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I was looking through a magazine recently and there it was: The Leg Lamp!!!! remember that part of the movie?

This has gone from "artifact" to "old fart"!!!

It's funny... we were always shooting each other with BB guns, and picking them out of our legs, but nobody I knew ever lost an eye. It's astounding in hindsight...

We always wore diving masks and goggles and leather jackets and the "Old Style" levis with denim as thick as the sail cloth of the day. Gloves were optional, as were football helmits. We played mostly in the swamp at the north east end of the lake around the tree that we used to swing out over the water from. The muck was deep there, but none of us ever drowned if we slipped from the rope, which happened a lot, mostly for fun, but our Moms' didn't find it funny, cause laundry was more of a chore then.

My parents weren't big TV watchers, so we had a black and white console TV with rabit ears until 1977. Then, Whoo-Hoo, we got colour AND a proper antenna with rotor!

Our first stereo was a "Hi-Fi" - a big wooden coffin with built-in speakers. The lid would open to reveal the turntable, tuner, & amp. Ours was the "Deluxe" model with aux inputs on the back!

By the mid 80's, my parents went through a sort of "electronics awakening", and we were the first people I knew to get this new "Dolby Surround Sound". It was the first generation designed to work with a HiFi VCR - not even "ProLogic". No center chanel, no sub, just 2 rear speakers. And at that time, that's what they were told - put them as far back as possible.