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LynneSin

(95,337 posts) Wed Dec 19, 2012, 05:54 PM Dec 2012

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Ok I have a new addiction and will probably need help for it

http://www.getbuckyballs.com/

Of course they are going the way of the Lawn Jarts.

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Ok I have a new addiction and will probably need help for it (Original Post) LynneSin Dec 2012 OP

Ooooo! I love playing with shiny balls. In_The_Wind Dec 2012 #1

I got your shiny balls! Bake Dec 2012 #5

Nice to know. In_The_Wind Dec 2012 #7

I'm rather proud of them! Bake Dec 2012 #8

Interesting. In_The_Wind Dec 2012 #10

Why yes, Yes, they do! Bake Dec 2012 #11

Silent Night? In_The_Wind Dec 2012 #12

Nope, Sleigh Ride! Bake Dec 2012 #13

Oh. Right! In_The_Wind Dec 2012 #14

You know, I WOULD.. but annabanana Dec 2012 #2

I got your ... nevermind. Bake Dec 2012 #9

Once, during an extended field exercise in the Army... MiddleFingerMom Dec 2012 #3

Oh, I must buy some. progressoid Dec 2012 #4

I saw a version of this idea in the early 90s at a children's booth at the state fair: struggle4progress Dec 2012 #6

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

1. Ooooo! I love playing with shiny balls.

Reply to LynneSin (Original post)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 07:19 PM

Dec 2012

Bake

(21,977 posts)

5. I got your shiny balls!

Reply to In_The_Wind (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 01:00 PM

Dec 2012

Right here!

Bake

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

7. Nice to know.

Reply to Bake (Reply #5)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 06:40 PM

Dec 2012

[URL=http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y2/Freebird1/odds_and_ends/?action=view¤t=beerandmen.jpg][IMG][/IMG][/URL]

Bake

(21,977 posts)

8. I'm rather proud of them!

Reply to In_The_Wind (Reply #7)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 07:02 PM

Dec 2012

Bake

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

10. Interesting.

Reply to Bake (Reply #8)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 07:11 PM

Dec 2012

[URL=http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y2/Freebird1/All%20of%20everything/Words%20to%20live%20by/?action=view¤t=0133.jpg][IMG][/IMG][/URL]

Do they jingle?

Oh wait [img][/img] you said balls not bells.

Bake

(21,977 posts)

11. Why yes, Yes, they do!

Reply to In_The_Wind (Reply #10)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 05:06 PM

Dec 2012

But only this time of year!

Bake

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

12. Silent Night?

Reply to Bake (Reply #11)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 05:37 PM

Dec 2012

Guess you would have to be sleeping peacefully.

Bake

(21,977 posts)

13. Nope, Sleigh Ride!

Reply to In_The_Wind (Reply #12)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 06:15 PM

Dec 2012

Bake

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

14. Oh. Right!

Reply to Bake (Reply #13)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 06:42 PM

Dec 2012

[URL=http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y2/Freebird1/The%20Freebird/holiday/Christmas_time_at_last/?action=view¤t=christmas-lighthouse.gif][IMG][/IMG][/URL]

annabanana

(52,791 posts)

2. You know, I WOULD.. but

Reply to LynneSin (Original post)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 07:28 PM

Dec 2012

I want both the balls & the rods and I can't figure out how to do that in one order..

sheesh.. Is it just me?

Bake

(21,977 posts)

9. I got your ... nevermind.

Reply to annabanana (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 07:03 PM

Dec 2012

Bake

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)

3. Once, during an extended field exercise in the Army...

Reply to LynneSin (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 04:09 AM

Dec 2012

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progressoid

(49,991 posts)

4. Oh, I must buy some.

Reply to LynneSin (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 04:56 AM

Dec 2012

Can't afford it, but can't afford NOT to.

struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)

6. I saw a version of this idea in the early 90s at a children's booth at the state fair:

Reply to LynneSin (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 01:21 PM

Dec 2012

little hollow plastic spheres with a fixed bar magnet inside. What caught my eye was that a five or six year old girl was absolutely delighted and fascinated by them

So, always looking for some way to teach the girl-child science, I figured it was a good toy for teaching children something about magnets and got a few dozen for my six year old niece. She enjoyed them. But for a few years, it was important to keep them away from her infant sister: they were, at best, a serious choking hazard, so I actually gave them to the older girl's parents, so they could maintain some control

The little sister grew up and enjoyed them too, though she discovered novel ways to use them: she figured out, for example, that the tiny plastic hemispheres were not glued together, but were actually little twist-locks that her small fingers could take apart apart and re-assemble and take apart and reassemble and take apart and ...

If I'd been smarter twenty years ago, I wouldn't have bought them, since they really were the perfect choke hazard for a small child. Fortunately, the parents maintained adequate control and the girls had fun without any injury

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