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- From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
- Subject: Re: Toys
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.153544.23604@i88.isc.com>
- Keywords: youth
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- Organization: Lachman Technology, Incorporated, Naperville, IL
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:35:44 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.185651.13787@sdc.com> kenk@sdc.com (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.
- ...
- >Any else remember fun toys from their youth?
-
- Anyone else have a "VRROOM" for their bicycle?
-
- It was a plastic box shaped like a semi-horizontal single moto engine,
- that included a small motor driving a noisemaker that sounded remarkably
- like no motorcycle engine I've ever heard. It included a remote
- key-operated switch to mount on the handlebars, with a rheostat to
- control the speed of the motor (and thus pitch and volume of the
- nois^H^H^H^Hsound).
-
- Ah, to terrorize old ladies on the sidewalks of Lisle, IL...
- --
- Jonathan E. Quist Lachman Technology, Incorporated
- jeq@i88.isc.com '71 CL450-K4 "Gleep", DoD #094 Naperville, IL
- __ There's nothing quite like the pitter-patter of little feet,
- \/ followed by the words "Daddy! Yay!"
-