><)))):> SIMPLE DAYS GONE BY GROWING UP,,WAS GREAT BACK THEN <:))))><
she may be smiling, but before the OPEC oil embargo, gas was about 35 cents a gallon and folks lost their sh*t when the price first went towards 50 cents around 1973-74!
I remember two stations in Brentwood that got into a price war. Price was down to 23 cents a gallon as I recall, Late '60's/early '70's
.............even if you're old and gray."
"Well, it's alright.
............you still got something to say."
I was so poor growing up, if i were not a boy i would have had Nothing to play with !! :)
All that matters in the end is that we Loved
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain."
I had that toy as a kid, but it would never set off the caps. :>(
I think we all had those toys. I know I had quite a few of them. But none of us turned into serial killers.
I had that toy as a kid, but it would never set off the caps. :>(
that's when you'd take it outside & hit the cap with a rock....
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.............even if you're old and gray."
"Well, it's alright.
............you still got something to say."
Does anyone remember the little white throwable caps?
They kind of looked like sperm lol...twisted paper with a small charge in the head,
When it hit the ground it would set up friction or a spark, which would explode and create a loud cracking sound.
I cannot for the life of me figure out the Google keywords.
Does anyone remember the little white throwable caps?
They kind of looked like sperm lol...twisted paper with a small charge in the head,
When it hit the ground it would set up friction or a spark, which would explode and create a loud cracking sound.
I cannot for the life of me figure out the Google keywords.
definately remember - hit my brother in the forehead with one & it went off - think I was grounded for like two months.........
"You could have taken out an eye!!"
:LOL:
.............even if you're old and gray."
"Well, it's alright.
............you still got something to say."
My equivalent was throwing a perfectly aimed snowball at my sister's head from about 15 yards, she expertly avoided it and smacked her forehead directly on to the mailbox in front of her.
She had the largest egg shaped swelling in the middle of her forehead you've ever seen, for about a week.
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