Is it remote controlled, or a push along knee scraping thing?
Favourite toy from your childhood. Page 7
It's intelligent. They had to stop making them because they were starting to question what they were and why they existed.
Quote: Charley @ February 26, 2008, 2:16 PMIs it remote controlled, or a push along knee scraping thing?
See the number pad on the back? YOu used that to program it's movements. So you could type forward 2 feet, turn left, forward another 4 feet, turn right, fire lazer gun, reverse 2 feet etc...
I had all the co-ordinates written down so I could make BigTrak set off int he lounge, go out through the door, down the hall, into the kitchen, turn hard left and then blast the dog in her bed before returning back to me.
Happy days!
And here's BigTrak in action! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6wwb7rVjOGk
WoW!
I always wanted a Mr Frosty because the ads were pumped into my brain relentlessly. My brother had one ten years later and never used it. Spoilt bastard.
I used to love those wooden train sets with magnets on but we couldn't afford one of those either. I used to play on the one at school.
I had a Teddy Ruxpin. They were just creepy and possessed however.
Quote: Perry Nium @ February 26, 2008, 2:21 PMSee the number pad on the back? YOu used that to program it's movements. So you could type forward 2 feet, turn left, forward another 4 feet, turn right, fire lazer gun, reverse 2 feet etc...
I had all the co-ordinates written down so I could make BigTrak set off int he lounge, go out through the door, down the hall, into the kitchen, turn hard left and then blast the dog in her bed before returning back to me.
Happy days!
Now THAT is cool.
Quote: ian_w @ February 26, 2008, 1:09 PMBut regardless of how it sounds, it's still making a singular noun out of a plural one.
While we're on the subject, I noticed that some Canadians write ou (ie colour) and some write o (color). Which one is right for you, that always confused me because every Canadian I've spoken to seems to prefer one or the other, sometimes even both?
My professors are very adamant about the spelling of this word, and most of using Canadian spelling in general which frustrates some of the American students who attend. We use the British spelling 'colour', that is how it is taught in our school systems and that is how it is spelled in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary. I have to admit though that the Canadian English is moving more towards American these days as many reports have shown.
I'll stop blathering on now and just give two links for those who are curious...
Wikipedia
Here is my University's help page for those struggling with Canadian English.
McGill's (One of Canada's most respected University's)
One think I noticed when reading this is that you folks don't say "as well" to continue a sentence. Odd. 
p.s. The Big Track Ruled!
Is it true that Americans don't use 'actually' much?
All Americans I meet seem to pick up on the actually thing.
Maybe I just say it too much.
I use it sometimes I guess. If it's in the sense of "Actually that's not a cup cake". You mean using it in a corrective tone right? 'actually' replacing 'you are mistaken'?
Yeah that sort of thing.
Or 'Actually, I think I'll bypass risking the nightbus and sleep here in the hedge'.
Ooh!
*notices Curt's sig and claps excitedly*
Quote: zooo @ February 26, 2008, 4:02 PMYeah that sort of thing.
Or 'Actually, I think I'll bypass risking the nightbus and sleep here in the hedge'.
I have used it in that sense before...and that scenario. 
Quote: Perry Nium @ February 26, 2008, 2:25 PMAnd here's BigTrak in action! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6wwb7rVjOGk
You lucky undeserving swine. I'm more jelaous than when I found out Marylin Manson was forttering Dita Von Teese.
Meccano (just to show my age) but it used to infuriate my father that I'd never make one of the things out of the book that came with it. The last straw was when I built a perpetual motion machine and an anti-gravity device and transported my sister (uhm) elsewhere. Naturally when I got the time machine to work (L de V says "hello") they switched to 'useful' things like socks and jumpers. I am naturally scarred by these childhood experiences and no longer do anything that anybody wants me to unless I thought of it first!
Quote: James Williams @ February 26, 2008, 3:02 PMI always wanted a Mr Frosty
ME TOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Quote: James Williams @ February 26, 2008, 3:02 PMI used to love those wooden train sets with magnets on but we couldn't afford one of those either.
Brio? That stuff is amazing. 
Quote: Curt @ February 26, 2008, 3:30 PMOne think I noticed when reading this is that you folks don't say "as well" to continue a sentence. Odd.
Where? Who? When? What now?
Quote: Curt @ February 26, 2008, 3:46 PMYou mean using it in a corrective tone right? 'actually' replacing 'you are mistaken'?
Probably because they're all too stupid to know that who they're speaking to is wrong. 
Quote: zooo @ February 26, 2008, 4:02 PMOoh!
*notices Curt's sig and claps excitedly*
>_< !