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.

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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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.

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?

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Proud to be a Liberal.

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