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- Path: sparky!uunet!well!wfrank
- From: wfrank@well.sf.ca.us (Wade Franklin)
- Subject: Re: Toys
- Message-ID: <C1Iy0w.33K@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- References: <1993Jan25.185651.13787@sdc.com> <1993Jan27.061836.1499@pages.com>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:00:32 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.061836.1499@pages.com> bigdog!jon (Jon Wright) writes:
- >Ken Konecki writes
- >> Whilst playing with a Hot Wheels motorcycle that Santa Claus
- >> brought to our 21 month old son, I got to reminiscing about some
- >> of the motorcycle toys I played with as a youth. I have two
- >> remembrances:
- >> <<goodies deleted>>
- >> Any else remember fun toys from their youth?
- >
- >How 'bout those plastic whining gizmos from Wham-O that you could put on your
- >stingray bicycle and make motorcycle-like sounds from? EVERY kid on my street
- >had to have one to join the "'sicle gang".
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- When I was about eight years old, I had a fake plastic motorcycle engine
- on my bicycle. I think it was made by Mattel. It had batteries in it,
- and a switch on the handlebar to turn it on so it made noise.
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- Only took me 27 years to finally get the real thing...
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