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Unread 08-04-2016, 12:27 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Edward Tinker View Post
I think that kids played with them like they were little bombs and it cut their fingers and toughened the little buggers up.

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That would have been great! In the 50's, the kid next door and I would set up his "army men" in trenches and emplacements fashioned out of the driveway gravel, then sit back a bit and throw more bits of stone at them. We could have "bombed" them from above with these jobbers.
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