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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (41274)	11/7/1999 1:07:00 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) of 71178

<Remember when "Made in Japan" was a badge that defined the bottom of the manufacturing pyramid?> Gee... do you remember getting those little watercolour sets from Japan...the ones that came in a little stamped tin case...usually red on the outside with a white interior... but if you took the metal tray off... there would be some kind of picture from a tin can on the back...maybe a picture of some kind of fruit or veggies stamped on the "back" of the metal... That always seemed the like best and most mysterious thing about getting little tin toys from Japan... Tin cars were the same. My brothers and I used to like to take things apart to look at what was stamped on the reverse side of the metal... (actually not too sure why we found that so fascinating)... BTW, if you tell me that you don't remember any of this...well, then, that probably means that you're just some young whipper-snapper... but then, you remember red hot gum and stuff like that.... hmmmm.... When you mentioned the gum and other practical joke things, I started thinking about the ads that used to be in the back of comics... I haven't looked at a comic book in a long time, so maybe those ads are still there... Do you remember them... Some place used to sell mail-order sea monkeys and "x-ray glasses" and "bloodshot-eye glasses" and those magic crystal rocks that you put into water and watched them grow into colourful little stalagmites (or were they stalactites or something else???)... BTW, you must know this... What were those magic rocks made out of anyways??...they were rather neat things...

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