(Close Window) Topic: The most terrifying thing you'll ever see
Message: Posted by: critter (Mar 1, 2012 7:02pm)
Watch... if you dare:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtnESCiZRnw
Message: Posted by: randirain (Mar 1, 2012 7:04pm)
Eh.
Message: Posted by: Josh Chaikin (Mar 2, 2012 12:16am)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvO658acGZI
Message: Posted by: Bob1Dog (Mar 2, 2012 3:03am)
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On 2012-03-01 19:02, critter wrote:
Watch... if you dare:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtnESCiZRnw

Critter, you're obviously not a child of the fifties or sixties. Not meant as a criticism. Every generation has its day. But Remco was (may still be) a major toymaker and in those times, that wouldn't have been a scary commercial. Really. In fact, I found it to be a nostalgic reminder of the way things used to be. Boys played with toy cap guns and pump air rifles made by Daisy, and girls played with dolls. Some dolls even peed in their diapers if you "fed them" with a little plastic water filled baby bottle in the mouth. Before you ask, my little sister got one for Christmas one year. Imagine that! In the fifties! Dolls peed! And boys played guns! Really. And it was a lot of fun.

Boys also played stickball, basketball, touch football and dodgeball at school (one of the funnest games there was). Girls played Hop Scotch and some of them, called tomboys even liked sports and could play as good as any of the boys.

Now the dolls have genitalia and who knows what else, toy guns are practically and politically incorrect and you can't buy a roll of caps anywhere other than searching for them on the Internet. I finally found some for the toy cap gun from my youth and it still works.

I know, I probably sound like the cranky old man. But you'll get there one day too. :)
Message: Posted by: Bob1Dog (Mar 2, 2012 3:06am)
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On 2012-03-02 00:16, Josh Chaikin wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvO658acGZI


Then came the psychedelic era.......
Message: Posted by: Pakar Ilusi (Mar 2, 2012 3:37am)
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On 2012-03-02 03:03, Bob1Dog wrote:

Critter, you're obviously not a child of the fifties or sixties.



:P
Message: Posted by: seadog93 (Mar 2, 2012 11:09am)
I think it would if you someone was doing a more hollywood style seance and one of those dolls just started going.
Message: Posted by: critter (Mar 2, 2012 11:46am)
I'm not a child of the 50's or 60's, but my friend who sent me this link is, and he says it brings back childhood nightmares.
And this is a bad-ash ex-military guy :)
Message: Posted by: Josh Chaikin (Mar 2, 2012 12:03pm)
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On 2012-03-02 03:03, Bob1Dog wrote:
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On 2012-03-01 19:02, critter wrote:
Watch... if you dare:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtnESCiZRnw

you can't buy a roll of caps anywhere other than searching for them on the Internet. I finally found some for the toy cap gun from my youth and it still works.



Really? I seem to recall seeing them around not too long ago...I could be mistaken though. I do know that there are some cap-like things that you have to be 18 to buy. Silly, silly, silly.
Message: Posted by: Woland (Mar 2, 2012 12:18pm)
I think a lot has to do with the context. Was it Stephen King who said "nobody likes a clown at midnight" - ? Think of the scary ventriloquist dummy in the ABSOLUTELY CLASSIC 1945 Dead of Night (Michael Redgrave). Or his more recent avatar as "Chucky." You can see some of them here. Or think of John Wayne Gacy.
Message: Posted by: critter (Mar 2, 2012 1:00pm)
Chucky doesn't scare me. But those old-school wooden ventriloquist dummies do.
Message: Posted by: Pakar Ilusi (Mar 2, 2012 1:38pm)
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On 2012-03-02 12:18, Woland wrote:

I think a lot has to do with the context.

Or think of John Wayne Gacy.



That's a totally different context.

That's a real psycho.
Message: Posted by: Bob1Dog (Mar 2, 2012 1:58pm)
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On 2012-03-02 12:03, Josh Chaikin wrote:
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On 2012-03-02 03:03, Bob1Dog wrote:
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On 2012-03-01 19:02, critter wrote:
Watch... if you dare:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtnESCiZRnw

you can't buy a roll of caps anywhere other than searching for them on the Internet. I finally found some for the toy cap gun from my youth and it still works.



Really? I seem to recall seeing them around not too long ago...I could be mistaken though. I do know that there are some cap-like things that you have to be 18 to buy. Silly, silly, silly.


Key words are "roll of caps" which were rolls of paper with gunpowder in them. Don't get me wrong, They can still be found, but you have to search for them. They used to be sold all over the place from toy stores to candy stores. The modern toy pistols rarely last long and the plastic things they call caps aren't reliable either. I still have my cast metal cap pistol and it still works 60 or so years later. By this time the dumb thing has antique value! :)And the age restriction you mention is, as you say, silly, silly, silly.
Message: Posted by: Bob1Dog (Mar 2, 2012 2:06pm)
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On 2012-03-02 11:46, critter wrote:
I'm not a child of the 50's or 60's, but my friend who sent me this link is, and he says it brings back childhood nightmares.
And this is a bad-ash ex-military guy :)


Maybe he had a sheltered childhood, hence his reason for becoming a bad-ash military guy later! I had a second cousin who was a classic mama's boy and when WWII came along he enlisted in the Marines and joined the elite Edson's Raiders. He was killed on Guadalcanal and earned a Navy Cross for "refusing to be dislodged from his post and exacting a tremendous toll on the enemy..." I'd bet he would have been scared of that doll too as a kid. Just a thought. That's all. I don't find the thing scary. Now, The Exorcist? THAT was scary!
Message: Posted by: seadog93 (Mar 2, 2012 2:08pm)
I remember that gun powder smell and having a long string of used up caps sticking out of the top of my little metal gun.
Message: Posted by: critter (Mar 2, 2012 2:09pm)
I remember when they sold those single shot cap pistols in the quarter machines.
Message: Posted by: MissMage (Mar 2, 2012 2:36pm)
I'm so glad I was a kid when it was perfectly legal to sell a child gun powder!!! Kids today don't have anything cool to play with.
Message: Posted by: Pakar Ilusi (Mar 2, 2012 3:15pm)
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On 2012-03-02 14:36, MissMage wrote:
I'm so glad I was a kid when it was perfectly legal to sell a child gun powder!!! Kids today don't have anything cool to play with.


They have the Internet.

What I would give to have that kind of access to "information" at my fingertips when I was a kid...

If you get what I'M SAYIN'... ;)
Message: Posted by: Bob1Dog (Mar 2, 2012 4:03pm)
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On 2012-03-02 14:36, MissMage wrote:
I'm so glad I was a kid when it was perfectly legal to sell a child gun powder!!! Kids today don't have anything cool to play with.

Better a roll of caps that doesn't have enough powder in it to light a sparkler than porn on the Internet, eh?
Message: Posted by: Bob1Dog (Mar 2, 2012 4:08pm)
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On 2012-03-02 14:08, seadog93 wrote:
I remember that gun powder smell and having a long string of used up caps sticking out of the top of my little metal gun.


Fun stuff and fond memories that! Things were much simpler. No big government deciding what's good for us and what's not. Then along came political correctness to ruin it all.
Message: Posted by: MissMage (Mar 2, 2012 4:34pm)
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On 2012-03-02 16:03, Bob1Dog wrote:

Better a roll of caps that doesn't have enough powder in it to light a sparkler than porn on the Internet, eh?


One roll??? Oh no, no, no. We'd get huge economy packs of them. Makes me wanna call my brother and find a big stash of them.

And sorry, but flammable and explosive wins over internet porn. But then again, I've always been a bit of a pyro :)
Message: Posted by: mastermindreader (Mar 2, 2012 4:37pm)
We used to take a whole roll of caps, put it on the sidewalk and whack it with a hammer to get a good explosion.
Message: Posted by: MissMage (Mar 2, 2012 4:47pm)
Bob,
Here's a good explosion!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlUA1uUrNKo
Message: Posted by: mastermindreader (Mar 2, 2012 4:57pm)
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On 2012-03-02 16:47, MissMage wrote:
Bob,
Here's a good explosion!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlUA1uUrNKo


Now we're talking!! Wish I'd have thought of that!
Message: Posted by: Bob1Dog (Mar 2, 2012 5:46pm)
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On 2012-03-02 16:47, MissMage wrote:
Bob,
Here's a good explosion!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlUA1uUrNKo


MissMage, I apologize. I guess I viewed your first post as being cynical; my bad if that was the case. And like MasterMindreader, we too used the hammer now that I recall. But the ball of caps? I never saw that one and I thought I saw it all. My father and I used to make firecrackers when I was a kid with chemicals you could buy in the local drug store, thin cardboard rolled into tubes and brown paper bag paper fashioned into black powder fuses. They made a pretty loud bang. But in the end it was labor intensive to make a lot of them and cheaper to just buy some for the Fourth of July.
Message: Posted by: landmark (Mar 2, 2012 6:48pm)
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On 2012-03-02 16:08, Bob1Dog wrote:
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On 2012-03-02 14:08, seadog93 wrote:
I remember that gun powder smell and having a long string of used up caps sticking out of the top of my little metal gun.


Fun stuff and fond memories that! Things were much simpler. No big government deciding what's good for us and what's not. Then along came political correctness to ruin it all.

I definitely remember those red rolls of caps. We didn't even bother with the gun--we'd run a rock over the strip to get them all going at once.
But Bob1Dog, you still have your tin gun? Now, I'm worried.
Message: Posted by: MissMage (Mar 2, 2012 7:05pm)
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On 2012-03-02 17:46, Bob1Dog wrote:

MissMage, I apologize. I guess I viewed your first post as being cynical; my bad if that was the case. And like MasterMindreader, we too used the hammer now that I recall. But the ball of caps? I never saw that one and I thought I saw it all. My father and I used to make firecrackers when I was a kid with chemicals you could buy in the local drug store, thin cardboard rolled into tubes and brown paper bag paper fashioned into black powder fuses. They made a pretty loud bang. But in the end it was labor intensive to make a lot of them and cheaper to just buy some for the Fourth of July.


No worries, Bob1Dog. I can see how my post might have read cynical. But I do genuinely feel sorry on some levels for today's kids. Exploration for them is simply a google search. Everything that can be done has been done and there's a video on youtube. Now if a kid wonders what will happen when they put 5 rolls of caps in a microwave for 2 minutes, they never get to learn true creativity when they try to figure out a way to blame their younger brother for the fire damage in the kitchen.

And homemade firecrackers?!?!!? Color me intrigued.
Message: Posted by: tomsk192 (Mar 2, 2012 7:59pm)
Well, our boys have a whole arsenal of toy guns, swords and daggers. Some parents disapprove, that's their right I suppose. Our daughter has a doll that wets itself. My eldest turned 13 yesterday, and all the kids were out playing in the field after dark.

It hasn't gone away, thank God, but you do have to enable it a bit more these days.

The caveat I would add, though, is that living in the UK, where private gun ownership is illegal, toy guns carry less baggage, for most.

Anyway, that image of the red roll sticking out the top of the cap gun took me back to a very happy time. Those were the days :)
Message: Posted by: Bob1Dog (Mar 2, 2012 8:30pm)
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On 2012-03-02 18:48, landmark wrote:
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On 2012-03-02 16:08, Bob1Dog wrote:
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On 2012-03-02 14:08, seadog93 wrote:
I remember that gun powder smell and having a long string of used up caps sticking out of the top of my little metal gun.


Fun stuff and fond memories that! Things were much simpler. No big government deciding what's good for us and what's not. Then along came political correctness to ruin it all.

I definitely remember those red rolls of caps. We didn't even bother with the gun--we'd run a rock over the strip to get them all going at once.
But Bob1Dog, you still have your tin gun? Now, I'm worried.
Tin gun???

Tin?? Nah, not tin but some kind of cast metal with plating of some sort. Still in great shape. I have a picture of myself at about age four with the two-gun set and holster on a rocking horse. Don't know whatever happened to the holster and the other gun, but I lost my two front teeth on that *** horse!
Message: Posted by: landmark (Mar 2, 2012 8:47pm)
Oh, okay the holster deal and the horse. I always envied my cousin's horse and Lone Ranger mask. But how the heck did the gun make it to 2012?
Message: Posted by: Bob1Dog (Mar 2, 2012 8:49pm)
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On 2012-03-02 19:05, MissMage wrote:
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On 2012-03-02 17:46, Bob1Dog wrote:

MissMage, I apologize. I guess I viewed your first post as being cynical; my bad if that was the case. And like MasterMindreader, we too used the hammer now that I recall. But the ball of caps? I never saw that one and I thought I saw it all. My father and I used to make firecrackers when I was a kid with chemicals you could buy in the local drug store, thin cardboard rolled into tubes and brown paper bag paper fashioned into black powder fuses. They made a pretty loud bang. But in the end it was labor intensive to make a lot of them and cheaper to just buy some for the Fourth of July.


No worries, Bob1Dog. I can see how my post might have read cynical. But I do genuinely feel sorry on some levels for today's kids. Exploration for them is simply a google search. Everything that can be done has been done and there's a video on youtube. Now if a kid wonders what will happen when they put 5 rolls of caps in a microwave for 2 minutes, they never get to learn true creativity when they try to figure out a way to blame their younger brother for the fire damage in the kitchen.

And homemade firecrackers?!?!!? Color me intrigued.


MissMage, I love your creativity with the microwave!

I'd post the firecracker "recipe" here, but then someone would make them and then sue me when one blows up in his hand because he made the fuse too fast.
Message: Posted by: critter (Mar 2, 2012 9:08pm)
We used to blow up my backyard all the time. Don't tell anyone.
Message: Posted by: Bob1Dog (Mar 2, 2012 10:19pm)
Yikes, from a scary doll to blowing things up! I love this place.
Message: Posted by: MissMage (Mar 3, 2012 2:00am)
Ok, back to dolls, sort of...

This one is kinda messed up, but the really creepy part is the girl. I just know she probably grew up to be the mother of a serial killer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsOnhzIX74k
Message: Posted by: Woland (Mar 3, 2012 7:57am)
Hans Bellmer.
Message: Posted by: Bob1Dog (Mar 3, 2012 12:54pm)
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On 2012-03-02 20:47, landmark wrote:
Oh, okay the holster deal and the horse. I always envied my cousin's horse and Lone Ranger mask. But how the heck did the gun make it to 2012?

Pure luck I'd guess, since there were two of them. It turned up in a box in the basement of my mother's house years ago when she told my wife and I to go through stuff in the basement so she could clean it out. Still in great shape.
Message: Posted by: critter (Mar 3, 2012 2:09pm)
I still have my Grandpa's Red Ryder BB gun somewhere. I'm also supposed to get his old wrestling figures once everything from the estate is organized.
Message: Posted by: Bob1Dog (Mar 3, 2012 4:16pm)
Critter, I had my father's Daisy pump BB gun from the twenties but it didn't work. I found a guy in the midwest who repaired old BB guns and mine came back in perfect working order for shooting. The guy's rate was very reasonable and it now belongs to my fourteen year old nephew. I only mention this because I don't know the working condition of your Red Ryder. But that too is a great piece.
Message: Posted by: critter (Mar 3, 2012 4:41pm)
This one still works. It's not that old though. Probably the 80's. More sentimental value than anything else.