Kevin's Watch

i haven't laid on my couch and watched a movie or any tv for that matter for over 5 yrs.

after learning how to speak as a child i didn't talk for an entire year.

That's freaky, Sarge. I'm a quiet type, but even I couldn't manage that. I don't know if I should be appalled by your feat or be envious of it.

matrixman wrote:That's freaky, Sarge. I'm a quiet type, but even I couldn't manage that. I don't know if I should be appalled by your feat or be envious of it.

my parents recieved the doctor's advice that since i had spoken, i would speak again when i felt like it. i have no idea why it happened. i have no memory of it.

I managed to forget a great deal of my early childhood, don't know why, I was a happy kid from what I know.

When I was eight, I was picked from the crowd at Florida's Bush Gardens to hold a huge boa constrictor.

For the first time in my life, I didn't cry.

I cried about everything when I was a kid, I'm not sure why.

My father was sweating it out, though, how embarrassing it would have been for him if I stood up there in front of the crowd and wailed and keened and cried. I think he might of disowned me.

But I came through!

thefirst wrote:I managed to forget a great deal of my early childhood, don't know why, I was a happy kid from what I know.

A friend of mine has no true memory between the ages of about 14 and 21. It was a pretty wild time by all accounts, but the strangest thing is the way she had subconsciously filled in the blanks from the accounts of others.

I seem to have done that with a few of the stories that my siblings tell repeatedly at every opportunity they get to embarrass me

Played with dolls when I was a kid.
Well actually it started back in the early 70s with a Major Matt Mason action figure (good luck finding one on ebay. The ones in good condition are expensive) and then of course I got 7 or 8 different G.I. Joes (the 12" variety) over the years. Now I collect tons of action figures (mostly Star Trek, Star Wars and Superhero stuff).
I guess I still play with dolls.

tom - i had the low rent district of action figures. a broken shogun warrior, some broken micronauts, a bob fett, one or two gi joes, and a couple he man figures.

like the short yellow bus of action figures.

sgt.null wrote:tom - i had the low rent district of action figures. a broken shogun warrior, some broken micronauts, a bob fett, one or two gi joes, and a couple he man figures.

like the short yellow bus of action figures.

He Man eh?

I had a friend that had a Shogun Warrior. It was huge, like 2 1/2 feet tall. Was this the type you had? Broken or not they were pretty cool.

aTOMiC wrote:

sgt.null wrote:tom - i had the low rent district of action figures. a broken shogun warrior, some broken micronauts, a bob fett, one or two gi joes, and a couple he man figures.

like the short yellow bus of action figures.

He Man eh?

I had a friend that had a Shogun Warrior. It was huge, like 2 1/2 feet tall. Was this the type you had? Broken or not they were pretty cool.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogun_Warriors_%28toys%29

mine had the detatchable rocket ship in the head thing. and you could shoot missles from the hand. great toy. wish i still had it.

I would intentionally get two of some action figures, I would keep one in pristine condition and one I would "battle damage". Battle damaging sometimes involved laying the GOBOT or GI Joe for instance out in the street and waiting for a car to run it over, painting my mothers red nail polish on it to simulate blood, throwing it up in the air and letting it smack the asphalt, or simply smashing it with a hammer.

Cagliostro wrote:

Seareach wrote:

Cagliostro wrote:It doesn't count if all of your teeth have been replaced from bar brawls, ya crazy Aussie.

Oh sod off! My teeth are real...and if I meet you in the US I'm going to BITE you to prove it!!!!

Ya promise?

YES! That'll give you (and me) something to look forward to!

When I was a toddler, I was out with my parents in a beachside community in Massachusetts, and I wanted to go to a toy store. They didn't feel like taking me, so they asked if I'd like to go to a candy shop instead. In the midst of a giant crowd, I screamed, "But I don't want any fucking candy!" I have absolutely no memory of it, but they love the story.

haha That's awesome!

I was attacked by a ketchup packet once when I was about 5 or 6. My dad used to love telling people this story. Anyway, it was a Friday night and my dad picked me up after work from my mom's and took me to his townhouse. We stopped and got Wendy's for dinner and it was after 6 pm or so.

So we just stepped foot in the door when my Uncle Joe calls my dad. They talk for a bit and I get impatient. I'm hungry! I want some freaking ketchup with my fries! I don't really know how to open ketchup packets at this age, and usually watch how my dad would do it: with his teeth.

I grab the ketchup packet from the bottom and bite the top. Next thing I know I'm temporarily blinded and my eyes sting badly. Screaming bloody murder, I regain my sight only to see red dripping from my hands. I turn around to look for my dad and I see even more red on the walls and start the screaming process again. All I remember is my dad saying, "Joe, let me call you back" and hearing him laugh as he wipes the ketchup from my face.

Most traumatic day of my life.

sgt.null wrote:... a bob fett...

is that Boba's unemployed alcoholic brother?

Esmer wrote:

sgt.null wrote:... a bob fett...

is that Boba's unemployed alcoholic brother?

yes.

my mom tells me when i was young in the grocery store she told me to keep my hands to myself. grabbed more stuff - she went to swat me and i threw myself on the floor screaming extremely loud - "mommy, don't beat me anymore!"

sgt.null wrote:

aTOMiC wrote:

sgt.null wrote:tom - i had the low rent district of action figures. a broken shogun warrior, some broken micronauts, a bob fett, one or two gi joes, and a couple he man figures.

like the short yellow bus of action figures.

He Man eh?

I had a friend that had a Shogun Warrior. It was huge, like 2 1/2 feet tall. Was this the type you had? Broken or not they were pretty cool.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogun_Warriors_%28toys%29

mine had the detatchable rocket ship in the head thing. and you could shoot missles from the hand. great toy. wish i still had it.

I had that too! I had forgotten all about them. I had the Mazinga with the ship that docked in its head, shot rockets from its fist. I also had the Godzilla with the shooting fist. And my brother had Dragun which threw axes and shot discs. These were badass toys. I wish I still had mine, too!

I also had the little metal versions, too. A lot of those. They were about 3-4 inches tall. I remember selling them all at a yard sale and being thrilled to have the cash. Now I wish I had the toys.

Oh well, I've got a bunch of the POTF orange card Star Wars figures in pristine condition. I stocked up on those hoping they'd be worth something one day, and partly out of regret that my parents made me destroy my original Star Wars action figures back in the 70's because my fundamentalist Christian parents thought Star Wars was evil. They also thought Popeye was evil. And Scoobi Doo. And ET. And just about everything that didn't "praise the lord." These were all "Jesus substitutes," for a young child who should be worshiping rather than doing something evil like playing with toys.

my folks "lent" out my comics to a friend of the family. i never saw those 70's comics again.

i had the same Shogun that you had Malik.