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The Gags & Pranks Extravaganza!

Gotta admit, I didn't think I'd finish this on time. On the boardwalk of Atlantic City, and the same shop where I found that finagled Pokemon Pasta down below, I found....this. It's a beautiful buffet of old gags, pranks and novelties -- everything from fake puke to squirting pens...all the stuff we used to order from Johnson Smith and Brad's Fun Shop. I can't tell you how tickled I was to come across this stuff. Article features a look at a sixteen different, including such classics as the "bug in an ice cube," and of course, "snap snots." Yum. Enjoy.

Posted by Matt on 01/17/2005. E-mail me!

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Ah, I love gags and pranks as much as I love taffy… and I’m a man who loves his taffy

Chestnuts roasted by Chilipeppers @ 01/17/2005 6:13 PM

Just wanted to note…today is Betty "Rose Nyland" White’s birthday.

Chestnuts roasted by Garrison @ 01/17/2005 6:21 PM

Awesome article.

Chestnuts roasted by Travis @ 01/17/2005 6:31 PM

I’ve never ever seen so many gags/pranks together in one place. Ok, granted I’m not usually on the lookout for them, but – wow.

No, my feet don’t smell like mustard.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 01/17/2005 6:35 PM

I had to post because this is the highest i’ve ever had the chance to

Chestnuts roasted by Justin @ 01/17/2005 6:39 PM

wow…nice work. I’ve never seen such as gross things of that fake beer (pukes)

By the way, in you Fake Water Worms paragraph, there’s a typo:

"I cannot it spaghetti cause of it."

You mean eat, right?

Chestnuts roasted by Warx @ 01/17/2005 6:42 PM

Fixed, thanks.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 01/17/2005 6:45 PM

Nice article, where was the soap that turns stuff black? Thought that was pretty much a classic. And yeah i’ve eaten those joke sweets before just because there was nothing better to eat.

Chestnuts roasted by Gorm @ 01/17/2005 6:55 PM

I loved those toothpicks…we had em here for 20 cents a pack when I was a kid…but we could buy em at the corner store with the gummy candies…nothing like chewing fire-sticks (ok not fire or even fire-like) to make u feel cool as a kid

Chestnuts roasted by MetalRaven @ 01/17/2005 7:25 PM

Ugh. My sisters probably tried to get me to fall for at least half of this stuff. They loved to get a rise out of me. Sometimes I’d take the bait, sometimes I’d look at them funny and walk away, sometimes I’d go screaming to Mom that the girls were picking on me again. They sold many of these in the wonderful 99 cent store in Cape May that is now yet another T-shirt shop.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 01/17/2005 8:06 PM

There’s a store in Sacramento called Evangeline’s which sells this kind of crap, along with all sorts of bizarre stuff. I happen to have Fish-Tasting Candy and that super-spicy gum. I’ve also seen all those others, and will most likely get around to picking them up one of these days. Most of this stuff is made by a company called loftus, which makes all sorts of gag items, including those ruber chickens that you see. Yep, if you see one, chances are it was made by Loftus.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 01/17/2005 8:11 PM

I lied. There are probably several other companies that make this kind of stuff. But at Evangeline’s, it’s typically from Loftus.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 01/17/2005 8:15 PM

Great article! Sadly, there are people out there somewhere whom have fallen for one of these pranks. Taking a quote from the famous Garfield The Cat….they should be drug out into the street and shot.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryan @ 01/17/2005 8:22 PM

I had a squirting pen… squirted one foot at most. Friggin’ think was more fragile than a glass ornament. Only cool thing was it came with disappearing ink. It was about the time that the "Gotcha!" craze was in full swing. I remember that disappearing ink for those water pistols was foul-smelling.

And one final thought: I remember getting a whoopie cushion once. Still had the same picture of the lady sitting on the cushion. Looked like it was from the thirties… literally. It was hard to make out the image. The plate they used to print the image on the cushion must have been ancient.

Chestnuts roasted by AlphaCentaurian @ 01/17/2005 8:23 PM

The article reminds me of all the times I tried to give someone a gum wrapper with alas no gum. I think I wrecked it by the redness of my face and a choking/trying not to laugh sound.

Chestnuts roasted by Allyson @ 01/17/2005 8:49 PM

I laughed quite a bit at this article. I love the last sentences of each one, those are great gems of afterthought. I couldn’t let out a big belly laugh of appreciation, though, because of this whole "I’m at work at a credit union call center" thing…

Chestnuts roasted by kristina @ 01/17/2005 8:50 PM

Haha. My sister and I had the bug in an ice cube one when we were younger, we managed to freak my mother out with it several times before she finally threw it out on us.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeeto @ 01/17/2005 9:27 PM

I put some fake dog poop on my desk and some of my students (incredibly) still asked if it was real. How can I teach them history when they can’t distinguish rubber from feces?????
No child left behind (except the restroom?)

Chestnuts roasted by manimal789 @ 01/17/2005 9:46 PM

To the joy of my enemies, I never got the hand to any kind of water squirting device. I seem to be doomed to use it facing the wrong way.

After becoming the laughstock already in 4th grade I decided not to use pranks that included water or any other liquid so I was exiled to the horrible and tastelessly boring world of rubber which is pretty lame no matter how good the cockroach is.

Chestnuts roasted by melonian @ 01/17/2005 10:54 PM

What the hell…keep the christmas lights up all year!!

Chestnuts roasted by A Dude @ 01/17/2005 11:58 PM

I remember reading all those on a list of pranks in the back of a magazine. They had x-ray specs that blatantly appealed to the perv in us. The picture for it actually showed a guy simultaneously looking through his hand and a girls dress. I also remember seeing an ad for a personnal hovercraft. I recall being immediatly fascinated with the idea of my own hovercraft that I could ride on water and land while being powered by a vacuum motor. I wonder if anybody actually bought one of those.

Chestnuts roasted by Ed @ 01/18/2005 1:21 AM

Hey, Ed- The actual Hoverboard used in Back to the Future II and III was auctioned off after the movies were finished, and it made the list of top 15 highest grossing movie auctioned products. I guess you missed your chance on it, but somebody out there DOES buy hovercrafts.

Great Article, Matt! I always wondered what half of those things really did, and now I know!

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 01/18/2005 1:39 AM

The fake beer says "choking hazard".

Chestnuts roasted by Max Jenius @ 01/18/2005 2:06 AM

I just found that my spicy gum is made by the Lotte Confectionary Company in Seoul, Korea. I’m wondering if they have any conection with that Lottemint Squirt Gum.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 01/18/2005 2:21 AM

Hey, the wrapper on my hot gum says "Be Always Happy With Excellent Taste and Flavor." I guess I’ll be always happy with excellent humor once I can actually get some dumbfuck to fall for this trick.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 01/18/2005 2:25 AM

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