OT: Does anyone really like wax bottles?
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yakko362002 — 9 years ago(October 13, 2016 07:30 PM)
Yes they are just containers. I always thought they were stupid because the juice had so little flavor and the wax had none at all. I guess people chewed it like gum but real gum is so much better.
The wax was very pliable like beeswax so I did used to buy them and dump the juice out and use the wax for making molds for bronze casting. -
Boo_Radley — 9 years ago(October 14, 2016 10:45 PM)
There were several designs to choose from, like the big red lips, the goofy clown lips, or the scary monster lips with teeth, etc.
I also remember the orange wax harmonica that would actually play. These were pretty tasty, but you always felt guilty after the first bite and you couldn't play the harmonica anymore.
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Boo_Radley — 9 years ago(October 16, 2016 09:53 AM)
Yep, I remember those too.
I also remember how they would snag on your lips and cause several little cuts, but we kids back then were tougher and didn't care just as long as we had our daily supply of junk food.
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yakko362002 — 9 years ago(October 16, 2016 01:09 PM)
I never tried Whistle Pops but did try making a rocket that looked like one. I called it the Whistle Pop Rocket. It was supposed to let out a whistle when the engine burned out. It went up okay, but the whistle part didn't work. I never got around to trying to figure out what went wrong.
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yakko362002 — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 04:50 AM)
I was always doing scientific stuff like that. That was one reason why people always thought I was weird. I don't do much fire-related stuff anymore, mainly because since 9/11, the Oklahoma bombing and all the school attacks, people would freak out even more about stuff like that. I never did anything harmful but with stuff like that happening all over the place, people tend to become more suspicious of anyone messing around with anything they think might be dangerous.
Anyway, that particular one didn't work but a lot of others did. -
dolemitesdick — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 02:48 PM)
I was listening to a doco about this dude yesterday
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Makuka_Nkoloso
From 1960 until sometime after 1969, this program sought to accomplish the launching of a rocket that would send one girl, 17-year-old Matha Mwambwa, and two cats to the moon. There were also plans for a trip to Mars.[1] Nkoloso hoped to beat the United States and Soviet Union's respective space programs at the height of the Space Race
Just think Zambia could of been the first country to the Moon and Mars, well it could still be the first country to Mars.
Apparently due to cash they used to put ppl in barrels and roll them down the hill to simulate high Geforces associated with launches
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Mysteriously_Eerie — 9 years ago(October 13, 2016 08:10 PM)
I never really got the appeal. Too little juice. I haven't had one in 30 years, but I can still remember the sensation of biting into them and how the juice tasted. I guess I now have nostalgia for something I never really liked.
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dolemitesdick — 9 years ago(October 14, 2016 04:16 PM)
cheers for the story, no bottles thrown, but had a few fruits when Ive been busking
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CSi_EbLxXqc/maxresdefault.jpg
these things
, so its not wax I assume but something edible, well never had the pleasure or likely displeasure
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cryptoflovecraft — 9 years ago(October 14, 2016 06:19 PM)
I completely forgot about those things! I used to love sucking on those wax bottles when I was kid; the juice tasted OK, but there wasn't much of it. After sucking the juice out, I'd chew the wax bottle like a piece of gum until my jaw started to ache and then I'd spit it out. A waste of pocket change? Absolutely. I liked candy cigarettes too because I thought they looked 'cool' but the candy itself was quite bad.
Stein/Baraka 2016
