Tiptoeing into Thursday
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Lots of good ones in there, Jim :)
My wife has the shirt... Irony, the opposite of Wrinkly.
BILL D
Thursday's mish mash.
Reading the cereal box while eating breakfast....that brings back memories.
I was always a "reader" from about age 5.
When I finished with the back of the box (always good stuff on the back) I would turn it to the sides and read those.
I learned a lot about nutrition (like all the sugar in Alpha-Bits) and some really big, chemical sounding words in the ingredients...Also things like "Net-weight".
When I finished with the back and sides, I 'd go to the front and study the picture in detail... that's not really "reading" but it was still kind of interesting.
If you didn't read the back you didn't know how many box tops you needed to save for the special toy you could get. Like the gray plastic submarines that ran on baking powder. The would dive, sit on the bottom for a bit and then they would rise to the surface, where the bubble would release and they would sink again.
Oh, you had one too:)
Lee, I had one of those subs too. So cool. I built a battleship once but only had Elmers white glue. One day when the seas got rough in the bathtub the ship slowly sank and the parts slowly came apart as it neared the bottom. Not a good day.
I had a baking soda and vinegar powered rocket probably 60 years ago. Don't think it came from a cereal box, but was probably advertised there or in a comic book. It worked amazingly well for about 2-3 flights until it pretty much blew up. Perhaps because young me might have thought more baking soda was a good idea????
I am going to spend the weekend shopping for tools and gizmos for things I already have or think I need. I will then stow them away nevermore to be seen let alone recall buying them.
My brother had the chemistry set with a red plastic volcano. Put baking soda and vinegar in the crater and plug in the white snow capped peak and wait for it to fly and hit your eye.
After that he could run his submarine that shot missiles straight up just high enough to hit your eyes if you leaned over for a closer look. You would lean over to see the blinking red light inside the nuclear reactor
BillD.
Four for Friday
Sunday Sillies.