Wednesday Worsts….Toys

[CDGator]

I was that kid who could build anything out of tinker toys, legos, or construx

Aren’t you an engineer?

 

[bradgator2]

Aren’t you an engineer?

Master’s in Engineering from UF

 

[CDGator]

Master’s in Engineering from UF

Brad as a kid playing with his Legos

 

[cover2]

 

[Spurffelbow833]

I remember getting one of these at Christmas when I was elementary age…

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The metal molds got really hot and I recall a few burns. It also came with small gauge wire that you could articulate the legs, tails, and wings as well as puncture your skin. The greatest injury (and subsequent loss of the Thingmaker) occurred when I got my @ss torn up for putting a big black spider under the covers in my mother’s bed.

I got one of these for Christmas when I was 7 years old. Yes, I burned my fingers a couple of times, but I had a lot of fun with it, too. Even the memory of the smell of that Plasti-Goop makes me smile now.

Wham-O made a lot of cheap fun toys that are all banned now. Super Balls, Silly Putty, Water Wiggles, Slip 'N Slides, and even simple ball and paddles. All great fun and most of them gone forever. Jacks, marbles, and Pick up Sticks. Choking hazards! You'll put your eye out, kid!

 

[soflagator]

I got one of these for Christmas when I was 7 years old. Yes, I burned my fingers a couple of times, but I had a lot of fun with it, too. Even the memory of the smell of that Plasti-Goop makes me smile now.

Wham-O made a lot of cheap fun toys that are all banned now. Super Balls, Silly Putty, Water Wiggles, Slip 'N Slides, and even simple ball and paddles. All great fun and most of them gone forever. Jacks, marbles, and Pick up Sticks. Choking hazards! You'll put your eye out, kid!

Slip ‘N Slide was awesome the first run. After that you were sliding over a combination of dirt, grass and leaves that you and the others tracked onto it. Hated that.

 

[CDGator]

Our kids had some friends whose parents are a whole lot cooler than us and willing to destroy their front yard for a slip n' slide kid party.
The first time I tried it out I dove straight down head first and then slammed my neck into the haybale that was protecting us from going into the road. Their yard was a mess for a year but they are much better parents than us and I'm ok with it.

 

[Spurffelbow833]

Two toys come to mind as the worst.

Jack in the Box. The anticipation is awful waiting for it to pop up. Hated that toy.


Original Lawn Darts with the metal tips. For obvious reasons.

Blasphemy!!! The Lawn Darts were fuching AWESOME. Ive been looking around on eBay to get some of them. They taught you to pay attention to what you were doing and to not fuch around and find out. They were also great instruments of natural selection. We need MORE toys like that, not less. You know....something like a tesla coil pool toy. Or a soap-on-a-rope with a core of metal sodium.

I once threw one of those things in the air as high as I could just as my dog came charging by me from behind. She was camped under it and I was too far away to do anything before it came down. Those were the longest 3 or 4 seconds of my life. It missed her by two feet.

 

[CDGator]

I once threw one of those things in the air as high as I could just as my dog came charging by me from behind. She was camped under it and I was too far away to do anything before it came down. Those were the longest 3 or 4 seconds of my life. It missed her by two feet.

I was nervous just reading this!

 

[Detroitgator]

Reminds me of the Martin Short lawyer character Nathan Thurm on SNL.

 

[Detroitgator]

I got one of these for Christmas when I was 7 years old. Yes, I burned my fingers a couple of times, but I had a lot of fun with it, too. Even the memory of the smell of that Plasti-Goop makes me smile now.

Wham-O made a lot of cheap fun toys that are all banned now. Super Balls, Silly Putty, Water Wiggles, Slip 'N Slides, and even simple ball and paddles. All great fun and most of them gone forever. Jacks, marbles, and Pick up Sticks. Choking hazards! You'll put your eye out, kid!

You forgot "Happy Fun Ball".... and remember, do not taunt Happy Fun Ball...

 

[bradgator2]

Our kids had some friends whose parents are a whole lot cooler than us and willing to destroy their front yard for a slip n' slide kid party.
The first time I tried it out I dove straight down head first and then slammed my neck into the haybale that was protecting us from going into the road. Their yard was a mess for a year but they are much better parents than us and I'm ok with it.



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Look, I am known for doing dumb ass stuff like this so I wont judge you neighbors. But that “backstop” doesn’t seem sufficient.

 

[CDGator]

Look, I am known for doing dumb ass stuff like this so I wont judge you neighbors. But that “backstop” doesn’t seem sufficient.

Not everyone can be an engineer

 

[soflagator]

Not everyone can be an engineer

Yeah, but couldn’t you at least find 2 or 3 fat people and ask them to sit facing the road? I mean, it’s Kentucky for crying out loud.

 

[CDGator]

Yeah, but couldn’t you at least find 2 or 3 fat people and ask them to sit facing the road? I mean, it’s Kentucky for crying out loud.

It’s illegal to use people as a speed bump.

 

[soflagator]

It illegal to use people as a speed bump.

Freaking commonwealths are the worst. May as we’ll be a province with these strange laws no one else has.

 

[CDGator]

Freaking commonwealths are the worst. May as we’ll be a province with these strange laws no one else has.

 

[bradgator2]

Yeah, but couldn’t you at least find 2 or 3 fat people and ask them to sit facing the road? I mean, it’s Kentucky for crying out loud.

What's the worst that could happen? Oh that's right.... you launch onto the asphalt road at 30 mph in the nothing but your swim trunks!

 

[CDGator]

Seedy's parents lived directly across the street from the slip n' slide neighbors. They had one of the best hills for sledding. The neighbor's next door to them had a creek that would actually stop you before you went into the road for you worry warts that are afraid of a little traffic.

 

[CDGator]

Just to ramp up the danger, the neighbor brought her horses over to go sledding with the kids! Better than a slip n slide.