And now for something weird...

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Wendy

Joined Mar 24, 2008
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Reminds me of a coworker at work, she liked to eat alone in a break room apparently she wasn't really alone she had a conversation with an imaginary friend as if there was someone actually there. Laughing at jokes and everything. I guess it comes as no surprise not too many people want to eat same room as her. Very strange.
 

DickCappels

Joined Aug 21, 2008
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My daughter, at that age when most teen-age girls think their parents are weird came to me one day and said "Dad, you're weird. You will be sitting there and all of a sudden start laughing out loud." Tell me you never did that.
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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My daughter, at that age when most teen-age girls think their parents are weird came so me one day and said "Dad, you're weird. You will be sitting there and all of a sudden start laughing out loud." Tell me you never did that.
... much better having a spontaneous sprout of laughter, than an unexpected explosion of anger ...
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab was an actual radioactive toy and learning set sold in the early 1950s. The $49.50 set came with four samples of uranium-bearing ores (autunite, torbernite, uraninite, and carnotite), as well as a Geiger-Mueller radiation counter and various other tools.

The set also came with a comic book featuring Dagwood from the popular Blondie comic strip. It was titled "Learn How Dagwood Splits the Atom" and written in conjunction with General Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project.

Radar Magazine dubbed the Atomic Energy Lab one of "the 10 most dangerous toys of all time" in 2006
 

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Wendy

Joined Mar 24, 2008
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The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab was an actual radioactive toy and learning set sold in the early 1950s. The $49.50 set came with four samples of uranium-bearing ores (autunite, torbernite, uraninite, and carnotite), as well as a Geiger-Mueller radiation counter and various other tools.

The set also came with a comic book featuring Dagwood from the popular Blondie comic strip. It was titled "Learn How Dagwood Splits the Atom" and written in conjunction with General Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project.

Radar Magazine dubbed the Atomic Energy Lab one of "the 10 most dangerous toys of all time" in 2006
I'd love to own one of those now. But I'm sure it won't be $49. Probably around $200 or $300
 

SamR

Joined Mar 19, 2019
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Living in east Tennessee, a popular school field trip was to the Atomic Energy Museum in Oak Ridge Tennessee. My uncle Al, the egghead with his Masters in both Mechanical and Electrical engineering along with a Doctorate in theoretical physics, worked at one of the Atomic Energy Commision's uranium enrichment plants there. So went to the museum often while visiting or staying with his family. It was always neat hearing all the radiation alarm sirens in the area being tested every day at 5PM. One of the must-have takeaways from the museum was an irradiated dime. You dropped your silver dime in the machine, and it irradiated, enclosed, and sealed it. Run it by the Geiger counter and it fizzled quite a bit. Always wondered what their half-life was.
http://www.encasedcoins.info/irradiated.html#:~:tex
 
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