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/"
