Why is it still funny???
 

I almost put this under [What Made You Smile Today?], but thought it deserved a thread of it's own.

I had an inspiration to visit my favorite novelty shop today :rolleyes2 ……………… and came back wondering why so many of the OLD classic gimmicks became classic. YES, the rubber chicken and clacking teeth are so camp, and we smile and roll our eyes as we shake our heads, but it DID make us smile. :D I no longer look at the singing fish with much beyond apathy at best now. The spring snakes in the peanut brittle can still brings a chuckle for some reason.

What makes classic, classic?:confused:

PF...I know you are gonna hurt me for this but..............

Aren't you considered a classic?

Love ya..really I do lol

LOL Yep, I was thinking he's a cheesy, gimmicky kinda guy, too!

The Whoopee Cushion was classic
fake dog poop/vomit
Sea Monkeys (damn, I wanted them but figured they were too good to be true)

NO! NO! Never! ... It's ALWAYS suppose to feel GOOOOOOOOOD. :p
I know that becoming a "classic" take practice, and that's what I want :D..... LOTS and LOTS more practice. :slurp:

joy buzzer, groucho glasses, snapping gum pack or tabasco gum

The squirting lapel flower!!! I want one!

I had a squirting ring once :p

Ooooo jeez i soooooooo wanted some sea monkeys *LOL*

All they are is Brine Shrimp.....have since had some (to feed to fish) :D:D

Because they make us laugh. :D
Don't forget the fartbag you slip under the chair pads. :D

Isn't that a Whoopee cushion? If so it's mentioned :)

Not a toy, but how about those little colored sugar drops on the long sheets of paper? Loved those things.

In some places that's called LSD. :p

LMAO^^^^^^^ yeah it is :D :p

I have a feeling I know what PF is putting in the box. :D

lmfao :rofl:

yessss LMAO you forget..I'm a redneck. :D we call 'em fartbags. :p

hmmm that's what I call Mr. Lil










<jk> :D

PF aren't they classics because people still fall for them? Isn't it still hilarious to see someone blush when they sit on a whoopey cushion?

ROFL I now have the definitive answer to what they were! I would have been crushed if I had saved my allowance for them all those years ago.

ROFL @ DB & Aqua :D

I dont know why.......but it sure feels good to laugh so hard at that silly, innocent stuff, doesn't it??? Every time I go in one of those stores, I usually have tears from laughing so hard.

I wish I had some right now..................

i got some whiskey laying around...much better than LSD...or so i think

I have some plastic ice cubes with a fly inside for your drink Walt. :grin:






Who has the telescope that leaves you with a black ring around your eye? :rofl:

oh yeah? don't step on that fake dog doo when you go to get the ice cubes

i love the flys in the icecubes....

I won't ;) .............. but we're going to have to borrow your dribble glass. :D

Here PF want a stick of this gum????


hehehe look at his mouth turning black.... :wiggles:

OMG :eek: I'm going to be the last person you can get with cigarette loads. *POP*

candy buttons! i love 'em, too

Does anyone remember those "crystal" growing kits that grew the crystals that were all neon colors? lol

I remember having one of those when I was a kid and just being totally amazed....I had sea monkeys too but those things GROSSED ME OUT and I ended up dumping them in the fish tank...LOL

What do ya mean remember.....we still have em here...quite popular too *LOL*

Thanks, wyndhy. Brine shrimp for Aqua. :)

I haven't seen one of those crystal kits in years, I'm sure you can still get them. Sort of like sea monkeys, every kid has probably had some at one point in their life! :D

I was quite taken by Invisible Ink.....

Used to throw it on everyone.

I've heard some people use to put it in squirt guns and take it to the roller rink in the days of the pointy titties and white sweaters. :hot:













:grin:

LMAO....You dog you! ;)

The best time for me or worse lol.....throwing it onto my Dad's lap in the hospital a day after him having his appendix removed. If he could have moved fast enough I don't think I would not lived past that day.

We ARE talking about the ‘disappearing’ ink, right? Not the invisible ink.