..... Was there a gift you wan't sooo bad has a child?

pamh36 wrote:

Yes, it was a huge letdown for me to see that they were just these mini tadpole looking thingees. They had no crowns, no human-like faces. I am still in therapy after the disillusionment that I had carried with me for some 30 years. Worst of all was to find out that you really could not train them at all.

You always hear about these things happening to other people, but you never think it's gonna happen to you. :alright:

One really great present I got as a kid was a Venus Fly Trap. You know, the carnivorous plant. They're cool!

Here's one in action on YouTube...

Venus Fly Trap

never heard of that before.

I remember those, Rob. LOL!

Lily wrote:

I've heard about that plant too, but I never saw it in action. LOL

Here, Sea Monkeys were in big -but BIG fashion between 1976 and 1978, if I can recall correctly - I never purchased them, but all my friends who did it where greatly dissapointed.

But, people...tell me...How these little creatures looked like? I'm curious about it.... :think:

Vanesa.

Okay.........I had to find the ad, and then the real thing:

Here is the ad. (Notice the disclaimer at the bottom - which, of course, I never noticed as a child! It says "Caricatures shown not intended to depict artemia" . . . . And that would mean absolutely nothing to an eight-year-old! ) Anyway . . . . here's the ad:




And here's the . . . . . well . . . . the picture says it all:

LOL Savannah!

Rob wrote:

One really great present I got as a kid was a Venus Fly Trap. You know, the carnivorous plant. They're cool!

Here's one in action on YouTube...

Venus Fly Trap

My biology teacher had one of these in the classroom... it was pretty neat.

And Sea monkeys... wow! Actually Savannah, the last picture that you posted of them is how they look like during the DAY... but at night... when nobody is watching... they transform into the little creatures ...

My sister and I used to leave the screen door open in the summertime to let flies in, but Mom put a stop to that. Mostly we fed our 'traps little bits of hamburger.

My sister took over the feeding when the plants got bigger. I wonder whatever happened to her... :think:

I wanted Donny Osmond or Davy Jones for Christmas but what the heck?????? I never got either of them!! My parents were so mean to me growing up...I had to take my Quick Curl Barbie with her very own curling iron instead...

No wonder I'm so goofy today..

Savannah wrote:

Okay.........I had to find the ad, and then the real thing

Wow, thanks for posting this! It sure brings back memories. I don't know why my sister and I never ordered Sea Monkeys. Heaven knows we believed everything we read, and we weren't much for checking the fine print.

Here are those X-Ray Specs I mentioned earlier. These were aways advertised in the back of comic books, right next to the Sea Monkeys. I like the fact that the guy in the ad looks so subtle...

lol

Rob wrote:

pamh36 wrote:

Yes, it was a huge letdown for me to see that they were just these mini tadpole looking thingees. They had no crowns, no human-like faces. I am still in therapy after the disillusionment that I had carried with me for some 30 years. Worst of all was to find out that you really could not train them at all.

You always hear about these things happening to other people, but you never think it's gonna happen to you. :alright:

I know, thanks Rob. It's good to know that someone understands.

Savannah wrote:

Yes, that bottom creature is a *sniff* Sea Monkey.

Yes, and that's a good, very magnified picture. They look like a bunch of teeny tiny specks swimming in the water. Kind of like a bunch floaties in a glass of 7-up!

Rob wrote:

Here are those X-Ray Specs I mentioned earlier. These were aways advertised in the back of comic books, right next to the Sea Monkeys. I like the fact that the guy in the ad looks so subtle...

Oh man, I'm dying! I remember telling one of my friends that my mom has x-ray vision glasses and that she could see through the house and the garage, when one of my friends was trying to get me to do something I knew I would get into trouble for, and we were playing behind the garage. I cannot remember what it was now, that she was trying to get me to do, but all I remember is that she fell for it and believed that my mom would be able to see through the house and the garage.

are sea monkeys fake??

And who can forget the ad for the Charles Atlas Bodybuilding Course?? "The Insult that Made a Man Out of Mac" is one of those phrases that's stuck in my brain for life!