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PrintableTom said: Wacky Wall Walkers
And the stains they left on the walls that you couldn't get off  | |
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The Abacus... 
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slap hands | |
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Slide-rules. They were for calculations and I never understood them. | |
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library paste | |
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As a 29 year old teacher, the thing I see missing from today's learning environment or grade school is MANNERS & RESPONSIBILITY.
It is a shame that poor parenting, pop culture, and hormones have turned this generation of teens into zombies. Oh yeah...computers (Apples) and other items (film projectors, toxic glue) are missing too "Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish." | |
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AnckSuNamun said: lilmissmissy said: Teddy Ruxpin! The Teddy bear which moved its mouth and had a tape deck as a stomach and you'd stick a Teddy Ruxpin in and it would tell of wonderful talez
 hey I still have mine along with that answer box.....but I can't find the tapes to go with it or his little vest  I still have mine too!! But you know what, I forgot that i left a duracell battery in him, and it corroded  and when i put a tape in HE WENT ALL POSSESSED!!! I got so scared i never played with poor old Ruxpin again!!  No hablo espanol,no! 
Pero hablo ingles..ssii muy muy bien... 
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I should probably ask my cousin, since she'z a primary school teacher but...i wonder if they still use Clag glue? I knew kidz who actually ATE that stuff!! I didn't but i found it rather amusing to brush it over my hands so that the glue would create a 'second skin' that would start peeling off!!  No hablo espanol,no!
Pero hablo ingles..ssii muy muy bien...
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Tom said: Garbage Pail Kids, 2nd series was hard as hell to find in the stores
Wacky Wall Walkers Slime (the kind you would get from the vending machines for 25 cents) Those sunglasses with the red LED lights (Like in the Blondie Rapture video) I LOVED SLIME!!! No hablo espanol,no!
Pero hablo ingles..ssii muy muy bien...
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meltwithu said: JasmineFire said: i remember bumpersickers for MS-DOS when i was about five or so.
i was unclear about the concept then and i'm still unclear about it now. i remember thos huge movie disk players. i forget the name, but they were almost like primitive DVDs. They were preVHS and were freakin' huge! ahh..laser discs..there were two versions i think. the older version, before vhs, had the disc encased in hard protective case that loaded when you put it in the machiine. the newer, which didn't get discontinued until around 1999-2000 when the dvd players took off, just looked like LP sized cd's or dvd's. i still have mine hooked up to my bigscreen because it plays cd's/cd-r's and cd-rw's and a lot of stuff that came out on laser disc hasn't made it to dvd yet (3 chains of gold, lots of older great concerts) ican burn the laser discs to my dvd recorder now, so i'm phasing it out...slowly we had the huge disks with the protective case and everything. I think we ended up selling it in a yard sale.
I also remember day-glo clothing, hypercolor t-shirts, and walkmans. wow. | |
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i worked on the yearbook - we actually took photos and glued them to a layout sheet with typed captions
nothing like the smell of rubber cement!
now they do it all on the computer - digital photos and text and instead of sending a big stack of layouts to the printer you send the digital file  She couldn't stop crying 'cause she knew he was gone to stay | |
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emm said: i worked on the yearbook - we actually took photos and glued them to a layout sheet with typed captions
nothing like the smell of rubber cement!
now they do it all on the computer - digital photos and text and instead of sending a big stack of layouts to the printer you send the digital file ya know what? That kinda makes me sad. In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. |
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Ocean said: I've decided I'm not that old after all....I don't know what half the stuff ur talking about is
 .....unless New Zealand is so far behind  | |
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Sweeny79 said: emm said: i worked on the yearbook - we actually took photos and glued them to a layout sheet with typed captions
nothing like the smell of rubber cement!
now they do it all on the computer - digital photos and text and instead of sending a big stack of layouts to the printer you send the digital file ya know what? That kinda makes me sad. When I went to graphic design school that's what we learned, bromides and paste ups and pens in different mm to draw rules by hand. And when I graduated all I did was use a computer, have NEVER actually used any of the things I learned!  | |
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Do the teeth police still come around and give to a tablet to chew so they can see how well you are brushing?
I hear schools are banning dodge ball. That is really sad. "What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it | |
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demore said: I hear schools are banning dodge ball. That is really sad.
 No way!
Heh...we had one game that was somewhat similar called "murderball", but I think some of the parents complained after a couple of years and had our gym teacher change the name. | |
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Micronauts
Filmstrips ahhh fuck i cant remember, its all a blur these days. | |
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GAK!  I don't think they still make all of those little Nickelodeon toys like gak,FLOAM and those moon shoes. I used to love them 
I still have my My Pet Monster too
I still have a lot of my old toys..... like Snorks and Popples stuffed animals.  looking for you in the woods tonight Switch FC SW-2874-2863-4789 (Rum&Coke) | |
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althom said: Ocean said: I've decided I'm not that old after all....I don't know what half the stuff ur talking about is
.....unless New Zealand is so far behind  | |
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AnckSuNamun said: GAK!
I don't think they still make all of those little Nickelodeon toys like gak,FLOAM and those moon shoes. I used to love them
I still have my My Pet Monster too
I still have a lot of my old toys..... like Snorks and Popples stuffed animals. ooooohhhh! my pet monster! my brother had one of those when we were little. one day he left it outside and it got rained on-that was the end of that | |
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I'm going crazy. Does anybody have a picture or know what those glass knocker things were called. They were sooooo dangerous but I wanted a pair.
It was two glass balls attached with two strings. The point was to make them knock and then you kind of bounced them up and they knock again. You kept doing that until it hit your arm. Boy did it hurt. Does anyone know what they were called? OH MY GOD. THEY ARE CALLED CLACKERS!!!!! I NEVER HAD SOME AS A CHILD. I'M GOING TO TRY TO GET MY HANDS ON SOME. 
M [Edited 2/2/06 15:33pm] MyeternalgrattitudetoPhil&Val.Herman said "We want sweaty truckers at the truck stop! We want cigar puffing men that look like they wanna beat the living daylights out of us" Val"sporking is spooning with benefits" | |
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MIGUELGOMEZ said: I'm going crazy. Does anybody have a picture or know what those glass knocker things were called. They were sooooo dangerous but I wanted a pair.
It was two glass balls attached with two strings. The point was to make them knock and then you kind of bounced them up and they knock again. You kept doing that until it hit your arm. Boy did it hurt. Does anyone know what they were called? OH MY GOD. THEY ARE CALLED CLACKERS!!!!! I NEVER HAD SOME AS A CHILD. I'M GOING TO TRY TO GET MY HANDS ON SOME.
M [Edited 2/2/06 15:33pm] I remember those B*****ds ...They were flamin dangerous... 
...Thank God my wrist survived
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i have a confession to make. i still love those gumball machines you can stick coins in and get those little toys in the clear round plastic ball thingies. | |
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Steadwood said: MIGUELGOMEZ said: I'm going crazy. Does anybody have a picture or know what those glass knocker things were called. They were sooooo dangerous but I wanted a pair.
It was two glass balls attached with two strings. The point was to make them knock and then you kind of bounced them up and they knock again. You kept doing that until it hit your arm. Boy did it hurt. Does anyone know what they were called? OH MY GOD. THEY ARE CALLED CLACKERS!!!!! I NEVER HAD SOME AS A CHILD. I'M GOING TO TRY TO GET MY HANDS ON SOME.
M [Edited 2/2/06 15:33pm] I remember those B*****ds ...They were flamin dangerous...
...Thank God my wrist survived
Thanks God my friends didn't like to share. My wrists were a wreck!!!!!
M MyeternalgrattitudetoPhil&Val.Herman said "We want sweaty truckers at the truck stop! We want cigar puffing men that look like they wanna beat the living daylights out of us" Val"sporking is spooning with benefits" | |
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blackboards. *up untill late highschool they were being used- not now)
Old wooden desks that opened up (good for vandalizing on- always loads of writing on them) | |
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minneapolisgenius said: Mimeographs!
With that blue carbon-copy paper stuff. Your fingers got all blue from it.
Yeah, I'm old. Either that, or our school was WAY behind the times. i remember those! i liked the smell of the ink/carbon when the teacher would give you freshly-made copies of worksheets...
other obsolete stuff i remember: -- lunch tickets (for those of us who had reduced-price lunches, remember them? the lunchlady would punch your ticket when you came through the line...and be damned if you lost your ticket or if you forgot to take it outta your pocket before your folks did the laundry )
-- floppy disks -- those cards inside of library books that the librarian would stamp the due date on -- metal lunchboxes (i had a walt disney world one) | |
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Rhondab said: I was thinking in opposite....things we didn't have but now we can't live with out like the remote control. I lost the one for my bedroom and had a damn fit but remember getting up and turning the tv when I was a kid.
my dad would call me from the living room just to get me to change the channel. i used to hate that...
i kinna miss the teevee sets with the knobs/dials on 'em...i used to fuck with 'em, because it was cool to play with the knobs and see peoples' skin turn green/blue/whatever. my dad would get mad at me for that: "deja, quit playing with the damn knobs on the teevee!" | |
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MIGUELGOMEZ said: OH MY GOD. THEY ARE CALLED CLACKERS!!!!! I NEVER HAD SOME AS A CHILD. I'M GOING TO TRY TO GET MY HANDS ON SOME.
i have a set of purple clackers that were my moms. i had never heard of them before. how old are you?? | |
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EskomoKisses said: Tom said: Wacky Wall Walkers
And the stains they left on the walls that you couldn't get off and how mad you'd get if you accidentally dropped it on the floor and it'd get hair all over it so it wouldn't be as sticky anymore  | |
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Handclapsfingasnapz said: -- metal lunchboxes (i had a walt disney world one) I soooo remember them....I had a Muppet Babies one. I even remember when they started making the plastic ones, I had to get one every school year. | |
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