The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for September 15, 2024

The kid would recoil at the very idea.

They were going to spring that program on him! He recoiled at the thought!

Has anyone ever been addicted to slinkies?

If it’s like the slinkies I had as a kid, it will work for about two days before it gets a kink and becomes non-functional. Just stop getting him replacements and make him go cold slurkey.

♫ It’s Slinky, It’s Slinky. For Fun, it’s a Wonderful Toy … ♫

And people think internet addiction is bad. Kid’s TV had our number.

Some people are like slinkies…no fun until you push them down a flight of stairs.

They better spring into action

this addition might get twisted into something he can’t get fix!

count your blessings: he looks like he could lose a few pounds anyway, & , it could be worse!

he may lose interest if you buy him a Ret Rock.

More like a three-step program.

I had a Charlie Brown life, my slinky never worked.

You’re a Plugger if that jingle popped into your head as soon as you saw “Slinky™”

We visited the Washington Monument when I was a kid in the 60s. My brother and I took the stairs to the top. Back then there were almost 1000 steps. Slinky paradise!

Now they are made out of plastic. Bah!

Slinky physics is the only physics some people know.

That kid just loves the spring and the fall, even in the summer and winter.

Yep that jingle sprang to mind now will let it slink away.

It’s Slinky, It’s Slinky, for fun it’s a wonderful toy — It’s Slinky, It’s Slinky, it’s fun for a girl and a boy; ♬

My dad was too cheap. He gave me a couple feet of wire and told me to make one.

Quick, give that kid an iPad

Instead of ‘a spring in his step’ he has ‘a spring on his step.’

I love the dueling punmanship between Scott and Dan Thompson (Brevity)!

In the 1950s, I bought a reverberator for my car radio … it’s main functioning hardware was a small diameter slinky about 6" long.

Oh, no! Your child is outside, playing with an analog toy, not in front of a screen. They should buy slinkys for every kid in town and start a club!

We’d have a whole different culture if Apple had used a slinky as their model for a pocket computer.

this one’s a bit of a stretch…

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Especially if he is already hooked on the 3-step system!