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by **Apache Chef** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 4:50 pm

Anyone remember a "toy" that was essentially a tube of a caustic smelling toxic rubber-like substance that came with a small straw? You used the straw to blow bubbles with the rubber stuff.

by **Cat-Scratch** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 4:54 pm

I am so old cause I remember all that crap... and had that Space 1999 toy thing too...

by **Timbales** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 4:55 pm

Apache Chef wrote:Anyone remember a "toy" that was essentially a tube of a caustic smelling toxic rubber-like substance that came with a small straw? You used the straw to blow bubbles with the rubber stuff.

by **Schlemmer** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 5:00 pm

Apache Chef wrote:Anyone remember a "toy" that was essentially a tube of a caustic smelling toxic rubber-like substance that came with a small straw? You used the straw to blow bubbles with the rubber stuff.

Yes, and I remember my parents making me spend my own money on it, and then it wouldn't work for crap....

by **Apache Chef** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 5:03 pm

Timbales wrote:

Man, what were they trying to do to us?

by **Timbales** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 5:04 pm

trying to kill us with lawn darts didn't work.

by **Cat-Scratch** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 5:16 pm

Timbales wrote:trying to kill us with lawn darts didn't work.

We threw those things at each other as kids. Only an idiot stood still.

by **Timbales** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:46 am

Cat-Scratch wrote:
We threw those things at each other as kids. Only an idiot stood still.

we used to whip them around and try to throw them as high up in the air as we could, straight up

by **Schlemmer** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:04 pm

by **sdsichero** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:26 pm

Cat-Scratch wrote:
We threw those things at each other as kids. Only an idiot stood still.

How much did it hurt?

by **Schlemmer** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 5:31 pm

by **Arion** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 6:03 pm

Aaaannd ... compared to some of you I'm feeling rather young .
Thank you very much.

by **Schlemmer** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:35 am

by **outsider** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:38 am

Schlemmer wrote:

That was possibly the best Saturday morning lineup (except you *had* to switch to ABC at 11:00 for the Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Hour).

by **CountD** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:59 am

Timbales wrote:... there was no internet
... the only channels were 3, 5, 9 and PBS
... comics were less than a dollar
... summer hit and I'd leave the house after breakfast and not be home until dinner, my mom not knowing where I was or what I was doing and it was totally fine
... there were no cell phones
... house phones were corded and had a rotary dial

I think these are called 'days gone by'

used to get into so much trouble as a kid my parents didn't know about.