20 Jun
2002
20 Jun
'02
4:59 p.m.
From: "Sellam Ismail"
<foo(a)siconic.com>
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Jeff Hellige wrote:
I bought the rather impressive looking set of "300 army men" or whatever
the number was only to be severely disappointed when I got them to find
they were cheap molded plastic bastards that were of majorly suckish
quality compared to the more durable and softer plastic variety you could
get from the grocery store toy section.
I was a slower learner. I sent of several times for the
items on the backs of cereal boxes. I can still remember
the propeller powered boat that when let loose would
dive into the water and sink. The baking powder powered sub did
work but was a lot smaller than the picture lead one
to believe. Anyway, I liked the sea monkeys.
Dwight
He also
regularly got sand kicked in his face while "beach-bunnies" looked
on disdainfully until he developed his physique. And then they clustered
around him admiringly and bullies slunk away. BB-guns and Ryder bicycles
were also back-cover features on most comic-books as well.
Along with the ads for the American Revolution figures and
the X-ray eyeglasses and sea monkeys. Some of that stuff actually
stayed on the back covers for quite a few years.