Immature Adults

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Hmmmm... I'm 18. Which thread do I belong in. Technically I am both a teenager and an adult. I guess I qualify to appear in both of these.

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[DragonMage]

Originally posted by Conan: Ohh I forgot about my op-yop. I think I put myself in a self-induced hypnotic state with that thing.

Ummm...Forgive my ignorance - but what's an "op-yop"?

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NO IDEA

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[skywalker]

Found site with op-yops discussed. The Bad Fads Museum!

http://www.badfads.com/pages/collectibles/opyop.html


Mark

[DragonMage]

Originally posted by skywalker: Found site with op-yops discussed. The Bad Fads Museum! http://www.badfads.com/pages/collectibles/opyop.html Mark

Just visited it and took a look...OooohKaaayyyy...Riiight. But then, I liked the Hopping Hoomdorm, myself. And the Lemon Twist. (I still have both of them.)

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"Allright! We'll call it a draw."

"I'm INVINCIBLE! ... You're a LOONEY!"

Dare to dream. Be bold enough to try.

The day we stop learning is the day we start dying!(c)

I've never heard of op-yops, hopping hoomdorm or Lemon Twist!
I feel so deprived!
I did have jacks though! Pretty colored shiny ones.
I like colored shiny things, they are pretty!




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You know childhood is over when a puddle seems like an obstacle instead of an opportunity.

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Originally posted by Moni: I've never heard of op-yops, hopping hoomdorm or Lemon Twist! I feel so deprived! I did have jacks though! Pretty colored shiny ones. I like colored shiny things, they are pretty!

Well, the op-yop thing was kinda odd. The Hopping Hoomdorm, though is SCARY (ooooh!). It looks like a large mechanical "cave cricket" (at least, that's what we call them in the southeastern US - I don't know what they are really called). It had an air pump and you'd pump it a few times to push air into the "body" chamber, then you flip a switch that lets the air out in little bursts and it makes cogs move and all this neat stuff and it makes it hop around! The Lemom Twist was a large plastic lemon filled with beads or something (it rattles) on the end of a black piece of rubber tubing. The other end of the tubing is a round loop that you put on one ankle. Then, you make a move with that leg like you have a hoola hoop on your ankle and jump over the lemon with your other foot. Kind of a weird cross between jump rope and hoola hoop, but it kept me busy for HOURS! No wonder my parents got it for me!



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"Allright! We'll call it a draw."

"I'm INVINCIBLE! ... You're a LOONEY!"

Dare to dream. Be bold enough to try.

The day we stop learning is the day we start dying!(c)

Oh hey! I had a Lemon Twist! Golly I had forgotten all about that until you just described it!

They were all over on the playground when I was about ten. I remember me and my best friend "competing" to see who could go the longest LOL...I don't remember who had the most stamina between us though.

I still don't remember the hopping hoomdorm or the op-yops though! I must have been to busy with other amusing time-wasters.



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You know childhood is over when a puddle seems like an obstacle instead of an opportunity.

Is Too! Is Not! Is Too! Is Not!