Comments on: Horse’s Ass Responds To Horse’s Mouth

By: R. V. Dump

R. V. Dump — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:32:58 +0000

Bacon For Vaginas

By: Mo's Bike Shop

Mo's Bike Shop — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:47:33 +0000

Had the big basket of Legos. When I asked for an Erector Set my Dad pointed out that he owned a machine shop where I played every afternoon.

That was when I began to realize I might be a complete tool of Madison Avenue.

Also had a sandbox made out of an old wooden powerboat.

By: Herr Doktor Bimler

Herr Doktor Bimler — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:17:26 +0000

I loved a bit of Lego action.
New Zealand has stricter censorship laws — that entire genre of videos is banned here.

By: fardels bear

fardels bear — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:33:07 +0000

Erector set? Isn’t that was Rush brang to the Dominican Republic?

By: Qetesh the Abyssinian

Qetesh the Abyssinian — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:18:29 +0000

I loved a bit of Lego action. There's nothing like a bit of architecture and engineering to make a girl happy. Plus, how else could one build the Brick Testament? If that had been around when I was young, maybe I wouldn't have become a godless atheist islamocommunifeministlesbian!

By: Mooser

Mooser — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:48:08 +0000

Mark Twain once remarked of a Cpngressional speech he audited, “That speech is stolen! I’ve got a book at home with every word of that speech in it!” When challenged to provide evidence of the intellectual theft, Twain produced an unabridged dictionary!

I think that’s how it goes.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:42:34 +0000

…..and the New York Times have not run a single add that has been negative of Hitlery…

Not very rabbiniac of you, rabbi. No tree for you.

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:40:37 +0000

Oh, oh! And the Fisher-Price® Little People sets! They’ve been banned now cuz little kids could fit the figures in their mouths.

I loved the Fisher-Price® Little People. I used to play with the garage when my son was at school. It had a cool hydraulic-lift-like platform for raising and lowering the cars. There was this cute parking lot on top with a spiraling downramp. Okay, I’m starting to sound crazy so I’m done.

By: D-Chance.

D-Chance. — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:19:47 +0000

Erector sets… bah!

Our neighborhood had marbles. And a house built on a slight ridge (one corner 6″ off the ground, opposing corner 3′ off the ground). And we had our moms’ silverware. Months of excavation on that long mini-mountainsite, and we had ourselves the ultimate Marble Interstate Highway System! Roadways, tunnels, ramps, everything!

Mom lost a couple of good knives and a half-dozen spoons in the process; but, for the advancement of our glassy spherical transportation network, it was a small price for her to pay. Plus, the kids were safe, near home (heck, we were UNDER home!), within shouting distance.

Every year, some cartoonist will recycle the old panel about the parents struggling to put together the latest and most expensive fancy toy gadgets, unaware that their litte ones are having a blast playing with the box it came in, instead.

By: Boy Called Sue

Boy Called Sue — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:49:47 +0000

We had a big old pail of Legos when we were kids. It’s probably still kicking around our folks’ house. I remember one Christmas we begged and pleaded for this huge-ass pirate ship. It was about the only thing we got that year, it cost $100 or so.

And then we had the Tinker Toys. Never could figure out why Momndad yelled at us not to run with one of those.

In the mid-to-late 80s, we started getting Construx, which were plastic beams and connectors and men and panels and stickers and things which you could put together to make construction vehicles, helicopters, spaceships, etc. That was a load of fun. I was so jealous when my brother got the alien set with glow-in-the-dark elements.

By: gene214

gene214 — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:04:27 +0000

I never had legos, but did do the Lincoln Log thing. Absolutely kewlest build it set I ever had was called the Lectron Build it Kit (or something like that, Christ it’s been almost 40 years!). Basically it consisted of magnetic blocks with electrical symbols on them, and you aconnected them according to the schematics for the project you were building (radio, alarm, etc). It was awesome, and definitely started me on the road to geekdom.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:49:08 +0000

Oh, and how about Playmobile toys? Those were cool. You too can thrill to the pleasure of plunging an imaginary toilet.

By: g

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:42:09 +0000

Lincoln logs, tinker toys, erector sets, and we had a set of those white plastic blocks that you could use to build buildings – they had little clear plastic one, too, like glas blocks, and they had red plastic window and door inserts. We were pre-Lego – there was a kind of proto-lego building block my neighbors had, but they weren’t like the modern legos. We’d mix em all up and make fantastic structures with them.

I do remember hours of searching carpets and heat registers for lost lego pieces for my kid – he who is now 185 lbs and 19 years old – the little guys, the tiny space helmets, etc. Oh, and how about Playmobile toys? Those were cool.

By: Doc Washboard

Doc Washboard — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:48:26 +0000

I myself was an Erector Set kid; those teeny wrenches and bolts and pulleys and motors. Nerd heaven.

Me, I was always a meccano kid, although like all nerd children I had a huge pail of lego too.

Where’s the love for Lincoln Logs?!

By: lobbey

lobbey — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:58:01 +0000

I myself was an Erector Set kid; those teeny wrenches and bolts and pulleys and motors. Nerd heaven.

Me, I was always a meccano kid, although like all nerd children I had a huge pail of lego too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meccano

By: Herr Doktor Bimler

Herr Doktor Bimler — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:03:53 +0000

Tomorrow afternoon I have to go in for something called “Retinopathy”.
So, while I don’t know what’s wrong with the fuckers, I know I got ‘em….
Mikey, I’m a vision researcher in my day job (such as it is) — specialising in colour vision — so I can imagine how you feel.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:49:56 +0000

“plus of course the goat with its throat slit. that was just fucking weird.”

Actually, that was my favorite episode of Dexter.

“No, but I’d build unlikely contraptions with rubber bands and glue and erector set parts and give them names like “Yes” and “If.””

“Yes” and “If”. This story, JC, absolutely kills me. Thank you.

“Saw that bad boy in the JC Penny Xmas catalog circa 1977 or so. The back was open, came with an elevator, guns for the turrets … the whole shebang.”

One word Humboldt; awesome……let me just put my Anthony Quayle and James Darren figures in there.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:38:11 +0000

Tomorrow afternoon I have to go in for something called “Retinopathy”.

Hope all goes well.

By: HubmoldtBlue

HubmoldtBlue — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:25:03 +0000

Doc Washboard

The name refers to the county. Although I did not attend HSU, I am madly in love with the Marching Lumberjacks.

By: mikey

mikey — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:25:03 +0000

Tomorrow afternoon I have to go in for something called “Retinopathy”.

So, while I don’t know what’s wrong with the fuckers, I know I got ‘em….

mikey