http://pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] vintageads2013-12-23 10:24 pm

Ralphie, what would you like for Christmas?

Horrified, I heard myself blurt it out! I want a
Daisy B-B Gun Oct 1973 Boys Life
Ooooh!

No. You'll shoot your eye out.

Oh no! It was a classic mother, BB-gun block. "You'll shoot your eye out!" That deadly phrase honored many times by hundreds of mothers was not surmountable by any means known to Kid-dom, but such as my mania, my desire for a Red Ryder carbine, that I immediately began to rebuild the dike.

Heh, I was just kidding, even though Schwartz is getting one. I guess I'd just like some

Tinkertoys WM Nov 93
I couldn't believe my own ears. Tinkertoys? She'd never buy it.

If this post has not made any sense, you obviously haven't seen this:


[Is that John O'Hurley doing the VO?]

[identity profile] rick-day.livejournal.com 2013-12-24 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
I actually knew a man who got an eye permanently damaged by such a projectile when I was a teen. Fortunately that was after my parents bought my Daisy cock n pop.

But I guess somewhere there are idiots with projectile pooters even to this day.
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[identity profile] fallconsmate.livejournal.com 2013-12-24 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
*runs, screaming*

oh how i LOATHE that movie. i hates it worse than smeagol hates a baggins!! *shuddering*

and it's going to be playing as we have dinner with my parents tomorrow...FRIED CHICKEN because we don't want the fuss of a big dinner. :D (it's only the 4 of us, so no hassle needed)

[identity profile] alanlungs.livejournal.com 2013-12-25 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
I played Santa a few weeks ago. A kid asked for a BB gun. I couldn't resist I told him you'll shoot your eye out. The kid gave me a weird look. His parents started chuckling.