Perhaps it was Christmas of 1970 when I received my first set of Little People at the tender age of one.
It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
The coolest gift I ever received was 8 years later: the Tyco Silver Streak train set:
It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
I always loved Lincoln Logs. I had the ones with the slat roofs, not the new ones with the one-piece plastic roofs. It never failed, you'd be putting the last slat on top, when the bottom one would slip and they would all slide off.
Growing up we didn't have a lot but we had each other. I remember many, many hours of playing many different kinds of plain old card games. Lots of good memories.
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2 different threads same day 2 hours apart Yohoo Bat 12/1/2015
AZCaesar wrote:I always loved Lincoln Logs. I had the ones with the slat roofs, not the new ones with the one-piece plastic roofs. It never failed, you'd be putting the last slat on top, when the bottom one would slip and they would all slide off.
Oh yeah. Or when you tried to balance the chimney.
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."