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Wanna have some fun? (Original Post) trof Sep 2014 OP
FUN WITH TROF Skittles Sep 2014 #1
Well, that was fun...kinda. trof Sep 2014 #3
How good are you at twisting a rubber band? pinboy3niner Sep 2014 #2
Aw, man...? I remember those. FUN! trof Sep 2014 #4
You could take this quiz LynneSin Sep 2014 #5
Yeah, but bitdefender blocked it as unsafe. trof Sep 2014 #7
What was fun when you were a kid? trof Sep 2014 #6
Playing cards clothespinned to my bicycle spokes pinboy3niner Sep 2014 #8
We used inflated balloons for the 'lubba-lubba-lubba' sound. trof Sep 2014 #9

trof

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6. What was fun when you were a kid?
Wed Sep 3, 2014, 06:21 PM
Sep 2014

Lighting a firecracker (or CHERRY BOMB!) under a tin can to see how high you could blow it.

Making a mini dart out of a wood matchstick and one of granny's sewing needles.
It would stick in anything and leave no mark.

Once we got a new rug and it was wrapped up on a bamboo shaft.
I fixed a knife blade to the bamboo and had a by-god SPEAR.
I'm afraid I really punished the old Chinaberry tree in the back yard.
The tree survived.

pinboy3niner

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8. Playing cards clothespinned to my bicycle spokes
Wed Sep 3, 2014, 06:36 PM
Sep 2014

Nailing old roller skates to a board to make a skateboard.

A homemade mortar using gunpowder made by grinding chemicals with a mortar and pestle and using a length of pipe that we capped on one end and drilled a hole through the cap for the fuse...

Cheesy sci-fi movies at a local theater (double feature!).

But on hot summer days in SoCal we usually just sat against the block wall in the backyard saying, "What do you wanna do?" "I dunno, what do you wanna do?" "I dunno, what do you wanna do?" Etc. ...

trof

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9. We used inflated balloons for the 'lubba-lubba-lubba' sound.
Wed Sep 3, 2014, 06:56 PM
Sep 2014

Partially inflate a sausage balloon and tie the 'tit' end around a fender strut, the tied end tied along the same strut.
'Lubba-lubba-lubba'...we thought it sounded like a Harley.
Didn't last too long, balloon burst, but it sure sounded good.

I think you're a generation or so behind me.
We made scooters with the nailed on roller skates.

The movies were 'B' western double features.
Johnny Mack Brown, Lash La Rue, The Durango Kid, Red Ryder (And LITTLE BEAVER!).
10 cents admission.

Yeah, we spent whole Saturdays back of somebody's garage saying "What do you wanna do? I dunno, what do you wanna do?"
Then we'd pass around a cigarette somebody had filched from their mom's purse.
They always tasted like perfume or cosmetics or something foriegn to us.
And then we'd go get a hammer and a whole roll of caps and whack it to see what would happen.

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