Amishrobot

Ha! Red Dawn. Man I loved that movie. One of my best childhood memories is first seeing it at my brother’s birthday sleepover. I was at an age where there was nothing cooler than hanging out with your older brother and his friends.

The highlight for me of course was the fact that the lead character’s name was Jed.

WOLVERINES!!!

Play guns that shoot plastic discs. The guns that shot small rubber pellets were cool to, but not as cool as the plastic discs.

Lawn darts are also cool.

Sounds like we had the same childhood. I am not over them either. Long live the movie Red Dawn.

You totally need lightsabers on this list. When camping with my Boy Scout troop, at least one lightsaber fight with tree branches breaks out, complete with force powers and sound effects.

I couldn’t agree more Josh. I’d have D&D on there too (embarassingly enough).

I’d tell you that Atari was one of my favorites at 12, but then you would know exactly how old I really am.

Other things that could be added:

Ten pieces of Hubba Bubba in your mouth at the same time.

Blue Darts (if you don’t know—don’t ask)

Napalm

BMX

Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka

Belching the alphabet.

Going places with no shirt on.

Catching skipper bugs in the irrigation canal. (If you are from Idaho like me)

Placing pennies on the railroad track.

Oh…the places we could go!

Men always remain kids at heart. Great list.

You totally left off ninjas and snipers. And, the only thing cooler than a ninja or sniper; a ninja-sniper! Also, facial hair.

This is the list of all lists. Love it. We used to roll up newspaper pages tight, tape them, and throw them around the yard. They were sticks of super-dynamite that could pretty much blow up bad guys, tanks, armies…

I remember multiple attempts at making bombs with diesel and fertilizer with Adam and his friends. I also remember wasted afternoons out by the railroad tracks too afraid to relight the fuse but still hopeful for a sweet splosion.

I agree with Joe, ninja-snipers with sweet beards should totally be on the list.

You should definitely be so totally over Super Sour Candy, especially after “Angst in My Pants” http://www.amishrobot.com/2003/07/angstinmy_pants.html

Dry Ice bombs

Electric gutairs

Ferrari’s

cleavage

body sufing

Angel’s baseball

high scores - any video game

fried cheese

climbing things

And most of all: having other people say you came up with a great list of things.

a bearded ninja-sniper would pretty much encapsulate all my hopes and dreams for my future when I was 12.

ya also

Holly Hobby

Walking around the house in your sister’s ballet shoes and tutu

Wonder Woman Under-Roos

Princess Leia’s Jabba the Hut outfit

collecting stamps (not postal stamps but ones that you put in ink to decorate papers with.)

great times, great freakin times!

i’m so with you on all those things. i still half wish the commies would invade so i can try out my ninja stars on them while escaping to my fort on a hovercraft with my robot.

One note to Joe about ninja-snipers and beard — ninja-snipers ALL have sweet beards, you just don’t know it because of their ninja masks.

John- that sounds like info only a bearded ninja-sniper would know! Didn’t you live in Japan for a couple of years?

On #7 are you sure you don’t mean “Hovercraft or personal submarine kits…”?

oh, wait…why isn’t Big Jim on the list? I hear his ninja code name is “Brawny”.

I know you didn’t leave spies off this list!

Where are the pirates!?

You might like the following link, because about half your list is crammed into this one flash animation/song (if you stretch definitions a bit):

Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.

It appeals to the 12yo in me with catchy lyrical references like: “Godzilla took a bite out of Optimus Prime like Scruff McGruff took a bite out of crime.”