The only thing I know that's jumjum is the pet (lizard?) of Marge Simpson's sisters... thats it. On the FH forum, He is probably a famous rock star looking for some kind of anonymity...

*sigh* All this time and the answer has been before you. But if you were true college football fans you wouldn't be hanging out here as much as...uh, I do.

Texas? Texas is one of those wussy liberal places. A similar hint for location in Texas would have been, "Hook 'em 'horns!". For, say, Connecticut, at least for Yale fans, it would have been "Boola Boola". "War Eagle Land" is a reference to Auburn University, the mascot of which is the Tiger, but the "yell" of which is "War Eagle!" (Go figure.) And Auburn University is in....? Alabama, lads. At least the school is. It's fans are legion, and are spread throughout the world. ;) And we're ready for some football.

As to Alabama, unfortunately it is also the home of those curs, the Crimson Tide, also known as the University of Alabama. U of A represents everything that is low, vile, dishonorable and despicable in American life. If you happen to see the football team on tv this fall, curse them. Roundly.

Then that clearly is the place for me...

I'm from Mobile myself. And before you ask - Mom went to Auburn, Dad went to Alabama - and yes, they are divorced (wonder why). To keep the entire family happy, I went to Ole Miss.

Anyway, this thread is great. I spent hours upon hours with my Navarone playset and also a (I think) D-Day playset that had the same soldiers and such, just no mountain. I loved to take the one guy that's crawling holding his chest and put him in the concertina wire.

My only complaint was that too few of the guys were actually in shooting poses.

I use to heat them just enough to bend them into unique poses. (pot of boiling water, tongs and leather gloves :D ) Really use to throw my opponents off their game. (hehe)

Especially when i made the prone smg dudes!

Hell yeah! Did you have the two medics and the streatcher? Did you have the guy with the binocularzs and the other being shot in the head, his helmet flipping off?

Ahhh toys. I bet you youngins' never ate a candy cigarette!!!

You mean those sweet chalk sticks with the pink food coloring on the one end. :)

Candy cigs - can you even imagine! Today that would be as if the neighborhood heroin dealer was handing out shades and little toy syringes to the 7-year-olds.....

Hilarious!!! These kids have no idea...

http://www.megalink.net/~dale/candycig1.jpg

Do they make cap guns still? Remember the kind with a revolver and the gunpowder was single shots embedded in a roll of paper? Does anyone remember ever using a hammer to do the whole roll at one time?

ya they still have cap guns, but now they've moved on to airsoft, which is a cheap and retarded version of paintball

Ah, the hammer-on-the-whole-roll trick! I loved the smell of popped caps in the morning. I feel so sorry for some youngsters today because they know nothing about this kind of "real kids" fun. It has been taken from them.

There are forces at work in our society that, both intentionally and unintentionally, have worked to try to put both them and the world in a nerf suit. To hear many activist types, we have to put foam rubber on anything that the kids might come in contact with. Part of that is a response to bloodsucking lawyers willing to file suit against anyone for anything, just to try to find that deep pocket to stick their hand in.

But partly it is because of "activism" by those professional busybodies who try to be the nannies for the world. You know them - they're the ones who claim the sky is falling because we're eating or not eating something, or try to shut down businesses that use things the nannies think are unhealthy. They want to impose certain behavior or conditions on us instead of letting us decide for ourselves. They tell us we can't let kids use swing sets, or jungle gyms, or climb without a safety rope and helmet, because they might get hurt, oh my goodness.

We're doing a terrible wrong trying to smooth out the world for our kids. Real kids should get hurt - it's part of a normal, vigorous childhood. I'm not talking about letting kids skateboard behind trucks, etc., but stuff that lets them get nicked up some so they develop a tad of toughness. I and all my family and friends didn't think it was out of the ordinary for our kids to get cut and scraped and bruised, even to occasionally get some broken bones or stitches.

But there is hope: The Dangerous Book For Boys is an attempt to show today's kids (and parents) that it's okay to do rough-tough stuff. Not dangerous things, just not that flabby, namby-pamby, wishy-washy pc stuff (for example, a Colorado school has banned tag, TAG for God's sake, because some kids felt "harassed": link).

This book just tells kids pretty much what the Boy Scouts used to do, like how to use an ax, how to tie knots or whittle. Kids might read stories about battles or mythical and real heroes. Vigorous, manly stuff which kids need. Even cute little girls need to get a taste so they can understand boys a little, and also so they don't act all "eeeeeeek! a fly!". Check it out.