Get your very own WMD Specs!

[Sapphocrat]

I'm no MoPaul, but if you like it and want to spread it around (not-for-profit only), feel free -- just PLEASE copy it to your own server, and don't hot-link it from mine (I can't afford the bandwidth).

[foreigncorrespondent]

1. Oh this is brilliant.

I remember the old x-ray specs adds in the comics when I was kid. Very well done. :)

[Sapphocrat]

4. Thank you, my dear...

Actually, I didn't think you'd get it at all -- because I thought the ol' X-Ray Specs ad might be a relic exclusive to North America. Not that little Aussie kids wouldn't appreciate them -- I mean, those Honor House ads were just so wonderfully cheesy!

Did you get inundated with Sea Monkey ads, too??

[foreigncorrespondent]

6. Ohhhhhhh!

I love sea monkey's. Begged my mum for years to buy me some, and finally one year we went to the royal Melbourne show, and I got a show bag with some in it. I loved them. :)

[Sapphocrat]

7. Oh, COOLness!

Did they live??? (Mine didn't. :() For how long?

How about Magic Rocks? Did you have those? (I had much more success with Magic Rocks!)

[AZCat]

10. Magic Rocks were the best!

We (my bro & sis & I) had some for the loooongest time- until we moved and one of us dropped them (don't remember who).
Ahhhh, you gotta love wandering in the mists of time...

[Sapphocrat]

11. It's certainly much more...

...pleasant than dwelling in the present! :)

Let's see, where's my box of Hot Wheels...?

[foreigncorrespondent]

12. Mine lived for about six months.

And we probably did have magic rocks here, but I never had any. :( I want magic rocks now.

[AZCat]

13. We have the coolest little store in town

it has all that great stuff, so I make sure to leave my wallet at home when we go there.
Otherwise I'd be poor(er). (can you have less than zero $$?)

[foreigncorrespondent]

14. Oh I know what you mean...

...there are stores I just can't go to with cash or bank cards on me. LOL

And no, you can't have less than zero, and I know how you feel. I open my wallet and the moths just fly out. I don't open it much, cuz my money usually goes on bills as soon as I receive it.

[AZCat]

16. Yes- I try to work on the barter system

that way I don't have to worry about spending the cash between a job and my mouth/rent/bills.

Less hassle, less fuss! :)

[foreigncorrespondent]

18. LOL!

I just might have to try that next time.

I can picture it now. I walk into one of my favorite computer stores down here, and see what I can exchange to get a new laptop for Sapphocrat. LOL

[Sapphocrat]

21. You're going to trade me in...

...for a laptop? :scared:

[foreigncorrespondent]

23. ROFLMAO!

NO silly! But I will what I can exchange in order to get you a knew laptop. LOL I would never trade you in!

[Sapphocrat]

25. Whew!

Good. I still have a few good years left in me! I think...

[foreigncorrespondent]

27. Oh I reckon...

...you have a few more than just a few. :)

[foreigncorrespondent]

19. Look what I found.

http://www.shrinkmagic.com/html/product.asp?ProductID=17

Oh I want it now! LOL

[AZCat]

20. aaah! Need...need...need...

Am feeling much luuv for the internet!

Reach out, o' tentacles of credit cardness, and aquire to me!

[foreigncorrespondent]

2. Giving this a kick...

...because this is just too damn good to let it sink into thread obliteration. :kick:

On edit: I really got to get more sleep, so I quite making typos.

[dolo amber]

3. Man!

That IS great! :D

I have already saved it and will certainly be putting it to good use. ;)

Thanks Sappho! :hi:

[Sapphocrat]

5. Oh, good!

Thanks, dolo amber! Makes me happy to know you like it! :):):)

[JohnKleeb]

8. Hey good job, thats hilarious

BTW your guy looks like Rummy to me.

[Sapphocrat]

9. Thanks, JK!

He's not "my guy," tho' -- that's the original art from an ad seen in practically every comic book during the 1960s & 70s, from Archie to Superman.

I guess they haven't printed it in a loooooong time! (And I don't know whatever happened to the original novelty-products purveyor, Honor House.)

But, ewww, yeah, you're right -- he does look a tad like Rummy -- minus the expression of terminal constipation!

[JohnKleeb]

15. Your welcome, personally Rummy reminds me of a shark

good glasses all in all, the bush adminstration has them.

[bubblesby2002]

17. Oh wow what a memory rush

after I laughed at the ad and read the posts, I remembered that I really wanted X-Ray glasses, or a tiny dog that would fit into a teacup. But I never got them.

I did have sea monkeys, but not until a couple of years ago and I had to buy them for myself. They were so neat, little did I know they were brine shrimp. Anyway, they lived for almost a year until they got knocked over by one of my cats.
:(

Now I want magic rocks.

[Sapphocrat]

22. I sent away for X-Ray Specs...

And they kinda, sorta suggested something kinda like an x-ray. LOL They work sort of the same way 3D glasses do -- separate the vision in each eye (heck, I'm no optics expert), creating this foggy sort of silhouette around the object you're looking at.

I never did see through anybody's clothes... blast it!

Did the Sea Monkeys follow your flashlight beam?

[foreigncorrespondent]

26. Oh my!

You perv! ;)

[AZCat]

24. See the link! See the link! (above)

foreigncorrespondent found them! Yay!

Am awaiting anxiously for mail now!

[foreigncorrespondent]

28. Did you search through the site?

I did! They got a lot of cool stuff from times gone by over there.

I want magic rocks and sea monkey's. LOL See if I can get them to last longer than sex months.

[AZCat]

29. "Sex months"?

Do you know something about 'magic rocks' that I don't?

Hmmm...

BTW- what exactly is a "Shrinky Dink"? I looked at their page, but...
(shrug)

[foreigncorrespondent]

30. OMG!

I really need sleep, or I need to get my mind out of the gutter. LOL

I meant six months. Honest!

Shrinky Dinks are like this plastic stuff, that you colour in, cut them out, and put 'em in the oven, and they shrink up into a ornament type thing. Pretty fun to watch.

[AZCat]

31. S'OK, we've all been sleep-dep'd.

Ahhhh. I just saw the little Shrinky Dink video- now I understand!

Good stuff on the site, for sure! Great find! :)

[Sapphocrat]

32. What fc said, plus...

...the end result is kind of like stained glass, only with plastic.

Uh-oh... Plastic... Now I'm reminded of...

COLORFORMS!!!

[foreigncorrespondent]

33. I feel like...

...I am living in the '70's all over again. LOL

You just had to. So here, I just had to. LOL http://www.liveandlearn.com/colorforms.html

[Sapphocrat]

34. If you ordered them...

Here's something to keep you entertained until they arrive:

http://www.seamonkeymania.com/

[AZCat]

35. Aack! Can't handle all extra sites!

I'm at home now, on dialup, and really wishing for school's connection right now.

Waiting for seamonkeysite... dum-de-dum...