Hey Tyne (tammy)

You're from Al.?
Me too. What part are you from? Maybe we're neighbors! I'm in the Shoals area.
Lol, I'm scanning my brain for anyone I know named Tammy, lol. My friend DeNae is from Al. too. She's been pretty busy with out of town company this week but hopefully she'll stop in and introduce herself to you soon.
Send me an email sometime.
Kathamp1980@aol.com
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Kat & Carol,

I could have sworn that I responded to yall about what part of AL, I live in but I just looked and I could not locate my reply to each of you but if I did and I just cannot find it, forgive me if this is a repeat. Anywho, I live in Huntville, how far is that from where each of you live? Have a happy little day!

Tyny Tammy
Ygm, Tammy.I'll write more sometime today. Yesterday was a long day.
I'm about an hour and a half from you. I used to go to Huntsville regularly until they put a Toys R Us in Florence, lol. I'm a toy Mom. In fact, I need to go through my son's room and get rid of half the stuff in there. I like the toys more than he ever has.
I was shocked when my daughter was five and wouldn't play with barbies. I tried to sit down and engage Barbie and Ken in conversation and she looked at me like I was crazy.
"Mom, they're plastic."
How are you doing today?
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Yea Mom, they're plastic! I knew Kes was a smart cookie.

Not too sure about her mom though...<eg>
LMFAOOO Lisa!!!

I'm sorry Kat, but you left yourself wide open for that one. LOL

Michelle

Welcome to the board Tammy!
You'ld think she would know me well enough by now to not leave herself wide open to that kind of abuse? LOL

Ya know I love ya man...sniff.
Lmao!
I bet your barbies talked to each other too.
Well, you might have been more like Kes. She would comb their hair or change their clothes but they did not interact in any way. The barbie car and house sat in the corner unused. (well, unless I snuck in to play) lol
I never owned a barbie Kat. I did own a doll, but I cut her hair off and colored her face purple with a crayon. LOL

I'm not sure how to reply to that, Michelle.
Let's have Gina ask Dr. M what that means, lol.
You really didn't like your doll, did you?
I'll send you a new one if you're ready to try again.
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LMAO I hated dolls Kat. I was just a tom boy. You should have seen me kick and scream when my parents made me wear a dress when I was little.

I didn't become a girly girl, until around 12, when boys became more than just playmates. Well, you know what I mean. LOL

See ya tomorrow!
Michelle
I know what you mean well. >grin<
See you tomorrow!
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I had to respond to this...lmao.

I didn't play with barbies either. I had the "Velvet hair growing doll". Trouble was, I kept cutting her hair and after about the third time, it quit growing. I was a born hair stylist from a very early age. I colored the hair with koolaid after I couldn't cut anymore. Then I colored my hair with koolaid. Mother was not happy.
I had a Chrissy doll. You think they're the same? You twisted something on her back and pulled her hair out of the top of her head. I did not whack off Chrissy's hair or dye it with kool aid, lol. I was only half a tom boy, I guess. I loved all my babies but I was out dirt bike riding, climbing trees, skateboarding and just about anything else that I could get myself into.
Where are you, Tammy? We're just talking away on your thread.Jump in!
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I grew up in Alaska...of course I was a tom boy. Tough nut is what my dad called me. But I loved that stupid Velvet doll. I think it is the same as a Chrissy doll.....'
Girls:

Velvet was Chrissy's little sister...We were too poor, I didn't have a doll who's hair grew, miraculously, lol...

~Rachel
My parents thought this doll was pornographic, lol.

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Growing Up Skipper (1975-1977)

One of the most controversial dolls in 1975, just about every newspaper in the U.S.A. carried a story about her, some women's groups & a few parents wrote to complain, but with sales expected at 1 1/2 million, the doll must go on to market. She's 9" tall, long platinum or reddish blonde hair, curled end flip. "She's Two dolls in One" when you turn the left arm she grows a modest bust line, slimmer waist and becomes 3/4" taller. (turning the arm back again reverts to the previous shape doll). Included are a red headband, red body suit, blue collar, blue scarf, red socks, red flats, white platform shoes, two red, white plaid skirts, one short, one long.

From USAToday.com:

"I wish I still had my Growing Up Skipper doll. My sister and I each got one from our aunt and my parents thought she was positively vulgar. Her stomach was kind of soft and pudgy and her chest was flat until you turned her arm. Once you did that, she grew taller, her stomach flattened and she sprouted breasts. It was so cool. I couldn't WAIT for just such development to happen to me!"
Jodie Hail, Tulsa, Okla.



hey gina
can you find any pictures of what barbie, ken, midge and skipper looked like in the sixties?
I regret my mom didnt save a one,and we just had this conversation at work about what barbie and her clan looked like then. jewels
WHOA!!!! I am soooooo behind here! I just NOW seen these messages!!! So, I guess I will throw in my 2 cents. I too, HATED Barbie dolls! I would always take their clothes off and just never play with them again because I could never get there clothes back on! LOL However, I LOVED my big baby dolls and the dolls that did things like crawl or I LOVED my baby alive, that would eat and "potty" at the same time! LOL However, I too, was also a tomboy because that is all I had to play with, were 2 boys in the neighborhood. Boy! What I would give today to just go back ONE DAY and play all day with those 2 boys. I miss those days so much, we played aaaaaallllllll day no matter how hot it was and we had the best of times. Wasn't it nice when you were 4 years old and all you had to worry about was "what's for dinner?" MAN!!!!!!!
Hey Tammy!
Sorry about our last contact. The school thing can be a drag sometimes.
I'd like to go back to childhood for a day too. I don't think I apreciated how much fun it was.
Anyone remember the Wheel-O? Omg, I loved that idiotic toy. I would play with one right now if I had it, lol. Slinky, YoYo (Duncan only, please) double dutch, man, those were the days. I don't want to go back to four, I think I'd like to be eight. The days of riding my bike with no hands, skating with real skates before inline was even invented, waiting for the ice cream truck for root beer popsicles or sidewalk sundaes....mmm.
Look what you did to me, Tammy, lol, a burst of a blast from the past.
xxxxxxooooo
Hey Kat, Just thought I would pop in and say hi. Shantel