Things you mailordered as a child that turned out to be pretty disappointing...

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I ordered the 100 Revolutionary War soldiers featured on the back of many comics of the era... they were really, really small and not like the picture at all.

Also: the X-ray glasses don't see through clothes.

― andy --, Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

sea monkeys

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

actually I never ordered these but my cousin did and they didn't have tiny topless women in there

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

those catalogues from pueblo, colorado

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 December 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.toyadz.com/toyadz/mailorder/100soldiers67.jpg

I ordered the WWII ones as well and they sucked. They were flat, not 3D.

― andy --, Friday, 9 December 2005 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

The "copper engraving" of abraham lincoln i ordered. 'twas just a penny!

― latebloomer: The Corridor (Yes, The Corridor) (latebloomer), Friday, 9 December 2005 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.3dstereo.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/glasses/xray.jpg

Yes I fell for them.

― andy --, Friday, 9 December 2005 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

Olga and I just couldn't work things out.
http://www.ukraine-brides-service.com/pics/0000001093b.jpg

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 9 December 2005 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

Pocket pussy.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 9 December 2005 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

"Olga and I just couldn't work things out..."

But she has two PhD's and socialist teeth!

― andy --, Friday, 9 December 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

the designer pen from 'picture pages', which makes no tinwhistle sounds on its own.

― m bott, Friday, 9 December 2005 00:48 (nineteen years ago)

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