More like exasperation disguised as comedy.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 4 December 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe football wouldn't be such a minority sport in England if we were better at it.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Sunday, 4 December 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
I voted dirt. It is so freeing to have an expanse of dirt to play in.
― Aimless, Sunday, 4 December 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 5 December 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
We play in it when young and continue to look for it the rest of our adult lives. Dirt ftw.
― lebateauivre, Monday, 5 December 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think you can really know joy until you have beaten your siblings with a cardboard tube.
― Nicole, Monday, 5 December 2011 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
or yr children tbf
― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Monday, 5 December 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
I still use cardboard tubes as telescopes.
― milo z, Monday, 5 December 2011 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
Dirt!
― William (C), Monday, 5 December 2011 01:36 (twelve years ago) link
A single cardboard tube is great. With multiple ones you could literally construct the world.
― Osoby, Monday, 5 December 2011 12:23 (twelve years ago) link
literally
― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Monday, 5 December 2011 12:30 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but look what happened to the ilx server
― dayo, Monday, 5 December 2011 12:35 (twelve years ago) link
Voted stick
― Tony Hart land (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Monday, 5 December 2011 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
paper got robbed
― remy bean in exile, Monday, 5 December 2011 12:59 (twelve years ago) link
Scissors is all cut up about not being included. Stone should have been covered.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Monday, 5 December 2011 13:03 (twelve years ago) link
I gave up and let my little baby roll around in the dirt a bunch last weekend. She loved it so much that she tried to kiss it. It went very well with stick.
My 7 year old has not quite grown out of sticks. I have several in my car. A few stacked by the front door. Several in a bin in his room along with actual toy swords and guns that we bought for him.
― rusty flathead screwdriver, Monday, 5 December 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
Stick's the only one I could imagine still having some fun with. String's the only one I don't really get, string's just boring isn't it? Rubber bands on the other hand...
― Tony Hart land (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Monday, 5 December 2011 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
Cardboard tubes are fun, but voted boxes for sheer versatility.
― thejenny, Monday, 5 December 2011 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
Oh could still have a lot of fun with a cardboard tube, now I think if it
― Tony Hart land (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Monday, 5 December 2011 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
Manny: "All I needed was a... was a breezeblock. And... and a bit of an old bone."Bernard: "I bet you could make whole worlds with just those."Manny: "Oh, I could! One minute I'd be laying siege to a castle with a bit of an old bone, and the next minute I'd be setting sail on a Spanish galleon towards a breezeblock."
― yes this is the real (snoball), Monday, 5 December 2011 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
String's the only one I don't really get, string's just boring isn't it?
Have you talked to any cats lady?
― not uplifting (Abbott), Monday, 5 December 2011 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
Or to Mary Everest Boole, who made string AND math fun...together?
― not uplifting (Abbott), Monday, 5 December 2011 13:25 (twelve years ago) link
I can thank her for all the groovy thrift store string art I have on my walls.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Monday, December 5, 2011 8:03 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark
hmm, I heard scissors was pretty crushed by its exclusion
― dayo, Monday, 5 December 2011 13:27 (twelve years ago) link
Voted box. Stick = things in the universe, while box = the universe.
― NotEnough, Monday, 5 December 2011 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
my 3 year old son had so much fun with a huge cardboard box this weekend it made me wonder why I even bother buying regular toys for him
― silverfish, Monday, 5 December 2011 13:36 (twelve years ago) link
See: Calvin and Hobbes
― Number None, Monday, 5 December 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
No, it just went and got blunted.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Monday, 5 December 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
Meanwhile, stone went out and got hammered.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Monday, 5 December 2011 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
if i had to pick which one to give to my 2-year-old son to play with, it'd be a box. he loves containers, of any size, anything he can put or pour inside them, or put on his head, etc. he likes sticks too but he'll just start wacking everything with one, string and cardboard tubes he might get bored with by themselves, and dirt is well too dirty.
― i already regret not just being 'some dude' again (Mr. Stevenson #2), Monday, 5 December 2011 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
Boxes offer up so much possibility.....
― Everything else is secondary, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rlOSjpIbFs
― Bela Lugosi's Derrida (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Monday, 5 December 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
Historically I have had the most fun with dirt and boxes, but string was my accomplice in what could have been the crowning achievement of my childhood. I took the kitchen twine and wound it decoratively around all of the trees in our backyard -- a lot of trees, we lived right over the Cuyahoga valley -- and then attempted to set it on fire so I could watch the fire zing around the string. Biiiiig trouble.
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 5 December 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
my childhood was more about testing electric fences and jumping off high things and throwing water at each other
― judith, Monday, 5 December 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
lol xp
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 December 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
Cardboard tube in with a decent showing, but it was always gonna be box.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
Best toy of all time is a slinky, no ifs ands or butts!
― realness, just realness, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
sorry, buts
Todd
nintendo is better than a box
― Jeff, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 12:26 (twelve years ago) link
Last weekend, one of my kids' friends brought over a Samsung laptop that he made out of a cardboard box.
― rusty flathead screwdriver, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 14:16 (twelve years ago) link