You played with Freddy? You lucky bugga!Had the pleasure myself. This (and including playing with mercury when I was a kid) explains a lot of things about me today
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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
- Thread starter Richland123
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Uhhh...You played with Freddy? You lucky bugga!
The Little Lady Stove may be quaint and petite, but it packs a much more powerful punch than the Creepy Crawlers hot plate. In the 1960s, officials wanted to ban it because it generated too much heat — 600 degrees Fahrenheit to be exact! That's more powerful than most real stoves need to be.
Looks like a perfect setup for places without a kitchen.
“If you can read this, then…”
I always wanted to learn shorthand. Talk about something long forgotten!
OMG, those were so awful!
And on or about the third throw, it would invariably end up well out of reach in a tree.
For the versions with the rubber band slingshot launcher, that would happen on the first shot.
Much like these...And on or about the third throw, it would invariably end up well out of reach in a tree.
stuck in a tree, or broken into a hundred pieces with very little effort.
That seems like someone just playin' with the buttons.
Hold it down for a bit, don't just poke at it.
So true. I used to go to bridges and them fly off into oblivion for the spectacle of it. I figured it was going to break anyway real soon so why not.
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