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10-15-2005, 03:00 AM
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Cars: raising the hood and making simple repairs yourself with parts you got at Sears [/ QUOTE ] How about changing your own oil? I'm at fault for this anymore since I don't have a driveway and don't want to do it while my car is parked on the road, but 10 years ago I don't remember so many oil changing places being around. 
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#34
10-15-2005, 03:07 AM
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Re: \"Remember when?\" game -- ch-ch-changes
Glass soda bottles
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#35
10-15-2005, 11:26 AM
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8-Tracks
PONG Space Invaders Marathon candy bars Iron-on T-shirt transfers A skinny Ozzy AM only car radios
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#36
10-15-2005, 11:29 AM
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freeze pops. [/ QUOTE ] I still eat these religiously.
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#37
10-15-2005, 11:30 AM
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Flip Clocks:  [/ QUOTE ] WOW good one. This thing made Christmas morning unbearable for me (I think I may have had this actual one).
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#38
10-15-2005, 12:00 PM
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What do you remember that used to be common or cool or important that isn't even around anymore or has dropped off the cool charts today? I've got some: phones with dials on them [/ QUOTE ] Looks like they are back. I saw some new ones at Gabbert's (a Minneapolis furniture place that sells crap that our grandparents and/or pretentious middle age crisis people seem to enjoy). My wife drags me in there when we occasionally eat at the Galleria [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]
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#39
10-15-2005, 12:03 PM
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freeze pops. [/ QUOTE ] There's a brand of them called Otter Pops that are still around and I have a freezer full of them. I haven't seen legit "Freezer Pops" in a long time, but these may actually be the same brand with a new name. ~D
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#40
10-15-2005, 12:21 PM
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Arcades - people lining up to play Street Fighter 2, no one could beat me as Guile [/ QUOTE ] Nobody could beat any good player using Guile, since the original had not only the re-dizzy combos, but the "phantom throw" or "touch of death" or whatever you want to call it. [ QUOTE ] Transformers [/ QUOTE ] My niece wanted some transformers, and specifically asked for StarScream and SoundWave. I ended up grabbing her Thundercracker and Red Alert (since I couldn't find StarScream, and don't think they started to remanufacture SoundWave yet). There was a piece I read on the now-dead Yesterdayland site about the Transformers. The site is totally dead, and I'm not confident in a link through the way back machine, so I'll quote it: "A lesson in synergy: Robots = Cool. Toy Cars = Cool. Therefore, Robots + Toy Cars = 2x Cool, right? Wrong. Hasbro’s Transformers toy line proved once and for all that the whole can be much, much greater than the sum of its transformable parts. These weren’t just robots and toy cars, nor were they robots in toy cars; no, these robots were toy cars—and trucks, and guns, and boom boxes, and jet planes, and helicopters, and brontosauruses, and… ANDTHEYWEREGREATANDITWASTHECOOLESTTHINGEVER!!!!!!! " I have to agree with that guy. It's hard to imagine there ever being a physical toy better than the Transformers, especially now that the toy market is dying and being replaced by video games. ~D
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