On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:04:22 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote:

(Cut to scene of stone rolling away from a dog turd)

....After which, Foghorn Leghorn becomes the first of the Disciples.

"Ah say thar, son, I say, have you heard the Word of Jesus Chicken?"

God, I'd completely forgotten those- they did have those too, didn't they?

....Yeah, they did. Until PETA and the local health departments put a
nix on the idea, most of the dime stores locally - Ben Franklin, TG&Y,
and Woolworth's - had them. Pink, Blue, Green, Enhanced Yellow, Orange
and Purple, but no Red. The owner of the Ben Franklin next to my
granddad's old cafeteria was fond of saying that "Red Chickens are for
Communists!"

Can you imagine the prices you could get on E-bay for those old models
nowadays?

....CIP: The "Voyager" from the "Fantastic Voyage" cartoon is a rather
shoddy kit, even for Aurora's quality. However, because it had such a
short press run, finding a mint-in-box kit is damn near impossible,
and what's out there can usually go for 3-4K. Usually all you find are
the assembled ones in ****-poor shape, with the Testor's Old Red Tube
turning the adhesion points bile yellow. And those, alas, generally go
for $200-300 a pop, and normally are missing the tailfin and the upper
horizontal stabilizer, if not the glass pieces.

My brother got a Strombecker Ferry Rocket with the transparent exterior
and colored paper inserts to show the interior layout down there.

....That one was one I never got, because locally nobody got the
Strombecker products. We did get Lindbergh and Hawk kits, tho, which
in retrospect still surprises me.

OM

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