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QuickbreathFinisher posted:They had a weird, waxy texture to them that I guess was better at smearing graphite everywhere than...whatever real erasers do. There were also the super cheap pencils when the entire eraser would snap off or pop out at first contact. Then you could make a super wicked axe blade out of the metal sleeve for pencil fights 
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I remember basically everything was horrible about those Yikes! pencils but I still used them for years.
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kimbo305 posted:Yeah, if you used a really old pencil with that kind of bad eraser, it would be like plastic and just not do anything. It would do something: smear the graphite all over the paper until it's a big black blob, and then tear a hole in the paper  e: just noticed the last post on the last page said basically the same thing, sorry! Shame Boy has a new favorite as of 18:40 on Apr 20, 2013 |
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:It would do something: smear the graphite all over the paper until it's a big black blob, and then tear a hole in the paper God, it's like I'm reliving the 4th grade all over again. I'm pretty sure they stopped manufacturing those pencils in the 70's and they've just been recirculating largely untouched. Like candy corn.
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Rich kids had two of these I enjoyed these "madballs" who went on to have a short, but illustrious, Saturday morning commercial, I mean cartoon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvfYcZ8GAVM Gummy Bears theme still gets me jamming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM9fRjRPKEo But I have to vote that Count Duckula had the funkiest/satanic theme songs of its time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1JmmDVt4_U Hope you enjoy!
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Rickycat posted:God, it's like I'm reliving the 4th grade all over again. I'm pretty sure they stopped manufacturing those pencils in the 70's and they've just been recirculating largely untouched. Like candy corn. That would really explain why the metal part always seemed to be dinged or flattened in a way that gave it sharp pointy bits, so that I always had to be careful how I held them.
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moistninja posted:Rich kids had two of these All of those things are from the '80s you loving embryo.
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Love this thread, but it's about to get real niche. If you're a UK goon you'll know the score:  'Cable' - You had a channel box [with red digital numbers, and a GEROME remote control], and some households had 'cracked' the 99 channels (To include movie & sports channels). Then came along digital and ruined it for over one. Not sure why, but as as kid I was obsessed with TV channel identity changes, or any sort of logo change (food, etc). [must be why I enjoy graphic design!]   I always enjoyed the SKY 1,2 graphics, then they changed it to some lovely font in a rounded rectangle, blah. The same for the PS1, some people had chipped consoles and had a plethora of chipped games. If memory serves, the games were very problematic! CRISPS! I love crisps.  Even though these are still sold today, I can't find the old packaging on GIS. These cheap crisps were fantastic. Really tasty and distinctive. I can only imagine that these days there are all 'healthy' ingredients and no mad poo poo colourings. - NOT PICTURED. Transform A Snack - where you make your own car out of rings and bodies!  These are also still sold today, and also probably taste like poo poo. Even though I liked these, I preferred the cheese and chive flavour in the green packet. Unfortunately they stopped selling these as soon as I discovered the green pack. I've never seen a trace of them since, absolutely gutting. I've googled it over the years, but never found a pic/bit of info.  Jesus H, these Postman pat crisps came in prawn cocktail flavour and they were so heavily flavoured it was unreal. It was the definition of 90s crisp for me. Sometimes you'd get a ball of flavouring and it blew your mind [physically!] due to being...so flavoursome. ASDA food stores ASDA always had a cow model with a button you'd press to ring out a cow MOOOOOOOO. Aswell as model chickens with their own button. These were removed later on. But apparently after googling for this just now, they've brought it back in some places.  And i'll just leave this here.. 
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:As I mentioned before, I might as well have been a girl in the 90s because of my obsession with Lisa Frank, Beanie Babies, and the like. None of the things you posted are specific to the 90s. They had all those pens and stickers and poo poo when I was a kid in the early 80s. The spirograph is from the 60s. Beanie Babies are 90s as gently caress though. I knew grown adults that bought them as "investments" and seriously expected them to be worth thousands and thousands of dollars. People were nuts over them for awhile, but how were they so blind to the fact that it was nothing but a fad? I worked at McDonald's in the mid-90s, and people would literally order Happy Meals for the beanie baby toy and tell us to keep everything else. This happened ALL THE TIME.
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kimbo305 posted:Yeah, if you used a really old pencil with that kind of bad eraser, it would be like plastic and just not do anything. Speaking of making weapons out of stuff you use for writing. We used to take the caps on Bic pens and the blade from a pencil sharpener and melt the blade into the pen cap for small and concealable weapons which we then used to carve up the erasers we got from school and have "wars" with them. Mostly just throwing tiny bits of erasers at other people when the teacher, or they, weren't looking. We also used them to carve stuff into our wooden desks and make holes in the sides of them. So the desks around my school were these ones:  The surface was carved with our initials and other stuff hopefully too small to be seen by the janitor or the teachers. The sides were holes galore. We also used the compasses our parents got us for geometry for that. And it was everyone, not just the punks and the shitkids. The nerds, the jocks, the what have yous. Everyone. Other use for pens not of the Bic kind, was emptying them off everything, putting in the blade from a pencil sharpener and smelt it to it for swords, so that we could have fights and protect ourselves from who knows what. Good times.
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So wait, you essentially made prison weapons to...cut up erasers? Your childhood was a little more hardcore than mine I think.
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Probably. Grew up in a small village outside of Norway's 3rd largest city. A kid came to us in second grade from a more rural bit of that village and told us he knew gang members in the city so he was one influence for it I guess. And all the bad horror movies and TROMA movies our older neighbours had and showed us. And probably Bad Boys. I remember getting my sex ed from the neighbour girl when I was 4 and she was 6. Good times.
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Rugrats has come up in this thread before (and rightly so), but... how about a recipe for real-life Reptar bars?  http://www.adventures-in-cooking.com/2010/06/reptar-bars.html 
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Zero Star posted:Rugrats has come up in this thread before (and rightly so), but... how about a recipe for real-life Reptar bars? Wash it down with a glass of Ecto-Cooler! (which was in continuous production from 1987 to 2001, so it's campy 90's poo poo too)  http://www.nerdist.com/2011/09/relive-the-80s-by-making-your-own-ecto-cooler/
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I was born in 86, had hundreds of dollars worth of Ghostbusters poo poo as a child, and have somehow still ended up the only 20-something in America without a giant nostalgia hard-on for Ecto Cooler.
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Go-Gurt- It's the yoghurt you eat with your hands, not a spoon! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-XOhlwdRks (Holds a tube of yoghurt 2 cm from a dude's eyeballs) LOSE THE SPOON!
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Metal Loaf posted:Speaking of gross out cartoons: And speaking of the stuff 90's cartoons got away with, anyone remember the episode where they were trying to find shoes to go inside of a grocery store? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRu0f4uEhYA The shoe, the shoe! Take off your shoe! VVV I only had to see the title of the episode and I already knew what you were talking about 
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Leal posted:And speaking of the stuff 90's cartoons got away with, anyone remember the episode where they were trying to find shoes to go inside of a grocery store? There's also a scene in this cartoon, where... Well, you'll know it when you see it.
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Anyone else remember these? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F38WmjxnvMk A ball that you would put a balloon in and blow up. I remember the commercial than the actual toy, my brother got one and then forgot about it shortly after. Edit: And whenever we had to go to my Nana's house when my parents went out, this was one of the only videos she had for us to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B59V5Rev4A The Donut Repair Club. A religious show that had a talking donut named Duncan. Draven has a new favorite as of 03:14 on May 2, 2013 |
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one of the members Kriss Kross died http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/kriss-kross-rapper-kelly-dead-at-34-20130502-2iunh.html bugger
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Smelly posted:The Donut Repair Club. A religious show that had a talking donut named Duncan. I never got to see awesomely bad religious stuff like this and I spent half my childhood in Texas. I love how Pedostache Preacher's idea of taking care of the farm chores---which is kind of urgent, given the farmer just broke his leg and his wife has to drive to the city to see a doctor---is to just dance and sing about how God is the ultimate farmer. Also, why the gently caress does he have a pearl necklace and why does he casually throw it around? And why does he hate pigs so much? And why don't any of them realize a talking donut with googly eyes is obviously an abomination sent from the fell beastlord himself?
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Hey, it's the game that came with my Macintosh Performa. Man does that take me back.
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Sizone posted:Hey, it's the game that came with my Macintosh Performa. Man does that take me back. No fair I paid like $50 for that game way back when. Best part about Spectre was their attempt at adding plot and cutscenes to what is otherwise known as Battletanks. poo poo was mind blowing back in the day though.
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"They're power briefs!" You know, I don't believe there ever was a Doug's 2nd Movie, was there?
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I may or may not have started a Facebook page titled Tearaways: Due for a comeback, as they are one of my strongest 90s fashion memories.  Also this thread has been the best nostalgia ride... pretty sure I could quote entire Rugrats episodes verbatim. E: I also can't be the only one who hated Daria...
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Last Chance posted:Daria was a great show, though? Indeed. Want to know one of the reasons why I like it? Off the top of my head, and having not watched it in a while, I can think of at least eight well-defined, interesting main characters who just happen to be women. That's depressingly rare for an animated series.
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I only watched Daria for Sick Sad World
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You're in luck then. Someone uploaded all of Sick Sad World to youtube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2uQT_WK4Ho
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X-Men, welcome to DIE!! Do it! The day this game became available on PSN was one of the greatest days of my adult life.
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tehschulman posted:
No thanks, I'll have a Zima.
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This is another Spirograph-like thing that was actually from the 60s but enjoyed a brief revival in the 90s. My grandparents gave us a bunch of cool old toys they found in their basement so when I was growing up I had this version:  My friend's little brother swallowed one of the metal balls. EDIT: can't leave out the 90s-as gently caress commercial, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50 Daria is great and it sucks that none of the original music is available on the DVDs and stuff. Almost as lame as Beavis and Butt-head having all the music videos removed. Skeleton Ape has a new favorite as of 16:43 on May 3, 2013 |
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Metal Loaf posted:You know, I don't believe there ever was a Doug's 2nd Movie, was there? I think Rugrats was one of the few if not the only 90s (children's) cartoons to survive past its movie. And for the worse, as I recall. Though part of the reason for that is several of the movies came out at the tail end of the shows' lifespans. Pretty sure both the Doug and Hey Arnold! movies came out way after the shows were basically done. Cat-Dog's was TV-only and was basically a series endcap. I don't recall any others offhand (aside from stuff like the two Daria TV movies).
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Daria's only weakness is that the best episode (Boxing Daria) is the very last episode.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Daria's only weakness is that the best episode (Boxing Daria) is the very last episode. I completely agree. I always felt cheated by it in the sense that it opened some things up that we were obviously never going to get to explore. Goddamn. I didn't even realise I was still annoyed about that until you reminded me. Well done?
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John Murdoch posted:I think Rugrats was one of the few if not the only 90s (children's) cartoons to survive past its movie. And for the worse, as I recall. Pokemon not only went on to have like 20 more films released after the first one, but is still on TV to this day.
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:Pokemon not only went on to have like 20 more films released after the first one, but is still on TV to this day.
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