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[starlight]

aww poor beef... had to discard of his unfinished car.

[Pedro Picasso]

And that little half-finished car grew up to be...

...in a landfill.  I'm Paul Harvey.  Goo-DAY!

[Nabubrush]

That was fucked. No wonder sometimes Beef pops off. All carving his derby car with a spoon.

[AugustWest]

This one hit close to home.

I love my Dad dearly.  He's a wonderful father, but quite possibly the most mechanically inept human being on the face of the planet.  So I was pretty much on my own when I made my first Pinewood Derby car.  You could tell.

[CortJstr]

Ray's better have little tiny people in it. And the personalized plates.

Of course now I've flashed back to watching the Weird Science tv show and Duckman alone on Saturday nights.

[Carlos del Vaca]

My pinewood derby cars were teh suk.  Not quite carving them with a spoon in the dark, but close.

[V-Adore]

Ray's better have little tiny people in it. And the personalized plates.

Of course now I've flashed back to watching the Weird Science tv show and Duckman alone on Saturday nights.

Man, you and me both. You and me both.

(... Okay, so usually my mom was up too. God only knows why.)

Anyway, I just really like the idea of Ray being that  much of a Weird Science nerd that young. Little Nephew would plotz.

[slink]

We had Weird Science so watered down over here.
We only got it really late, and even then it was four days away from Duckman, if they ever overlapped each other on a week to week basis at all.

It's like, living over here robbed me of so many things that could have been, like Weird Science and Duckman, nestling together in their rightful place.
And the early days of The Simpsons... Didn't get them 'til about '96.

[misterhaan]

I've flashed back to watching the Weird Science tv show and Duckman alone on Saturday nights.

Man, you and me both. You and me both.

yeah, and me too.  i think i still have a vhs tape (or two) of duckman around somewhere . . .

[Gimpson]

Duckman still shows occasionally on Comedy Central late overnight.  My DVR catches an episode or three every couple weeks.

The episode where he dates the ugly duck who gets plastic surgery and becomes a supermodel is truly The Saddest Thing.  

I felt like I had been kicked in the solar plexus after I saw that one.

[Ben-San]

My Pinewood Derby car (I only entered once was basically "block of pinewood with the front cut downwards at an angle and then given a psychedelic paint job". I completely lost in every category.

[V-Adore]

My Pinewood Derby car (I only entered once was basically "block of pinewood with the front cut downwards at an angle and then given a psychedelic paint job". I completely lost in every category.

I think I used about this strategy for painting model rockets, too. However, in model rocketry it works, because the more fuck-ugly your rocket is, the less likely it is to explode, come down in the Lands Beyond, &c. I still have my final implementation of this theory, a beige-and-brown-with-red-nose-cone Big Bertha that I christened "World's Ugliest Rocket" and which never failed me.

[AlohaDawg]

My only foray into that racing world was basically a brick with wheels. My dad was mostly useless in the carbuilding realm also.

It's funny how that works with rockets, too. I spent forever on an x-wing fighter rocket that trashed immediately. Tube-with-fins-and-nose-cone never failed. And the Estes catalog had hundreds of these with different shaped fins or different length of tube.

[slink]

That, or the sky ate it.

My brother and his friends and I spent a while building rockets. We starte when my parents got me a hot air balloon kit which we sent up majestically. Then we built a balloon which denied to accept the existence of Airspace regulations in the area. It failed and burnt up in the garden.
We did have a very succesful rocket launch that literally chased my brother around the field before disppearing off up the hill.
We had a few, actually, succesful launches too mind!

[andalucia]

I went to a science camp once that made me build rockets one year and a model car, perplexingly enough, the next.  I was quite unsure as to why I had to build the car's ENTIRE, TINY, USELESS ENGINE, piece by piece.
Fortunately, I spent every other day there making animated gifs and hiding from soccer games, so it wasn't so bad.  I still hate making Miniscule Accurate Plastic Things though.