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RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 1:29 am
by crsutton
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: crsutton

I know that I am taking this to a whole other level, but what the heck? I still get a little warm when I see an old photo of Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman. I preferred to watch this show alone, without my pants around...

I fixed that for you, crsutton. [:D]

I would be totally offended by this if it were not sadly true....

RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 2:21 am
by CaptBeefheart
I think you guys are too old for me. This one rocked.

Cheers,
CC

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RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 5:43 am
by patrickl
What is that show? Looks delicious.[:D]

RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 12:13 pm
by Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

I think you guys are too old for me. This one rocked.

Cheers,
CC

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Quark! [&o]

RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 12:19 pm
by Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: TOMLABEL

and Hogan's Heroes.



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My brush with fame:

Larry Hovis ("Carter" pictured in the bomber jacket-far right) lived just around the corner from our house in Tarzana, CA in the early 1970s. His son was my age and his daughter was a few years older. They taught me how to ride a bike sans training wheels. If I recall correctly, they had problems with rattlesnakes under the kitchen sink from time to time.

Larry was also involved with another of my favorite game shows of the era: "The Liars Club". He was a regular on that one. [8D]

RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 2:46 pm
by Coach Zuck
Loved Hogan's Heroes!

As I am now 50 I unfortunately remember way too many of these shoes!

RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 3:57 pm
by crsutton
I made these 50 years ago with my big brother's lead casting set. The set was his father's (half brother) and dated back to the 1930s. It still works today.

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RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 12:23 am
by MuguNiner
nothing like a Lotus Europa...

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RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 10:31 am
by Chickenboy
Ahh....Emma Peal. True heaven. My first crush growing up. [8D]

RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 6:09 pm
by rustysi
ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

I think you guys are too old for me. This one rocked.

Cheers,
CC

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A little wardrobe malfunction, maybe? Someone hand me a pair of scissors.[:D]

RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 8:12 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns

ORIGINAL: mullk

Boy I remember all these shows with fondness. I also remember playing with the G.I. Joe dolls errr I mean action figures with the kid across the street. His parents had set him up a sand box just for playing with the figures.

I was never into GI Joe much, but my brother and I each used to get one of these sets every Christmas. Man we had some epic struggles in the back yard with our little green army men armies lol.

Jim

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I had about a company of these little Japanese WWII soldiers in various poses. I took one end of a tin pencil lead holder (looked like a Contac capsule but larger) and made a stand to hold it out of a paper clip. I made a number of these assemblies. Then I loaded them with match heads and wadded up some aluminum foil to make the projectiles. Sometime I used a big one or other times a number of smaller ones like cannister. I lined up the Japanese troops like they were assaulting and set up my battery facing them. All I had to do was hold a lit match under my tin cannons and they would fire. The soldiers would melt and the aluminum balls would melt into them. Maybe I would've made a good General LeMay.

RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 8:15 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: crsutton

I made these 50 years ago with my big brother's lead casting set. The set was his father's (half brother) and dated back to the 1930s. It still works today.

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I hope you didn't stick your fingers in your mouth after handling those. Antimony, another great thing to make toys out of that kids will suck on.

RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 8:38 pm
by rustysi
ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns

ORIGINAL: mullk

Boy I remember all these shows with fondness. I also remember playing with the G.I. Joe dolls errr I mean action figures with the kid across the street. His parents had set him up a sand box just for playing with the figures.

I was never into GI Joe much, but my brother and I each used to get one of these sets every Christmas. Man we had some epic struggles in the back yard with our little green army men armies lol.

Jim

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I had about a company of these little Japanese WWII soldiers in various poses. I took one end of a tin pencil lead holder (looked like a Contac capsule but larger) and made a stand to hold it out of a paper clip. I made a number of these assemblies. Then I loaded them with match heads and wadded up some aluminum foil to make the projectiles. Sometime I used a big one or other times a number of smaller ones like cannister. I lined up the Japanese troops like they were assaulting and set up my battery facing them. All I had to do was hold a lit match under my tin cannons and they would fire. The soldiers would melt and the aluminum balls would melt into them. Maybe I would've made a good General LeMay.

Ah yes, misspent youth.[:'(]

RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 11:56 pm
by crsutton
ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: crsutton

I made these 50 years ago with my big brother's lead casting set. The set was his father's (half brother) and dated back to the 1930s. It still works today.

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I hope you didn't stick your fingers in your mouth after handling those. Antimony, another great thing to make toys out of that kids will suck on.

Me think no lead bad in head but maybe all fuzzy, who knos?

RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 12:56 am
by Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns

ORIGINAL: mullk

Boy I remember all these shows with fondness. I also remember playing with the G.I. Joe dolls errr I mean action figures with the kid across the street. His parents had set him up a sand box just for playing with the figures.

I was never into GI Joe much, but my brother and I each used to get one of these sets every Christmas. Man we had some epic struggles in the back yard with our little green army men armies lol.

Jim

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I had about a company of these little Japanese WWII soldiers in various poses. I took one end of a tin pencil lead holder (looked like a Contac capsule but larger) and made a stand to hold it out of a paper clip. I made a number of these assemblies. Then I loaded them with match heads and wadded up some aluminum foil to make the projectiles. Sometime I used a big one or other times a number of smaller ones like cannister. I lined up the Japanese troops like they were assaulting and set up my battery facing them. All I had to do was hold a lit match under my tin cannons and they would fire. The soldiers would melt and the aluminum balls would melt into them. Maybe I would've made a good General LeMay.

Seems awfully complicated when a spray can of paint (or hairspray) and a lighter would have emulated the 'corkscrew and blowtorch' approach to cave warfare admirably. Not that I know, of course.

RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 3:22 am
by Barb
... used New-Year firework petards (the one doing "Booom") imitating artillery effect on troops ...
... used the same to blow holes into several model ships (actually re-used empty cigarette packages, held together with paper, adhesive tape and glue) ... their survival was tested after battle on whatever "pond" was around...

RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 3:22 am
by Barb
omg.. double post

RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 4:24 am
by obvert
ORIGINAL: Barb

... used New-Year firework petards (the one doing "Booom") imitating artillery effect on troops ...
... used the same to blow holes into several model ships (actually re-used empty cigarette packages, held together with paper, adhesive tape and glue) ... their survival was tested after battle on whatever "pond" was around...

+1

I burned, blew up and shot holes with my air rifle through all of my Tamiya waterline models by about age 14. Fun, but a bit smelly.

Still had Hogan's Hero's reruns and Baa Baa Blacksheep on reruns when I was a kid. Watched them on Saturdays.


MASH was on nightly on the weekdays, so saw all of that.

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RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 4:41 am
by wdolson
I built a lot of models when I was a kid. In a fit of kid destructiveness a friend and I destroyed most of what I had built to that point in one afternoon. Once the dust cleared I immediately regretted it and never did anything like that again. I still have all the models I built after that point, but quite a few are sort of a jumble in a box. They were rather primitive efforts.

I watched all of Baa Baa Black Sheep when it was new, I spotted a lot of the inaccuracies. Later on I tutored for a while in the common room of the dorms in college (I lived off campus) and people always had the Black Sheep reruns on in the next room. When I wasn't busy tutoring, I listened to the show and tried to identify the episode.

Bill

RE: Absolutley OT: Growing Up

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 5:41 am
by CaptBeefheart
I ran into Robert Conrad and some of the other "pilots" in uniform on my 7th grade field trip to Universal Studios (they were out and about--maybe returning to the "Baa Baa Black Sheep" set from the cafeteria). I was taller than Conrad even then. Then I met the real Pappy at Oshkosh in 1980 or so.

Cheers,
CC