And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, February 23, 2026
These were fun but politically inappropriate these days
Double yep. Went out to our woodshed, placed a roll on edge on edge on our anvil, hit it with a sledgehammer. Instant lesson in the value of hearing protection.
Used to pop those caps by scraping then with my thumb nail. It'd blacken my thumb. Fun times. Not lost....passed them on to my son and now a granddaughter...
On "How it's Made" a couple of weeks ago, they were showing how these are made. Some company bought ALL the old molds and continues to make them for kids to enjoy.
Yes but there were no school shootings back then.
ReplyDeleteThat was before the mind-mood alternating drugs were regularly given to our kids.
DeleteBut the drug companies make a LOT of money so it's ok. (sarcasm)
Babies got five or six recommended inoculations back then. Now it's between 30 ... and (gasp!) 90 by the time they are 18 years old.
DeleteWe weren't a nation of pussies back then....
ReplyDeleteBecause the self-loathers don’t want anyone to have fun. These cap guns were great, and innocent.
ReplyDeleteI can smell that photo
ReplyDeleteFirst thing that came to mind. Steve_in_Otawa
DeleteThat’s exactly the first thing I experienced too! Wonderful memories.
DeleteTear off a full roll, place it on the street, and hit it hard with a BFH.
ReplyDeleteyep
DeleteDouble yep. Went out to our woodshed, placed a roll on edge on edge on our anvil, hit it with a sledgehammer. Instant lesson in the value of hearing protection.
DeleteYeah, put the rolls on the curb or on a flat rock and hit’’em with another rock.
DeleteUsed to pop those caps by scraping then with my thumb nail. It'd blacken my thumb. Fun times. Not lost....passed them on to my son and now a granddaughter...
ReplyDeleteEeewww! How do you pass on your thumbs?
DeleteOhhh, I had so many of those and cowboy hats.
ReplyDeleteOn "How it's Made" a couple of weeks ago, they were showing how these are made. Some company bought ALL the old molds and continues to make them for kids to enjoy.
ReplyDeleteHad lots of those and other fairly realistic toy guns
ReplyDeleteStack some up and hit them with a hammer. Bigger bang. Also the Greeny Stickum Caps
ReplyDeleteI had one and for some reason I touched it with the ends of a bare electrical cord. Boy did that stink. Must of been 67 years ago.
ReplyDeleteDoes the state of California restrict you to loading only 10 parts of that roll a time?
ReplyDeleteStill have my Fanner 50, with Holster
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