That's how it works. If it "didn't happen after you were born it doesn't exist."
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > > > I'd like to think everyone knew that--but I guess I'll have to settle for > people realizing there were toys before the TV cartoon! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ravenadal" <ravena...@yahoo.com> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 11:20:32 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: [scifinoir2] Get to know G.I. Joe > > > > I was shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover G.I. Joe existed over twenty > years before Hasbro remade him as a literal boy-toy. Shoot, the movie "The > Story of G.I. Joe," starring Robert Mitchum and Burgess Meredith, came out > in 1945, a full eighteen years before Hasbro created the "11 1/2 inch > realistic action figures" "Rocky" and "Ace." Who knew? > > ~rave! > > http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-gijoe-html,0,445585.htmlpage > > > > > -- Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/