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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
McHappy Day at school - where you watched a film at lunch (some live action cruddy Disney movie starring Dean Jones) while eating McDonalds hamburgers. I can't imagine that still goes on.
Or Texas Doughnut day.
We also had a "Church's Fried Chicken" day - where they gave us a little Styrofoam airplane. My grade 3 class collectively decided it would be HILARIOUS if when our 70 year old teacher came into the room - we jump from behind our desks and throw our planes at her. How could that not be funny? Well we did it, and she just quietly went over to her desk and started crying. Ugh.
Remarkably with all the crazy #### we were allowed to do, the one thing that was banned from our school was marbles.
The "heavy weight" championship of marble season was this guy who had a "King Kong Steelie" - which of course was nothing more than a big ball bearing but it was bad-ass. If you wanted to try and beat him for it you would him 4 or 5 times whereas he would only have to hit you once.
So he had this thing for a long time.
Until one day someone finally beat him.
And he wouldn't give it up.
Which caused a massive fight.
Which caused letters to go home to parents outlawing parents. I think there was even a school assembly about it.
I wonder if my mom kept my Crown Royal bag of marbles somewhere?
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Awesome story.
We had something similar with Pogs. And then later Pokemon cards.
Me and my brothers used to ride our bikes to the Husky in Scenic Acres to get booster packs of Pogs and $0.25 candy bags that had like 30 candies in it. It'd probably cost $4 today. And this was mid-90's.
When I was in first grade I got a rare metal slammer with awesome grooves on it. It won me a buttload of pogs. One day a 6th grader challenged me. We were underneath some part of the playground just playing alone. I beat him and he took my slammer. I think I'm safe to assume that guy is still a doosh.
In middle school Pokemon cards got outlawed because kids were actually gambling on the games, trading cards for money and other things, and some were stealing cards. Some kid got ripped off of a holographic Charizard one day and made a big fuss. Parents got involved and rules came in.