On 4/21/05, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/21/05, Keith Whaley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <snip> > > Might as well have a powered propeller beanie hat with flashing lights. > <snip> > > When I was a kid, I whined and kicked and screamed with sufficient > volume and tenacity, that my parents bought me one of those propeller > beanies. Not just any propeller beanie, mind you, but an official > Beanie and Cecil (anyone remember that cartoon from the early 60's?) > propeller beanie. > > Upon pulling a ring at the end of a cord, the propeller flew up into > the air, just like Beanie's one did in the cartoon! > > It didn't have flashing lights though, as I remember it. I loved that > hat. Wish I still had it. I'd take it onto the Antiques Roadshow, > then sell it on eBay...
Did you ever read the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon series about the spinning propeller beanie? It was a hoot! -- -- -Jon Glass Krakow, Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
