Saturday, December 6, 2025

The toys we played with...

I'm sure somebody knows somebody who's cousin 
lost an eye to some toy or other... 

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Almost guaranteed to take out an eye.
Made in my hometown, Newark, NJ
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I think this thing actually came with a 
little tiny bit of radioactive material.
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What could possibly go wrong with that?
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6 comments:

  1. Had an Alpha and a Beta particle source so that you could see the trails left behind in the cloud chamber.

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  2. A gift shop in Lake Locks had a 300-shot rubber band
    Gatling gun.
    Must have been a beer itch to load!

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  3. So happy I bought a set of lawn darts before they were banned. Great, fun game.

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  4. In the sixties my brothers and I would play war with a little plastic airplanes launched with a rubber bands. They were hard plastic, about 2 to 2 and a half inches long, and sold for 5¢. We stopped using them when one hit a window and broke it.

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  5. We played lawn darts. We were SMART enough to have everybody stand at one end and throw the lawn darts at the other. BTW I just found them in the garage in 2024. Not in the best of shape but still in the box

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  6. And we had Clackers too, before they were banned.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clackers

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It's okay - she's only part-time...

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