Yeah, whats ^ up with the resident sock puppet?

Also, what the **** were these actually good for?

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It's an uncharacteristically earnest post, yes, and I'm prepared to be mocked for it.

I very rarely drink though. Maybe I'm in one of those "tired and emotional" states but for other reasons.

You should probably get one of these then:

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It's okay, jadis. I forgive you.

Yeah, I used to collect wacky packages when I was a kid. Remember trading baseball cards and using them for spokes on bicycle wheels so it would make noise. God knows how much money we were throwing away in those days. :laughing:

That and all the comic books I treated like yesterdays old newspaper. Luckily my brother got smart and started bagging, boxing, and cataloging all of the ones that were worth saving. He's got an entire wall of boxes of bagged comics. Some are mine, but I don't even know which ones.

Another big part of the back in my day were video games. Playing the first Donkey Kong at the local pizza joint. Pinball, Centipede, Galaga, Tempest... I spent many hours and many quarters in arcades.

Pong. Hours of fun. I used to set the ball perfectly bouncing straight off each paddle and go to school with it on. I'd come back after school and continue the game.

Then, there was Atari. Hoo boy. I think I liked Combat Tank2 the best. Blowing ****ers up from the other side of the map. Pitfall too. I took a pad of paper and made a map for every screen and beat the game.

Intellivision was cool too, but then I got a Commodore 64.

Here, have some 1983 SOTA gameplay:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTxaHYK9cXw

You had to keep changing out the 5.25 discs. Fun stuff.

I've spent my life in front of screens. No wonder I can't see.

I was terrible at video games, even Atari.

I was, however, something of a pinball wizard. We had an arcade in my neighborhood and the most popular machine was the Elton John Pinball Wizard machine. I could spend hours on it.

I've never been a fan of the tune, both versions, but it sure fueled the movement. Not too long ago I was visiting someone and they asked me if I liked pinball. I said 'sure, I guess', so they took me to their garage and when he opened the door it wasn't a garage, it was a pinball arcade. I stayed on the Kiss one for quite a few hours before they told me I had to leave.

We had in the 80's a Spectrum ZX Clive Sinclairs inventions...


way way before that about the 50's then, we played in the Street Marbles ,Hot Scotch and Rode our Bikes, always 2nd Hand and My late Dad had done them up by repairing and painting them...
we loved them...

We had no Fridge or Freezers and used a cool box which was filled with cold water at the top and kept food slightly cool....similar to the cool boxes for camping that have gel freezer packs...It was kept in a Pantry which is a really small room for baking goods mainly and stores of tin foods.

Holidays were taken in South Devon a SW Coastal Area, Places mainly were Torquay, Paignton or Brixham, that last one was a favourite, rugged and hilly town.
...Can remember by Sister buying a Elvis Presley Mirror there with a Black Frame.
... We went by Train as never had a Car until quite soon before I got married in 1967 at the age of just 19.

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