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| (...) Hey, GI Joe was great! Sure, when I got my first one, I had him pegged as a weak-minded pawn of the military-industrial complex[1] (probably because of the booklet showing how to pose him in various boot-camp situations; calisthenics, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Hm, I got into GI Joe just as they introduced the Swivel-Arm Battle Grip™. I loved the things--after a couple of years where fingers broke off, they changed plastic formulation for the forearms and solved that problem. I finally liquidated my (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes (...) I kind of spaced on the busted finger thing. I remember Zap ("bazooka expert" or something), my first GI Joe, hade some serious finger problems. Not only was the hand's plastic (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) It wasn't the loss of fingers that was so troubling, it was the loss of the groin region! Very very bad. 8-0 (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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