmas back in the 1960's was... Rockem Sockem Robot Boxing Ring.

It was great Toy....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 25, 2024 03:20 PM (FDlb9)

166 Please, I thank all of you for keeping JT in your thoughts along with your prayers.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 03:21 PM (XTmTf)

167 One of my favorite toys were Jarts. Had some awesome ballistics wars with those.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 25, 2024 03:21 PM (einT5)

168 Hot Wheels were great, too. Are they still around? They should be. We'd run two power houses in series and take up most of the living room floor with track. We ran the heck out of those things. Impressive it could take such abuse.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 25, 2024 03:22 PM (aXxgO)

169 My dad was the best. I'd give back all presents to have him around for another day.
Posted by: JackStraw

You and me both.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 25, 2024 03:19 PM (u82oZ)

I'd be happy just to have another conversation or two with mine. Or even just his advice on occasion.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 25, 2024 03:22 PM (VNX3d)

170 167 One of my favorite toys were Jarts. Had some awesome ballistics wars with those.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 25, 2024 03:21 PM (einT5)

Yeeeeessssss…. playing catch on either side of the house… good times good times..

Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2024 03:22 PM (PCK5/)

171 144 If I gotten a pony I might have become a nuclear physicist instead of a horse trainer.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 03:12 PM (XTmTf)
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It could have put a glow in your cheeks ..... just saying.

Say did you know that Rudolph got his glowing nose from working in the Glow-in-the-Dark/Radium section of Santa's Workshop?

Posted by: Ciampino - Talking of nerds at December 25, 2024 03:23 PM (i0xsb)

172 Also remember the Electric Football game where the Metal Field would vibrate, and the players would move as a result.

You could also have the QB throw a pass with the small football.

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 25, 2024 03:23 PM (FDlb9)

173 I have a watch with glow in the dark numerals… what do they use now??

Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2024 03:24 PM (PCK5/)

174 Thank you for letting me know it will really make a difference for me

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2024 03:24 PM (7MHHr)

175 If a tree falls in a forest, does a Chihuahua 500 miles away bark?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 25, 2024 03:25 PM (VNX3d)

176 One of my favorite kid toys was the Creepy Crawler thing that allowed children to learn the difference between 1st and 2nd degree burns. I still hold suspicions that my parents were not oblivious to this in spite of them acting completely oblivious to this.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 03:25 PM (Q8Bj8)

177 Tonka trucks. Man those were awesome. Hunks of real metal with potentially sharp edges moving dirt, rocks, and sticks. We loved the smell of tetanus in the morning.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel

Heh, I still have the scar from where they cut my thumb open to stop the blood poisoning, after excavating a particularly poor location with my Tonkas.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 25, 2024 03:25 PM (einT5)

178 Merry Christmas again Hordelings!🎄

Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2024 03:26 PM (BSDFI)

179
If I gotten a pony I might have become a nuclear physicist instead of a horse trainer.

_______

Saw a funny cartoon. In the first frame, a little girl in a riding outfit sitting on a huge draft horse who's standing sedately. In the second frame, the same little girl is getting bucked off a pony.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2024 03:26 PM (dxSpM)

180 Afternoon, ever' body.

I can recall what I received for Christmas every year from the time I was seven until I was thirteen. After that, the specifics are all gone. I mean, I know Mom gave me a labelmaker one year when I was in college (when I would rather have had a fifth of Jim Beam), but I don't recall the exact year. One of my wives, prob. No. 2, gave me a blue-green(ish) Harris Tweed jacket that I no longer have, but I don't recall what year. Et cetera.

When I was twelve, there was the AMT 1/12 scale 1937 Cord roadster model kit; and the next year, the 1/8 scale Monogram Jaguar XKE 2 + 2 model. Which I built using Revell cement. The stuff held up; Mom still had the finished model in a closet twenty years later when she passed away, and only the little chromed door handles had fallen off.

At thirteen, too, I got my first real watch, a Timex electric dress watch. $40 back then was some coin. It was the first watch I'd ever seen with the jerking motion of the second hand. Quartzes do it now, but this was an electric with an easily replaceable battery. Wore it for years.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 03:26 PM (omVj0)

181 I had an AMF Roadmaster well before Christmas, regular seat and handlebars. I got goose neck handle bars (not called ape hangers then) and a banana seat. They went right on. My friends called it a "Stink Ray." I still let them ride it.
Merry Christmas!

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 25, 2024 03:27 PM (QSrLX)

182 I have a watch with glow in the dark numerals… what do they use now?? Posted by: tubal

That is how I learned about radiation. USA!
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Also remember the Electric Football game where the Metal Field would vibrate, and the players would move as a result. You could also have the QB throw a pass with the small football. Posted by: Ferd Berfall

We had one of those. My experience with it formed my thinking about how cats behave.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 03:27 PM (Q8Bj8)

183 180
At thirteen, too, I got my first real watch, a Timex electric dress watch. $40 back then was some coin. It was the first watch I'd ever seen with the jerking motion of the second hand. Quartzes do it now, but this was an electric with an easily replaceable battery. Wore it for years.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 03:26 PM (omVj0)

Timex FTW… love my Timex Expedition.

Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2024 03:28 PM (PCK5/)

184 Hadrian, that is so true. I never recommend a pony for a child.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 03:28 PM (XTmTf)

185 lol 174 was supposed to be a text to a friend

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2024 03:28 PM (7MHHr)

186 Johnny Eagle Lieutenant guns.

Man from UNCLE guns.

I had a one track wish list.

Posted by: Archer at December 25, 2024 03:28 PM (IDphi)

187 150 149 I just talked to JT and sent him all your Christmas greetings. He wishes you all a very Merry Christmas and thanks for thinking of him.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 02:32 PM (XTmTf)

Thanks, Ben Had. Is he still in the facility, or has he been able to go home?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 25, 2024 03:29 PM (OX9vb)

188 Loved slot cars…

Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2024 03:29 PM (PCK5/)

189 Later Microware Corp. came out with OS/9 which was a very nice OS.
------

I have a very nice OS/9 coffee cup.

My association with Soutwest Tech was vicarious. Hanging out with Purdue students who were interested in everything.

My first PC was one of these
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exidy_Sorcerer

Had very nice graphic ability.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 03:29 PM (XeU6L)

190 51 Since drunken axe throwing at bars & clubs are ok,
can we bring back Jarts?

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 25, 2024 02:32 PM
***
Well said.

Merry Christmas Morons!

Posted by: TRex at December 25, 2024 03:29 PM (9tvFd)

191 I had all those Farrah Fawcett Posters and they all Mysteriously disappeared when I got married????

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 25, 2024 03:30 PM (FDlb9)

192 Dash, he is still in the facility.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 03:30 PM (XTmTf)

193 Toy guns stereo awesome in the 70s

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2024 03:30 PM (fwDg9)

194 Off to eat.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 03:30 PM (XeU6L)

195 I have a watch with glow in the dark numerals… what do they use now??
Posted by: tubal

If it glows after it's been in your nightstand drawer for a week, it's still radium or tritium or some other radioisotope dumping energy into a phosphorescent chemical.

If it's only good for minutes or maybe a couple hours after the lights go out, it's just the phosphorescent stuff, which soaks up light energy and releases it again slowly.

Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2024 03:31 PM (DgGvY)

196 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 25, 2024 03:32 PM (e00aV)

197 I see Hot Wheels sold at grocery store

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2024 03:33 PM (fwDg9)

198 Saw a funny cartoon. In the first frame, a little girl in a riding outfit sitting on a huge draft horse who's standing sedately. In the second frame, the same little girl is getting bucked off a pony.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2024 03:26 PM (dxSpM)

We had a couple of little Shetland ponies for a while. My cousin Becky, a city girl, loved visiting us and was always up for an adventure. She'd get on one of those and it would throw her just as fast. She'd get right back on. We had so much fun.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 25, 2024 03:33 PM (OX9vb)

199 Also had a Chemistry Set and you could go down to the Woolworth and by chemicals in a bottle. Bought Potassium Nitrate, Sulfur, and crushed charcoal to make my own gun powder. I did not grow up to be the Unabomber and a Leftwing Anti-Vietnam Protester freak either.

And I did not make any bombs and anything dangerous other than to myself trough the old fashion learning process. Imagine that???

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 25, 2024 03:34 PM (FDlb9)

200 Hadrian, that is so true. I never recommend a pony for a child. Posted by: Ben Had

It's not like we weren't warned.

https://youtu.be/W6ZlwezKaqg

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 03:35 PM (Q8Bj8)

201 Johnny Eagle Lieutenant guns.

Man from UNCLE guns.

I had a one track wish list.
Posted by: Archer at December 25, 2024

***
I had one of the former (looked like a Colt 1911, right?) and two different sets of the latter. Ideal issued a simple "Napoleon Solo Gun," the cap pistol itself, with U.N.C.L.E. ID card and pics of Robert Vaughn in character ont he box.
Also the complete Special, with a scope, shoulder stock, and barrel extension. No magazine extension, but then the gun itself, disappointingly, did not look like a Walther P-38 anyway.

Earlier, during my Westerns phase, I'd had several Mattel versions of the Colt Single Action Army w/ plastic grips painted like carved bone and with the two part bullets that worked just like the real thing. A cap on the flat base banged as the hammer came down, and the plastic "bullet" left the brass cartridge and flew out the barrel. Of course we lost the plastic bullets early, but the guns still loaded and fired.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 03:36 PM (omVj0)

202 Only a few minutes to go on Queens College Ancient Music choir edition of Handel's Messiah, 2 hours and 18 minutes long, expecting some of the orchestra to collapse

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2024 03:36 PM (fwDg9)

203 83 Remarkably the football game on Netflix hasn't crashed. I wonder how much Netflix spent on computer hardware since the last time it streamed a game.

forty-two!

Posted by: deep thought at December 25, 2024 03:40 PM (IKg+A)

204 My dad was the best. I'd give back all presents to have him around for another day.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2024 03:18 PM (LkLld)

This will be our fifth year without him. It's just not the same.
He was the kind of guy who, like when one of the Nephews or someone was bringing a friend would send me out to get them presents. Nobody ever showed up and walked out empty handed.
Or hungry. He and I were the behind the curtain guys who made it work. Now it's just me and I'm a failure as the patriarch.

Now I'm tearing up. I should be better but I'm not.

Posted by: Reforger at December 25, 2024 03:44 PM (xcIvR)

205 I also got my first wristwatch at 13. Wind-up, Radium hands and numerals. Wore it for 32 years till it stopped. By then I had my Dad's watch so it wasn't worth fixing. That Ra? I have a band on my wrist that has very little pigment and won't tan. I'm surprised I haven't developed any sort of skin cancer there.

Posted by: Ciampino - Talking of glow at December 25, 2024 03:44 PM (i0xsb)

206 >>Now it's just me and I'm a failure as the patriarch.

Your dad sounds like mine. And I doubt you're a failure.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2024 03:47 PM (LkLld)

207 Fortunate indeed was the boy who's father was an engineer. They had a feel for what would be interesting to a kid, and might steer him towards an understanding of how things work.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 03:56 PM (XeU6L)

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