Having finished “The 25 most popular icebreaker questions based on four years of data” and enjoyed the results, I’m moving on to a new list:
76 Fun Icebreaker Questions (Not all of which will be used, since some are either/or questions, which are boring.)
Your mission: answer the question in the comments with a good story.
If you don’t have a good story, you are encouraged to make one up.
What was your favorite childhood toy?
I used to have a GI Joe action figure. I played with it a LOT.
After several years, he was nothing but a headless torso in a uniform shirt, but still awesome in his own way.
Upper G.I. Joe
I had an old Colt Peacemaker with holster that I used as part of my regular Halloween get-up for several years. It got me through many a shoot-out or Indian attack. It fired a roll of caps, and you could fan the hammer for rapid fire. Once I loaned it to a friend for a game of sheriffs and outlaws, and when I got the drop on him with my Wanted: Dead or Alive Winchester, instead of dropping his weapon, he slung it at my head. I frightened the heck out of my mom when I ran home with blood streaming down my face. No stitches that time…
I really loved it when we got that pool table.
Had a bazooka toy…when you slid the two sections together a ping-pong ball shot out with considerable force..”.ack-ack” seems to have been the name. My cousin still to this day refuses to talk about what happened that time.
I think mine just shot air.
I also had a Thompson submachine gun in plastic and shiny metal (and heavy) Colt semi-automatic.
Whatever bike I was riding, especially the Huffy dirt bike with the wide seat. I had a lot of construction equipment—a conveyor belt, a motor grader, a Tonka truck, a cement mixer.
But if you packed up small mound of dirt (fist size, say) and crammed two sticks in it of the right length you had a pretty good pill box.
A Steiff (TM) lion my grandfather brought me from a photo safari in Africa. My sister got an elephant. We had never seen realistic stuffed animals before. Passed it on to my kid.
My Daisy BB gun…theoretically (at least according to my mother) you could put out an eye with it. Never did though.
Yeah, well, then you step up to the air pumped 880; mine would shoot through both sides of a paint thinner can and would kill rats; not a toy really.
A friend of mine shot pecans out of my spring loaded Daisy, if I recall correctly. I know he tried to.
Lawn Darts.