 
12468_laing
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Username: 12468_laing
Post Number: 363
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 4:04 pm: |    |
z, would the luge track bring back memories iof that game Mouse Trap? |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 2645
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 4:19 pm: | |
I loved Mouse Trap! The commercial was great too |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 5565
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 4:28 pm: | |
I think the bells should ring to start the luge run. Just imagine, one good peal of those bells would start the luge down the chute just by vibration alone |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1788
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 4:32 pm: | |
Mouse Trap, Johnny Seven OMA, cap guns, machine guns, Tyco HO Slot Car Set, Hands Down, Electric Football, Monopoly, Roulette, green army men with jeeps and artillery, car wash for Hot Wheels / Matchbox size cars, Spirograph...oh, to be a kid again back in the 60s. |
Fvfromd
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Username: Fvfromd
Post Number: 19
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 4:34 pm: | |
Laing: went to Camp DeSales summer of 1976. Graduated SJ 1977. |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 5566
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 4:35 pm: | |
Actually, Mouse Trap, Monopoly, green army men, and Spirograph are still hot sellers. My grandson was just showing me his Army men Sunday. There names were Rifle, Gun, Joe and Helen. Okay, times have changed a little. |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 2646
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 4:35 pm: | |
Don't forget Rock'em Sock'em Robots.
"He knocked my block off!" |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 2647
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 4:38 pm: | |
Speaking of Super Balls. Cfg did you ever get around to boouncing one down the hallway between the choir room and the downstairs sacristy and tape it for me? |
12468_laing
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Username: 12468_laing
Post Number: 364
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 4:50 pm: | |
7andkelly, thanks for bringing up the Johnny Seven. Still remember getting mine. Took it outside the first day I got it, broke one of the legs, and my mom said, "Hey, we paid a lot of money for that". That is how I found out about Santa Claus. |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1789
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 4:56 pm: | |
There has been so much added to Cfg's list over the past few months, it's probably time to summarize.
Let's see, the superball thing, sandblast and repaint the bell tower beams, keep checking for missing artwork, traverse (and videotape) the tunnel(s) leading from the church to the convent and gym, interview longest surviving parishioners from the earliest days of the parish and digitize (and post) their 8mms and photos, coordinate the summer spaghetti dinner to coincide with all of our schedules,... |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 1790
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 5:06 pm: | |
I learned something on that Christmas Day too, Laing. Don't shoot Mom with a rocket. |
Campfire_girl
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Username: Campfire_girl
Post Number: 640
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 5:10 pm: | |
Did the superball - forgot to tape it - Fr. thought it was a hoot! Summer Spaghetti dinner is a no brainer - consider it done - I just need you to give me a date - one date please for all to attend. Okay, that leaves the bird poopy bell tower, smelly tunnels, well, I'm not doing too bad! |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 2648
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 5:15 pm: | |
Photograph the courtyard |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1791
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 5:27 pm: | |
...and bring me the broomstick ... oh, wait ... that's not on your list. |
Tsomyak
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Username: Tsomyak
Post Number: 89
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 5:42 pm: | |
OMG, you shot your mom with a Johnny Seven OMA too? I think it was the day after Christmas I had mine in the living room and my mom bent over to pick something off the floor. Bam! She was not pleased AT ALL! My brother had me convinced that because of that she was going to run away with the circus. Brothers are good for that sort of thing. |
Mkap
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Post Number: 66
Registered: 11-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 7:25 pm: | |
CFG - between you and Boop, you really keep us together.
Who loves ya baby! |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1792
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 7:49 pm: | |
TS, you too? My shot was point blank from three feet away, right in the shoulder. What saved me was it was Christmas Day, and the fact I was reeeeaaaaly sorry. |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 2649
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 9:19 am: | |
Must have been something about that toy that made us direct out fire at other people. Christmas day I set mine up in our basement and I fired it right at one of my cousins hitting her right square in the forehead. I still remember the look of shock on her face. It was a great toy though. |
12468_laing
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Username: 12468_laing
Post Number: 365
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 9:21 am: | |
what's the weather outlook where you all live? Nashville is supposed to ice over by noon - we don't get too much snow, but with the humidity and other factors, we get ice. I also hear KY is covered with ice, too. |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1793
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 9:32 am: | |
Thanks for asking, Laing. We got a generous dusting last night, and into the morning. Looking out the window, it's just beautiful ... perfect weather for skiing, tobogganing, snowmobiling and ice fishing ... now if I just the time to do more of those things... Oh well, at least I have my Toro. That never seems to get old. |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 2650
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 9:32 am: | |
We just dodged it here in Iowa. Really foggy though and sub zero temps. I just got notice our Hickman Ark plant was closed due to the weather. That's kind of on the same plain as Nashville a little SW. Sounds like the ice could get bad there. |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1794
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 9:35 am: | |
Ooooh, an ice storm ... definitely don't need one of those. Be verrrrry careful out there. |
Campfire_girl
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Username: Campfire_girl
Post Number: 641
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 9:44 am: | |
Thanks Mkap - our pleasure! Hope to get an alumni Spaghetti dinner gathering in the late summer when we can get our "out of towners" here. (With their Iowa sweetcorn!) :-)
Sorry Z - No courtyard - one area of privacy for the Padre that I'll leave private.
Bad snow here - especially on the ice -lots of folks coming in late - and slip-sliding away! |
Campfire_girl
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Username: Campfire_girl
Post Number: 642
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 10:09 am: | |
Any other ideas out there for Alumni gatherings and fundraisers? ----besides the luge off the bell tower and Leslie Vissor's head? |
Tsomyak
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Username: Tsomyak
Post Number: 90
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 11:59 am: | |
We had a hard freeze here last night, with a threat of an ice storm. I think the Hill Country got a good dose of ice, but within the city limits of Austin we were spared any accumulation. I'm very thankful for that. There are few things scarier than a Texan driving on ice. |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 5575
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 12:12 pm: | |
Texans shoveling salt out of the back of pick-up trucks at intersections comes in a close second. |
12468_laing
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Username: 12468_laing
Post Number: 366
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 12:25 pm: | |
things scarier than a Texan driving on ice......following a Nashvillian as they drive past a cop on the side of the road giving a ticket. They almost come to a complete stop just to rubberneck. When Steve Martin came out with his Egyptian song, they changed it down here to "Drive like a Nashvillian". |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 5577
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 12:35 pm: | |
I think that was the Bangles 'Walk like an Egyptian' but, yeah, we have those here in Michigan too. Or they stay in the right lane, whiz by the cop, and damned near knock him over. |
Campfire_girl
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Post Number: 643
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 1:07 pm: | |
I don't know who's song it was, but I loved watching Steve Martin perform his "walk" in full Egyptian regalia! |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1795
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 2:26 pm: | |
He's a "wild and crazy dude" from way back. |