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#1 Aug 29 2007 at 1:24 PM Rating: Good
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I had the password, the kazoo-whistle-ring, the lapel-pin and several hundred spare bubble-gum wrappers.

Yes, my friends, in the 1960's, I was a fully subscribed member of the "Bazooka Joe Club"; sort of Freemasonry for 60's children.

Anyone else?

Any similar clubs for you of the later, more decadent Generayshuns?
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#2 Aug 29 2007 at 1:39 PM Rating: Good
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I remember Bazooka Joe gum - I assume what we had was WW2 surplus, as it was invariably hard as a rock. I don't remember anything about a club, but that may be because I was an girl.
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#3 Aug 29 2007 at 1:42 PM Rating: Excellent
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I recall they always had a comic enclosed with the gum. More often than not, they weren't really funny.

And yeah, hard as a rock and completely flavorless after 15 minutes. The only gum that ran out of flavor faster was the zebra gum they sold at K-Mart.
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#4 Aug 29 2007 at 1:43 PM Rating: Good
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I collected this whole set of cards from Brooke Bond Tea bag boxes back in the early 70's...

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#5 Aug 29 2007 at 1:51 PM Rating: Excellent
I only remember the gum because I would buy some at the concession stands before our little league baseball games.
#6 Aug 29 2007 at 1:56 PM Rating: Excellent
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I went to a halloween party in college once as Bazooka Joe.
#7 Aug 29 2007 at 2:16 PM Rating: Excellent
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I bought my house with 300,000 Bazooka Joe wrappers.


Unfortunately, I crashed into it with the Harrier jet I bought with seven million Pepsi Points Smiley: frown
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#8 Aug 29 2007 at 2:19 PM Rating: Decent
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Samira wrote:
I remember Bazooka Joe gum - I assume what we had was WW2 surplus, as it was invariably hard as a rock. I don't remember anything about a club, but that may be because I was an gurl.
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#9 Aug 29 2007 at 3:36 PM Rating: Decent
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#10 Aug 29 2007 at 4:21 PM Rating: Good
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Remember when crayons came in hard clear-plastic boxes? Well I had a pet mouse I found outside, but he died rather quickly. I put him in one of them boxes and buried him in the windowsill outside my house.

My sisters and I had a Bobby Sherman Fun Club (BSFC) one summer. Our main function was to babysit neighborhood kids in our yard. Ok, I was six, my oldest sister 10, but heck my sis was babysitting me as both my parents worked all day. It was amazing how much business we got at ten cents an hour.

My middle sister (age 8) and her friend were a bit more on the rambunctious side then my very maternal eldest sib. They insisted that I had to be initiated into the club. The initiation took place in a fort made in our basement. It was pretty dumb really, after being blinded I was instructed to do various things with the recently candle-torched lid of a can, in order that I'd get ash on my face...whoopee.

I got to help my middle sis with the next initiation on one of my friends. I mentioned my recently buried mouse to them so we went and dug up. Again, with victim blinded we had her open up the crayon box and take out the dead mouse and hold and pet it. I don't recall that it even smelled. It didn't bother me in the least then, but now I think it was slightly perverse.

After spending more than one evening completing the banner for the BSFC club we decided to change it to the David Cassidy Club. I voted against the move.
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#11 Aug 29 2007 at 4:51 PM Rating: Excellent
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#12 Aug 29 2007 at 4:56 PM Rating: Excellent
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I used to collect Camel Cash, but I never turned it in for anything white-trashy...I just hoarded it.

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#14 Aug 29 2007 at 6:33 PM Rating: Good
I've been hoarding Coke points lately so a friend can use them to buy Mariokart or some ****.
#15 Aug 30 2007 at 6:29 AM Rating: Good
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I've been hoarding Coke points lately so a friend can use them to buy Mariokart or some sh*t.


I been hoarding Coke points also, mostly so I can go buy a t-shirt or something. I get soft-drinks anyways, might as well get some free shit to go with it.

Other than that, nah, nothing really.

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Edited, Aug 30th 2007 10:30am by Nightsintdreams
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#16 Aug 30 2007 at 6:57 AM Rating: Good
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Me and a friend used to find it fun to rob our local convenience store of hundreds of dollars in merchandise a week.

The punchline was that when we went to the counter we would justify our visit by puchasing one piece of 5 cent Bazooka Joe gun each.
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#17 Aug 30 2007 at 7:16 AM Rating: Good
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I spent a whole summer saving up Pepsi points when they were doing that years ago. I used them to get some shirts and a denim jacket. I still have that jacket.

As a kid I wasn't in the Bazooka Joe Club, but I was a member of the KISS Army.
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#18 Aug 30 2007 at 7:22 AM Rating: Excellent
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#19 Aug 30 2007 at 7:25 AM Rating: Good
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Brill wrote:
I only remember the gum because I would buy some at the concession stands before our little league baseball games.
Huh, the poor kids around here do the same thing. Us snooty folks always bought Big League Chew.

I think they actually created a "Bazooka Joe - Soft Chew" now. It's not the same and should really be taken off the market. Zebra gum sucks, but not as much as baseball card gum. You would think that after all this time they would find a way to make it taste less like cardboard. Smiley: confused
#20 Aug 30 2007 at 7:28 AM Rating: Excellent
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Zebra gum was fantastic... for about three seconds. Then it turned to flavorless wood pulp.

I think the thing to do is to lay a stick on your tongue and them immediately spit it out. Don't even bother chewing it.
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#21 Aug 30 2007 at 7:53 AM Rating: Good
They still sell it, ya know.
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#23 Aug 30 2007 at 8:30 AM Rating: Good
For gum, Big League Chew was the best. As for clubs? No, none really beyond the local FC.
#24 Aug 30 2007 at 8:36 AM Rating: Excellent
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Between the boys scouts as a kid and two fraternities, I've had my fix of sekrit clubs.

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#25 Aug 30 2007 at 3:49 PM Rating: Decent
At one point, I had the full collections of Charlie's Angels and Battlestar Galactica bubblegum cards. I used to get a pack of each of the cards, a box of cigarette gum (yes, I am old), and some Razzles or a missile-pop from the ice cream man whenever he drove down my street.
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