The Lounge needs a Lite-Brite night light.

[CorpGovActivist]

Not to make light, but, if you had OCD and insomnia, this thing could be a real problem.

Or, if your significant other has a perverted sense of humor: "Holy Lite-Brite, Robin! The sex signal has been lit! Quick! To the BatDungeon!"



Yeah, on second thought, I'm not buying one of those. People do stupid things with Lite-Brites, spring time is coming, and my partner has that twinkle.





It used to be just good, clean, wholesome fun.





Now, everything's a battlefield. Sigh. Even a G-d damned Lite-Brite.



Limited bulbs and limited colors used to force kids to be creative with what they came up with.



And woe be unto the little brother or little sister who knocked the whole thing over by accident. Nobody played with a Lite-Brite like the kids on the box. (An early lesson in marketing vs. reality.)



Now, the colors are unlimited, and the safety net makes everyone a "participant," yay! Did you get your ribbon today? You can get one online, in all the harmonious hues of the rainbow. What color is *your* unicorn?





If I owned a little roadside motel, we'd advertise free Lite-Brites in every room, and our sign would be a big-ass Lite-Brite. And we'd have a big ass one in The Lounge of that little building they always use for the insomniac owner to pull the night shift in. Just because. Just for fun. Just for a wayward soul to come in, have a cup of coffee, and talk it all out. Over the Lite-Brite.



What's your favorite Lite-Brite memory?

- Dave

[racaulk]

1. OH MY GOD! IT'S A BOMB!!!

:rofl:

I still can't believe some of the folks in Boston thought the Adult Swim advertisement was a bomb! I thought it was brilliant advertising, personally.

Thanks for this thread. I remember my Lite-Brite from when I was a kid, and I used to play with that thing for hours. But being an only child, I never had to share it. :) However, I can certainly imagine that the painted picture above was certainly not reality!

Do you have a link to the computer version? Is that something that can be downloaded?

[TZ]

2. I too love Lite-Brite!!

Someone here posted a link to the computer version not too long ago. Sadly that link is on my home computer but I am sure someone else will have it...

[SacredCow]

4. Here ya go....

http://www.sfpg.com/animation/liteBrite.html

[racaulk]

7. Sweet! Thanks!

:hi:

[CorpGovActivist]

9. When we get tired of that, we can move on to Dueling Etch-a-Sketches, with banjo music.

[TZ]

16. lol

Maybe we should have a brite off in GDP...Cause you know..That would be right up their alley!!!:rofl:

[CorpGovActivist]

18. I'd go all philosophical on their asses. One peg.

"The journey from ignorance to enlightenment begins with one little, lonely peg."

- Dave

[SacredCow]

22. de nada....

:hi:

[CorpGovActivist]

5. Having lived there for 8 years...

... and having many friends still there, I went back and forth between:

1. OMFG! Typical. Sooooooo glad I achieved escape velocity and broke orbit from Boston.

2. OMFG! How horrible am I going to feel if this really is something?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=online+lite-brite">Links to online Lite-Brites.

The http://www.hasbro.com/litebrite/swf/litebrite.cfm">official Hasbro one.

http://www.hasbro.com/litebrite/">Hasbro still makes the old school one, too, with different permutations, including a travel one that holds the pegs in place better.

Enjoy!!!

- Dave

[racaulk]

8. Excellent! Thanks for the links!

And again, thanks for the thread. This really brings back some memories. :hi:

[SacredCow]

3. I don't know if I'd call it a favorite memory....

but I vividly remember Mom bitching about the pegs that she found, literally, everywhere in the house. You put those little buggers in a straw and lauched them at your sister a-la spitball warfare? Good times....

[CorpGovActivist]

6. OMG! Lite-Brite Launchers!

Totally forgot about that!

:rofl:

My brother and I so totally did that. And yeah, moms everywhere hated those things. I guess I would, too, now that I take turns with the vacuuming.

[SacredCow]

11. LOL....

I remember the sound of a lite brite peg entering the vacuum cleaner and clanking around. Of course that was followed by profanity and a general warning about "If I find one more of those @#$@^ing pegs on the floor, there's gonna be BIG trouble!!!" Yeah, whatever Mom... :eyes:

[CorpGovActivist]

15. At what point...

... did you cease to fear the idle threat, and start baiting it?

Ah. Ah-ha!

Vedy interesting.

Oh, yeah, that sequence of sounds is right there, still sitting in the synapses. Haven't killed that brain cell yet.

[SacredCow]

21. My sister and I knew just how long we could keep it up...

before Mom would be SO mad as to remember the day's transgressions and relay them to Dad when he got home. HIS threats were seldom idle!

[CorpGovActivist]

26. Then we grow up, and watch world leaders do exactly that same...

... cat and mouse game.

:eyes:

[radfringe]

10. never had one

mom said too many little pieces for the vacuum cleaner to suck up

truthfully, never wanted one - had more fun with a spirograph, erector set and girder-panel sets

[Iggo]

12. Spirograph was the shiznit, yo.

Effin magic, it was.

[CorpGovActivist]

13. True dat.

I wonder if the multi-colored pen is still in the box? Is the box still in my mom's basement?

She keeps "suggesting" that we each come get "all this crap," maybe I should drive down and take a peek after all.

I'm guessing Spirograph could be fun at a party. Or a party. Whole new take on the Spirograph, rediscovered.

[CorpGovActivist]

14. Lincoln logs and Legos.

: )

:hi:

[radfringe]

17. LEGOS after my time

but I remember lincoln logs

one house we lived in when I was in elementry school required a lot of "fixin up". majority of the "fixin' up" fell to my dad.

he kept all the little scraps of wood, one year he cut and leveled them off, painted them different colors and gave them to us to play with as building blocks

[CorpGovActivist]

19. OK, fine. Mud.

Since it hadn't dried yet. Quit complaining. You had more of it than the rest of us.

And don't whine about having to slide down the mud pit both ways in the slime, either.

[radfringe]

23. not mud

sliding down sand pits on cardboard or very old aluminum saucers or whatever else we could find in the summer

going down to the brook or pond, catching frogs, turtles, snakes and bringing them home only to be told to put them back where we found them

throwing a rope over a tree branch and tying an old tire to it

playing capture the flag with the entire neighborhood in the evenings in an old field that was overgrown with brush, shrubs and trees

paddling my dad's canoe out to the middle of the lake and purposely tipping it over, then swiming under it to the air pockets, screaming just to hear the vibrating echo-y sounds it would make, then flipping the water filled canoe over, sitting it it with just the end points sticking up out of the water and paddling back to shore. and there we would empty out the water and go back out to do it all over again

[CorpGovActivist]

27. Primordial ooze?

*sniff*

We had a creek running through our property. And woods. Lots and lots of woods. And access to tools, and trees with perfectly-spaced treehouseholders.

And enough cleared "yard" to play regulation baseball in. And a push lawn mower.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

I want a time machine!

The picture you paint: *sigh*.

When 7-11 meant something, and 9-11 didn't.

- Dave

[radfringe]

28. catching fireflies

and putting them in shirt pocket

now that's a light brite!!!!

watching snow fall at night, praying for a snowday in the morning

going to the Dairy Queen for a Dipped in chocolate chocolate cone...

fishing with my Nonno (grandfather)

[radfringe]

29. when your biggest worry was

whether or not you would turn inside out if you swung over the top bar



on edit: yeah, that's me 5-6 yrs old

[CorpGovActivist]

30. OK. Now I'm truly verklempt.

:hug:

[radfringe]

31. ok so we forget

about the time Mom winged the lazy susan across the room and it exploded against the wall because you got a few "deficency reports"...

lol...

no, we didn't have to duck, we were on opposite side of room... out of danger from flying lazy susans... didn't mean we got out of being grounded and having to listen her complain for the next 6 weeks

ohh well, one day I'm gonna try swinging over that top bar just to see if I would turn inside out or not...
....then again, maybe not, I don't think my insurance covers reversal of inside-outs :rofl:

[CorpGovActivist]

32. Rose-colored...

... blindfolds.



Handcuffs sold separately.

[CorpGovActivist]

20. Homemade building blocks.

Cool. Still have even one?

[radfringe]

24. all gone

don't know where

meanwhile - a little lite brite love for this http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2828683

[radfringe]

25. ...gulp.... did I kill the thread?

quick break out the creepy crawlers goo sets and ratfink models...

[Quantess]

33. I can't believe the Aquateen Hunger Force lite brite fiasco was a year ago!

[CorpGovActivist]

34. Tempus fugit.

I was supposed to be there that day. Sooooo glad I missed that.

[CorpGovActivist]

35. Lite-Bright Night Light ON.

No Freepers under your beds. Glass of water on your nightstand.

Good night, DU!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

36. My dear CorpGovActivist!

Good night, sweetie...

Sweetest of dreams...:hug:

[CorpGovActivist]

37. Neverland awaits. Nite!

Lite on.

:hug: