| Author | Message | ||
     Jaimec |
Look at this and see how many things you can spot that would make a liability lawyer have palpitations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE-txZE2ggg | ||
| Birdy |
Most lawyers would retire after that case. But you know those were the good old days. You could be crazy and no one thought a thing about it. Now let your kid NEAR a bike/skates/skateboard with out all the gear and the dept of child welfare (i.e. a bunch of busybodies) will show up grab 'em and toss you in jail for being a monster. Try and buy a toy gun anymore! | ||
| Igneroid |
I could use one of them for my M2.... | ||
| Etennuly |
Kinda makes ya wonder what ever happened to Wham-O!? They used to promote some of the cheapest crap that would almost work. | ||
| Just_ziptab |
"Try and buy a toy gun anymore!" Shit man, kids have gotten thrown out of school for simply drawing a picture of a gun.........  | ||
| Just_ziptab |
Who here got "bagged" by a Wham-O super ball in their Wonder bread years? | ||
| Etennuly |
The original "super-balls" were awesome. Ya ever use one to play baseball? Home runs for everybody! It was cool when the smaller ones came out too. Smack one of them with a golf club it would go out of sight in the air. Didn't they make the "Etch a Sketch" to? | ||
| Kyrocket |
Two words... Yard Darts | ||
| Firebolt32 |
Mom....I wanna wheelie bar. +1 on the super balls. They are great in elevators. Try it.  | ||
| Buellfighter |
Super Balls! Man, lost a lot of those. Cox 049 engines mounted to any toy that rolls. Now that brings back memories  | ||
| Bartimus |
ah yes, those were the days! <sigh> | ||
| Jaimec |
Wham-O also came out with Hula Hoops, Monster Magnets and the Frisbee! | ||
| Jphish |
Don't forget the whammo sling shots ! My brother still has a small ballbearing in him some where... | ||
| Midknyte |
Two words... Yard Darts --- One word... Jarts! | ||
| Igneroid |
Did Whamo make them bean guns that looked like a .45 semi auto pistol?? I held wayne Calvert down with my knee and shot him in the head, point blank, with that bean gun and the bean went waaay up his ear and he had to go to the doc to get it removed...Ahhh the good ole days..... | ||
| Darthane |
Two words... Yard Darts ~~~>Kyrocket ...I still have a set. Most lethal toy EVER (and thus one of the greatest). | ||
| Captain_mark |
www.wham-o.com A lot milder product line, but they still sell Superballs. be good, | ||
| Damnut |
I remember when I got my first set of Yard Darts. I was playing with them in my from yard with my cousin and we were seeing how high we could throw them. On my 3rd or 4th throw one slipped out of my hand and went right through the front window of my house. I forget what was worse, the anticipation of the beating or the actual beating that I got??????? ahhh the good ole days. | ||
| Spatten1 |
We used to throw super balls off of my grandmother's 17 floor balcony in Atlantic City. They would bounce back up 4-5 floors. We also threw a lot of fruit to see it explode on impact. | ||
| Ravensmith22 |
We used to play catch with Jarts. Gives you an incentive to catch it right. Steep learning curve. Of course, we also did things like taking our blade sleds (Flexible Flyers) down a thirty-degree sloped alley and no way to tell if a car was coming except for someone's little brother who might yell "Car!" if he was paying attention. The good old days, how did I ever survive? | ||
| Dwardo |
1) Drop a lit cherry bomb down a fence post open at top. 2) Drop one Super Ball on top of it. 3) Wait. I still don't know where it went. | ||
| Etennuly |
At a buddy's house in the mid seventies, we tried the how high can you throw a Jart game. It was the second or third one that came down through the hood of my car! Arrrrrrgh! The good ole days. Ya could throw them pretty high though. | ||
| Ratbuell |
Not a "real" toy, but fits into the stupid how did I survive childhood theme. Used to teach archery, and we were bored one day so we picked up a pair of trash can lids ("shields") and started just throwing arrows at each other. Lasted for like 2 hours and we worked up one heck of a pace, trying to pick up and toss before the other guy could get the shield up to block... and somehow, no eyeballs were lost. +1 on the superballs, though. The small ones work well with tennis rackets, and they hurt like hell when the other guy's got better aim than you do. | ||
| Damnut |
Vern..... the difference between my story and yours is I was probably 8/9 years old and you were probably 3X that.  | ||
| Etennuly |
No, only 2X. I was seventeen, drove that car all through high school in primer of differing colors. It hadn't been painted for a week when it happened. A memorable moment that makes you say  | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
The most dangerous product wham-o has ever sold was the "slip n slide" Lets see take a plastic tarp and hold it down with incredibly sharp tent stakes that would tear you to shreds. Not to mention the fact the everybody would place them on a hill. Of course you would end up going so fast you would slide off the end. You would be lucky if you still had shorts on in the end. My last slip n slide moment involved my dip sh*t brother putting glycerin on the slide combined with Ultra concentrated dish soap. I end up going so fast I slid off the end shredding my shorts finally ending up in the neighbors hedge. Try explaining to your mother exactly why you had grass burns on your genitals.   It's been 25 years, and I still shudder when I see one | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
Of course there is Travis Pastrana's "slip and die" (Message edited by CorporateMonkey on May 21, 2008) | ||
| Reepicheep |
We got a couple of slip and slides for the kids, they still make them and you can get them at wal mart. Instead of staking down now, they have inflatable tubes along the sides to keep the straight. Works pretty well, but they also have a "pillow" at the end. Naturally, we put it on a hill  The kids (mine and the neighbors) love it, they last for a few days before somebody hits the pillow at the end going too fast and rips it off, deflating the whole thing. |
