Reminds of the Thingmaker I had as a kid:
You pour Plastigoop into the molds and cook it to make bugs and things:
I wonder how many kids decided to eat that stuff.
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if i recall, it smelled WAY to terrible to tempt a taste.
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Creepy Crawlers!
Heaven knows there were a lot of gross-smelling dangerous substances back in the day, but Creepy Crawlers was a unique cooked plastic smell.
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Especially if you forgot and left it in the cooker too long. Indeed I canāt imagine this thing being sold today. Corporate lawyers would faint in droves.
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My brother had that, too.
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Joe Wells is back:
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Someone on our street had this when we were kids, if my brother didnāt:
And being the science-minded family that we were, of COURSE Brother got one of these (remember, we had older parents and he was born in 1957, me 7 years later):
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Never thought of it quite this way. Very interesting article.
Speaking of chemistry sets (and pardon me if Iāve related this story elsewhere):
Summary
We were in Germany for two years around 1960. My older brother and friends got together to make rockets. There were a number of chemistry shops around (not pharmacies) where they could easily get chemicals. Apparently once they took a bus into town and bought some acids at a shop ā nitric, hydrochloric, etc. ā and brought them home in a box on the bus. My brother was 9. He told me this story a few years ago and admitted he didnāt know how he survived. One of his friends did lose an eye in a mishap, however.
He wondered if some of the shop chemists were still fuming over WWII and were delighted to have the chance to give nasty chemicals to Americans.
We both went into science and engineering, so thereās two data points. He was really into anything technical, and I kind of followed along. Thanks, bro.
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I had one of those chemistry sets, and I kept it under my bed.
Amazing I donāt have an @kxkvi story to tell!
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Me neither.
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Oh, god, and that faceā¦ 
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If a cat likes to get into fights but always loses, should she be let out?
With that cone of course, she can just disappear, like Talia once did at the vet.
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I thought that Tiffanyās mom and sibs wouldāve taught herā¦?
I wonder if she is extremely loud and persistent in her desire to go outside. We had a female cat that would jump up onto the sill of the inside of the leaded window in our front door and scratch the living hell out of the door with her hind claws, yowling the whole time.
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Geez, even 'Balls of Fury" didnāt show a match like that!
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Good point ā if you get a cat who likes the outdoors I guess itās impossible to change that. Our first cat would sometimes try to get out when the door was open, but that was about it; no yowling or scratching at the door. Weāve never let any of our six more recent cats out, so perhaps they donāt even know there is an outside. Theyāre always been very good about it.
Yes, Abby was a stray and I forgot to mention she had gone into heat when she did the above. She did get pregnant when my mom, who couldnāt take it any more, let her out. She got hit by a car ten days after she gave birth. She had to be put down, but there was a foster mom for the kittens. This was, 1975 or '76.
Also the first time I saw the live birth of anything up-close and in-person.
haha getting into All the Feels territory hereā¦Iāll never forget (hope not!) the newborn kittens and their tiny umbilical cords. Just wonderful.
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Sad story. But the live birth must have been awesome.
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