I WILL WEAR MY X-RAY SPEX IF YOU LIKE; yes INDEED

screaming bleeder!

I haven't seen a good Skittles-kicked ass lately...

yes INDEED

Skittles is in an ass-kicking mood!...

I was about 9, so 54 years ago:

"X, The man with the X-Ray eyes"

And starred Ray Milland.

Yup, just checked, that's what it was called and was directed by Roger Corman in 1963.

Freaked me out when I saw it as a kid, especially the ending.

Born 1954! (Maybe senility hasn't quite kicked in yet.

It was supposedly cut. (At least, as rumor has it.)

Ray Milland looks up with his bloody eye sockets and says, "I CAN STILL SEE!"

Although it's been a long time since I saw it, like 40+ years ago.

But it may have been that they were solid black also, I just remember that it wigged me out big time even though I've been a horror/scary movie nut since I can remember, I had a black and white tv in my attic room at 5-6 years old.

It could have been either ending, just been way too long.

There is a movie from my younger years I've never seen since, a huge square or upright rectangular robot working it's way across the landscape it's legs at each corner going up and down smashing everything.

Black and white I think, I don't know what it was called, now that one is a stumper for me, always been in the back of my memories, I'd love to know what it was called to see it again.

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It's Kronos, that's the one!, thank you so much for your reply!!!!!

Yeah, can you tell I'm stoked?, I also remember the one about the crystals but it's not one I'd watch again.

I don't even remember the plot from Kronos but that's no big deal, I'll watch it on YouTube tonight.

And again thanks, you made my day!.

I LOVED those movies growing up. Every kid did! They were the cheapest and most spectacular form of entertainment we had available to us at the time.

Those movies you and I remember so well were designed to produce fear, and they succeeded within the constraints of not showing blood, sex, bad language, etc. They are more powerful films today because of that.

You helped me remember and appreciate a film I had forgotten a long time ago.

Decent special effects for the time, story not so much but then the movie was made to follow an idea of huge robots conquering the earth, otherwise the plot kinda stunk with the mind control over a human to follow the invaders wishes thing.

But it was fun to watch, thanks again!

I have to give them credit for advancing the subject of depleting the Earth's resources, and the robot was kind of creepy. But overall, the whole thing moved pretty slowly even by 1950s schlock cinema standards. They spent fully half of the movie standing around on the beach in Mexico talking about... well, nothing in particular.

I'm also scratching my head over that whole subplot with the scientist being mind-controlled. What the hell was that all about? Somebody's uncle must have needed an acting job. (Either that, or they just needed a convenient way to explain the robot's motives without the characters having to figure it out on their own.)

But it was worth a watch.

Our parents liked it because it would get us out of the house for awhile. Usually one parent would load up a car with all the neighborhood kids, drop us of off, and another parent would pick us up. The theater was a pit. It was filthy and all the older kids would smoke in the bathrooms. I was afraid to go into the Girl's Room because they were mean to younger kids. Every now and then the theater allow a flick that had a glance of naked boobies. We'd all howl and applaud.

I think I was 9 when I ordered mine. Bastards never sent them.

His mom nearly skinned him!

blonde hair and crowns with bows like they show. I added water and they just looked like hay in water.

Story of my life. "What was your childhood pet?" "Hay in water."

Especially girls - never tell a girl the glasses don't work.

That's the joke. Sorry Floyd!

years ago my brother and his friend got some of those and they said they really worked!! I believe those 8 year olds to this day. Besides that it says they are guaranteed.

carry my computer around with me!

I've been knocking on doors and selling copies of Wikipedia.

“Hell no! My kids can walk to school just like I did.”

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There's a pinhole in each side. There is a feather glued across each pinhole. The feather makes it look like the lines of what you're looking at are blurred and doubled. That gives the so-called illusion.

and I suppose Santa Claus isn't real? Jesus....

connected to two miniaturized cathode-ray displays. The whole thing seemed to be powered by a small three-milliwatt thermal gradient power plant activated by the wearer's body heat (there were small nickel alloy thermal contacts on each arm of the glasses right above the ears).

But I just had the cheap Japanese knockoffs. My family couldn't afford the ones advertised in the backs of comic books. We had to make do on dad's paycheck from the Army out in Roswell, NM.

I didn't think about doing it with a goose feather. Does that work? How would you even do that?

Real purpose of glasses is to see invisible ink that conceals "Plan X"!

"Dynamic Tension" is, basically, a collection of strengthening exercises where you either your work with your own body weight or push against objects that don't move. That is never going to make you look like a classically sculpted physical hero. If you want to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger, then you will need to train like him and have his genetics.

What "Dynamic Tension" will do for you is very important: It will get you off of the couch. You will start exercising. And just because of that, you WILL inevitably get stronger. You will start feeling better about yourself and your place in the world. You will then look at everything around you differently.

Charles Atlas included a bunch of other stuff in his course regarding nutrition, boxing techniques, etc. It is all very old-fashioned, but there is still some central wisdom to it. Charles didn't want us to eat refined flour, for instance. I'm okay with that.

Anyway, I just felt I had to pop in and defend this ad. It may be the most useful ad that ever showed up in the comic books of the late 20th Century.

And he continues to go out with a woman who ridiculed him by calling him "little boy" but considers him to be a "real man " after he becomes physically violent. So much going on in that ad.

No one we knew ever ordered one, so there was much speculation

Equal Opportunity tester....

You must have been a busy teen!!