18.2.21

The EZ baked lives of 60s children

b1-66er: (from Special K) Predictions by Criswell from 1968.

b1-67er:  Maybe the aphrodisiac part explains the sixties. Wacky!
He predicted Denver would get hit by a ray from space that turned all metal elastic!

66: YOU DON'T REMEMBER THAT?

D4rw1n: His science is dubious 

66: My brother's a Super Elastic Bubble Plastic denier.

67: Super elastic bubble plastic was pretty cool.

66: It was.
I think it may've given me MS. (And mom SAID it wasn't bubble gum.)

67: Really a psychedelic you.

66: It did have its bad points, though.

D4: Yeah. It wasn't elastic 
It was more bubble plastic
It smelled like death 
When you blew it up you were as likely to pop a lung as inflate the bubble 
I would not be surprised if it was the MS vector 
Or worse 

67: it smelled like possibility

D4: Yes. Possibly killing you from the inside out 
A Wham-O product, Says Wikipedia
Polyvinyl acetate, acetone, ethyl acetate acetate

67: Part of the glory days of industrial toys. Creepy crawlers.  Erector sets. Super elastic bubble plastic. We were oh so close to flying cars.

D4: Apparently, the smell of "possibility" consists of (CH3)2 CO off-gassing into your sinuses 
Man, knowing now that that smell was acetone evaporating. I'm a little bit bummed we did not try to make incendiary devices with it

67: I don't remember any flame component, we must have tried. We combined fireworks with most toys at some point.

66: NOTHING sez "Hello!" like a slinky with a string of lit blackcats lomping toward you on the stairs.

D4: Here's a challenge I wish I'd issued us in 1980:
From this list of products ...
... How many can we combine with fireworks?

67: If you look at their canon of toys, it's pretty damn good.  And I would say most are fire/firework compatible.

D4: That was my initial assessment exactly 
With your apt amendment of adding "fire/"

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