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Milford, MI
Quoted from Atari_Daze:Anyone else have a cat that would eat the stuff, it would get stuck half way out and the cat would chase its own ass around the house trying to get it loose? Funny but sad at the same time.
ROFLOL. Sometime you just can't.
Bermuda Triangle
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Only a lefty will notice that Lucas McCain was a left-hander.
Quoted from bob_e:Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab
but I was not able to build a thermonuclear firecracker that would make a 1 foot tall mushroom cloud.[quoted image]
I had to check this out.
Wikipedia has an interesting write up on it.
For dangerous toys, this kit was #2. #1 was Lawn Darts. Makes me glad I just played with the mercury from washing machine switches 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_U-238_Atomic_Energy_Laboratory
I bought a set of illegal lawn darts (the pointy kind)from an antique shop last year.
Funny that you can buy firearms but pointy lawn darts are a no no.
Quoted from gliebig:I bought a set of illegal lawn darts (the pointy kind)from an antique shop last year.
Funny that you can buy firearms but pointy lawn darts are a no no.
Funny that you can buy a BB gun but no lawn darts.
A set of lawn darts went through the Friday night auction several weeks ago; The auction does not care. It cleans out grandpa's house before the estate sale and what ever grandpa had gets sold.
Quoted from zombywoof:I loved my Crosman 760 Pumpmaster. It was a mid 60s model, back when they were still made with real wood and steel. I had inherited it from my older brother. By the time it got to me, he was toting an M16 for Uncle Sam.
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Oh man, I had a Crosman 766 air rifle with a scope as a kid - it was the envy of the entire neighborhood of Daisy owners. We would have bb-gun fights in the woods by our neighborhood and while everyone else could use the full power of their guns, the rules limited me to just 2 pumps (I normally did 10 when shooting) since my gun was so powerful.
We never put any eyes out (didn't even wear protection), but rules were to aim below the neck. We had a multitude of kids crying and bb's lodged in the skin, but the shootouts were a staple of our youth during the long summers off from school.
Quoted from Mr_Tantrum:We would have bb-gun fights in the woods by our neighborhood and while everyone else could use the full power of their guns, the rules limited me to just 2 pumps (I normally did 10 when shooting) since my gun was so powerful.
We never put any eyes out (didn't even wear protection), but rules were to aim below the neck. We have a multitude of kids crying and bb's lodged in the skin, but the shootouts were a staple of our youth during the long summers off from school.
Man, you Texas boys got with the program !
Quoted from cottonm4:Man, you Texas boys got with the program !
Well, I was actually an Oklahoma boy (Tulsa), but I imagine not much would be different here in Texas - no mama's boys back in the day.
We would also have dirt clod fights as kids. The dividing line was the creek, and rules were basically the same as dodgeball but with hard chunks of dirt (rules were that they had to be baseball size or smaller, and no rocks or you would get beat up by the other kids). Again, there was some pain and crying at times, but nobody told any of our parents so we had some great clean (well dirty) fun. The best ones were when I went to my friend's grandma's house in your neck of the woods - Caney, KS. Me, my friend, and his big brother and friends were all baseball players with good arms. It was fun for a change inflicting pain on the Kansas kids instead of each other.
Too bad paintball didn't exist back then, as that would have probably been a much better option for us.
Quoted from jorro:We kids ran around with our Rambo knives, sharpening them with the stone.
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I bought one of these style of survival knife once, total crap the threaded tang went into the handle, held in place with a nutt. that where it failed.
One of my fav's as a teen hoodlum, take dry ice, insert into a plastic 2L bottle, add a couple cups of H2O, seal lid and run like hell.
I even made a PVC cannon to create a nice deep sonic boom for the 4th of July and on Jan 1st.
As a more adventurous teen, substitute the above with glass, foil balls and pool acid, place mixture into culvert pipe and listen for the boom.
Good times, miraculously, I still have all my digits and no acid burns either. How did I manage that?!
Quoted from Atari_Daze:One of my fav's as a teen hoodlum, take dry ice, insert into a plastic 2L bottle, add a couple cups of H2O, seal lid and run like hell.
I even made a PVC cannon to create a nice deep sonic boom for the 4th of July and on Jan 1st.
As a more adventurous teen, substitute the above with glass, foil balls and pool acid, place mixture into culvert pipe and listen for the boom.
Good times, miraculously, I still have all my digits and no acid burns either. How did I manage that?!
Sounds like we need to be discussing your misspent youth. . It sounds so familiar. 
Quoted from bob_e:I bought one of these style of survival knife once, total crap the threaded tang went into the handle, held in place with a nutt. that where it failed.
I must say as a 10yo it didnt bother me 
I felt like Rambo! 
Quoted from I-Closed-Wolskis:Assortment of 80s and 90s toys[quoted image]
Do I see...............Don "The Majic Man" Majkowski?
Quoted from gliebig:I bought a set of illegal lawn darts (the pointy kind)from an antique shop last year.
Funny that you can buy firearms but pointy lawn darts are a no no.
I bought my set at a church garage sale!
Quoted from I-Closed-Wolskis:Assortment of 80s and 90s toys[quoted image]
nice collection! I bought the 2 foot tall Devastator for my son a few years back (he was WAY too young) and eventually just took it back.. LOL. Transformers not his thing. Very cool Menasor and (I think?) Superion
Quoted from I-Closed-Wolskis:Assortment of 80s and 90s toys[quoted image]
I like the Mr. Yuck stickers
Forth
Quoted from I-Closed-Wolskis:Assortment of 80s and 90s toys[quoted image]
Nice book from Beetlejuice!
Quoted from vec-tor:Cap bombs
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I forgot about this thing.
LOVED those things!
Quoted from onemoresean:I've had this creepy monkey since I was around 10 years old.[quoted image]
Isn’t that the same one that they used in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
A 40 mhp go-kart! I raced it down our neighborhood streets until the clutch finally blew into pieces all over the place. Even drove it on the snow. Fun! (does this count as a "toy"?)
Quoted from TheRudyB:Isn’t that the same one that they used in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Yes
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I may consider selling mine after seeing this. I have a box and both yellow circles. Wonder what i could get for them?
http://bid.schmalzauctions.com/4-LAWN-DARS-2-YELLOW-2-RED-i36762420
*edit* link doesn't work for some reason. Search schmalz auctions, item# 237 on today's auction
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Quoted from cottonm4:Only a lefty will notice that Lucas McCain was a left-hander.
I am right handed but I can only shoot a rifle left-handed for some reason... Realized this when I was 12 with my first Daisy BB rifle.
Quoted from Mr68:My most used toy these days is my face mask.
So much for the Face Recognition software they have been working on in major cities to identify people...
Quoted from CUJO:I am right handed but I can only shoot a rifle left-handed for some reason... Realized this when I was 12 with my first Daisy BB rifle.
I am left handed but swing a bat right handed. My dad was right handed and swung left. When I was a kid and wanting a guitar, the music instrument sales rep told me to learn to play a right handed guitar as lefty guitars had to be special ordered. Today, I could not play a right handed guitar if tried. I can't play guitar anyway, but that is a different story
Quoted from cottonm4:I am left handed but swing a bat right handed. My dad was right handed and swung left. When I was a kid and wanting a guitar, the music instrument sales rep told me to learn to play a right handed guitar as lefty guitars had to be special ordered. Today, I could not play a right handed guitar if tried. I can't play guitar anyway, but that is a different story
But I do shoot a handgun right handed...
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