<p>garland:</p>
<p>Klackers – oh gosh, YES! I never could get the hang of those things and always felt somewhat inadequate as a result. 
Check this out:</p>
<p><a href=“TimeWarp Vintage Toys 1950s 1960s 1970s Old Toys For Sale”>TimeWarp Vintage Toys 1950s 1960s 1970s Old Toys For Sale;
(They actually have the original klackers in stock and for sale.)</p>
<p>I’m surprised they’re still legal!</p>
<p>pye-
see post #232 for the mouseketeers names</p>
<p>Klackers…I had forgotten those. Remember how you went around with these big purple lumps on your wrists and arms! (Obviously I never got the hang of them either)</p>
<p>Slam books…I haven’t thought about them for years. Last one was when I was in 7th grade. We moved the next year and never again lived somewhere where slam books were part of the culture.</p>
<p>As far as I know, kids don’t do slam books nowadays, do they?</p>
<p>A round of golf is exercise.</p>
<p>A waitress comes by with a piece of pie and you look at the pie.</p>
<p>In the Gilligan’s Island reruns, Ginger looks better than Mary Ann.</p>
<p>You WATCH Gilligan’s Island reruns.</p>
<p>A man is turning 85</p>
<p>His friends want to give him a GREAT present, so they send over a “lady”- she is gorgeous, built, charming, and very expensive</p>
<p>On Satruday night, she rings the birthday boy’s doorbell, and when he opens it she says:</p>
<p>I am here to give your super sex</p>
<p>He Says: I’ll have the soup</p>
<p>I had klackers too. They were advertised on tv all the time.<br>
And if you used your klacker while eating PopRocks (remember that awful candy that exploded in your mouth?) you’d have a poppin’ good time.</p>
<p>" A horse is a horse, of course, of course, he’ll give you an answer that you endorse…" (join in everyone! Mr. Ed fans unite!). Do you remember “footsies”? Banned from my school, they preceded the yo-yo fad , and came after the “chinese jump rope” fad. A footsie was a plastic ring worn around the ankle, with a plastice string and a bell-like object at the end, and you kicked your foot out and jumped over the bell as it went around and around. (Not a very good description - I guess you had to be there!)
And, oh hearthrob, who can forget “Tarzan”, drooled over in 1967 (66?, 68?) while eating HUGE sweetarts on the couch in the summer heat.<br>
And “People let me tell you bout my BEST friend, he’s my one joy, my cuddly toy, my up my down, my pride and joy, people let me tell you that he’s so much fun, whether we talking man to man, or whether we’re talking son to son, oh…” (Courtship of Eddie’s father). The junk stored in our brains - I can’t remember my student’s name, but I have the complete lyrics to schlocky 40-year-old tv shows floating round in my brain! :)</p>
<p>Okay, - just came back from a night out with my friends who range in age from 46-60+. One of the hottest items we discussed: new Orvis catalog that showed a “night sweats” nightgown that wicks away sweat and moisture. A lot of us were thrilled! </p>
<p>So you know you’re “old” when the topic of conversation is items useful to menopause!!</p>
<p>Anxious Mom
ARGGHHHH,now I have that AWFUL song stuck in my head…thank you</p>
<p>Anxiousmom–a footsie sounds like the modern-day skip-it.</p>
<p>ellemenope–yeah, slam books were a big deal in Junior High in NYC–where did you meet them? Where were they not in ?</p>
<p>Thanks, jym626.</p>
<p>My father was in the army, so we moved around a lot. Only came upon slam books in one location…6th grade in a US school in Germany. By 7th grade (still going to the same school), we were too mature, I suppose…</p>
<p>Never came upon them in 8th or 9th grades either–Maryland and New Mexico. Siblings never came upon them in jr high in Utah.</p>
<p>How many of you still have your “45’s”? I’m not talking guns here!</p>
<p>How many did you have at the maximum? I guess I had about 70–regret no longer having them, but kept a couple of LPs.</p>
<p>All those jingles are stored in “long term” memory complements of music…an amazing tool.</p>
<p>Slam books in Oklahoma. Died out about 8th grade (1968).<br>
We didn’t keep any 45’s, but have all the LP’s. We even have a turntable and reel-to-reel, but neither are hooked up. 16 year-old son said he’ll do that this summer, as he is starting to enjoy some of “our” music.</p>
<p>ellen: where in germany did you go to school- I was in the army school in Nurenberg in 71-72…my daddy sold EBs</p>
<p>slam books have been replaced by internet blogs where kids post nasty things about each other.</p>
<p>cgm–Heidelberg, 64-66, back in the days when a mark was worth about a quarter!</p>