Late Wednesday Funnies…
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NordicDave
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Oh Yeah, I rocked the baseball cards on the spokes of my Schwinn Stingray with ape hangar handle bars and a banana seat! Ah! 1970....
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Definitely not me lol...
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Mine had a Firestone badge on it…kinda wonder who actually built it.
But the cool kid’s dad added fork extensions.
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We had palmettos. Take a leaf plus stalk. Cut leaf (they’re fan shaped ) up close to the stalk so you’ve got a nice handle. Thread the stalk through to bike frame where you can reach the handle (usually right by the seat) and thread the end into the edge of the spokes. Slide the handle up and down to change the sound (or even go into stealth mode!).
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Yeah, I am sure as kids we really annoyed some folks on the block.
For a few years there we were never seen without cards in the spokes....
For a few years there we were never seen without cards in the spokes....
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MAD magazine once published a parody of a WWII flying film, with the Beatles as the characters. One line is appropriate, here:
"Flying an airplane is like riding a bicycle, except it's harder to put a playing card in the spokes..."
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"Flying an airplane is like riding a bicycle, except it's harder to put a playing card in the spokes..."
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I did that, and balloons.
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When we could afford balloons that was the ticket ... had a nice rumble!
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It did. Kinda more Harley like. They didn't last as long as cards though.
Anybody remember these?
Mounted to your bicycle frame, it made motor noises. There was a controller that went on the handlebar.
Mounted to your bicycle frame, it made motor noises. There was a controller that went on the handlebar.
I had one. And an STP sticker on the seat.
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Gods bless the Internet. 30 second of searching, and I found the original article.
And I was wrong. The quote above was from "Airplane", not the Mad Magazine parody.
To make up for my error, here's another appropriate panel from the magazine.
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No. And if I did, I'd still say no.
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I was gonna make that same remark i.e. the families that had money bought these for their babies but we either used cards or balloons. Don't wanna say we were poor but we kept our aluminum foil so it could be reused ...
Uh huh. I remember doing that. My MIL used to save the waxed paper bags out of cereal boxes to reuse it.
I was born and raised po, but I worked my butt off for many years so that I could become poor, and I’m pretty proud of it.
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Yeah, growing up today's jelly jar would be tomorrows tea glass for dinner...
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(lead paint and all... or am I not remembering correctly?)
Yep. We had a lovely set of Peanuts drinking glasses. But we only got to use them for fancy meals on holidays when guests were coming.
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All these rich families with their fancy store-bought jelly...
Mom canned everything. Jam, jelly, fruits, vegetables. We never got to drink out of an empty jelly or mason jar--they never stayed empty long enough.
Mom canned everything. Jam, jelly, fruits, vegetables. We never got to drink out of an empty jelly or mason jar--they never stayed empty long enough.
Rich?!
We got our jars out of the neighbors’ trash cans while we were scrounging for food.
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Well played, Sir, well played.
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Now that I’ve moved up in the world, we finally have some fancy stemware.
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Cool! The good ones will "sing" for you. That's a great thing to do at a wedding as the band is warming up ... sounds like feedback!
wanttaja
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Not to mention the seed and flour vendors in the '30s... printing colorful patterns on the sacks so that farm mothers could use them to make dresses.
https://archiveproject.com/the-amazing-history-of-flour-sack-dresses-10-photos
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Easy peasy.
We drank out of used chemical beakers that we dug up at the heavy-metal toxic waste dump.
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We had that kid. He had it for about one day. After we figured out how it worked, we couldn’t get it back together again
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We used old cigarette packs instead of cards. They were tossed out of cars everywhere. Later, when we got cars, we used the foil out of the packs to wrap around burned-out fuses.
Oil companies gave away drinking glasses with a fill-up at their gas stations. Esso offered the tiger tail to hang out of your gas cap. "Put a tiger in your tank" was the marketing gimmick.
Oil companies gave away drinking glasses with a fill-up at their gas stations. Esso offered the tiger tail to hang out of your gas cap. "Put a tiger in your tank" was the marketing gimmick.
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Man, y’all are old!
Heck, my mom used to gather used dish rags from the neighbors and boil them to make soup....
NordicDave
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Oh good loardy the fork extensions! I almost mentioned them in my post and didn't. Yup, cut the forks off an old bike, and slip them in the Schwin Stingray forks and remount the tire for that chopper look.
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Dude, you were supposed to lick them with your TONGUE....oh, never mind.
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I have to admit, it's nice to have finally reached a level of success where I can walk into a store and buy anything I want without having to look at the price tag. Thank you, Dollar Tree!