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Chris Bridges
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Toys of mass destruction
It's holiday season once again, and that means that happy children everywhere get their annual joyous surprise: the new list of Top Ten Most Dangerous Toys. Just 15 more shopping days, kids!
For 31 years, the group World Against Toys Causing Harm (WATCH) has cruised toy store aisles looking for brightly colored deathtraps that unsuspecting adults might accidentally purchase for their hapless offspring.
I check it out every year just to see what's currently threatening our children with hazardous levels of fun and to see if anything remotely approaches the violently entertaining toys of my youth, back when we could have live ammo and real working bear traps.

[ December 10, 2003, 10:18 AM: Message edited by: Chris Bridges ]
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Hobbes
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[ROFL]

My Mom never let me play with yard darts. [Frown]

Hobbes [Smile]
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Christy
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We had yard darts, but I was too young to play before my parents gave them away. Darn!
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quote:
Then we'd change places and continue with our version of The Darwin Awards, Youth Edition.
[ROFL]

We weren't even allowed to play with those dart guns with the suction cups. [Frown]
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TomDavidson
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You know, I seriously MISS yard darts. They were one of my favorite outdoor games as a kid.
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I'm with you, Tom. I miss 'em.
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Bob_Scopatz
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Yard Darts and laundry left hung out to dry do NOT mix. I know.

Great article.
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jehovoid
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National semi-finals... heh heh heh.
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Dan_raven
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[ROFL]

And what would you say the Point of this article is anyway?
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Ryuko
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(hits Dan_raven with a rolled-up newspaper) That was terrible!

I'm wayyy too young to have played with a toy like that... Although there's always the easy-bake oven, with the light bulb of burning death. Mmmm... Mini cake...
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[ROFL] [ROFL] [ROFL]

outer elixir ingested mercuric sulfide to transmute poison to something beneficial, it's a practice for achieving immortality.........

[ December 10, 2003, 12:15 PM: Message edited by: Toretha ]
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Dead_Horse
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No Jarts for us. We did have suction cup dart guns, though. The only casualty was the day Dad decided to be a funny unicorn, licked the cup and stuck it in the middle of his forehead. He had to go to work for days afterward with a nice round red dot.

And we had clackers...two hard, heavy polyester resin balls on a string. Guaranteed pain.

And there was the day we let the gerbils loose on Mom and Dad's bed while Dad was reading. One gerbil ran into his eye, causing it to blacken very nicely.
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quote:
Admittedly, it does make sense when the despised star in question displays no discernible difference between acting, not acting, or unconsciousness, such as Tom Cruise.
[ROFL]

Ok, so that's not from the same column: but I've just started working my way through the back catalogue. Finally, something to entertain me at work!
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