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Koma

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I’m convinced that Wham-O was the only force keeping the gene pool in check for generations.
 
MountainMedic

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That water wiggle thing would take kids out, seemed like it was made out of the same stuff they used for football helmets.

I had a wham-o boomerang, that thing was legit deadly. Eveen I couldn't believe I could bring it to school.
 
segfault

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Cornhole Champ said:
Anyone remember this? I can still smell the petrochemicals from the plastic


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I can smell the brain cell loss like it was yesterday. Loved them, right up there with silly string.

One of my crown jewel toys as a kid, Mad Scientist Dissect-an-Alien kit:

Sort of a 3D puzzle of organs that you'd pack with green slime and then sew up the alien's body cavity. Then you'd open him up and pull out these nasty, snotty bits.
 
SC MMA MD

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MountainMedic said:
That stuff was so hard to blow a bubble with.

And yeah, I can still taste it..
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This. I assume I am going to die a few weeks earlier due to whatever chemicals I was exposed to messing with that stuff, but my respiratory muscles are nice and strong from trying to start a bubble with it
 
MountainMedic

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SC MMA MD said:
This. I assume I am going to die a few weeks earlier due to whatever chemicals I was exposed to messing with that stuff, but my respiratory muscles are nice and strong from trying to start a bubble with it
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We existed in a world of second hand smoke, asbestos, and leaded gas.... toxic bubble goo is the least of our worries.
 
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Koma said:
You forgot metal playground equipment. Summer and winter had their own hazards.
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We had all the usual death devices, but we also had something like this, but it was longer, made of steel and open on both ends.

The inside rotated, so you'd get a bunch of kids in there like they are running in a hamster wheel. Eventually the slower kids would fall and just become meat for the grinder as they rolled around on the floor and the rest of the kids trampled them running as fast as they could to avoid becoming more ingredients for the stew.

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MountainMedic

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I thought I was going to be a stuntman when I grew up so I would always try to recreate stunts I'd seen at the playground.

My favorite was to get under the merry go round and hold on as the other kids spun it as fast as they could.
In my retard kid brain I was under a speeding wagon like the old westerns that I thought were documentaries.

I got fully fucked up many times.
I can't imagine being my parents, lol. I'd leave like a normal kid and come home with 1 shoe, missing half my jeans, and gravel buried in my skin.

I don't think I ever had a school picture with out some kind of obvious wound or black eye or something.
 
NiteProwleR

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MountainMedic said:
That water wiggle thing would take kids out, seemed like it was made out of the same stuff they used for football helmets.

I had a wham-o boomerang, that thing was legit deadly. Eveen I couldn't believe I could bring it to school.
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Lawn darts. We never actually played with it properly. I think you're supposed to have a target or something to aim for. We didn't aim just flung it as high as possible and ran for the hills in all directions.
 
MountainMedic

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NiteProwleR said:
Lawn darts. We never actually played with it properly. I think you're supposed to have a target or something to aim for. We didn't aim just flung it as high as possible and ran for the hills in all directions.
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The target was a plastic hoop.

We played "blind darts". We'd put the target in the front yard and try to hit it from the back yard. Good wholesome fun.
 
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