If you grew up in the 1970s, then you should remember the tale of the warm fuzzies. This was quite the craze at the time. We would make warm fuzzies out of small pom-poms and attach eyes. Usually there was a cute saying attached as well.

The story goes something like this:

Once there was a society where everyone was given a bag of warm fuzzies when they were born. People were constantly giving each other warm fuzzies and warm fuzzies made you feel warm and fuzzy all over. Then a witch started to tell people that they would eventually run out of warm fuzzies. People started hoarding the warm fuzzies. Some where even dying because they never got any warm fuzzies.

The witch gave the people a new bag with cold pricklies instead. Everyone was handing these out, but they made you feel unhappy and cold – not warm and fuzzy.

Finally a woman came to the land and told the children they would never run out of warm fuzzies. The grownups were not happy with this. They tried to convince the children to not give away their warm fuzzies.

The moral of the story – don’t be afraid to freely give out warm fuzzies!

You can read the whole story by Claude Steiner here.

When I was a kid, my brother got a Big Bang Cannon for Christmas. You loaded it with tube of Bangsite and then press the button. BANG! Well, I’m thinking, these must be illegal by now. Right? Nope, found their website http://www.bigbangcannons.com. They still manufacture the 60MM Cannon that my brother had – “West Coast customers might remember that this was the model sold in fireworks stands thru the 1970’s. ” Yup, that was it (I grew up in California).

They are not illegal because the use the special formulation of Bangsite that cannot ignite. They also will NOT fire any projectile.

Big Bang Cannons have been around since 1912, when the were first manufactured by The Conestoga Company, Inc., which was based in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. The idea was first introduced by James Hunter in 1907 when he patented the carbide cannon.

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