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Kinda looks like one of those ones you put on with a piece of paper and water, doesn't it?



Crackerjack used to give them away inside each Box, as part of the "toy surprise" back in the late 1970s early 1980s, just before gumball machines went up to a minimum of a nickel for all machines and the Penny machines went bye bye...I still remember as a snot nosed, crumb crushing little Da Burglar wheeling my butt off to the country store in Amherst, Massachusetts on sunny Spring (or Fall) New England days and buying anywhere from 5 to 15 packs of Bazooka or Bubble Yum Bubble Gum for a TOTAL of 50 cents, or something ridiculous like that. But the Crackerjack Tatoo Toy Surprises Trumped any quantity of Bubble gum...it's all gone now man, thanks to the American Dental Association's Campaign starting in 1977 or so that demonized Sugary Treats as the cause for kids rotting teeth (totally false, it was the Poor Nutrition and Hygiene habits rampant until the mid 1980s.) Who remembers the old Crest Toothpaste Commercials and the dreaded "CAVITY CREEPS"? Pure brainwashing, hysterical propaganda :bananagingivitis:



**Sidenote** There was a LATE 1978 thru 1979 Fad/craze involving the hard candy brand known as "Now and Later"....even as a little Da Burglar (age 10 up until 13), I knew how to handle the whores and knew the key to keeping chicks enthralled...I would always come to school with Gum and/or Now and Laters, and was therefore very popular with the young girls. Of course, I was buying there attention and affection with what was then and at that age the currency of the realm, Gum and Candy, but that was due to the fact that by Age 10 I was making 5 to 10 bucks a week helping in my Grandparents' bookstore doing Inventory and counting Money (circa 1978 thru 1981, before the advent obviously of computers.) I could afford LOTS of sugary treats .... As long as I had Bubble Gum, the 5th thru 7th Grade chicks didnt care if I was crippled or not....friggin' little whores.

Incidentally, I was also first exposed to Porn working in my Grandpop's bookstore...he used to let me and my Little Bro read ALL the Hustler, PEnthouse and CLUB Magazines we wanted (Screw Playboy, even at that age back then I was bored with Hef's Humdrum approach to Porn and women ...Larry Flynt was my first Hero-Role Model, even before he bought himself the Gold Wheelchair...)
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