Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: War Toy Culture

Saturday, March 12, 2011

War Toy Culture

KRAK-A-JACK Culture
Our 'Fields of Eton'

If "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton," then a toy culture that produced KRAK-A-JAP won WWII for us. Look all you want, but there will be no KRAK-A-JIHADIST toy to be found. Instead, there will be wailing over the demise of Easy-Bake Oven. I'm just saying.

Rodger the Real King of France 3/12/2011 09:44:00 AM 10 Comments

"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. "
Argus Hamilton

10 comments:

Anonymous said...: I have fond memories of my Johnny 7. It shot hard plastic bullets too, and mother wouldn't let me shoot it inside.

Casca; 3/12/11, 9:53 AM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: I opted to spend my money on X-ray glasses. Sigh. That disappointment shaped my life.; 3/12/11, 10:06 AM
Snackeater said...: Hey! Toadold! This is the toy-guns-we-had-when-we-were-kids meeting. The movie review meeting is one floor down. How'd you get in here anyway?

Anyway, the Combat SGT Saunders M1928A1 "Tommy Gun". You pulled the charging handle back and you got 30-rds of very noisy submachine gun fire. I wasn't allowed to play with mine in the house either.; 3/12/11, 10:43 AM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: I moved Toadold's post downstairs to the proper article.; 3/12/11, 11:25 AM
Snackeater said...: Well, alright then. You can't be too careful you know?

Just out of curiosity, when you played "WWII" as a kid, were you usually fighting the Germans or the Japanese? For whatever reason (probably TV), we always fought the Germans.; 3/12/11, 11:47 AM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: We played Korean war and always fought the gooks.; 3/12/11, 12:29 PM
JMcD said...: During WWII when we played war the enemy was the "Japs & Germans".
It's like they were a kind of strange combined force.
The way the game went, it was as if they had invaded the US, and we were the defenders,; 3/12/11, 1:16 PM
hellferbreakfast said...: I had a morter that launched hard plastic shells quite far. After one broken lamp, I was banished to the yard.; 3/12/11, 2:25 PM
Alear said...: My uncle was 4F for WWII, but amazingly fit for Korea. Quoting an end of an anecdote he told: "... so we threw the gook out the airplane."

My ole man, to me, in response to me impertinently asking did he kill anyone over there (Korea, WWII) " Yeah, I did."

From a cousin, helicopter pilot in Vietnam: "Fuck you. Over."; 3/12/11, 7:01 PM
Anonymous said...: BB gun wars.
Running around the woods in old WWII and Korean war Marine gear brought back by dads and uncles.
Shooting "Luke the Gook" and "Link the Chink", and then shooting them again.

Only a few years later getting off a train in Yemassee, S.C. on the way to P.I.

Boneshaker; 3/12/11, 9:32 PM

Saturday, March 12, 2011

War Toy Culture

10 comments:

Post a Comment