The Everything Drawer - Everyone has one, right? (post anything - within the rules)

I still have an original rotary phone that used to belong to my dad. It was one of the first made that was not all black. It is dark gray with a black dial face. As a kid my friends used to come over to see it. (I'm really dating myself here.). It was all the rage until they came out with rotary princess phones in three different colors. As a bragging point, it was my engineer dad who was on the design team for the first push button phone, and he came up with the idea for the # and * keys because "you never know what use we might find for them in the future!"
 
I think I've mentioned this before, but when we were growing up in the days of rotary phones the number to my dad's office was 699-9995. Just based on the amount of time it took for all those 9s you needed a good reason to call.
 
THParent said:
With a Bazooka Joe comic wrapped around every piece. Stupid comics, and how I loved them. :)
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Was anyone ever silly enough to try to order the stuff advertised?

I saved 500 bazooka comics (after chewing ALL the gum) and ordered a 2 way "walkie talkie" and literally received two tin cans connected by a string!

I was a VERY disappointed 8 year old with a tired jaw.
 
AROTC-dad said:
Was anyone ever silly enough to try to order the stuff advertised?

I saved 500 bazooka comics (after chewing ALL the gum) and ordered a 2 way "walkie talkie" and literally received two tin cans connected by a string!

I was a VERY disappointed 8 year old with a tired jaw.
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I think I ordered a pair of those flip-down baseball outfielder sunglasses. As I recall, they worked out pretty well.
 
AROTC-dad said:
Was anyone ever silly enough to try to order the stuff advertised?

I saved 500 bazooka comics (after chewing ALL the gum) and ordered a 2 way "walkie talkie" and literally received two tin cans connected by a string!

I was a VERY disappointed 8 year old with a tired jaw.
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NJROTC-CC said:
I think I ordered a pair of those flip-down baseball outfielder sunglasses. As I recall, they worked out pretty well.
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VelveteenR said:
Never ordered them but, man, I wanted those sea monkeys.
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The Holy Grail for Bazooka chewers:
 

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This got me to thinking about the ads in the back of comic books. My favorite was the carbide cannon by Big Bang Cannons Conestoga Company, Inc. of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Now that particular item was well-built to last a lifetime. They are built the same today, but they cost about 20 times as much as they did back then. This was the single best item you could buy from a comic book ad, bar none.

There were these as well:


I bought the remotely-controlled ghost and the book safe.

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I just posted this in another thread, but I thought it worth duplicating here. Invest a few minutes and get this done for you and family members’ phones.
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First responders can help you even when your phone is locked

Hopefully, this is something you'll never need.
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kpmom2013 said:
my engineer dad who was on the design team for the first push button phone, and he came up with the idea for the # and * keys
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I remember telling my son to hit "pound 1" when he was navigating a directory on the phone. He asked, "WHAT 1?? What's a pound?"

I showed him. The smart@#$ said, "Uhh.... That's a hashtag."

"Uhhh... It's a pound. And that's the end of the discussion if you feel like eating dinner tonight..."
 
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