Do you make Christmas baskets? The best part about them is you can use and decorate any basket, add whatever you like and personalize each and every detail if you really want to! Cookie Basket Of course, a cookie basket at Christmas time is an absolute classic. Bake some traditional Christmas cookies like peanut butter kisses, …
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There are so many toys we love and the grosser the better! Here are the rest of the best gross out toys in America. The mid 1980s was the height of gross out culture especially with movies like Gremlins, Ghostbusters and Ghoulies. The toy industry went from gross out substances to gross out characters and …
Gross out toys have always been popular, and they still are. Even in Ancient Rome, farts were funny. Here’s the grossest toys of America. Gross out toys mean big profits, with whoopee cushions for farting and other substances like poop, pee, puke, and slime. In the middle ages, court jesters turned pig bladders into whoopee …
In 1883, board games were more popular, with conveniences of households and eight hour days. People simply had more time. Also, prices came down and people could afford to buy more. The games tried to reform people or deal with the moral decline by injecting moral truths back into American life through the games. Parker …
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There are hundreds of millions of board games sold every year, with $4 billion in revenue. As common as they are now, they were barely known 150 years ago. 150 years ago they were pretty much unheard of. When it comes to the big players in board games, you have already heard of them. They …
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Peter Piper may have picked a peck of pickled peppers, but he didn’t create them. Ed Currie, however, does. And what peppers they are. The South Carolina pepper wizard is the man responsible for crossbreeding the Carolina Reaper, officially the world’s hottest chili pepper. Well, at least it used to be that. The Reaper has …
Have you heard about the battery-powered whackadoodler that failed horribly? Of course it did — who would ever need a battery-powered whackadoodler? Now, excuse me, let me use my time machine to hop 60 years into the future. What’s this? Everyone has a battery-powered whackadoodler! This is a tale as old as time. Many of …
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So drowsy… A good nap can really improve your day and help put you back in gear. But are you one of those people who needs some kind of a specific gadget for everything you do — and naps are no exception? Well, we sure have the stuff for you. We scoured the web for …
This is part three, so if you missed All About Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Part One and All About Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Part Two, follow the links to read them. Live Action Movie Freedman wanted to do a live action feature film but they said no. Freedman, a man in the business, said, “If …
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Follow the link to read All About Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Part One, because that’s where it all started. And this is number two. Turtle Toys By January 1987, the buildout of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action line had started. There were already Pound Puppies, G.I. Joe, Barbie, Cabbage Patch Kids, WWF Wrestlers, Teddy …
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