Sea Monkeys

[Whispersecret]

We bought those Grow your own Crystals sets and I never could get my multi-colored crystals to grow more than an inch.

I DID get a pet rock. His name was Fred, and he was a champion at sitting, staying, and playing dead.

My son just got something for his birthday called "Amazing Prehistoric Creatures!" and I'm wondering if it's just Sea Monkeys 2001.

 

[R Nitelight]

Whispersecret

My son just got something for his birthday called "Amazing Prehistoric Creatures!" and I'm wondering if it's just Sea Monkeys 2001.

Yup. Seamonkeys 2001.
If you go to any pet store, you can get a big container of 'sea monkeys' for about 1/10th the cost of the name brand variety. Of course, most people just feed 'em to their fish.

 

[Rosebud]

http://home.coqui.net/menace/gpx/smfamily.gif looks like these right??? yeah right

 

[Shintani]

Just bought a dollar bag of 'Sea Monkeys', aka Brine Shrimp tonight. The dumb ones got snapped up by my Gouramies as they swam around the tank, the smart ones burrowed into the gravel and were safe...until the Corydoras found 'em.

 

[Naked Hunny]

what the fuck are those things Rosie where the helldoyou find this shit!!!???

 

[scylis]

no offence, but... ARE YOU BLIND?!? those are sea monkies!! SEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAA MOOONNNNNKIIIIIEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!

(kids, remember to use acrylic paint and perminent markers in..in..in a..a well..a..um...ven..ventilated... *passes out*)

 

[Madame Pandora]

Pet rocks were nothing...

We were fighting over sand...that's right, ground up pet rocks. COLORED sand in glass containers.

Really cool girls added glitter to theirs and played chinese jacks after.

Ugh.

MP

 

[Adoratrice]

Oh man.....the shit you guys make me think of


The silliest thing I ever bought was Leg warmers....but you know, I was in walmart the other day and I swear they had a pair, granted they were barbie and meant for a 6 year old but I started thinking that maybe...just maybe they weren't such a bad idea!!! Now I'm serious here stop laughing....think of the practicality of them....I think if we all put an honest effort into it we could make them a booming success...what do you say?????



My husband said his was the inflatable hulk muscles.....he's so cute.

 

[Naked Hunny]

My mom and i saw legwarmers at walmart around xmas time and we started singing pat benatar songs!! *Hit me with your best shot*

 

[~melia~]

The silliest thing I ever bought was Leg warmers

I had those!! I'm glad the 80's are over. Then, there were the socks...two pairs in different colors put on over each other alternating the colors. WHAT was I thinking????

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I wore leg warmers, but only to dance class, where they didn't look silly, and are actually still used becuse they do exactly what their name implies -- they warm the legs. Specifically the shins and calves, which can endure a lot of damage while working an advanced jazz dance routine at 10am on a chilly winter morning in some drafty Broadway rehearsal hall.

I never understood why they became a fashion craze with the general public, though. They looked awfully stupid stretched up to mid thigh on some bubbly teenage mall rat. I mean, why leg warmers? Why not dance belts or character shoes or any other dancer paraphernallia?

And a 5, 6, 7, 8....

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

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[Edited by Dixon Carter Lee on 01-11-2001 at 03:19 PM]

 

[Gingersnap]

Chia pets I was addicted to them. Still am have one sitting on my desk right now a head with green hair !!!!!!

 

[0Lily0]

CRIMPER

I bought a crimping iron! I would fucking kill someone for doing that to my hair now. But as a teenager I had to have one and of course did it to my hair for picture day. What a mistake. I hide my yearbook for fear someone may see it.

 

[Earthgoddess]

Rosebud I was crushed when my first set of oh so coveted sea monkeys did not look like those fabulous creatures you have posted. I literally cried for days. Then my Dad goes out and buys a set for my son-he was so excited at the thought of training them-the light will make them sway and dance. He too was crushed when they hatched-"Where are their crowns Mommy?" I had no answer for the poor child.
I too fell prey to leg warmers,gummi bracelets,big hair and oversized tops belted with multiple thin leather belts. The 80's gotta love them. Thanks Dixon-now I need to go buy an Archie comic and see what else i missed due to unfair allowance practices-blow all the quarters on zots and lick'em sticks and you have none left for the Amazing Projection drawing Kit-God how I wanted one of those....

 

[SimplySouthern]

Along with the tight rolled blue jeans, does anyone remember wearing 2 pairs of socks at one time? Different colors no less. Oh the horror of it all. And who didn't own a swatch watch?

Big hair. Big big big bangs with more hairspray in them then I use now in 6 months. The little plastic bracelets...I had them. About 50 at a time. Add this to the "friendship" bracelets that you made out of cross stitch thread and you were really hip.

I am ashamed....I am so so ashamed. I *gasp* stillhaveanewkidsontheblockt-shirt.

I can't help it...it was my favorite.