Bryon Daly wrote: > > >From: Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Julia Thompson wrote: > > > >>(I was living in New England in the mid-1980s. 'Nuff said. At least I > >>was used to that sort of thing, being a Red Sox fan and all....) > >> > >> > >You should hate the Raiders too then, eh? > > Doesn't everyone hate the Raiders? ;-)
Nah. When I was 8 or so, I put a quarter into one of those gumball machines that dispenses toys, not gumballs. This particular one had little plastic football helmets. You got a helmet of a particular team color, stickers to put on the helmet, and the faceguard part was a separate white piece of plastic you had to put on. I ended up with a Raiders helmet. I got the stickers on, attached the faceguard to the main helmet, and now my favorite toy mouse could play football. (I'd managed to get a football out of *another* such gumball machine a couple of weeks previously, but that machine just took a dime.) I might still have that little helmet somewhere. Not certain, though. (I still have the mouse, I'm sure of *that*....) Julia _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l