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critter
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Spokane, WA
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Posted: Mar 1, 2012 7:02pm
Watch... if you dare:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtnESCiZRnw
I throw stuff.
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Ichi-go ichi-e
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randirain
Inner circle
Fort Worth, TX
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Posted: Mar 1, 2012 7:04pm
Eh.
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Josh Chaikin
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Kansas City
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Posted: Mar 2, 2012 12:16am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvO658acGZI
"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it." - Bill Cosby
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Bob1Dog
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Posted: Mar 2, 2012 3:03am
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. 
What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about? 
My neighbor rang my doorbell at 2:30 a.m. this morning, can you believe that, 2:30 a.m.!? Lucky for him I was still up playing my drums.
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Bob1Dog
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Posted: Mar 2, 2012 3:06am
Then came the psychedelic era.......
What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about?
My neighbor rang my doorbell at 2:30 a.m. this morning, can you believe that, 2:30 a.m.!? Lucky for him I was still up playing my drums.
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Pakar Ilusi
Inner circle
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Posted: 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.
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seadog93
Inner circle
Berkeley CA
2710 Posts
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Posted: 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.
“Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.” -Ben Hecht
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critter
Inner circle
Spokane, WA
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Posted: 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
I throw stuff.
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Ichi-go ichi-e
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-Theodore Roosevelt
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Josh Chaikin
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Kansas City
1413 Posts
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Posted: Mar 2, 2012 12:03pm
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On 2012-03-02 03:03, Bob1Dog wrote:
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.
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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.
"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it." - Bill Cosby
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Woland
Special user
645 Posts
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Posted: 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.
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critter
Inner circle
Spokane, WA
2334 Posts
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Posted: Mar 2, 2012 1:00pm
Chucky doesn't scare me. But those old-school wooden ventriloquist dummies do.
I throw stuff.
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Ichi-go ichi-e
"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
-Theodore Roosevelt
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Pakar Ilusi
Inner circle
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Posted: 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.
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That's a totally different context.
That's a real psycho.
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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Bob1Dog
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Posted: 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:
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.
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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.
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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.
What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about?
My neighbor rang my doorbell at 2:30 a.m. this morning, can you believe that, 2:30 a.m.!? Lucky for him I was still up playing my drums.
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Bob1Dog
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Posted: 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
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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!
What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about?
My neighbor rang my doorbell at 2:30 a.m. this morning, can you believe that, 2:30 a.m.!? Lucky for him I was still up playing my drums.
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seadog93
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Berkeley CA
2710 Posts
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Posted: 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.
“Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.” -Ben Hecht
Seadog = C-dawg = C.ourt.ney K.olb
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critter
Inner circle
Spokane, WA
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Posted: Mar 2, 2012 2:09pm
I remember when they sold those single shot cap pistols in the quarter machines.
I throw stuff.
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Ichi-go ichi-e
"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
-Theodore Roosevelt
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MissMage
New user
89 Posts
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Posted: 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.
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Pakar Ilusi
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Posted: 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.
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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'... 
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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Bob1Dog
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Posted: 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.
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Better a roll of caps that doesn't have enough powder in it to light a sparkler than porn on the Internet, eh?
What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about?
My neighbor rang my doorbell at 2:30 a.m. this morning, can you believe that, 2:30 a.m.!? Lucky for him I was still up playing my drums.
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Bob1Dog
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Posted: 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.
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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.
What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about?
My neighbor rang my doorbell at 2:30 a.m. this morning, can you believe that, 2:30 a.m.!? Lucky for him I was still up playing my drums.
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MissMage
New user
89 Posts
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Posted: 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?
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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
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mastermindreader
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Seattle, WA
6069 Posts
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Posted: 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.
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MissMage
New user
89 Posts
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Posted: Mar 2, 2012 4:47pm
Bob,
Here's a good explosion!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlUA1uUrNKo
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mastermindreader
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Seattle, WA
6069 Posts
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Posted: Mar 2, 2012 4:57pm
Now we're talking!! Wish I'd have thought of that!
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Bob1Dog
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Posted: Mar 2, 2012 5:46pm
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.
What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about?
My neighbor rang my doorbell at 2:30 a.m. this morning, can you believe that, 2:30 a.m.!? Lucky for him I was still up playing my drums.
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landmark
Inner circle
By now they've deleted all but
2887 Posts
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Posted: 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.
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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.
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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.
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
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MissMage
New user
89 Posts
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Posted: 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.
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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.
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tomsk192
Inner circle
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Posted: 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
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Bob1Dog
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Posted: 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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about?
My neighbor rang my doorbell at 2:30 a.m. this morning, can you believe that, 2:30 a.m.!? Lucky for him I was still up playing my drums.
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landmark
Inner circle
By now they've deleted all but
2887 Posts
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Posted: 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?
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
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