Slinky's

[Tinque]

I would love all of you to participate in a very random thought.At this time important enough for me to write about it , as I hope you will ! I can not say for a fact that everyone has had a Slinky , but those whom have had one in their life how long did it last.. How many have you had ? Were you ever satisfied with your slinky ?This is of utmost curiosity for me and very self indulgent , yet when randomly asking people lately it has been always an amazing conversation.. So I am inviting you all to join in ! Thanks:fairy::fairy::fairy::fairy:

[Lorrie]

I had a slinky once! I loved it! It was when I was still on the farm, before I moved. Played with it alot, then as with all things eventually it became a big tangled knot unable to be undone. But I'm pretty sure I saved it anyway hoping one day to untangle it....

Then, during the move as with just about all of mine and my mom's and my brothers' possesions it was dumped off the back of my dad's truck with alot of other stuff we had that dad didn't want to move.

Thats something I now remember... my dad tended to run light...not alot of stuff, but with a wife who liked to shop and three small kids that needed "kid stuff" (christmas, birthdays etc) I bet it must have been hard for him to have it all around him...

He just loaded up everthing in his 1937 ford truck and took it all to the dump and dumped it. Didn't say anything to anyone. Alot of favorite stuff of mine as a child was just gone. Some I never gave another thought to, some stuff I miss to this day... then there's stuff I wonder if it was on the truck or I just lost it.

I have never had a slinky since. But I have stopped by some toy stores and got a slinky fix before!:wink:

[wunda]

Slinkys? Okay i'll bite. I loved slinkies and could always repair them when their coils got bent or twisted. How did they get twisted anyway, i never understood. I was unable to master the "walk the slinky down the stairs" trick, but I practiced diligently.

These days, slinkies are found in many corners of my home, in various states of coil disallignment (word?). One kid sleeps with his bright yellow plastic slinky. There's a subtopic: Plastic slinkies- good or bad?




I would love all of you to participate in a very random thought.At this time important enough for me to write about it , as I hope you will ! I can not say for a fact that everyone has had a Slinky , but those whom have had one in their life how long did it last.. How many have you had ? Were you ever satisfied with your slinky ?This is of utmost curiosity for me and very self indulgent , yet when randomly asking people lately it has been always an amazing conversation.. So I am inviting you all to join in ! Thanks:fairy::fairy::fairy::fairy:

[alanora]

The sound/feel evokes a feeling in me of time transcendence, where all times of preparing to launch a slinky are rolled into that one moment. I don't remember how it even happened, but it does seem rather quickly that the springy thing would acquire a little bend somewhere and pretty instantly become a relic..........Even imagining slinky feel in hands, along with the gentle sound is transporting.....ahhhhh, so that is how G-d is appearing right now.......Mindy Is that what you wanted to know?


I would love all of you to participate in a very random thought.At this time important enough for me to write about it , as I hope you will ! I can not say for a fact that everyone has had a Slinky , but those whom have had one in their life how long did it last.. How many have you had ? Were you ever satisfied with your slinky ?This is of utmost curiosity for me and very self indulgent , yet when randomly asking people lately it has been always an amazing conversation.. So I am inviting you all to join in ! Thanks:fairy::fairy::fairy::fairy:

[Tinque]

I would love to indulge you in another Slinky if you do not mind . My problem was , they always got tangled up so fast and with no way to fix them !Please call me and I will gift you with one . We shall see how it goes ! 827-3623:fairy::fairy::fairy:

[mykil]

I do remember my first, we lived up some stairs. about fifteen and I could make it walk all the way down. Right up till the point that I got a kink, oh I have never lost my kink, but then it would not go straight down in would alwayz fall in one direction and that just made it worst! Finally I gave up till one day I sold my sisters and kinked herz too! Do you remember the commercials? I can stilll sing those in my mind!

[Braggi]

... Do you remember the commercials? I can stilll sing those in my mind!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA_rrlzQ77A&feature=related

A slinky going down stairs was a joy to behold.

-Jeff

[Tinque]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA_rrlzQ77A&feature=related

A slinky going down stairs was a joy to behold.

-Jeff
But Jeff , do you remember by chance, how long the Slinky lasted?

[Tinque]

But Jeff , do you remember by chance, how long the Slinky lasted?
It was awesome to watch the old commercials. Jeff put a link on his reply which led to alot of others .. Check it out . Thanks My Dear..:fairy:

[Braggi]

But Jeff , do you remember by chance, how long the Slinky lasted?

Well ... we did go through a few of them. My mom and my older brother both got pretty good at taking the tangles out of them. I was usually baffled by that process. I did get pretty good at flattening out the kinks. I'm sure I'd be much better at that now. I spent a few years doing precision hand forming of sheet metal for the aircraft industry. If only I had developed that talent when I was 7!

-Jeff

[Franklin Johnson]

I like this version far better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWnKieBzbaY

You will have to sign into Youtube and confirm your birth date to see it.

Franklin



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA_rrlzQ77A&feature=related

A slinky going down stairs was a joy to behold.

-Jeff

[Lorrie]

Jeff, You are a left-brain-er Dude!


Well ... we did go through a few of them. My mom and my older brother both got pretty good at taking the tangles out of them. I was usually baffled by that process. I did get pretty good at flattening out the kinks. I'm sure I'd be much better at that now. I spent a few years doing precision hand forming of sheet metal for the aircraft industry. If only I had developed that talent when I was 7!

-Jeff