| Posted: 10 June 2006 at 9:59am | IP Logged | 10
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A few years ago, I was perusing some magazines in a local ( U.S. ) shop that catered to a variety of ethnic groups in the area. I noted what I believe to be a German variant of the digest-sized Disney Adventures magazine.
I'd seen this magazine in the shop before. I noted that there always seemed to be some cheapie toy inserted into the magazine.
On this particular occasion, the toy-insert was a little packet of brine-shrimp. ( I don't read German, but a few of the words in the description were similar enough to their English counterparts ... )
I shoulda bought it.
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The item that I had always wanted was the 10-in-1 scope ... two large lenses, two small lenses, a mirror, and a compass. You could combine the items to use the utility device as binoculars, a telescope, a magnifying mirror, ...etc.
I think the price was around $3.95 or something like that ... a princely sum for me in the 70's. I was elated to find the same device later that year in a "dime-store" for under a dollar.
Oddly enough, more sturdy versions of these are still available at hobby and novelty shops. I have a newer one. ;-)
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