Have you ever gone in for any of these lame-o fads?

[UdoKier]

Have you ever gone in for any of these lame-o fads?




Teddy Ruxpin




Jelly Shoes - like Dairy Queen baskets for your feet!

[realisticphish]

1. i owned Pogs

but thats about it


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[Malebolgia]

2. Same here.

LOL.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

3. I had a Cabbage Patch Kid .

[UdoKier]

4. Don't you miss...the sweater dress?

[Nicole]

5. Are Cabbage Patch Dolls really a lame-o fad?

They are still being sold 20-25 years later.

[DemBones DemBones]

14. Yes, but for peanuts in flea markets.

Making me wonder if any of those high "values" were for real. (The original, cloth "Cabbage Patch babies" with adoption certificates from the original Cabbage Patch were alleged to increase in value and be worth hundreds of dollars. My daughter had a friend who had about a dozen of the ugly things and talked about how much each was worth. Today, that friend is the mother of triplets, make of that what you will!)

[Anarcho-Socialist]

6. Teddy Ruxpin

It was when I was 3 years old and hadn't developed higher cognitive thought.

[tridim]

7. Vans aren't a fad

Although the checkered ones were. I had the Jeff Spicoli signature, black and white checkered Vans in '83. :)

[dolo amber]

23. Heehee ....me too

"Hear that sound? That's my skull!! I'm soooooo wasted"... B-)

Vans are teh r0x0r. :headbang:

[UdoKier]

8. Nagel Prints

[ArmchairActivist]

9. Ahem. Rubik's Cube is/was certainly NOT a "lame-o" fad

It's actually a deep and wonderful mathematical toy. And on top of that, it was engineered with near-perfect elegant simplicity. One of the top ten toys ever created by any estimation.

-AA

[UdoKier]

11. Ah, pishposh.

The damn things would get loose, pieces fall off, stickers come off - never could solve the damn thing.

I preferred the Rubik's Snake.

At least it didn't frustrate the hell out of me.



Remember Rubik's Master Cube, Rubik's Revenge?



There were all kinds...

[Systematic Chaos]

12. Holy SHIT, hold the phone!

I see you have a picture of Cubes that are 2x2 (the idiot cube), 3x3 (the original Rubik's Cube), 4x4 (Rubik's Revenge, which I wanted but never ended up buying), and 5x5!

Is that 5x5 Cube real? If so, who sells it, is there a solution manual for it, and how many combinations does it have? Please respond if you can supply any information. I'm insatiably curious now and will stay up past my bedtime for some info. :D

[UdoKier]

13. Here's where I found the pic.

http://webplaza.pt.lu/public/geohelm/myweb/cublist.htm

Explore to your heart's content.

[mirandaod]

10. I had a cube.

It was so aggravating that I started smoking pot.

I bought one beanie baby, a chihuahua, for my son who loves the dogs. However, I cut the tag off the ear because I thought the dog was cuter without it. I was informed that I ruined the beanie baby.

[DemBones DemBones]

18. Rubik's, the Gateway Drug. . .

:smoke:

[Dogmudgeon]

25. My girlfriend Laura's solution

She found my cube -- Back In The Day, one time we were on acid.

Unable to solve the puzzle by rotating the planes, she took the stickers off and replaced them so that each side was a solid color. I was quite impressed, but then again, I was young, and she was younger (by about four years), and we seized life like a well-roasted chicken wing and sucked the marrow from it.

Well, time goes by, and life has ground me into a fine, viscous paste of regrets, shame, humiliations, agony and failure, but I still have my bittersweet memories of a time when life offered infinite possibilities and love was as natural a part of life as breathing.

I haven't seen Laura in over 20 years. And she still owes me $11 -- $5 for the tab of acid and $6 for that damned cube.

--bkl

[intheflow]

15. Happy to say I never got into any of those.

Although once I disassembled a Rubik's cube and put it back together differently so that my best friend's brother would never be able to solve it. Ever.

[UdoKier]

16. You're evil.

But then again, so is the cube.

[DemBones DemBones]

17. I'm happy to say that

I didn't know what many of those were!

But I do have several cool "Dancing California Raisin Guys" -- remember the Clay-Mation? -- that Burger King gave away about twenty years ago. I had a student who worked there and he kept bringing them to me. Later, another kid told me the guy stole them, which made me feel bad. :-(

[UdoKier]

19. Come celebrate the mediocrity

Hypercolor!

[underpants]

20. I had a Pet Rock but that is the only one I can smell a fad 6 months out

"I change by not changing at all"-E.Vedder

[Lydia Leftcoast]

21. Jellies were the fad I just couldn't figure out

"Dairy Queen baskets for your feet" is the best description I've ever heard. :7

I got sore feet just looking at them.

[qnr]

22. No

Even though one was a Nolan Bushnell thing, so I followed it.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

24. Well, I was a little kid back in the 80's.

I was one in 1980 and ten in 1989. I didn't even realize what a fad was back then. I did have a cabbage patch kid, like almost every girl did at that time. I also had jelly shoes. I wanted a teddy ruxpin, but he was too expensive, so my parents wouldn't by him.

[Jessica]

26. I used to rock these:

Along with banana clips, t-shirt rings - and yes, biker shorts with neon strips down each side. Oh - and I also used to get perms - but only on my bangs. Very frightening ... x(

[Debbi801]

27. You forgot Furbies. LOL (nt)

[Gothic Sponge]

28. Rubik's Cube