I’m 29 and these were popular when I was in middle school.
Makes sense - it seems like all the stuff I liked when I was a kid is becoming popular again, probably to appeal to the generation that’s having kids right now. Strawberry Shortcake, Holly Hobby, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, My Little Pony, etc. I haven’t seen pogs myself yet, though.
I think I just saw my son’s pogs in the attic the other day. I’m rich, RICh, I tell you!
Holy shit! He did!
I wonder how Spiro Agnew is going to be as a president.
Worst. Anecdote. Ever.
Word.
*Drop *the restraining order? Man, with the money and power you’ll have, you can tear it up in front of the judge’s face!And he’ll love it, too. The cops will come and arrest *her *for being an inconvenience to you!
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What? Again?
Now I’ve seen everything. Twice.
I haven’t noticed yet and I’m a teacher.
Silly Bandz, though, are huge. And kind of stupid. But cute.
If you guys were smart, you would’ve gotten in on those Webkinz. Those were the hit when I was still teaching day care. Good God, parents would sell the farm to get their hands on those things.
I think it was about 1994 when my friend’s nephew was dumping his pog collection. I asked him why, and he pointed out, “They don’t really do anything.” I think that pretty much summed it up.
The nurse hasn’t told you how long you’ve been “asleep”, has she?
You may want to sit back down for this.
POGS!!
I LOVED those things! My brothers and I would collect and play with those things all freaking day long! That’s it. I’m digging out my Hardee’s space shuttle Pog holder…
PSXer is the same poster who watches movies on Laserdisc. I think he may actually be living in the past.
Welcome to 16 years ago, dude.
…Wait, it’s seriously been 16 years??
I almost forgot about this guy, you’re right!
PSXer… INVEST IN MICROSOFT!!!
Same. I guess my friends and I were a little old to still be playing with pogs (about 13 or 14), but we did. Mostly because we were nerds.
I had an OJ slammer. It had a picture of him behind bars and had “OJ’s in the slammer” written on it. Could there possibly be anything more “90’s”?
Mine was brass with the shape of a mouth cut out of the middle of it, and it said “Bite Me.” I should’ve beaned CBG between the eyes with it.
I work in an elementary school and I have yet to see Pogs return. As a few others have mentioned, I have seen a lot of kids wearing those shaped rubber bands. Since I am 43 years old, I am still waiting for the return to popularity of Duncan Spin Tops.
Does this mean my wardrobe of Hypercolor shirts and parachute pants are going to be in style again soon?
I was reading a book about the Simpsons history and in one episode, Bart sells his soul to Milhouse who trades it for some Alf pogs.
Milhouse) Remember Alf? He’s back in pog form.
Anyway the writers of that episode said they thought the joke would be especially funny since by the time they wrote it and the eight months it took to animate and get it on the air, pogs went out of fashion quickly and few people heard of them.