NEMOC Random BS Thread

Good morning Nepoc friends.
I am having a tough summer with tons of renovations around the residential halls and the coordination of all this work with the cleaning part of the operation but I am almost at the final stretch and will be able to be around the forum more often. Hope everybody is well.


PS: Saw OLEG and MARK(Zelse) last night in AZ. Was very nice to see them.
 
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HE’LL ALWAYS BE CALLED ‘HOT WHEELS HANDLER’

You may not have noticed the death of Elliott Handler last month at age 91, and even if you did, you probably didn’t recognize the name. But if you were the parents of small boys or a small boy yourself once, you would immediately recognize his signature invention – Hot Wheels.

Elliott and his high school sweetheart, Ruth, went on to found what is now the world’s largest toymaker. He is the “el” in Mattel.

Ruth Handler really launched the company into the toy stratosphere. She created the ageless and continuously reinvented Barbie doll.

In the mid-1960s, when Mattel had soared into the Fortune 500, Elliott Handler turned to a field where, unlike dolls, he apparently had considerable expertise and a sense of his target market.

Hot Wheels offered a fleet of detailed and luridlypainted muscle cars, sports cars, trickedout trucks, Indy cars, vans, hot rods, dream cars, custom cars, stock cars, dump trucks, fire engines, dragsters and even your father’s Oldsmobile, if dad’s Olds was a 442.

Many of the Hot Wheels are now collectors’ items, but most of them were brutally used toys, flying off ramps, aimed in deliberate collisions – with appropriate sound effects, of course – and sometimes neatly lined up in a display of automotive might.

Hot Wheels hasn’t totally lost touch with its inner Barbie. One new design is the Danicar, said to have been co-designed by Indy car racer Danica Patrick.

Elliott Handler’s name may be forgotten, but he will never be, not as long as an adult in bare feet steps on one in the dark while checking on the kids.
 
Heh... just reading that brought back tons of memories drag racing my Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars thru my parent's living room on a Saturday morning with my dad. I may have to bust the cars out next time I go home to do it again.
 
Heh... just reading that brought back tons of memories drag racing my Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars thru my parent's living room on a Saturday morning with my dad. I may have to bust the cars out next time I go home to do it again.
Only if you use the appropriate sound effects, of course.
 
Heh... just reading that brought back tons of memories drag racing my Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars thru my parent's living room on a Saturday morning with my dad. I may have to bust the cars out next time I go home to do it again.
haha...i was actually a "match box" kid...lesney of england, more refined!
Only if you use the appropriate sound effects, of course.

true!

DINNER MEET THREAD HAS BEEN UPDATED! BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!
 
I actually still have my entire and complete set of '86 and '87 Hot Wheels cars. Any car that came out that year I own.
 
I just realized.... This is the first time I have realized that Bruce hasn't given us the Happy Hump Day during the week. I guess he is slipping in his years.. (or work is keeping him busy)
 
I just realized.... This is the first time I have realized that Bruce hasn't given us the Happy Hump Day during the week. I guess he is slipping in his years.. (or work is keeping him busy)

Both. On the road and no computer access at work.
 
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