SEA MONKEYS!!

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Who didn't see this ad as a kid (if you're that old) and want these?? You can teach them tricks!! Like a pack of friendly trained seals!

From Women's Day March 1973

Comments

[sunshinesarah.livejournal.com]

I had sea monkeys for a long time when I was a kid. Then my mother killed them by dropping their container. :(

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

“Caricatures shown not intended to depict Artemia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_monkeys).”

[nokomarie.livejournal.com]

I always desperately wanted some. My brothers told my Mom they were just bugs and that was the end of that.

[tanwen.livejournal.com]

Those ads terrified me as a child. I always thought those little creatures were going to crawl out of the bowl at night and do nefarious things whilst I was sleeping.

[marstokyo.livejournal.com]

OMG I've always wanted to find someone who actually HAD them! so did they have human faces and crowns and everything???

[sunshinesarah.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, no. :P They mostly looked like bitsy floating specks. If you looked closely, you could see that they were super-miniature shrimp.

It was cool this one time when some of them were pregnant, and they had these tiny little bellies with black specks in them. At least, I think they were pregnant. Or do they just carry eggs that are fertilized externally? Whatever. It was neat!

[marstokyo.livejournal.com]

How cool! thanks for sharing.

[bluebear2.livejournal.com]

No, that's what sasquatches are for.

[http://users.livejournal.com/batty_/]

i actually had some a few years ago. here's a closeup!

[inkdot.livejournal.com]

Aww, I loved my Sea Monkeys, gross as they turned out to be. ♥

[silverstah.livejournal.com]

I wanted sea monkeys so very badly. *sigh*

[reid.livejournal.com]

i bought sea monkeys like a month ago and they are already dead. i took care of them hardcore like the instructions said! the box said they were guaranteed to live 2 years. i doubt that shit

[grab-that-dough.livejournal.com]

I remember this exact ad. lol

[grab-that-dough.livejournal.com]

so did they have human faces and crowns and everything???

LMAO

[retention.livejournal.com]

oh yeah. i remember that. :)

i think mine lived maybe six months. they were funny to watch though.

[marstokyo.livejournal.com]

How wonderful of you to post this. I've never seen the things *live*.

[dazedpuckbunny.livejournal.com]

Me too! I had mine for about two years and then my mom and the feather duster traumatized me. :( I loved those little things.

[salenelle.livejournal.com]

Boy, did I yearn for a family of sea-monkeys. They re just brine shrimp, right? GAWD, did I want these as a kid. my own family, in a bowl, for me to watch... what a trip!

[dazedpuckbunny.livejournal.com]

I think they carry eggs internally because I remember mine started mating and I was like "Stop it! Stop it you're siblings!!!!!!!"

[progbear.livejournal.com]

Heh, I remember seeing those ads. I was quite the aquarist as a kid, feeding my fish brine shrimp on a weekly basis. It wasn’t till my dad said that Sea Monkeys were brine shrimp that I made the connection. “Man,” I thought, “those kids who bought them must have totally felt ripped off!”

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

The strip Sam & Max had a page of "Did You Know...?" factoids. My favorite showed Max (the scary rabbit-thing) freaking out over the information that Sea Monkeys are not primates!!

[kitschin-witch.livejournal.com]

Ah, I think that was the exact ad that I saw and have them. My mom took one look at them proclaimed them to be 'just brine shrimp', to which I said, "Shut up, they are Sea Monkeys!"

[roamingtigress.livejournal.com]

So did I :( I went through this sorta long-ish period where I was petless and was so desperate to have any sort of critter.