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01-28-2006, 04:46 PM
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I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Odessa, Tx
Posts: 3,587
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$6.50 - 16 issues. Those were the good old days!
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01-28-2006, 11:09 PM
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#12
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Batman
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: New York
Posts: 20,158
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01-28-2006, 11:23 PM
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Batman
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: New York
Posts: 20,158
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Hostess you say?
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Originally Posted by J Storm
Those Hostess' ads were cool...now thats old school!
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01-28-2006, 11:24 PM
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Sculptor
Sculptor
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: California, the world's largest outdoor free-range insane asylum.
Posts: 379
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Why squander all that money and energy on the Charles Atlas "Dynamic Tension" ("It builds muscles FAST so that you can become what you behold quicker!") Body-Building Program when all you need to do is spike that screeching alpha male baboon's Coke with some industrial-strength laxative . . . . ?
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01-28-2006, 11:29 PM
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Doh!
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Rural Texas, near Kerrville and San Antonio
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When I was a kid I didn't much trust mailorder ads nor did I have the patience to wait for something to arrive by mail in 4 to 6 weeks. This was back in the early 70's and spider monkeys were sold in pets stores.
Well, I saved my money and worked mighty hard to buy a pair of infant spider monkeys. I thought it was strange that the pet store kept them in a birdcage.
Brimming with the excitement of a 9 year old carrying a dream come true in a box, I ran home and promptly dropped them into our aquarium. They didn't swim too long with that tight lid on and they a whole mess of it.
My parents thought I had killed them on purpose. Word about the drowning got around to other kids, then the school, then it seems like everyone was keeping cats, dogs, even babies as far away from me as possible.
I'm still haunted by the splashing and the way they banged on the glass so pitiously.....
And that's the sad, sad, story of the Not-So Sea Monkeys.
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01-29-2006, 12:31 AM
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Sculptor
Sculptor
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: California, the world's largest outdoor free-range insane asylum.
Posts: 379
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You know it's quickly becoming apparent that those sea monkeys may have caused more damage to the collective national psyche than the death of the Marlboro Man to lung cancer.
I remember those ads very well, but I never got suckered by them. Nostalgia and sarcasm aside, personally, I think deceiving children is about as vile as you can get. If I was a state prosecutor at the time I would have made it a priority to have put those companies up on charges of mail fraud.
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01-29-2006, 12:48 AM
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Man Without Fear
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 8,113
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Anyone got ACTUAL pictures of these 'sea monkeys'... I've never seen the m in person
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01-29-2006, 02:21 AM
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I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: San Jose, CA
Posts: 3,889
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Originally Posted by Daredevil
Anyone got ACTUAL pictures of these 'sea monkeys'... I've never seen the m in person
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Here's a couple trying to make baby Sea Monkeys...
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01-29-2006, 07:44 AM
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Sinister Six
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: North East
Posts: 526
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I had those. Brine Shrimp is the real name for those. I used to feed them to my pet Newts...
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