Weird stuff you remember from your mis-spent yoot

[Ldub]

I'll start it off with...

Space food sticks

Then came Bronson

Hodaka motorcycles (Combat Wombat?)

[Ldub]

Also, Harley Davidson's only attempt at a dirt bike...the Baja, truly awful.

Wheelin' buddy Jim had one back in the day, might splain a few things...

[Ldub]

When boy scouts turned to "weblos"....uhhhh, yeah, you go ahead wit that, I'll be seein' ya...

[Jolly Roger VX'er]

Hodaka motorcycles (Combat Wombat?)

My best friend during early high school (like 7th or 8th grade IIRC) got his pant leg caught in the chain & sprocket of his Hodaka dirt bike (don't remember model name) and I had to learn how to extractimicate someone from a tricky situation as he sorta had the bike on him...sorta.


weird stuff:

1) pet rocks we were easily entertained!!
1.5) Space (POP) Rocks candy..urban legend has it that Mikey (Life Cereal commercials) died eat'in soda & Space Rocks!
1.75)Lincoln Logs...Tinker Toys....Erector Sets...
2) sea monkeys they didn't look anything like the caricatures on the box!
2.5) etch 'o' sketch.....look ma...I made a staircase!
2.75) Silly Putty, Play Dough & Slime BABY!!!!
3) buddies AMC Gremlin & my Aunt's AMC Pacer
4) movie "Deliverance" @ the drive-in...me (6 years old) in backseat...Mom & Dad up front...Mom with hands over my eyes screaming "don't look!"...me hearing some guy squealing like a peeg wondering what the heck is Mom soooo upset about????
5)disco...disco dying...disco dead...in like 6 months...
6)urban cowboy movie creates fad....fad dies in like 6 months...Lotta Mechanical Bull
7)Six Million Dollar Man...he's super fast but runs in slow motion
8)Bell-Bottom Jeans
9)magic 8 ball.....ASK AGAIN LATER....YES....MAYBE....
10)Pre-Windows edition 'puters using BASIC w/cassette tape storage...Tandy (Radio Shack); Coleco ADAM; Texas Instruments TRS-80/ TI-99; Commodore 64; Apple IIe

[don moore]

BULLTACO motorcycle.......and rainbow stickers to put in your back window of your car ..for peace not for gaypride.....and the funny filters made of plastic for the cigarettes to cut back the tar....so they would be good for you..and when COLOR tv shows came out the shows would say IN COLOR on the title screen ...

[JoFotoz]

#1
THE WHO......
...seven concerts in two years.....

#2
Losing an ounce (!!??) at a WHO CONCERT....


#3
Dry Humping an unknown hottie..at a WHO Concert....

#4
Puking in my parents VW Van...After a WHO CONCERT....


#5
Mom...giving me my old WHO CONCERT posters for Xmas two years ago ( yup..she saved 'em!!)...

jo

PS..Yup..Huge Flares ...an Afgan Coat...and My own Roger Daltry Perm....


....Man I rocked!....

.

[don moore]

i went to a B.O.C. concert in germany while i was in the Army..funny thing ..I dont remember much about it ........

[Ldub]

BULLTACO motorcycle.......and rainbow stickers to put in your back window of your car ..for peace not for gaypride.....and the funny filters made of plastic for the cigarettes to cut back the tar....so they would be good for you..and when COLOR tv shows came out the shows would say IN COLOR on the title screen ...

SWEET...I had a Bultaco 250 Pursang towards the end of my mis-spent yout...that thing hauled rocks...
Also, Wyld Weasel is into Bultacos, though her tastes run more towards the street.




And yes, I remember the first 4-5 years of TV viewership, were in black & white...3 1/2 channels...I count PBS as 1/2.
THEN the world changed, the first time I saw "In Living Color"...in actual color, instead of differing shades of gray...

#1
THE WHO......
...seven concerts in two years.....

#2
Losing an ounce (!!??) at a WHO CONCERT....


#3
Dry Humping an unknown hottie..at a WHO Concert....

#4
Puking in my parents VW Van...After a WHO CONCERT....


#5
Mom...giving me my old WHO CONCERT posters for Xmas two years ago ( yup..she saved 'em!!)...

jo

PS..Yup..Huge Flares ...an Afgan Coat...and My own Roger Daltry Perm....


....Man I rocked!....

.

You STILL rock Brojo...

Some of my favorite fuzzy memories are from a WHO concert I saw in the 80's...yeah, Moon was gone by then, but still a good show.

Also, PINK FLOYD, delicate sound of thunder tour in 94?...

[quoteJo] "my own Roger Daltry perm" [quote]

LOL...what'd you do before you got your own...RENT?

[Ldub]

My best friend during early high school (like 7th or 8th grade IIRC) got his pant leg caught in the chain & sprocket of his Hodaka dirt bike (don't remember model name) and I had to learn how to extractimicate someone from a tricky situation as he sorta had the bike on him...sorta.


weird stuff:

1) pet rocks we were easily entertained!!
1.5) Space Rocks candy..urban legend has it that Mikey (Life Cereal commercials) died eat'in soda & Space Rocks!
2) sea monkeys they didn't look anything like the caricatures on the box!
2.5) etch 'o' sketch.....look ma...I made a staircase!
2.75) Silly Putty, Play Dough & Slime BABY!!!!
3) buddies AMC Gremlin & my Aunt's AMC Pacer
4) movie "Deliverance" @ the drive-in...me (6 years old) in backseat...Mom & Dad up front...Mom with hands over my eyes screaming "don't look!"...me hearing some guy squealing like a peeg wondering what the heck is Mom soooo upset about????
5)disco...disco dying...disco dead...in like 6 months...
6)urban cowboy movie creates fad....fad dies in like 6 months...
7)Six Million Dollar Man...he's super fast but runs in slow motion
8)Bell-Bottom Jeans

LOL...MY aunt had a Pacer too.

I thought disco lasted for decades, musta just SEEMED like ten years in a row...

And speaking of etch-a-sketch...

[SomeBeach]

Kids today are such wimps. We had the original Lawn Darts. And it didn't take long for us to realize how much more fun they were if we threw them at each other. Then we had the little hand guns that shot silver balls that were filled with chalk. They would break the skin. And caps. We would take a whole roll and hit em with a hammer....what a bang. And Creepy Crawlers had real burners that got to 300 degrees...fun. And the bow and arrow sets with the suction cup.....it was so fun to play cowboys and indians and get to be an indian. In fact it was very popular for a young boy to be "part indian". We would sneek up behind the cowboy and blast him in the back of the neck with the arrow....kids today.
I'm just saying

[Ldub]

Kids today are such wimps. We had the original Lawn Darts. And it didn't take long for us to realize how much more fun they were if we threw them at each other. Then we had the little hand guns that shot silver balls that were filled with chalk. They would break the skin. And caps. We would take a whole roll and hit em with a hammer....what a bang. And Creepy Crawlers had real burners that got to 300 degrees...fun. And the bow and arrow sets with the suction cup.....it was so fun to play cowboys and indians and get to be an indian. In fact it was very popular for a young boy to be "part indian". We would sneek up behind the cowboy and blast him in the back of the neck with the arrow....kids today.
I'm just saying

LOL...you grew up in my neighborhood...

[SomeBeach]

And remember croquet? What a sissy came of hitting solid wood balls. Now to spice the game up we would swing like we were golfing and BAM right in the ankle. The other player went down and I was the winner. As far as candy, remember when Sweetarts made the bid candy the size of a yoyo? Man those things made my tongue bleed. And how about the click clacks. The two solid plastic balls on a string. You clicked them together until they hit at the top and bottom. Then they would either explode or bust your wrist. Come on toy makers....bring back the good toys.

[Ldub]

And remember croquet? What a sissy came of hitting solid wood balls. Now to spice the game up we would swing like we were golfing and BAM right in the ankle. The other player went down and I was the winner. As far as candy, remember when Sweetarts made the bid candy the size of a yoyo? Man those things made my tongue bleed. And how about the click clacks. The two solid plastic balls on a string. You clicked them together until they hit at the top and bottom. Then they would either explode or bust your wrist. Come on toy makers....bring back the good toys.

I'd totally forgotten about click clacks (took years of therapy... ) wow, now THAT was a toy!

Crossman pellet guns, M-80's Cherry Bombs, Silver Salutes...these are a few of my favorite things...

[snowtrooper1966]

Damn, Lbud, that's just spooky!
I was trying to drscribe those to the little lady the other day...
Kind of the consistincy of an old Three Musketeers bar (inside)
I can still taste those Pillsbury space food sticks....
I bet if you could find a box, they would still be edible.
Don't forget to wash it down with a nice glass of Tang!
Best,

[snowtrooper1966]

Standing in line all day to see this new movie premire. Something about a War in the Stars...