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Sunday, November 01, 2015
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Friday, October 30, 2015
Wheelee Board
The Wheelee Board (1977) unquestionably was the oddest skateboard. Ever.
With six wheels and a plastic board with the rear wheels set at an angle, it was designed for tricks. I haven't had much personal experience with skateboards of any kind, but I imagine one would have to be particularly deft in their skills to ride these things. Or suicidally insane.
Not much else is known about the Wheelee Board, except that it's apparently a joke in the skateboarder community.
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Bottoms Up
One of the many politically incorrect drinking board games of the 1960s and '70s, Bottoms Up was a game produced by Colt 45 malt liquor.
The object was to accumulate 30 credits, thereby completing one year of college. All while drinking Colt 45 "bottoms up" wherever you land on a space or take a card requiring you to. (I would be shocked if anyone actually finished a game.)
Some of the action cards that you were required to do:
Smoke two cigarettes simultaneously
Obey any wish or request of the player on your right
Put an article of your clothes on backwards
Do a Jack Benny imitation for 30 seconds
Explain to other players why you think that sex before marriage is a necessity.
Obviously, this game was from a very different time.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Children's Disco Musical Stories (Venus, 1988)
It's not every day you run into disco versions of children's stories, especially South Asian ones. And one made eight years after disco fizzled out in America. But this cassette really exists.
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