Quoted from edward472:

I've been picking up a few G1 Transformers
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Quoted from cottonm4:

There is no way I can find a pic of this, but how many are old enough to remember when you and your parents stepped up to pay for your receipt at a restaurant that there would be a selection of blank checks from local banks in the area and all one had to do was grab a blank check, fill it out with your info. and pay the restaurant with the blank check with your bank's name on it?
Does anybody else remember seeing this in restaurants? Maybe it as just a midwest thing.
Anyway, it did not take all that long for the bad actors to start writing blank checks that were made of rubber and the restaurants stopped the blank check practice.

Quoted from Azmodeus:

I have not seen any muscle men in any of the places if been in last seven years. Not a one I don’t think.
I had a bunch before, all gone now.
If you like them, this website shows them all.
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Quoted from j_m_:

it is amazing at the things that we were allowed as kids to play with in the 60s and 70s that are deemed dangerous by today's standards.
the way that I saw it, if you used common sense, you didn't get hurt. if you got hurt, it was probably your own fault. heck, we jumped off the garage in our our above ground pool back in the day and no one was any worse for wear at the end of the day.
the thing maker sets were great fun, as was the hot wheels toy were you got to melt wax-like ingots into a crucible and pour out the molten material into metal frames to make your own cars.
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Quoted from cottonm4:

I found this sea diver toy interesting. Such as, what is the attraction?
I can see where my 9 YO self could have spent some time with this, but I imagine the attraction would be short lived. I am scratching my head as to just how it works.

Don't for get to read the comments. And then learn that this toy is still available at Ebay. Different name, of course.
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Quoted from dirkdiggler:

I'm sure they've been mentioned but remember Wacky Crawlers? I can remember getting them inside cereal boxes. They'd work a few times throwing them against the wall till too much dirt from the floor got on them. Then they'd just fall to the floor
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Quoted from Invictus:

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Quoted from pinmister:

That Minute Maid concentrated OJ brings back some great childhood memories. Loved going to the mall to get Orange Julius drinks. Well one day my mother introduced me to one of her Girl Scout recipes for making Orange Julius drinks at home. I loved making them for my friends that would come over to play. Really a simple recipe and taste just like Orange Julius:
INGREDIENTS
6 oz. can frozen orange juice concentrate
1 1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
12 ice cubes

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Quoted from girloveswaffles:

Sad News today. Mad Magazine artist and contributer Al Jaffe has passed away at the age of 102:
https://fox5sandiego.com/news/national-news/al-jaffee-longtime-mad-magazine-cartoonist-dead-at-102/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=t.co
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Quoted from ultimategameroom:

My science class was watching it in the classroom 8th grade. It was so shocking there was almost total silence. My teacher was crying and some jerk made a bad joke about it. The teacher flipped out on him and said how disrespectful he was. He sent him off to see the principal.
American Olean Tile was about 3 miles from my home. It was a very large factory complex. I believe the exterior tiles on the bottom of the shuttle were made there. At least that’s what our teachers told us.

Quoted from pinwiztom:

This weblink to an photo article
brought back a lot of memories.
only one of them i did not recognize.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/hate-break-youve-eaten-literally-223147004.html
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Quoted from sethbenjamin:

By contrast, I was only 7 years old in 1982, and it was the height of Satanic Panic mania. My parents were going through a protracted “born again” phase, and it was just sort of “in the air”; Dungeons and Dragons was *particularly* to be feared. I remember seeing a “Special Report” about the perils of having your kid fall under the sway of this dangerous pastime, how kids would be bound up with demonic forced and kill themselves if their character died in a game. They told us about this stuff in Sunday School all the time, with grisly detail that really makes you wonder at the sadism of some adults. Little kids don’t have the guile to recognize when the adults might be full of it, after all.
I lived with some pretty damn vivid (and 100% baseless) fears through the course of my childhood and adolescence. Eventually some friends of mine took an interest in role playing games (the very phrase itself seemed laden with danger to me at the time), and at a sleepover they “initiated” me into the D&D world. I confided that I had been warned off of such games because of the emphasis on demons and the like, and they were totally confused. My friend said “but that’s who you’re *fighting*!” A bit later his dad checked in on us and made a crack about “you’re not in there sacrificing small animals, are you?” Somehow that night and in that moment the spell of anxiety around a simple game which relies on imagination was broken by a sane adult who recognized the absurdity of the bad rap around those games. Lenny Bruce and George Carlin would be proud.
Anyhow…in a way I kind of enjoy looking back on the ridiculousness of the stuff that scared me as a kid. It sort of made the world more “exciting”, knowing it was all so fraught with danger at every turn. On the other hand, seeking solace and refuge in the suffocating din of the drywall and commercial carpeted church activities available as an alternative didn’t hold too much appeal to me. My older brother was always managing to get horror movies and punk rock albums into the house. That world seemed dangerous to me, but in the way a rollercoaster seems dangerous. Just exciting, really. Church was full of adults who seemed bent on making sure that you only had whatever version of “fun” they set out for you. (Usually something to do with an organized sport activity, group singing of awful songs, and maybe eating some hot dogs.)
My parents’ religious phase cooled off eventually (and just at the time I would have started rebelling against it in a big way); by the time I was a couple years into high school my dad was back to digging on rock and roll and hipped me to Frank Zappa. All’s well that ends well, I guess…
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Quoted from hassellcastle:

Well not necessarily a toy, but definitely nostalgic from our childhood if you were an 80’s kid like myself.
I took the plunge and purchased a restored animatronic Billy Bob from the Rock-Afire Explosion band of Showbiz Pizza last fall that I have on display in our store. He does move sing and talk just like we remembered. Soon after others came out of the wood work and offered me other parts & props of his set and I’ve now acquired his stage partner, Looney Bird as well. Just finished construction on a permanent stage for their residency at FUN! in the back of our showroom for customers to come and see.
We’ve had several Rock-Afire Explosion fans come from all over to see them in their former glory….. So…if you’re ever in the area. Stop in the store and say hi, play some pinball and see Billy Bob & Looney Bird.
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Quoted from hwyhed:

Being a kid in the ‘70’s, this was always on the tv on Saturday’s
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