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- From: keith@balrog.dseg.ti.com (Keith A. Schauer)
- Subject: Re: Toys
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.171105.1064@balrog.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Information Technology Group
- References: <1993Jan26.153544.23604@i88.isc.com> <1993Jan27.112328.27174@bnr.uk>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:11:05 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.112328.27174@bnr.uk> npet@bnr.ca (Nick Pettefar) writes:
- >Jonathan E. Quist (jeq@i88.isc.com) wrote:
- >: 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?
- >
- >
- >We just use to peg the cards that you get free with packets of sweet
- >cigarettes to the forks of our bikes. The noise was certainly impressive
- >and was cunningly speed-modulated. But then, there were eighteen of us
- >living in 'shoebox in 'middle of 'motorway - like. Ah you obviously was a
- >rich kid to be able to afford such things.
- >
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- We used baseball cards. Probably hundreds to thousands of
- dollars worth!
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