FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for December 11, 2009
December 10, 2009
December 12, 2009
Transcript:
Jasonezer: Cool! It's me when I was little! Ghost of Christmas Past: Yes, Jasonezer, you were but a lad of four this Christmas. Jasonezer: Hey, I remember that train set! It was the first train I ever had! It brought me so such delight and pleasure! Whatever happened to it, I wonder. Ghost of Christmas Past: You blew it up with your first chemistry set. Jasonezer: Come to think of it, that was the pleasure.
yyyguy almost 15 years ago
chemistry sets and wood burning kits. now those were presents! and let’s not forget lawn darts!!
jammer714 almost 15 years ago
BB guns and jarts, chemistry sets, OMG life was so simple and fun back then
skeeterhawk almost 15 years ago
I bought an official Lawn Darts set. I had seen Jarts. I believe they had a little more blunt tips, and a few had feathers that slid back on the shaft after they were released. My Darts did not.
I had a Lionel train, and my dad gave me his old Marx train set. The cars were made of pressed tin, but the engine was heavy steal or diecast.
Yea, I had a wood burning set, a GI Joe action figure, that bent at every joint. And a few large Tonka and Buddy L toys.
Yukoneric almost 15 years ago
I miss the good ole days………….
twj0729 almost 15 years ago
Yeah, it’s hard to believe that one day we’ll look back at today and say…”Those were the good ole days!”
treBsdrawkcaB almost 15 years ago
Shades of Uncle Fester from the 1960 TV Series “Adams Family”…
Our litigious, politically correct society has banished most of the fun toys and gifts that I enjoyed in my childhood.
Now everything is hyper-techno, hyper-expensive and either hyper-boring or sometimes even nefarious - shoving someone’s agenda down our throats.
dstufff almost 15 years ago
When I was young, my older brother received a chemistry set one year. I would burn a bit of the sulfur that was included just to make the basement stink.
zerotsm almost 15 years ago
What about Tinker Toys and Erector Sets?
Templo S.U.D. almost 15 years ago
And LEGO and K’NEX, zerotsm. Don’t forget those!
Smartone2000 almost 15 years ago
Jason used to have a massive head in the old days.
JP Steve Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Erector sets and Gilbert chemistry sets? I think I need a fix of “The man who saved Christmas!”
(And I still have my Marx train set in the basement!)
Jungleman almost 15 years ago
Well, once upon a time, when I was 7, I got a lil’ soccer game, the kind that two players actuated the lil’ figures adfixed to bars. I could not play it for the first couple days – my Dad and his neighbour took good control of it … And after I found it hard to find playmates. Definitely, getting comics was better. I could sit in a corner and enjoy them.
starlena Premium Member almost 15 years ago
channce, you can still get the dart guns! I saw some at my local Walgreens! Walmart probably will have them too ;o)