Anyone Who Remembers The Joy of Childhood Fads?

[Mohammedini]

Originally Posted by Hous

In middle school we used to play pencil break. I was really bad because I had those eagle pencils that were the weakest and cheapest pencils in existence. I heard stories about kids using long peices of fiber glass, however noone would ever want to play against them because it was instant lose.

I started a fad where people would bring me pencil sized peices of fiber glass and I would trick it out to resemble an actual pencil. The way I did it was I would pick up broken pencils at school, take off the eraser peice and use my pocket knife to saw the sharpened part of the pencil off. I would super glue the two sharpened peice to the fiber glass. Then I would either take a coke bottle wrapper or a decorated peice of paper (sometimes I colored it myself) and glues it around the fiber glass and pencil peice. It would appear to be a fully functional pencil. Then I would secure the eraser to the top.

It actually was a fully functional pencil. Just the tip was an actual pencil and it threw everyone off. I sold them for $5 a pop.

Also, my friends and I started a pirated video game business at school. We really only sold one game, Starcraft, because this was around the time when the manufacturers started to put protections on the disk to prevent burning. I can't take a lot of credit for it because I didn't do the burning because I didn't have a computer. I would just solicit the game. LOL.

HAHAHA brilliant!

[Elie]

I remember a weird fad that kids would do. They would choke themselves unconscious. I never did it.

[rorymac]

Originally Posted by Sick/

i remember everyone wanting that because it and had 120 damage. couple of weeks and nearly everyone had it.

i remember swapping a crappy condition mewtwo to kid for blastoise

machamp and mewtwo were the easiest shinies to get

My friend and I managed to convince my brother (who was about 6 or 7 at the time) that he should swap his shiny Lapras for my Weedle. The sucker fell for it

[rorymac]

Originally Posted by Sick/

convinced him by telling him you'll kick the shit out him if he doesn't. good on ya lad

na my brother could beat me up at that age, he belongs in an institution the violent nutjob

[Sick/]

Originally Posted by rorymac

na my brother could beat me up at that age, he belongs in an institution the violent nutjob

did you ever collect crazy bones? i remember everyone was jizzing over them just before the pokemon thang

[Fresno]

I was a god at marbles.

[rorymac]

Originally Posted by Sick/

did you ever collect crazy bones? i remember everyone was jizzing over them just before the pokemon thang

Na but I vaguely remember them, I might have been a bit too young.

Did you ever have those water yo-yos? They were filled with some godawful chemicals and a kid in my class drank them.

Pogs as well

[Mannie Phresh]

I pretended to be raphael from tmnt with my friends.

[Mannie Phresh]

In middle school when the school outlawed sodas and snacks id stop by greenbacks a cheap grocery store and stock up on candies and sodas. sold em for a buck a can and a buck a candy bar 2 bucks a small bag of chips. it was double the price but it worked. also went to the swap meet and buy 10 dollar butterfly knives and sell em for 20 bucks.

[Sick/]

Originally Posted by rorymac

Na but I vaguely remember them, I might have been a bit too young.

Did you ever have those water yo-yos? They were filled with some godawful chemicals and a kid in my class drank them.

Pogs as well

you heard of the cum yoyo? everytime you do the sleeper it sprays cum everywhere.



weird, but fun