Remember These???

[eclark1894]

So every spring it was kite Flaying time! Sometimes though either we didn't money to buy a kite or a telephone pole ate it. Guess what happened to the Sunday comics?

 

[eclark1894]

Speaking of... Remember Sunday comics??

 

[Miss B]

I remember Dick Tracy and Peanuts, but Moon Mullins doesn't look at all familiar.

 

[Stezza]

Swamp
met the artist a few years ago.

 

[eclark1894]

I remember Dick Tracy and Peanuts, but Moon Mullins doesn't look at all familiar.

It ran in our evening paper here in Raleigh, but it was nationally syndicated and had started in 1921. Maybe you remember POGO?

 

[Miss B]

I remember Pogo, but didn't follow it much.

 

[robert952]

This ought to date me then. Remember the... MIMEOGRAPH MACHINE??? When you needed a copy... three weeks later!
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I love the smell of mimeograph ink in the morning! Smells like Junior High School.
(Ok, today it would be Middle School)
I spent a class session 3 days a week as Principal Office Assistant and got to run the machine towards the end of the year.
I am beginning to realize that I didn't attend a lot of classes in 'Middle' and High School. That may explain a few things

 

[robert952]

I can't believe I forgot these!!! Anybody remember Spinning tops??? I never thought about it before, but I think they morphed overtime into things like Gyroscopes.
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And Duncan Yo-Yo's!

 

[eclark1894]

And Duncan Yo-Yo's!

Well, spinning tops have been around for quite awhile. (History time The dreidel is a Jewish spinning top, it's been around since the bible days, but tops were known in Ancient Greece and Rome.

 

[eclark1894]

• I remember that Duncan used to name it's yo-yos. The cooler sounding the name, the hotter the yo-yo.
• The Imperial
• The Sonic Satellite
• The Butterfly
• The BumbleBee
• The Dragonfly
• The Speed Beetle
• The ProYo
• The ProFire
• The ProFly
• The Mosquito
• The Flying Squirrel
• The Throwmonkey
• The Flying Panda

 

[robert952]

• I remember that Duncan used to name it's yo-yos. The cooler sounding the name, the hotter the yo-yo.
• The Imperial
• The Sonic Satellite
• The Butterfly
• The BumbleBee
• The Dragonfly
• The Speed Beetle
• The ProYo
• The ProFire
• The ProFly
• The Mosquito
• The Flying Squirrel
• The Throwmonkey
• The Flying Panda

LOL...some sound like names out of the Kama Sutra.

 

[eclark1894]

LOL...some sound like names out of the Kama Sutra.

That would be the Sonic Butterfly. Or the Bumble Dragon.

 

[eclark1894]

Sigh... so now, come spring, I have to go outside and fly a kite.

 

[DanaTA]

Go fly a kite! Used to be a way to say, "Get out of here!" "Beat it!" "Scram!" Or other more crude expressions. Only it sounded a little more polite.

Dana

 

[eclark1894]

Remember this??? I never could figure this out.

 

[eclark1894]

Remember him?? Not funny, but true story, When I was a kid, my mother had to take me and my brother to a PTA meeting one Tuesday night. I know it was Tuesday because both Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason were on TV that night. Now mind, you, I didn't feel a thing, but several people swear they felt an earthquake that night. The newspapers did report one the next morning. Gleason was one of my favorite comedians, particularly in the Smokey and the Bandit movies.

 

[eclark1894]

Speaking of which, this was THE car! I couldn't decide between this and Knight Rider!

 

[eclark1894]

Remember these from back in the day???? Genuine Chuck Taylor Converse high tops!!!

 

[eclark1894]

Remember this? It may still be in your house although you probably haven't used it in twenty years or so.

 

[Miss B]

Remember this??? I never could figure this out.

I still have a Rubik's Cube, though it's miniature sized on the end of a key chain. Not the key chain I currently use, but I still have it here somewhere.

I usually figured it out, but sometimes it was easier than others.