Getting the Last Word

ditto

Dunleavy

Brian

Dennehy

I had one of those - wonderful.

One of what? A Dennehy or a smiling cat?

A cheshire cat grin

Oh...that makes more sense. I never knew anyone with a Dennehy.

Click on your name above my post and you'll see I was referring to the pink balls, ahem.

It's not too bad for us with our dollar often being worth more than yours these days.

Oh. The elusive Spaldeen. There were times when they were near impossible to find in the 4 and 9 (we were in a poor community where the 5 and 10 was subsidized). Used to buy mine at the store that sold all sorts of fun items (including the yo-yos and shoestring licorice).

A brand new Spaldeen was a very exciting acquisition, and much cherished. I think I got one at the start of each summer.
There were so many different games we played with that one ball--and it had to be that ball.

It had just the right bounce back to it. No other ball could do that.

It brings back memories...very pleasant memories.

And then one day we got an electric saw and cut one of them open.

Stop looking at me as if we murdered it. The poor thing was already dead. For whatever reason its bounce was gone and it's color was faded when we found it that day laying in the alley. With an interest in why these balls bounced so well we decided to take a look inside.

Oh dear that was my "ex" fiance's name LMAO Spalding......................

Memories in-deed.

"Fiance" is just a shortened version of "financier".

I would like now to humbly thank the kindly scuzzball who has so graciously thumbed down my posts in this threads. Perhaps the little dicked faker can now take his skills to other places such as Word Association, and Connect the movie titles where he has previously shown his ability to thumb me down. \


As I have indicated previously, thumb down an opinion, I won't be bothered. Thumbing down yes and no games or things such as this where nothing offensive has been said by me shows me what the wanker is really all about. No, sherlock, it doesn't anger me, it merely amuses me...almost as much as when you claim I am running around 'stalking' you. (Every so often I post in a thread he has, someone quotes me and he then says I'm stalking him )

Yup! I remember the 'pinky' and the white one with the raised stars. They were 10 or 15 cents in 1960. When we played stickball they were awesome. When they got a cut in them we'd then cut them in half and play 'half-ball'. What a curve you could throw with an inverted half ball. We had a rule that if you could hit it at all safely you awarded a run.

Around '64 - '65 (I think) they brought out the Superball and then pinkies were put aside in my house and neighborhood. Wait, wait...we still played stoop-ball. You would throw it hard against the steps of your building. I think that was when the half-ball was most fun as it was nearly impossible to hit with a broomhandle.


"Sandy Koufax began his Hall of Fame baseball career by playing stoop ball, while Marv Albert missed the city game so much that he once had a stoop constructed at his house in the suburbs. Billy Joel played stoop ball on suburban streets. "

I know exactly where I bought mine - a drug store on W. 235 St. in the Bronx.
Schniff.