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Title: Some late gifts ideas for kids
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 23, 2015, 08:35:03 AM

Next time someone witters on about elves and safety

https://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/8-insanely-dangerous-toys-from-the-past-will-leave-you-speechless-photos

Title: Re: Some late gifts ideas for kids
Post by: Gonnagle on December 23, 2015, 09:44:11 AM

Dear Crazy World,

Come on!! own up! who had a chemistry set as a child for Christmas, happy memories, the blue stain on the ceiling in your bedroom 8) 8)

Gonnagle.

Title: Re: Some late gifts ideas for kids
Post by: Gordon on December 23, 2015, 10:12:31 AM

I remember as a child (strange though it now seems that I was once a child) getting roller skates when I was about 8 or 9 (so 1959/60) - but they were nothing like modern roller-skating boots.

For a start they were metal and you wore them over your shoes. They adjusted for length underneath using a wing-nut, and then there were leather straps to fasten over the toes and around the ankles. Invariably, after a day or two, either the leather frayed and broke or the wing-nut fell off and vanished forever - sometimes this happened during attempts to roller skate, adding some grazed knees and elbows to the fun (no sissy elbow or knee protection way back then).

Happy days!

Title: Re: Some late gifts ideas for kids
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on December 23, 2015, 10:24:55 AM

Spirograph could slip out of it's sprocket and cause serious injuries.
Shoot around the corner gun.

Title: Re: Some late gifts ideas for kids
Post by: Gonnagle on December 23, 2015, 10:37:41 AM

Dear Gordon,

I remember those things, depending on the road or pavement surface you could make sparks fly, kids now a days don't know the meaning of the word cool :P :P

Gonnagle.

Title: Re: Some late gifts ideas for kids
Post by: Shaker on December 23, 2015, 10:44:52 AM

I had those roller skates as well  :)

Title: Re: Some late gifts ideas for kids
Post by: Gonnagle on December 23, 2015, 10:52:55 AM

Dear Vlad,

Shoot around the corner gun :o :o

But yes!!

http://tinyurl.com/nqbed2c

I never had a shoot around the corner gun :( I somehow feel cheated :P

Gonnagle.

Title: Re: Some late gifts ideas for kids
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on December 23, 2015, 01:33:47 PM

Quote from: Gonnagle on December 23, 2015, 10:52:55 AM

Dear Vlad,

Shoot around the corner gun :o :o

But yes!!

http://tinyurl.com/nqbed2c

I never had a shoot around the corner gun :( I somehow feel cheated :P

Gonnagle.

As with every thing to do with La vie plastique Mr G, it was a race between realising the wanting was better than the having or the plastic parts coming adrift from the metal parts.