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[QUOTE=EternalEnigma21;435504][B][SIZE=4]COUGH[/SIZE][/B][SIZE=4][I][SIZE=1]dork[/SIZE][/I][SIZE=1][B][SIZE=4]COUGH

[/SIZE][/B][SIZE=4][SIZE=2]a little something in my throat there... :)[/SIZE]
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have to admit it,i liked watching the hardy Boys -Nancy Drew mysterys,but I didnt have a crush on any of them

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just thought of a toy I had,I think they outlawed them,called click clacks or clackers,anybody remember those? 2 glass balls on the end of a string you banged together,I couldnt find a video of anybody doing them that really knows how,the trick was to get your hand moving up and down real fast and see how many times you could get the balls to hit each other,I'll never forget that sound
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[quote=htownskinfan;435506]have to admit it,i liked watching the hardy Boys -Nancy Drew mysterys,but I didnt have a crush on any of them[/quote]


I didn't even know they had shows, but I used to read the Hardy Boys, Encyclopedia Brown, RL stine books, and those Choose your own Adventure books when I was a kid... man maybe I was the dork... lol

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[QUOTE=EternalEnigma21;435508]I didn't even know they had shows, but I used to read the Hardy Boys, Encyclopedia Brown, RL stine books, and those Choose your own Adventure books when I was a kid... man maybe I was the dork... lol[/QUOTE]
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[quote=EternalEnigma21;435504][B][SIZE=4]COUGH[/SIZE][/B][SIZE=4][I][SIZE=1]dork[/SIZE][/I][SIZE=1][B][SIZE=4]COUGH[/SIZE][/B]

[SIZE=4][SIZE=2]a little something in my throat there... :)[/SIZE]
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What can I say? He was every 8 year old girl's dream back then.

At least I didn't subject you guys to a montage of Andy Gibb, Donnie Osmond and Leif Garrett clips. ;)

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Did anyone else in here collect .... gulp.... beanie babies?


I'm guilty of it, thinking I was going to strike gold. I once got smacked with a chair trying to rush into hallmark to get some stupid bear that came out for 5 bucks, that was worth like 500 bucks at the time and is now worth somewhere between jack and shit...

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[QUOTE=Gmanc711;435524]Did anyone else in here collect .... gulp.... beanie babies?


I'm guilty of it, thinking I was going to strike gold. I once got smacked with a chair trying to rush into hallmark to get some stupid bear that came out for 5 bucks, that was worth like 500 bucks at the time and is now worth somewhere between jack and shit...[/QUOTE]

They started to give those out with McDonalds kids meals when I was younger...

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[QUOTE=Lady Brave;435523]What can I say? He was every 8 year old girl's dream back then.

At least I didn't subject you guys to a montage of Andy Gibb, Donnie Osmond and Leif Garrett clips. ;)[/QUOTE]

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[quote=Gmanc711;435524]Did anyone else in here collect .... gulp.... beanie babies?


I'm guilty of it, thinking I was going to strike gold. I once got smacked with a chair trying to rush into hallmark to get some stupid bear that came out for 5 bucks, that was worth like 500 bucks at the time and is now worth somewhere between jack and shit...[/quote]

my wife still has a few chests full of those things... sealed up in these little plastic boxes. They're our retirement fund ;)

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[QUOTE=724Skinsfan;435490]This thread keeps reminding me of that Coolio song. C'mon, you remember...

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Man, I completely forgot about that song. "I wish I could go back but wishing is fo suckaz!" That about sums things up huh?

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[quote=riggins44;435448]Hog1 and dmek25 do you remember Combat, Rat Patrol, Mod Squad, Mission Impossible, Hogans Heros, Addams Family, and Laugh-In?

Remember the treat of going to a drive-in restaurant and when first McDonalds came to the area...and watching the number of hamburgers
sold change!

We had remote TV. Dad would tell me to change the channel. Kept a pair of vice grips on the antenna outside. When windy I'd have to go outside and
turn to the antenna to get better reception.

Dad and I would watch Skins games and if Skins were doing poor (a lot in
those days), dad would have me change chairs on something to help
change Skins luck. No wonder I'm the way I am now! LOL

Now I really feel old...LOL[/quote]
wasn't rat patrol about some army guys driving around in the desert on jeeps, with big machine guns on the backs of them? and i went thru the remote era, also. i think that's why my knees are bad. all the up downs, changing channels. remember a show called this week in the nfl? showed high lites of all the games, and if i remember correctly, John Facenda was the narrator. it was on saturday morning

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The Great Space Coaster......get on board, with the great space coaster.







don't read it, sing it.

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Here are some toys I had when I was around 6 or 7.. [IMG]http://www.liketotally80s.com/images/pogoball-1.jpg[/IMG]



[IMG]http://www.abledata.com/product_images/images/05A0088.jpg[/IMG]



I only got to use this one like once:



[IMG]http://blog.kaboodle.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/25/snoopy1.jpg[/IMG]



And who can forget:





[IMG]http://www.jairoboudewyn.com/iconeando/imagenes/garbage.jpg[/IMG]

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I'm having too much fun with this... I used to have a bicycle, and I don't know who made it but I cant find a picture to save my life. I think it was either huffy or murray, but it was red and black and had these big white hubcaps covering the spokes... a few other kids had them and I thought it was the coolest thing ever...

also remembrer entertech? They had these commercials "the look, the feel, the sound, so real... entertech" they made waterguns that were battery operated and made electronic gun sounds and they had a feild pack water grenade filler (pictured in the bottom right). We used to fill them with red and blue disappearing ink and play war. Pre-paintball paintball!

[IMG]http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/waterguns/04.jpg[/IMG]

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Evel Knievel Daredevil Stunt Action Set

[URL="http://www.themillionsgroup.co.uk/Toy_Shop/Toys/Evel_Knievel/1313_64070_Evel_Knievel:_Daredevil_Stunt_Action_Set.html"][IMG]http://www.themillionsgroup.co.uk/ProductImages/64070.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

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dmek, yes Rat Patrol was about group of guys in Jeeps with machine guns on top. Thought I had arrived when Hot Wheels came out. Could buy the minature cars, but
still loved building models.

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okay,who had a muscle bike when they were a kid with the gearshift mounted on the crossbar? I recently bought a repro schwinn like in the video,it was a single speed I've now turned into a 5 speed with the crossbar mounted gearshift
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also,did anybody have a wheelie bar? very rare and hard to find now,sell for up to a thousand bucks on ebay
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[quote=htownskinfan;435624]okay,who had a muscle bike when they were a kid with the gearshift mounted on the crossbar? I recently bought a repro schwinn like in the video,it was a single speed I've now turned into a 5 speed with the crossbar mounted gearshift
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also,did anybody have a wheelie bar? very rare and hard to find now,sell for up to a thousand bucks on ebay
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the wheelie bar commercial is hilarious. I had a lady almost cry while screaming at me because my kid didn't have on proper personal protective equipment while riding her bike at the park... like she knew my kid was going to die or something. times have changed, thats for sure...

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yeah,thats what I was thinking when i watched it,barefoot in shorts with no helmet,yep,times have changed

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[quote=Lady Brave;435488]Whatever happened to my first crush?

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Hey, Lady did you have him on your lunch box? I remember that the girls had mad crushes on him. I took the 6 million dollar man and Scooby Doo to lunch with me.

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[quote=70Chip;435614]Evel Knievel Daredevil Stunt Action Set

[URL="http://www.themillionsgroup.co.uk/Toy_Shop/Toys/Evel_Knievel/1313_64070_Evel_Knievel:_Daredevil_Stunt_Action_Set.html"][IMG]http://www.themillionsgroup.co.uk/ProductImages/64070.jpg[/IMG][/URL][/quote]


Holly crap! I had those toys and they kicked ass! It was about getting the kids outside to do tricks and jumps. Man, those were the days!

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how about $1/gallon gas? Those were the days...

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and getting a cheeseburger, fries, and coke at McDonald's. hand them a dollar, and wait for your change

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May I re-present Bozo the Clown!

I hate Clowns!

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[quote=riggins44;435448]Hog1 and dmek25 do you remember Combat, Rat Patrol, Mod Squad, Mission Impossible, Hogans Heros, Addams Family, and Laugh-In?

Remember the treat of going to a drive-in restaurant and when first McDonalds came to the area...and watching the number of hamburgers
sold change!

We had remote TV. Dad would tell me to change the channel. Kept a pair of vice grips on the antenna outside. When windy I'd have to go outside and
turn to the antenna to get better reception.

Dad and I would watch Skins games and if Skins were doing poor (a lot in
those days), dad would have me change chairs on something to help
change Skins luck. No wonder I'm the way I am now! LOL

Now I really feel old...LOL[/quote]

Good stuff 44!
I STILL love Hogans heroes, Mod squad, Rat Patrol, although I have not seen them in a........while.
It's hard to explain to my kids that we did not have 615 channels to choose from to find nothing to watch. I explain to them we had like 5 channels, so it took less time to make that determination!

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Hog1 you had 5 channels! We only had 3! LOL :laughing2 My boys think I grew up in stone age. One asked me years ago if I had any Mantle baseball
cards. Told him I did, but they would up between spokes of my bicycle.

dmek, plus we could only order a hamburger or cheeseburger. It was big news when McDonalds introduced the Big Mac.

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[quote=Campbell17;435671]how about $1/gallon gas? Those were the days...[/quote]

same for $2/gallon

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[quote=riggins44;435746]Hog1 you had 5 channels! We only had 3! LOL :laughing2 My boys think I grew up in stone age. One asked me years ago if I had any Mantle baseball
cards. Told him I did, but they would up between spokes of my bicycle.

dmek, plus we could only order a hamburger or cheeseburger. It was big news when McDonalds introduced the Big Mac.[/quote]

We had the antenna thing as well.
It was equipped with an electric motor that rotated the antenna to the desired direction of the station to get the best reception. Only problem, in Maryland in the winter, it froze up occasionally. You had to go outside and bang on the shaft to free it up.

PLEASE don't ANYONE post a current pic but, back in the day, WHO did not have "the" poster of................Farrah?????????

[URL]http://www.extrememortman.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/Farrah%20Fawcett%20poster%20from%20ogonbat.jpg[/URL]

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Farrah was my angel. Got to be one of best posters ever. Curious to see if anyone
says they didn't have her poster.

Thanks...that brings back some memories.

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i had it. and remember dad hitting the side of the T.V. when it didnt work right. never understood that logic:) you guys use the old roach clip on the prism box, so you could receive H.B.O? and watching all in the family on saturday night? i always thought that was the funniest show, ever

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I still hit the side of the TV. All it does is make me feel better.

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Who remembers watching that late night scrambled "porn" on WDCA Channel 20? "I think I saw a nipple!!!"

C'mon don't act like you didn't do that in between visits to your Commodore 64

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[quote=SmootSmack;435912]Who remembers watching that late night scrambled "porn" on WDCA Channel 20? "I think I saw a nipple!!!"

C'mon don't act like you didn't do that in between visits to your Commodore 64[/quote]

we didn't have commodore 64, but i think they made our amiga 500. c'mon amiga, Kickstart my heart!

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the only porn i remember was Benny Hill:) anyone remember Oprah as a news anchor on channel 3 out of Baltimore?

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[quote=SmootSmack;435912]Who remembers watching that late night scrambled "porn" on WDCA Channel 20? "I think I saw a nipple!!!"

C'mon don't act like you didn't do that in between visits to your Commodore 64[/quote]

[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SuperTvLogo.JPG"][IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/SuperTvLogo.JPG[/IMG][/URL]

Scrambled porn? That would have been "Super TV" which was broadcast over some UHF channel but it wasn't 20. You needed a decoder box and I think it was on channel 50 before there was the current channel 50.

Update: Wiki has the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperTV"]answer[/URL].

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[QUOTE=70Chip;435960][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SuperTvLogo.JPG"][IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/SuperTvLogo.JPG[/IMG][/URL]

Scrambled porn? That would have been "Super TV" which was broadcast over some UHF channel but it wasn't 20. You needed a decoder box and I think it was on channel 50 before there was the current channel 50.

Update: Wiki has the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperTV"]answer[/URL].[/QUOTE]

Oh yeah, maybe it was Channel 50

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Oh man! My childhood has finally returned to me! Man...do I miss the late 70's/80's! Ultraman, Schoolhouse Rock, Punky Brewster (yes she is very hot now,) Night Court, etc.....

Kind of reminds me of that time machine thread i posted several months ago. This type of stuff is what I'd like to go back for!

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What happened to this amazing show
[IMG]http://jannawong.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/power-rangers_turboranger.jpg[/IMG]
Now they got those new age power rangers with there fancy plastic uniforms, bring back the old power rangers.

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[quote=Lady Brave;435237]My brother and I wore this game out...

(circa 1977)
[IMG]http://i10.ebayimg.com/03/i/000/99/03/3154_1.JPG[/IMG]

Is that some kick ass technology or what?

[IMG]http://www.gameandweb.com/0307/IMG_8990.jpg[/IMG][/quote]
Dude, I was playing that on my flight to Florida a week ago!

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The only porn in my house was one magazine in my dads room bathroom. HOw exciting it was; soft-core porn...