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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:11 PM Original message |
I bet I licked little lead toys in 1956-? |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
1. I think we all did. I had an edge on you. I was licking them from |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:26 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. More than just chewing. |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:27 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. The smell of the paint was attractive to kids |
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tularetom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:22 PM Response to Original message |
2. I even made lead soldiers in the 40's - 50's |
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Elwood P Dowd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:22 PM Response to Original message |
3. That's not true. Made in Japan didn't show up until the 1960s. |
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zalinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:27 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. Yes, and I remember that when something was made |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:29 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Back to the Future |
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Elwood P Dowd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:36 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. My sister is still using a Maytag washer and dryer manufactured in 1968 |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:32 PM Response to Reply #3 |
15. My grandmother had some figurines she bought in the '50s |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:44 PM Response to Reply #15 |
24. Be gone with you! Mentioning the idea of helping someone else through trade. |
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Elwood P Dowd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 11:03 PM Response to Reply #24 |
30. And the resident DUer who worships and praises outsourcing and fake free trade |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 11:08 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. So after WWII we should have isolated Japan? |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 11:16 PM Response to Reply #31 |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 11:20 PM Response to Reply #34 |
38. I don't hate anyone. Usually it is conservatives screaming about foreigners stealing jobs. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 11:30 PM Response to Reply #38 |
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Elwood P Dowd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:58 PM Response to Reply #15 |
28. I'm not talking about a few trinkets here and there. |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 11:08 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. Japan also filled niches that weren't being filled by American companies |
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stimbox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 11:01 PM Response to Reply #15 |
29. "Made in Occupied Japan" |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-17-07 09:18 AM Response to Reply #15 |
55. Some of those things are probably worth quite a bit now as collectibles. nt |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 11:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
42. We certainly had "Made in Japan" stuff in the '50s |
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Elwood P Dowd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 11:50 PM Response to Reply #42 |
46. Read my post above. It was insignificant until the 1960s |
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Liberal In Texas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
4. I used to play with asbestos and mercury. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:34 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. Hey, me too! When I was a kid, if we ever broke a thermometer |
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Sparkly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:38 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Me too!! |
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Liberal In Texas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:38 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. They used to give it to us in vials in school. Pour it out and play with it, much of it of course |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-17-07 01:52 AM Response to Reply #16 |
53. Me three! n/t |
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Kingshakabobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 11:18 PM Response to Reply #4 |
35. Here's an interesting article regarding the "Radium Girls." |
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cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 11:22 PM Response to Reply #4 |
39. Me too. We had a science kit in elementary school in the 60's |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 11:41 PM Response to Reply #4 |
44. Oh yeah? Well I used to play with plutonium and arsenic |
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LittleClarkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
5. Well that certainly explains things |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 11:18 PM Response to Reply #5 |
36. You're a jerk. |
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rwheeler31 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
6. uh not so bad |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:25 PM Response to Original message |
7. We couldn't afford vitamins so that was my only source of minerals. |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:26 PM Response to Original message |
8. I cut my teeth on the window seal of a small wood frame |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:27 PM Response to Original message |
11. "made in Taiwan" was very popular when i was a child. |
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liberalmuse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:27 PM Response to Original message |
13. I ate dirt... |
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readermostly (298 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
17. In the late 50's, my grade school teacher let hold and play with mercury. |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:40 PM Response to Original message |
21. We used to hide in fields and stand up to get sprayed by cropdusters |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-17-07 01:51 AM Response to Reply #21 |
52. Seriously? D*mn! n/t |
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Maddy McCall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:40 PM Response to Original message |
22. I ate lead paint chips and fed them to my brother. |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:40 PM Response to Original message |
23. I bet you drink lead in water almost every day. |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
25. I guess you're all too young to remember dental fillings made with mercury, huh? |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-17-07 01:49 AM Response to Reply #25 |
51. I remember. n/t |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-17-07 02:03 AM Response to Reply #25 |
54. They still put them in and mislead people. |
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FloridaJudy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
26. Lead tastes sweet |
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whistle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:55 PM Response to Original message |
27. Hong Kong and Taiwan also, lead paint and lead solders/animals |
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Corgigal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 11:40 PM Response to Reply #27 |
43. interesting |
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DU GrovelBot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 11:09 PM Response to Original message |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 11:20 PM Response to Original message |
37. DuZY! JeffR, this is histerical, or hysterical! nt |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
41. There was no "Made in China" back in 1956 |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
45. Our science teacher GAVE us "quicksilver" to play with |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-17-07 01:48 AM Response to Reply #45 |
49. When the thermometer would break we'd play with the little silver balls. |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-17-07 01:44 AM Response to Original message |
47. Leaded gasoline -- that was a screamer. |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-17-07 01:47 AM Response to Original message |
48. ...and you grew up to be a liberal. ;-) |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-17-07 01:49 AM Response to Original message |
50. "I remember the 'Made In Japan' or 'Made in China' FOR LONGTIME" |
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