On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Jeff Hellige wrote:
> > He also regularly got sand kicked in his face while "beach-bunnies" looked
> >on disdainfully until he developed his physique. And then they clustered
> >around him admiringly and bullies slunk away. BB-guns and Ryder bicycles
> >were also back-cover features on most comic-books as well.
>
> Along with the ads for the American Revolution figures and
> the X-ray eyeglasses and sea monkeys. Some of that stuff actually
> stayed on the back covers for quite a few years.
I bought the rather impressive looking set of "300 army men" or whatever
the number was only to be severely disappointed when I got them to find
they were cheap molded plastic bastards that were of majorly suckish
quality compared to the more durable and softer plastic variety you could
get from the grocery store toy section.
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