Stupid fads

[Bennett]

Next on my list are two somewhat similar things:

1. The sticky octopi prize from Kellogs cereals.
you were supposed to toss this sticky, slimy thing on the wall, and watch it "crawl" down.

2. Sticky hands/tongues.
Those long, sticky, stretchy toys that mostly came from the 25 cent toy dispenser at the grocery store. They usually came with little cardboard insects that you were supposed to nab, but the only real use for them was to get it stuck in your sister's hair, or slap her in the face with it.

I thought these things were pretty cool when I was little, but they're pretty lame amusements these days, and if I was a parent, there's no way in hell I would get one of my kids those sticky hands.