"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Oh, yeah, I remember seeing the ads for those when I was a kid. But, being a poor kid, I decided the only way I'd get some was to make my own. So, I got some boards and springs and assembled my own jumping shoes. I was disappointed, tho, in the results. Try as I might, I just couldn't get off the ground with'em.
I decided later it may have been because the only springs I could find in the junk pile was four old suspension springs off a '48 Chevrolet.
No surprise. I'm sure the youthful R-man (and, for that matter, the adult R-man) would not have possessed sufficient heft to compress that kind of spring and trigger the "boing" effect.
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Oh, yeah, I remember seeing the ads for those when I was a kid. But, being a poor kid, I decided the only way I'd get some was to make my own. So, I got some boards and springs and assembled my own jumping shoes. I was disappointed, tho, in the results. Try as I might, I just couldn't get off the ground with'em.
I decided later it may have been because the only springs I could find in the junk pile was four old suspension springs off a '48 Chevrolet.
No surprise. I'm sure the youthful R-man (and, for that matter, the adult R-man) would not have possessed sufficient heft to compress that kind of spring and trigger the "boing" effect.
Aaaah! Hospital emergency depts all over the country saw a rash of head and arm injuries I bet. But it was all part of growing up.
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