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Quoted from lancestorm:Hoping you are not a real-life 40 year old virgin
I think I'm probably even worse, because I knew they got their facts wrong in that movie when they say Oscar Goldman is the rarest/most sought after.
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Quoted from I-Closed-Wolskis:Assortment of 80s and 90s toys[quoted image]
I like the Mr. Yuck stickers
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Quoted from vec-tor:Ah! Sprouse Reitz novelty store
AKA "The Dime Store" by my grandmother. Now that's an obscure blast from the past that I'd forgotten about. based in the Northwest
Quoted from mooch:Little TOMY wind-up toys
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Nice! My little buddy sits arms length from me here.
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Anyone remember "Screech!"?
Game was played in the dark. You looked into the eyes of the Purple owl to see spooky characters.
I looked forever and never found one.
Water Wiggle! So bummed when they were recalled: https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/1978/recall-of-wham-o-water-wiggle-toy
Sad stories, I'd always thought it was from the danger of hitting someone.
Best summer water toy ever!
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Quoted from mooch:My younger self always enjoyed a box of Cracker Jack with a prize inside. Although most of the prizes were crappy, I got a few good ones. I liked it when I got a whistle. My favorite of all was the disc that would spin when you blew on it. I could get that thing to spin really fast.
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The tattoos were what I got pretty excited about. 
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Quoted from EdisonArcade:Of course this was the preferred way to find tattoos, but they seemed to be rare. I remember it was a big deal when I found some of the nicer slide-off style ones.
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Quoted from Azmodeus:I Covered the inside of my closet door with the stickers.
I met a guy who still had his door. Literally. He had took off the door a kept it for decades.
Awesome!
Quoted from xsvtoys:Cool, love the fire pit idea.
A firepit on wheels.
I'm surprised no one had thought of it before.
Quoted from Mr68:I drank a whole bottle of Robitussin then watch TV with my unsuspecting grandmother.
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I thought it had to be Robo "DM"
Good ol' Dextromethorphan.
Not that I would know.
Quoted from mooch:I always loved cheap little magic tricks. At a truck stop or gift shop I would look for a rack of Adams tricks. My favorite magic trick was the Color Vision Box.
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Yes! Loved that stuff.
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Quoted from mooch:Wait a minute... Jocko is the same dude as Scoopy the Carnival Straws clown.
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Clown got around! I remember him on the ice cream cone box at Grandmas house
Quoted from mooch:A few years ago, I received a small bottle of “Liquid Ass” fart smell spray as a gag gift. One night while I was having a few beers with my father-in-law in the kitchen, I sprayed a bit of it around as a joke. OMG, it smelled like a toilet bowl full of diarrhea. The smell made my dog immediately take a big dump on the kitchen floor. (I am not making this up.)
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Damn! The 6 year old in me loves that story. I laughed pretty hard. Thanks
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Water Wiggles reminded me of "Water Wiennie".
I remember the 'cool' thing was to fill it up in your sleeve, hidden away from sight.
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Ahh, one of my favorites! An excuse to post this pic again.
Sold most of it, but still have Maskatron.
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Quoted from onemoresean:What’s left of my fireworks from around 38 years ago.
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Wow! Very cool to still have those. Zebras and Thunder Bombs bring back good memories.
How about the little guys that packed a punch, Mighty Mites
This might be mostly a NW thing, not sure. But we used to make wooden hydroplane model boats and pull them with string behind our bikes.
I made at least half dozen and usually spent some time in the design/paint process. We made ramps for jumping & added nails to make sparks at night.
Good fun!
Here's an article from local news about the phenom:
https://mynorthwest.com/1066454/seattle-street-hydroplanes/?
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Quoted from zombywoof:This one's a little obscure. Based on the huge popularity of Dungeons & Dragons, TSR released a cold war, cloak and dagger role playing game. It was pretty fun, kind of like acting out a James Bond movie or Frederick Forsyth novel. I did find that as the game master, I would sometimes have to be a little lenient with the dice rolls. It was pretty easy for characters to get killed. After all, no one who just spent an hour rolling up a character wants to just have him shot dead in the first ten minutes.
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Quoted from RCA1:Our D&D group played Top Secret also. We also played a TSR western game called "Boot Hill". Anybody remember that one?[quoted image]
Awesome! We Played both Top Secret and Boot Hill. Had pretty much forgotten about that.
Wasn't there one with tricked-out futuristic cars too?
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Quoted from cottonm4:Ah well hell, You need one of these, too
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I stood in line for 2 hours to see Jaws in 1974. But I was too old for toys and I do not remember seeing this.
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Quoted from HFK:I had that Jaws toy and loved it. One of the few games you could play with friends or by yourself.
Forgot about that one. Dug it out to give to Nephews. They'll love it!
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Quoted from Azmodeus:Coloring books in The seventies.
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Nice!! Thank you. Forgot about that one.
I did save this book for some reason. (What am I going to do with all this stuff?
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Quoted from mooch:I remember those Kraml milk commercials!
Here’s another Chicago-area memory: Each year for Back to School season, Jays Potato Chips put a free pencil in each box of chips. These pencils were everywhere. Everybody seemed to have one.
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How about these NFL pencils early 80s. My school had a vending machine and every boy had to collect the set. Genius
OK, I have a random one. This record was supposed to teach kids NOT to be afraid of the dark. I got it around age 5, and it didn't work for me
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Here's the house where the little boy lives. Just like any other house with ghost eyes...
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...and here's the "Nobody". I mean what's scary about that, right?
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Finally, in keeping with the theme, the narrator and song were very somber and moody. Just awesome really.
Quoted from mooch:I remember collecting Batman and Monkees trading cards as a 5th grader in 1966. I enjoyed the backs of these cards even more than the fronts. The Batman cards had a riddle on the back with the answer revealed by a Secret Decoder overlay. The backs of the Monkees cards fit together to make a giant color portrait of the band.
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Star Wars cards!
I had no shortage of toys growing up, but my next door neighbor was next-level. One of the things they always had were several boxes of cards in the pantry, and they were allowed 1 pack each day.
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Quoted from mooch:The backs of the Monkees cards fit together to make a giant color portrait of the band.
Nice! That was a motivating factor to collect the whole set.
Quoted from mooch:I see some cigarette loads. I got in trouble with those once...
Awesome! Me too. That little red tin... I got my mom once and the cigarette rolled up just like in the cartoons.
I want my MTV!
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That'd be cool! Also, I think that picture would make a great personal puzzle. I have often thought of creating one with my junk.
Quoted from BigalzPinz:Some may remember this bubble gum ,,
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Bub's Daddy!! You just blew my candy memory mind!
Edit: Watermellon to boot. Awesome!
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:For just about 20 seconds, I feel this was my childhood.
Wow! That's a blast from the past. Early 80s NW college band.
Quoted from bob_e:I saw this on facebook, 2 for sale on ebarf for stupid money $169.95 and $260.00
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So creepy! Who would buy this??
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Quoted from girloveswaffles:Who had or remembers this?
To bad it went the way of Yard Darts.
Yeah bummer, my favorite water toy! I'd always thought it was deemed too dangerous for kids getting hit, but it turns out it was a choking hazard.
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/1978/recall-of-wham-o-water-wiggle-toy
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Quoted from girloveswaffles:These used to be the favorites among us neighborhood kids back in the '70s:[quoted image]
Nice! I see your Shasta, and counter with Cragmont
Chocolate soda!
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Quoted from zombywoof:I even had the board game.
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Oh wow! Totally forgot about that game, with the magnet picking up the little ships. Thanks!
Anyone ever make a "Howler" out of a coffee can and some string?
At camp someone made a fairly large one and used it across the lake. Scared the crap out of at least 100 Boyscouts
Quoted from dmacy:Going out of season, did anyone have bubble lights for Christmas Trees? I loved them as a kid.
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Quoted from LTG:I still like them. First time in many years I was working on bringing back Christmas lights in my window at work. Remade the PVC frame. Restrung lights. Was going to pick up some bubble lights, and then got shut down for the holidays. So I never got that far.
They still make them.
LTG : )
Heck yeah! We had those but we also had a couple strings of smaller ones that had more colors.
All through 80s we looked for more of them, but never found 'em.
Just a couple years ago I found similar ones and bought 3 sets. Kinda pricey, but worth it to me.
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Quoted from electricsquirrel:Early episodes of M.A.S.H. have quite a few racial slurs. I'm surprised they are still available to watch.
My first thought was, "Huh?? That was a pretty benign, morally responsible show about Korean War. Bound to have some Asian slurs."
Then I remembered the black character's name. 
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Ah, the book club. Best day of the school month!
Still have these:
Quoted from cottonm4:Try a piece of cardboard and a grassy hill for a cheap toboggan ride.
Quoted from Atari_Daze:Ahh, the hills at Ober Park! Long lost memories.
We used to roll down the hills at the Ballard Locks as kids. Well, me and the wife tried it a few years ago, and she got going pretty fast and actually caught a little air. Last time we're doing that.
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Quoted from JayDee:Maybe this was posted before. Maybe not. Either way I don’t give a shit. It’s worth the repost
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Awesome! First Dee Snyder then Riki. I remember seeing AC/DC video around 1983 and running to neighbors house to have him tune in and see the last bit.
Early MTV, it was rare to see any hard rock.
Also loved Yo! MTV Raps
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Quoted from onemoresean:I loved me some sleestack messing with crystals
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Nice!
Funny now, but I actually think a couple episodes slightly traumatized me with that damn skylon and the kids always just missing their mom.
Quoted from mooch:Was it an ad for the G.I. Joe Steel Brigade figures?
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So, every Christmas and birthday during that era, my little brother would get several G.I. Joe toys. Since I'm 10 years older, it was my job (loved it) to assemble them. I always cut out the little "points" and sent them in the mail for the rarer items. He had a bunch!
Anyways, I was long out of the house when I heard he dumped them all in the garbage one day in a teenage purge.
Ouch.
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Quoted from zombywoof:The Viewmaster posts got me thinking about another toy, one that would allow you to watch video/motion graphics. Playback was dependent on how fast you cranked the handle, so you could do slow motion, speed it up, or even play it in reverse. I don't know that I had any of the cartridges from this ad, but I did have a few Peanuts shorts.
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Nice!
These were fun to draw on underwear and T-shirts.
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Quoted from littlecammi:... someone putting out a candle with one of those things.
Always was a privilege to light the candles during the Holiday get togethers. Just remembered my grandparents had one of these to put them out too.
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Quoted from bob_e:I never saw that show but I do remember Benny Hill on very late night possibly PBS....
Women in lingerie, topless, and naked running around.
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Canadian sketch comedy show, "Bizarre" was always good for at least one nudie scene.
They also gave us Super Dave Osborne, who I thought was hilarious on Letterman
Quoted from cottonm4:My first pop up book was Jethro Tull's first album, Stand Up.
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Track 3, "Bouree" so good. I would occasionally hear it on classical radio as a kid, and it took me 10+ years of humming it to music store guys before I finally figured out who it was.
Quoted from dmacy:We had one of these as a kid my mom got at a yard sale. Would squirt water out when you pulled the handle down. [quoted image]
I have one of these that the kids think is hilarious.
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Quoted from mooch:That reminds me of the 2-cent “Swiss Warbler” bird whistles they used to sell at a penny candy shop near my school in the 60s. I never understood the instructions, so I would just blow on the tiny cellophane reed to make sounds, much like a grass blade.
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This one was pretty cool. The little red pill in the corner contained some powdered substance to give it friction. Maybe alum?
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Quoted from swampfire:When I was a kid, my friend's parents had a car with power seats and a TV with a remote control. I thought they were RICH. We would sit in his car and pretend to be astronauts, playing with the seat controls. Good times.
Nice! My Dad got "company cars" for a while during my youth, and I'll never forget the best one: 1977 Lincoln Continental.
We were middle class, and the other car was a Pinto station wagon. We wore the Grease soundtrack out in that thing! Thought we were 'in the theater'.
White with red leather
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Quoted from jawjaw:Were rock radio station stickers a big thing anywhere else? Us kids went crazy for them in the early 80's but they were everywhere in Houston. Guess bumper stickers in general were more of a thing when you had actual bumpers. Remember one time as a young kid word got out that they were passing out 97 Rock stickers at the seedy arcade near school. We raced down there on our bikes and grabbed as many stickers as we could possibly get. I can still remember the smell of those stickers.
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These were everywhere in the 80's. Cool kids cut out the 'Rock' with an x-acto knife.
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Quoted from zr11990:Look its Tom Hanks the Pedo.
Look a rock! Why not crawl back under?
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Quoted from OLDPINGUY:I got Feely Meely for my Birthday in 1967.. After we finished with the enclosed objects, we improvised.
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Such a great concept! Also I love your improvs. I would have been right there with a slug or something else gross.
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Quoted from cottonm4:I bought one of these for my pin friend.
Cool. Except double Diner, but no Taxi.
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Quoted from mooch:In the 1960s, a Chicago car dealership Nickey Chevrolet advertised that they were giving away free “clickers.”
Every kid at school (a couple of my friends) had them so I talked my Dad into driving me to the dealer get one.
It looks like there were many other versions of these “cricket” clickers.
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Red Goose Shoes!
I got those in early 70's and remember the coveted Golden Egg.
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Quoted from amxfc3s:Plain old telephone service, duh
Aka, a "landline" phone
Evidently, POTS is an acronym for "Plain Old Telephone Service".
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Quoted from mooch:I was once addicted to these little brown cans of beef jerky, around the year 1980 or so. They looked a lot like cans of Kayo.
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Used to carry this stuff around while camping/fishing. This and my homemade wooden knife, ready for survival!
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Quoted from DCP:There was a lot of music on AM radio in the Chicago area back then. Almost any cheap radio would pull in many stations - I had a crystal radio (no batteries) I built from a kit with a long antenna strung from our house to a tree (never thought about lightning, LOL). I could pick up many stations from near and far, and they were LOUD in my little headphones (carbon speakers like a telephone). The picture below shows pretty much the exact radio I had: (from https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/remembering-the-crystal-radio)
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Very cool!
Made me think of this:
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Quoted from zombywoof:I don't recall anyone having mentioned common playing cards as a favorite, but I spent countless hours playing! From Go Fish, War, Rummy, Spades, Hearts, all the way to Seven Card Stud (and let's not forget building a house of cards). Cards offered limitless entertainment options. Here are a few unopened, NOS decks I have floating around the house, along with some of my Dad's bakelite poker chips from the '50s.
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Nice one! Camping/Summer vacation rentals, Grandparent's house etc...
SNAP!
My Grandma had a name for each card. All I can remember was the Honey Bear she called "Pink Pants".
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Quoted from DanQverymuch:I love you, tubes! - Slow Donnie on Just Shoot Me
Yes! Slow Donnie
"Chicken pot, chicken pot pie!"
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Quoted from girloveswaffles:I looked up JMV on IMDB and found something interesting from early in his career.
In 1968 he was a cast member on The Banana Splits in a live action serial "Danger Island" (directed by Richard Donner!):
And remember the Homage to him in Rick and Morty from Season 2?
Nice! Danger Island is my KLOV avatar.
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"Uh-Oh... Chongo!!"
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Quoted from Azmodeus:https://2warpstoneptune.com/2013/04/18/science-fiction-anthology-1974-and-tales-of-fantasy-1975-coloring-books/
All pages included, I believe.
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Nice blast from the past.
I had 4 of 5 of these coloring books (no Beasties).
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