Back in the day...
 

On 2/18/15 1:15 PM, Boating All Out wrote:
In article ,
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 04:53:47 -0600, Boating All Out
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In article 514260222445919116.026342noway-
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True North wrote:
I had one of those submarines.
We used to get them in boxes of breakfast cereal.

Yeah. I don't recall whether it came in the cereal box or if I sent a
quarter offf somewhere with a boxtop.

I sent off a quarter. And it was a "frogman.' Never saw a sub.
It was good for a month waiting for the mail, and then 5 minutes of
watching it go up and down.
Money would have been better spent on a squirt gun.

Did anything you got for 2 box tops and a quarter really live up to
the expectations?

It was the only thing I remember getting with a boxtop.
I moved up to the Johnson Smith catalog quite early.


Whoopee cushions?

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Back in the day...
 

In article , says...

On 2/18/15 1:15 PM, Boating All Out wrote:
In article ,
says...

On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 04:53:47 -0600, Boating All Out
wrote:

In article 514260222445919116.026342noway-
, says...

True North wrote:
I had one of those submarines.
We used to get them in boxes of breakfast cereal.

Yeah. I don't recall whether it came in the cereal box or if I sent a
quarter offf somewhere with a boxtop.

I sent off a quarter. And it was a "frogman.' Never saw a sub.
It was good for a month waiting for the mail, and then 5 minutes of
watching it go up and down.
Money would have been better spent on a squirt gun.

Did anything you got for 2 box tops and a quarter really live up to
the expectations?

It was the only thing I remember getting with a boxtop.
I moved up to the Johnson Smith catalog quite early.


Whoopee cushions?

Hand buzzer and staining chewing gum. Fake dog turds.
Whoopee cushion later, when I became sophisticated.

Back in the day...
 

In article ,
says...

On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:13:03 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 2/18/15 12:55 PM, wrote:

Did anything you got for 2 box tops and a quarter really live up to
the expectations?


The rubber band shooting handgun I got when I was 9 did. It was a
semi-automatic.

Yup we had them but it was old news. I still have an old book I found
in a book store in the 50s called "101 things a boy can make" and that
gun was one of them, made from wood, not plastic.
I had an old table top jig saw my grandfather gave me and I was
banging them out.

Rubber band guns weren't accurate enough. I was a pro 2-handed shooter,
hitting flies when they lit from across the room.
Had consistent rubber bands, from my paper route.
75 cents a box. Probably +500.

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In article ,
says...

On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 12:27:14 -0600, Boating All Out
wrote:

In article , says...

On 2/18/15 1:15 PM, Boating All Out wrote:
In article ,
says...

On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 04:53:47 -0600, Boating All Out
wrote:

In article 514260222445919116.026342noway-
, says...

True North wrote:
I had one of those submarines.
We used to get them in boxes of breakfast cereal.

Yeah. I don't recall whether it came in the cereal box or if I sent a
quarter offf somewhere with a boxtop.

I sent off a quarter. And it was a "frogman.' Never saw a sub.
It was good for a month waiting for the mail, and then 5 minutes of
watching it go up and down.
Money would have been better spent on a squirt gun.

Did anything you got for 2 box tops and a quarter really live up to
the expectations?

It was the only thing I remember getting with a boxtop.
I moved up to the Johnson Smith catalog quite early.


Whoopee cushions?

Hand buzzer and staining chewing gum. Fake dog turds.
Whoopee cushion later, when I became sophisticated.

I had one of the $4.99 blank guns, shot .22 crimp blanks.
I wish I had one today.
A loud bang still seems to be the most effective training aid for Mr
Ed, although he has really gotten much better. I haven't needed a fire
cracker in months.
His running days seem to be over.

I always sort of wanted a carbide cannon, but never pulled the trigger.
They looked good.

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On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 4:16:39 PM UTC-8, Keyser Söze wrote:
...when I was about eight years old, I had a bathtub toy submarine that
rose and sank, and was powered, if memory serves, by baking powder.

It was very much like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Diving-Submari.../dp/B000V4KSHA

It operated just like a real submarine, so I am sure I am qualified to
drive a Los Angelese class attack sub.




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Proud to be a Liberal.


Damn. From the subject header, I thought this was going to be about one
of your third grade grammar school conquests..

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wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 12:51:51 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 04:53:47 -0600, Boating All Out
wrote:

In article 514260222445919116.026342noway-
, says...

True North wrote:
I had one of those submarines.
We used to get them in boxes of breakfast cereal.

Yeah. I don't recall whether it came in the cereal box or if I sent a
quarter offf somewhere with a boxtop.

I sent off a quarter. And it was a "frogman.' Never saw a sub.
It was good for a month waiting for the mail, and then 5 minutes of
watching it go up and down.
Money would have been better spent on a squirt gun.

===

There was one box top toy that was actually quite cool. It was a
plastic rocket that you filled half way with water and then mounted on
a small air pump device with a trigger assembly. The idea was to pump
up the remaining space in the rocket with compressed air and then pull
the trigger to launch. It worked pretty well as I recall.

Yup I had one. The trick was to get the optimum amount of water. It
wasn't exactly half.

... Then we discovered dry ice. Screw that wimpy pump.

The ice cream man started making as much selling dry ice as he did ice
cream. I suppose the safety nazis would lose their minds about
something like that these days.

I can remember making rockets out of aluminum tubing. Crimp the nose and
neck down the exhaust and fill with aluminum and sulphur powder.

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Keyser Söze wrote:
On 2/18/15 12:55 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 04:53:47 -0600, Boating All Out
wrote:

In article 514260222445919116.026342noway-
, says...

True North wrote:
I had one of those submarines.
We used to get them in boxes of breakfast cereal.

Yeah. I don't recall whether it came in the cereal box or if I sent a
quarter offf somewhere with a boxtop.

I sent off a quarter. And it was a "frogman.' Never saw a sub.
It was good for a month waiting for the mail, and then 5 minutes of
watching it go up and down.
Money would have been better spent on a squirt gun.

Did anything you got for 2 box tops and a quarter really live up to
the expectations?


The rubber band shooting handgun I got when I was 9 did. It was a semi-automatic.


We built those with a wood frame and a clothespin.