days gone by, lost things that will never return

by **waaytoomuchintothis** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 10:04 pm

We did that, too. Did you ever get one to fly straight with the bottle rockets? We cut the fuselage to slide the wing waaay back, and taped everything down, keeping about half of the bottle rocket straw intact, but it was still too much. Then we taped only one rocket underneath, like the Bomark missile models we were all building models of, and it took off and wasn't seen again at all. It never occurred to us that if it flew straight, we'd never find it!

by **Ember** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:51 pm

Rico... Those ads are priceless. The Sanitized Tapeworm one in particular.

by **reek455** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:47 am

by **Florida_Slotter** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 9:09 am

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by **Ember** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 3:35 pm

(chuckle)
You know that Camel is the only brand of cigarette that had the factory pictured on the pack.

by **waaytoomuchintothis** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 3:57 pm

MAD Magazine did a thing once with a camel excreting the filler for Camel cigs. Actually, almost all the American brands were pretty good- I really liked unfiltered Camels, very rich. Smoking too fast would make you sorry. It was Eastern European brands that had very questionable ingredients, going by taste. Strange that this came up, considering I was just commenting on Gitanes (French) on another topic.

by **Florida_Slotter** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 4:33 pm

I had smoked Camel, Chesterfield and Pell Mell for many years. I did not care for filtered cigarettes.

We bought our first home in 1974 and in an effort to cut down on costs, I started to roll my own cigarettes. I liked the idea as it cost about half or less of what it cost to buy them. After rolling them, I would put them into a plastic case that you would put a pack of cigarettes in, plus a book of matches to keep them from getting crushed in your shirt pocket.

Well I was in the large telephone switching business for many years. I did installation, field service and later on development work.

One day I was working in the Federal Building in Tampa, Florida. We decided to take a break in the break room, also known as the snack bar. That was the only place you could smoke in the building. I did not realize it at the time as my back was to them, but a group of FBI agents were sitting at the table behind me. When I took out my plastic box with hand rolled smokes in them and lit one up, my buddy told me they all got very big eyes all of a sudden and they were all taking deep breaths simultaneously. Not one of them came over and asked any questions, but I'm sure they sure did want to.

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by **OL Mike** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 6:45 pm

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Website · by **woodman** » Thu Apr 03, 2014 6:45 am

I remember something like those and had a launch pad sort-a like this..

Website · by **woodman** » Thu Apr 03, 2014 7:10 am

OK lets keep this going ...we all must have lived on the same block to have this much in common...Again hours and hours...

Can't forget the motorized "Erector Sets"

by **smithspeedway** » Thu Apr 03, 2014 7:14 am

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