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We had a blackout most of yesterday which, to be honest, turned out to be a welcome one. It sucked during the day, but by night, it was interesting to see the neighborhood pitch black and pretend that we needed to be prepared for cannibal looters. Once that got old, we skipped to a town with power, got hammered at a Japanese restaurant, and came home to find that we had electricity but no desire or coherence left to actually use it. I could use a day like that once a month.


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Fare well, farers.

Posted by Matt on 09/03/2006. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 72 comments

Nice!

On the Halloween stuff, went to two Targets and a Walmart……nothing.

Any luck with the peanuts and candy corn?

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 09/03/2006 8:35 PM

Off TOpic….Lucky Louie on HBO is VERY raunchy….they are saying God is a c*nt. OMG….i’m not a prude for crying out loud…but still!

Chestnuts roasted by mandy_Reeves @ 09/03/2006 8:46 PM

Seeing all of those old toys reminded me of an obscure toy from the early 90s. Does anyone remember “The Trash Bag Bunch”? They were cheap plastic figures that were packaged inside biodegradeable bags that looked like trash bags. You dropped the bag in water and it would dissolve. I got a few repeats but almost got the entire collection.

Chestnuts roasted by mudogramx @ 09/03/2006 8:46 PM

Trash Bag Bunch, Trash Bag Bunch…. shit… now I have this weird deja vois feeling like I just saw something from Trash Bag Bunch or like, bought something from it….

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 09/03/2006 9:15 PM

What DID happen to McDonaldland anyway? My friends in High School and I discussed Mayor McCheese killing off the other denizens of McDonaldland in a Haamburgery slaughter. Also killed: Hamburglar, Fry Guys and that cop. Why don’t they use the rest of the characters anyway?

Chestnuts roasted by Terror Claws Cole @ 09/03/2006 9:22 PM

I guess the marketing gurus think that kids today are too sophisticated for McDonaldland. I did see The Professor and Capt. Crook in a McDonald’s in Paris 3 years ago…
Mystie, I got the cookies covered. :)

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 09/03/2006 9:25 PM

Yeah, there’s totally a Trash Bag Bunch guy in the pic. Like I mentioned earlier, but not by name. Thank you for the name, Mudogramx.

Left hand side of the box of Morning Funnies on the left.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 09/03/2006 9:27 PM

I’ve only found Bossk and the Pokemon Pasta so far.

I thought my best friend was a packrat. This makes me proud to be a Collector of Random Stuff. My mom always yelled at me about all the shit I’d bring home, but I can’t help it. I’m not only a packrat, but a thrift shop/flea market addict who is also re-discovering eBay after trying to stay away from it for a few years. Most of the reason I volunteer at a thrift shop involves getting first dibs on all the awesome stuff that people donate. (And the manager says she has a hard time finding people to go through it all. That’s the best part!)

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 09/03/2006 9:34 PM

Working at a thrift shop was how I got my boxed complete Magnavox Odessey 2. When I say “complete” I mean right down to the packing styrofoam,rubber bands,warranty card,the whole deal. 10 bucks.

Domino’s had better start offering Fudgems figurines or plushes for a limited time offer. They don’t have to be free,I would definately pay.

Chestnuts roasted by Kid Nicky @ 09/03/2006 9:43 PM

I still can’t find the Trash Bag Bunch figure; maybe I’m going blind… I can’t believe Matt didn’t mention Miss Kim or whatever name was. She’s just sitting there by 4-armed frank, crying because no one remembers her…

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 09/03/2006 9:46 PM

I hate you Matt, your room looks 300x geekier than mine!

The reason that McDonaldland is no more here is that Sid & Marty Krofft successfully sued McDonalds that McDLand was too much like H.R. Pufnstuf and most of the early characters like Capt Crook, Professor, Big Mac, and yes, Mayor MacCheese (because he was indeed a ripoff of Pufnstuf), were phased out. I bet there are still McDs out there where the people were too lazy/cheap to change their Playplaces to update it (one near my cousin’s house in Center Moriches had the old characters well into the late 90s, don’t know if they’re still there)

But question: What is that gray-headed robot? I have no clue and must know!

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 09/03/2006 9:52 PM

Wait, is the figure still in the bag? I think I see a micro machine r2-d2 playset.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 09/03/2006 9:52 PM

Norbert — Which gray-headed robot? :)

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/03/2006 9:56 PM

I believe he is speaking of the one next to Kamala’s (sp) figure.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 09/03/2006 9:59 PM

That’s Verbot! I love Verbot! He was the baby brother of the far larger and more impressive Omnibot. Such a great toy.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/03/2006 10:00 PM

Knegative, I got those at the Dollar Tree too. Sorry I didn’t read your post earlier. I did a little research and it turns out those things were released around the time the Save the Earth campaign was really popular, ie Captain Planet and recycled paper. Ahh, the 90s.

Chestnuts roasted by mudogramx @ 09/03/2006 10:13 PM

Ah, thanks, Matt, but this is probably the first time in X-E’s history that I still don’t know what that is! It kind of seems familiar, and I probably had some kind of robot like it, but sadly, it doesn’t ring a bell :(

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 09/03/2006 10:16 PM

Wow I remember seeing commercials for Verbot as a kid! But sadly I can’t remember what exactly Verbot did. Some kind of educational toy I think, but I can’t remember for sure.

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 09/03/2006 10:22 PM

Not so much an educational toy as it was just…a robot! It had a radio controller that, aside from making it move and pick up stuff, let the owner interact with it and make it do crazy things via voice control. I never mastered the voice control aspect, but just being able to make a robot roll into our sleeping dog turned Verbot into a childhood hero.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/03/2006 10:32 PM

Matt, as hard as I have tried, my wall will never look like that. I am jealous of you.

On a sad note, my Grim Rapper has stopped working.

Chestnuts roasted by ctugirl @ 09/03/2006 10:44 PM

I’ve tried to post 3 times now, but no dice. I don’t know if it’s b/c I’m trying to include several links or what…I had links to C-3P0′s, Charmies, Shrek Popcorn and Dinosaurs Attack!, but I cannot share them. :( Oh well, you guys can just do a site search yourselves. :)

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 09/03/2006 10:47 PM

Holy Crap man!

Your room looks like mine, Except your stuff has some value and worth?

quick question, What does the box contain thats behind the fuzzy catapiller? it’s ontop if the stack that contains Archie Bunkers grandson and the Tower of pasta cans and behind the Chia Pet.

You have no idea how happy i was to be able to type that last sentence.

Chestnuts roasted by Jester @ 09/03/2006 10:48 PM

That second sentence wasn’t a question, it was a statement, so I should have ended it with a . instead of a ?

Chestnuts roasted by Jester @ 09/03/2006 10:49 PM

Squee, it went into a mod queue because of the links, but I approved it and it should be up there. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/03/2006 10:49 PM

Jester – The Star Wars Death Star Playset, though most of the pieces are gone.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/03/2006 10:50 PM

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