That's What She Said 26,020 24
08/15/2007 05:47 AM

Polly Pocket... when her whole house could fit in your pocket.

Chit 178,088 15
08/15/2007 05:52 AM

For those too young to remember...


Lawn Darts

Woodburning Kits

Creepy Crawlers

Lila Needs A Lot More Blue Clothing 78,550 12
08/15/2007 05:58 AM

I remember Weebles used to "wobble but they don't fall down". But back then they could also "lodge themselves in your throat and choke you to death".

I think the manufacturers chose the first catch phrase because it was shorter.

Chit 178,088 15
08/15/2007 05:59 AM

Polly Pocket


They should challenge you to eat the different accessories and Shakespeare out a fully dressed turd.

That's What She Said 26,020 24
08/15/2007 06:04 AM

This is the old Polly Pocket.

Polly could fit in your nostril back then.

Dogs Akimbo 205,285 31
08/15/2007 06:05 AM

Not dangerous, but requiring some responsibility: a 100-water lightbulb powered heater for melting wax and pouring into molds to make army guys and field cannons.

Dogs Akimbo 205,285 31
08/15/2007 06:05 AM

And .22 rifles.

Mark Walker 0 0
08/15/2007 06:11 AM

The equal treatment of people in this country will be it's downfall.

When natural selection is eliminated, more and more disabled people will become the norm.


And when we are weak, China will attack and own all of our precious corporations.

Chit 178,088 15
08/15/2007 06:18 AM

I remember dreaming of beating the Shakespeare out of my sister with a toy called Soccer Boppers.

I searched for them, but they didn't have the ones I remember.

I remember big heavy foam cylinders mounted on each end of a broom handle, much like the ones the Marines used to spar with on Gomer Pyle.

Mark Walker 0 0
08/15/2007 06:44 AM

I remember Power Rangers.

ObeseExplosive 3,430 6
08/15/2007 06:53 AM

Don't you still watch them.

Mark Walker 0 0
08/15/2007 09:09 AM

Nope, not for a long time. But I've seen a few glimpses of the show and it's pretty bad.

Apparently, the red ranger busted a nut in the blue ranger, and now they have a little purple ranger.

Fartpup I am Root 432 6
08/15/2007 09:11 AM

I think I may have ingested some lead somewhere along the way, I just told my 11 year old nephew that I've been getting drunk and hitting on chicks when he asked what I've been upto.

Mark Walker 0 0
08/15/2007 09:26 AM

I thought that was called honesty.

Fartpup I am Root 432 6
08/15/2007 09:34 AM

Not with the way my sister throws a punch.

Teh High Priestess; Gab is my crack. 58,196 29
08/15/2007 11:49 AM

I liked the Kiddie Wheat Thresher

Virnomine: My backpack has jets 79,379 11
08/15/2007 11:53 AM

Fuel oil and fertilizer.

Undies, about to be a mommy again! 99,723 76
08/15/2007 12:05 PM

We played around with a set of old golf clubs. I didn't do it, but my brother ended up with stitches because a neighbor kid swung one when my brother was standing right behind him.

It was really gross - it split open his forehead and you could see his skull. He was lucky he didn't lose an eye - a couple millimeters lower and it would have been gone.

It didn't knock any sense into him though. He lost his two front teeth a few months after that because he standing behind a different neighbor when we were on a big dirt pile and playing "King of the Mountain." The kid was tussling with someone else, and stepped back and bumped by brother down to the bottom, and he landed on his face.

Chit 178,088 15
08/15/2007 12:15 PM

Ohh yea... How could I ever forget, clackers.

One year, every kid I knew had a pair of these and was whipping them around frantically trying to get them to explode into tiny shards of airborne acrylic.

Undies, about to be a mommy again! 99,723 76
08/15/2007 12:24 PM

Oh, I remember slap bracelets. We were poor and I only had one. It was pink with yellow flowers. I used it so much, the covering wore down and one day the metal/plastic/hard Shakespeare underneath sliced open my wrist when I slapped it down.

If that had happened now, there would probably be a lawsuit. But then, my mom told me to shut the Frost up and stop crying so she could watch her soaps.

Chit 178,088 15
08/15/2007 12:29 PM

If that had happened now, there would probably be a lawsuit. But then, my mom told me to shut the Frost up and stop crying so she could watch her soaps.

Handed you the roll of Duct Tape and told you to go play golf with your brother who is teeing off from the dirt hill next door.

See the Chickens Dance 282,028 58
08/15/2007 01:20 PM

They don't make toys like they used to. I had a tonka jeep that survived several years of cherry bomb attacks.

Kung fu grip GI Joe probably should have learned to drop lit firecrackers though. You can lose a hand!

Video Gamer - Underage Then Ever! 275 0
08/15/2007 01:23 PM

Oh Shakespeare. Magnets aren't safe to eat? Shakespeare! God now I have to go to the doctor. Or I'll use a coffee colonic. Either one works

Straw 95,470 36
08/15/2007 01:31 PM

You'll shoot your eye out, kid.

Chit 178,088 15
08/15/2007 01:35 PM

Oh Shakespeare. Magnets aren't safe to eat? Shakespeare! God now I have to go to the doctor.


Yea, ask for an MRI.

Shell Belle 76,640 24
08/15/2007 01:45 PM

I loved lawn darts. My parents threw them away though, after we convinced our little brother that he was actually supposed to stand on the other end and catch them. Lucky for him, our aim was pretty bad.

Video Gamer - Underage Then Ever! 275 0
08/15/2007 01:48 PM

our aim was pretty bad.

Well of course your aim is bad. I bet you also told him that he had to catch it with his 0.5 inch wang. You were too busy looking at it.

Chit 178,088 15
08/15/2007 01:56 PM

Shell,

I found this little factoid:

Lawn Darts!

During their brief (and generally awesome) reign in 1980s suburbia, Jarts racked up 6,700 injuries and four deaths.

That's What She Said 26,020 24
08/15/2007 02:05 PM

I had these hampsters as part of my Littlest Pet Shop collection. Today they make their heads so big it's impossible to hide them in your mouth when the teacher comes around to see why you aren't paying attention.

See the Chickens Dance 282,028 58
08/15/2007 02:09 PM

That kitten in the lower left has his own scotch bottle shot dispenser and he loves it.

That's What She Said 26,020 24
08/15/2007 02:10 PM

That would be a hampster.

Virnomine: My backpack has jets 79,379 11
08/15/2007 02:11 PM

4 deaths? that's all? Slinkies have killed that many kids.

Shell Belle 76,640 24
08/15/2007 03:28 PM

<action>pats Video Gamer on the head</action>

How cute! He tried to insult me. Keep practicing, little guy.

Taco Crunch, vitriolic dick. 61,959 36
08/15/2007 03:38 PM

The spontaneously combusting original easy bake oven. Shrinkie drinks. That gross food lab where you'd make brains and it was delicious.

Mmm. Brains.

drworm979 436 5
08/15/2007 03:40 PM

We used to ride bike without helmets... which is apparently against the law in some states because it is too dangerous. Also, we played with He-Man characters, nothing more dangerous then a flaming Homo toy to give to little boys.

SHPadoinkle! 181,263 70
08/15/2007 04:00 PM

Nevermind lead paint and choking hazards, how about explaining to me why Barbie is feeding dog Shakespeare to her dog?

Chit 178,088 15
08/15/2007 04:05 PM

Ancient Chinese Secret

Virnomine: Got the 'tussin 79,379 11
08/15/2007 04:06 PM

Obviously you've never had a dog.


Where's the vomit dispenser?

Phuc 237,453 20
08/15/2007 04:10 PM

Shrinky Dinks.

The Rev. Dr. Big Irish Guy Jr. 203,777 21
08/15/2007 04:13 PM

The most dangerous thing growing up?

An older brother.

Gorcky Thumpkat 41,132 12
08/15/2007 04:43 PM

BB Guns

-My best friend shot me in the leg when I was eight or nine while we were "squirrel hunting". It's still in there and might be Frost-ing with my hip joint.
-I played a game with his older brother once where I was jumping between and hiding behind several trees while he tried to shoot me. He did, several times.
-I shot myself in the neck after pegging a GI Joe helicopter from about 3 feet away. It didn't cause bleeding, but did have to be pried out of the skin and left a nice bruise.

Firecrackers

-Rigged a grenade out of duct tape and an empty Band-Aid can (back when they were metal). The fuse wasn't long enough to light, close and throw, and luckily we weren't using anything that actually created shrapnel. Just a very loud bang and empty bladders.
-After throwing a firecracker and it not exploding, the kid who put the BB in my leg ran over and picked it up. He peeled the paper wrapping until it exploded in his hands.

Crypto- proudly not funny 800 7
08/15/2007 04:55 PM

Surprised no one has mentioned bike ramps yet.

Find an old rickety piece of plywood, stack up some bricks, and you got a ramp.

When I was a kid we used to take turns laying down in front of the ramp and having people jump over us.
I am honestly shocked no one got hurt.

Also we used to ride our bikes down really steep hills. The best was when me or my friends would hit a bump while going 20mph down a muddy hill. I think one of my friends broke his arm.

That's What She Said 26,020 24
08/15/2007 05:01 PM

Roller Racers

I still have mine in the garage. Not only did they put children 2 inches off the pavement, we used to take them down huge hills in the middle of the street. A lot of my sneakers had the bottoms wore off because I would use them as "breaks"

Captain Skippy 41,253 13
08/15/2007 05:14 PM

My brother got an air rifle for Christmas one year that was immediately recalled because of a faulty relief valve on the compression chamber. The end result was that you could pump the rifle up enough to give it the muzzle velocity of a 22 rifle. It was breach load in addition to magazine so you could load these fancy lead pellets that would tear the Frost out of crows and squirrels.

Captain Skippy 41,253 13
08/15/2007 05:18 PM

Roller Racers

Hey, they made some improvements to those. The ones we had didn't have the handle bars curved around like that or the wheels on the foot rests. Without those fancy features if your center of gravity shifted too far left or right you'd lose all the skin on your knuckles and if it was too far forward the bottom would catch the ground and you'd stop. That breaking feature wasn't very welcome on large hills where you'd be thrown off the racer and tumble end over end down the hill.

Captain Skippy 41,253 13
08/15/2007 05:20 PM

remember pogo balls? The looked like someone shoved a ball through a frisbee. They flew nice in the air but were about 5-10 lbs so they did some damage if you hit someone with them.

That's What She Said 26,020 24
08/15/2007 05:20 PM

Yeah I know.. I couldn't find a picture of mine (which was white and had a dragon on the side of it) but the handle bars are like you said Skip.

Captain Skippy 41,253 13
08/15/2007 05:21 PM

oh, and they broke your ankles if you jumped on them incorrectly.

100% Concentrated Doug 67 5
08/15/2007 05:28 PM

when i rode my bike with my "friends", we had a game called "make doug bleed" where we'd all ride bikes but the would try and stick stick, pipes, whatever they could get and hit me of put it in my spokes so i go face first into pavement,, mud, glass/sticks(we had a bike rack in the woods i havent heen scarred(miracle?) from it, but we also played paintball in your undies. can you guess how that worked, espicially since i was 250 pounds and 6'5"

Lila Needs A Lot More Blue Clothing 78,550 12
08/15/2007 05:36 PM

sigh

After reading this thread, I no longer wish to have a boy. I want a girl now.

Gorcky Thumpkat 41,132 12
08/15/2007 05:36 PM

I really hope you didn't play paintball in my undies.

Undies, about to be a mommy again! 99,723 76
08/15/2007 06:03 PM

Uh, not cool.

100% Concentrated Doug 67 5
08/15/2007 06:05 PM

i only played once, you see when the were preparing the flag(it is capture the flag) they put gear on, buoy was i pissed and in pain

drworm979 436 5
08/15/2007 06:08 PM

Way back when we would play tackle football in the street. it was very common in north philly acutally. the kids played during the day then the adults in the afternoon.

100% Concentrated Doug 67 5
08/15/2007 06:10 PM

hey your from notrh philly? i lived right outside from NE philly. and yes i remember takle football, in the street obvioulsy

drworm979 436 5
08/15/2007 06:24 PM

Yea, 5th and Olney... now in levittown.

bonus, kids no longer to play with clowns because of allergies!

Fezig ... are there rocks ahead... 3,711 6
08/15/2007 06:26 PM

When I was kid my parents were so cheap, they wouldn't even buy us the real GI Joe. We had some cheap knock off that any of it's vehicles would break after 10 minutes. We decieded to make a real war scene in dried up creek bed behind our house.

We strapped fireworks (illegal of course) to every single one of them and blew the hell out of them. Plus, one time, we shoved a poster tube in ground and poured lighter fluid in plus a number of other toxic and flammable chemicals. Stupid me, I tossed a match in it and then tried to look down the tube. Thankfully my brother grabbed my hair and yanked it back as the fireball shot about 10 feet into the air. If he hadn't, I would have ended up looking like Abe Vigoda (without the eyebrows.)

We also created veggie bombs. Take any vegetable or fruit (squash, tomato's, etc) take 4 four black cat's, shove them into the fruit/vegetable, twist the fuses together light and then throw in the air at your brother. Ah fun times!

syncope the sialagogic 49,000 13
08/15/2007 06:36 PM

I always loved shrinky dinks.

Hey kids! Explore your creativity with some paints that may or may not be toxic.

Then go Frost around with mom's oven for an hour or so. It's safe. Don't be a Poe.

Taco Crunch, vitriolic dick. 61,959 36
08/15/2007 06:38 PM

I did DIY shrinky dinks a couple years back for an art project. If you sprinkle snack size potato chip bags with some salt and pop them in the oven for a few minutes, you get shrinky dink potato chip bags. It looks really neat. Really.

Virnomine: Got the 'tussin 79,379 11
08/15/2007 06:40 PM

When I go in cold water my dinky shrinks. Which for me is tragic, it's almost inverted.

Captain Skippy 41,253 13
08/15/2007 06:41 PM

My brother had a water balloon slingshot. That combined with frozen water balloons was tons of fun.

Captain Skippy 41,253 13
08/15/2007 06:44 PM

putting clear packing tape sticky side up across a road is amusing as well.

Marmite - Spreads better when hot 12,940 12
08/15/2007 07:04 PM

I had Lego, loads of plastic farm animals (which I used to ritually twist their legs off) and some crappy brightly painted tin toys.


The paint NEVEr D I D Me Annnny HaarrrrrrrmmMM GAH....*drool*

Undies, about to be a mommy again! 99,723 76
08/15/2007 07:06 PM

I had a TON of plastic animals. I used to line them up and attack them with my toy dinosaurs. It was great.

See the Chickens Dance 282,028 58
08/15/2007 07:08 PM

Was there something dangerous about creepy crawlers?

Taco Crunch, vitriolic dick. 61,959 36
08/15/2007 07:09 PM

The toy ones and the food ones looked identical and baked in an almost identical oven.

Dave's not here 52,810 16
08/15/2007 07:11 PM

We had awesome toys when I was a kid. One of my favorites was called "Stick", and you could cut them off trees or even pick them up off the ground.

It was a versatile device that encouraged imagination. It could be a gun, a sword, a magic wand, or whatever.

Occasionally the kids who could afford better toys would make fun of stick, but that's when stick was at its best, because you could beat the living Shakespeare out of them.

Taco Crunch, vitriolic dick. 61,959 36
08/15/2007 07:12 PM

My brother had a toy called the demented stick. It was a lot lick stick, but I whittled off all the bark for him and he used it strictly for attacking birds.

Taco Crunch, vitriolic dick. 61,959 36
08/15/2007 07:12 PM

LIKE. LIKE. Jesus.

See the Chickens Dance 282,028 58
08/15/2007 07:15 PM

I have a permanent burst blood vessel on my eyelid where my best friend shot me with a bb gun. I just happened to blink at the right time or I would be wearing an eye patch and going Arrrr a lot.

cattnip 795 6
08/15/2007 07:16 PM

Does anyone remember garbage pail kids trading cards? Those were great. My mom confiscated so many of those from me. She used to say they were satanic and disgusting. Those were the days.

Ricky Boxer 610 6
08/15/2007 07:16 PM

Skip ball, also known as the mace for kids.

Chit 178,088 15
08/15/2007 07:16 PM

Was there something dangerous about creepy crawlers?


Yea, in my day they were made on an open hot plate that heated up to about 300 degrees.

I still have scars on my hand from handling the red hot molds.

They were also more toxic smelling than roofing tar.

I also had the edible ones and I don't know what ever made me want to put one of those in my mouth because they smelled every bit as toxic as the other ones.

Chit 178,088 15
08/15/2007 07:21 PM

putting clear packing tape sticky side up across a road is amusing as well.



That was just a ploy to get you to go play in the middle of the street.

See the Chickens Dance 282,028 58
08/15/2007 07:34 PM

Arr.

Virnomine: Got the 'tussin 79,379 11
08/15/2007 07:35 PM

Is that your eye or a oddly hairy vagina?

Taco Crunch, vitriolic dick. 61,959 36
08/15/2007 07:38 PM

This was the Shakespeare back before they remade it. Oh my god the guts and the brains weer so good. The little gummy bugs tasted like creepy crawlies though.

Captain Skippy 41,253 13
08/15/2007 07:40 PM

speaking of trae's vagina...

cattnip 795 6
08/15/2007 08:03 PM

Some wholesome images for children of the 80's

Acne Amy

Schizo Fran

Back

Chris Hiss

100% Concentrated Doug 67 5
08/15/2007 08:06 PM

was that last one ponyboy form the outsiders?

Chit 178,088 15
08/15/2007 08:08 PM

Now-a-days, I'm sure they have the "Organtic Freaky Food Lab"

(with hypoallergenic guts and brains)

Spicey McHaggis 114,978 33
08/15/2007 08:22 PM

I had an Erector set once. It was totally metal.

drworm979 436 5
08/15/2007 08:24 PM

does anyone remember these games for Atari? I know I sure dont! I wish I did.

100% Concentrated Doug 67 5
08/15/2007 08:25 PM

because we all love pixel porn, the best out there

100% Concentrated Doug 67 5
08/15/2007 08:26 PM

for that matter pixel Poe in general

Crypto- proudly not funny 800 7
08/15/2007 08:31 PM

My dad told me that when i was a kid, him and his friend would go down to the beach and have "Jellyfish Fights"

It basically involved picking up jellyfish with sticks and throwing them at each other.

100% Concentrated Doug 67 5
08/15/2007 08:32 PM

ouch. if you got stung, how'd you get it off?

Chit 178,088 15
08/15/2007 08:34 PM

My dad told me that when i was a kid, him and his friend would go down to the beach and have "Jellyfish Fights"



And all this time you thought that was your summer hat...

I couldn't imagine having a cold jellyfish fly by and wrap itself around my face.

Chit 178,088 15
08/15/2007 08:37 PM

I couldn't imagine having a cold jellyfish fly by and wrap itself around my face.


I just remembered, when you get stung...don't you piss on it to take the pain away?


Lovely!

Crypto- proudly not funny 800 7
08/15/2007 08:38 PM

"ouch. if you got stung, how'd you get it off?"

I would assume you'd just shake it off, stop being a Poe and carry on playing.


Also i just remembered how I used to play "brick fight" with my friends. That ended pretty quickly though as soon as we began to bleed

Cletus Delroy Spuckler 280 6
08/15/2007 09:14 PM

We used to have bottle rocket fights.

There's nothing better than whipping exploding projectiles at your friends while holding a box of matches.

Chit 178,088 15
08/16/2007 12:13 AM

We did the bottle rocket fight thing as well.


One of my buddies shot one that went parallel with the street for about fifty feet, managed to find it's way in about a two inch opening in his mom's car window that he borrowed that night, where it hit the front windshield and wedged itself between the glass and the dashboard before exploding and leaving a permanent gray fogged mark that was about eight inches in diameter.

Other peoples misfortune is always soooo sweet when you're young and drunk.

Chit 178,088 15
08/16/2007 12:20 AM

I can honestly say that as a kid, as long as we had some form of explosives, I never spent one bored minute.

We used to have fun even inventorying our fireworks supply.

The Rockin' Donkey [\m<>m/] 77,085 13
08/16/2007 12:27 AM

We had lawn darts. I don't see the problem.

But product recalls are a good excuse for parents to take toys away from the kids and throw them out.

Everybody wins!


































































Except for the kids.

Phuc 237,453 20
08/16/2007 01:16 AM

Toys I played with when I was a kid that lame-ass hippie parents whine about now:

Silly String (thank gawd they haven' taken this off the market yet)

Daisy BB guns. I didn't have one, but the kids next door did, so I had all the fun and none of the responsibility. Does not have enough stopping power against a rabid possum.

Smith n' Wesson 38. It was my dead uncle's. My dad put boards over the basement windows and made a ghetto shooting range. I got really good at it.

.22 rifles. They had these at summer camp. We'd collect cans from the garbage and shoot them off logs. The safety rules consisted of "wait until the kind putting up the cans is behind the yellow line."

Bows n' arrows. There were no safety rules. One kid at day camp got shot in the calf. It was cool.

Bullets. We'd empty them out and do stuff with the gunpowder, like blow up hornets' nests.

M80s. Can you still get these? A couple of those and some watermelons and you've got the perfect summer afternoon.

Mi entrepierna es en fuego! 95 5
08/28/2007 08:59 PM

Pogo sticks are pretty Frost-ing dangerous, I don't think I ever even made it to 2 bounces without falling off on my face. They also had these toys similar to pogo sticks but I can't remember what they're called. It was a ball like a 4-square ball with plastic surrounding the diameter of it that you stood on and jumped on. It was pretty much a fractured skull waiting to happen.

drworm979 436 5
08/28/2007 09:33 PM

pogo ball

Chit 178,088 15
08/28/2007 09:54 PM

Romper Stompers were also pretty Frost-ing dangerous.


I know any time we ever saw a kid wearing them, it was snuggies and swirlies till he ran home crying.


And if the kid was really tough...

THE ATOMIC WEDGIE!!

dropkick brody 43,075 12
08/28/2007 11:30 PM

Chit, in lots of Swedish kindergardens they make the kids wear helmets. And those neon reflector vests. I Shakespeare you not.

And there was talk of banning conkers in the UK, because kids might get hurt by the sharded pieces of conker. It's conkers, for god sakes! If your conker got smashed then your method of cheating wasn't good enough and you deserved what you got!

Also, Polly Pockets were amazing, and I still have my huge collection in my mum's house.

I never swallowed them either, because I'm not a Frost-ing moron.

Phuc 237,453 20
08/28/2007 11:31 PM

Brody, please asplain to the rest of the class JUST WHAT IN THE FLYING Frost A CONKER IS!!!

Thanks.
--Al

dropkick brody 43,075 12
08/28/2007 11:37 PM

Silly American.

Conker

Bore a hole in one of them, thread string through the hole, and tie a knot in the end. Then you whack other people's conkers with yours and try to smash them.

Thud 66,695 17
08/28/2007 11:40 PM

Yeah, that helped. Thanks.

dropkick brody 43,075 12
08/28/2007 11:41 PM

You're bloody welcome.

KChikita - Contains 11 inches of future rock star! 124,281 89
08/28/2007 11:41 PM

My sister and I shared a pair of these except they were made of red metal with real (mattress?) springs and they bit into your ankles every time you fell over.

KChikita - Contains 11 inches of future rock star! 124,281 89
08/28/2007 11:42 PM

Buckeyes?

Chit 178,088 15
08/29/2007 12:35 AM

Oh, I get it...

Buckeye = Conker



Is that what you were trying top tell us Lassie??

Timmy fell in the old well??

Chit 178,088 15
08/29/2007 12:35 AM

Good thing you're Frost-ing cute.

Phuc 237,453 20
08/29/2007 10:53 AM

Silly boy, she's not Frost-ing me.

She Frosted some oiry bohunk.

Sunny and Capricious Bikini 62,254 18
08/29/2007 10:58 AM

Silly American.

Conker


Americans should still know what Frost-ing Conkers are! I used to play conkers in Canada.

They're horse chestnuts. It's really fun and, at least when I played with my sister, really violent.

Millie 116,854 28
08/29/2007 03:30 PM

Yes, we know what they are, but we call them buckeyes.

Aren't you paying attention, woman?

(We also call them horse chestnuts, and my next door neigbhor when I was growing up had a huge horse chestnut tree. We had a lot of fun with them.)

Briham is giving away the HOT DICKINGS 38,843 9
08/29/2007 03:37 PM

I had one of these. I used to bring it to elementary school to play with at recess, right up until the recess monitor said it could be used as a weapon. It's a Frost-ing tennis ball sewn to some cloth! Give me a break!

Miss. All White Meat Trixxie 65,014 14
08/29/2007 04:54 PM

I played with my own feces,




































































And the Feces of others.

Chit 178,088 15
08/29/2007 07:18 PM

Before you washed them off your dick, I bet.



(don't know why I'm even betting on this)

Whistler P. McManus 183,262 42
08/29/2007 07:27 PM

Being old, I could write an article on this topic. I also had two much older step-brothers, and while they were in Viet Nam we raided their closet for a box of '50's vintage toys that were even more dangerous.

Did you know that the original Mr. Potato Head came without a plastic potato? You were supposed to use a real potato, which (obviously) you would have to replace pretty regularly.

I prefered to tie it up in a plastic bag and leave it in the shed for a couple of weeks, then use it to show my younger brothers and sisters what they
would look like after they died.

Luckily, this was before I turned 10, or I would have known that leaving it just a little while longer would have produced rudimentary vodka.

Anh is bored. 11,108 14
08/29/2007 08:48 PM

I used to play with mercury from broken thermometers. It was hours of delicious fun!

musiciansbest 15 5
09/02/2007 04:06 AM

uhm, how about the very first easy bake ovens??

i took mine apart to see if it was a light bulb or not, then tried to add stronger watt bulbs in it, and ended up ruining the dish to cook stuff in.

Chit 178,088 15
09/02/2007 04:30 AM

I could go for some easy bake oven hash brownies right about now.

cheestaysfly 19 6
09/04/2007 05:37 AM

Several years ago I caught the news and heard a story about these Cabbage Patch dolls that you could feed plastic food to and they'd crap them back out. Apparently one little girl's Cabbage Patch decided hair sounded tasty and started eating hers. She had to have the chunk of hair cut off I think. Or the Cabbage Patch might have ripped her hair out, I can't remember. I'm pretty sure those toys went off the market very soon after.

Chit 178,088 15
09/04/2007 05:51 AM

Snacktime Cabbage Patch Dolls


I happened on this while doing some research after starting this thread.



I was amazed to see that at one time, Fisher Price made toys of the "Non-Gay" variety too.

So what if a few of them had a little sticky throttle.

(I'd Frost-ing pay to see that)