Mom bug debut? We’ve seen motherly bugs, but not necessarily bug’s mom. The hair is distinctive so I’m thinking it’s possible. I can’t remember the designs on any of my old Trapper Keepers, so mom must not have let me get a cool one What I do remember is that they were deliberately designed not to last a year. I wonder if kids still use them and if they’re still cool. Maybe they just use iTrapper iKeepers. Well except the lucky ones who scored cheap HP Touchpads
Go with the SCUBA gear. Yes, a harpon gun can get you out of trouble–once–if you don’t miss. But with the SCUBA gear you can lie on the bottom at fifty feet until Mr Great White decides to go after the real seals darting by overhead. If you had to do that holding your breath, you could break the world breath-hold records and still drown long before the air in an Al-80 reached the half pressure mark. To put it simply, spearguns are great if you already have SCUBA gear, but a speargun is in no way a prereq for SCUBA gear.
Shoddy Hookers Purse! Nice. I didn’t have Trapper Keepers. I had Pee Chee Folders. My KIDS had Trapper Keepers. I thought they were stupid. Pee Chee’s all the way, man!
You spoiled brats! When I was young, all we got was a sharpened stick and a rock. If we wanted to write, we gouged our hands and wrote with our blood. If we wanted to carry something, we had to use our hands or kill an animal and skin it.
Blood?!? You spoiled kid. We wrote in the dirt! Talk about a pain…you did your homework, scooped it up in your hands to take in to Mrs Thoog, and had to re-do it all because it had disappeared and all you were left with was just loose DIRT!
They came out in the late 70s and early 80s. Before, you had three-ring binders to keep hole-punched things and manila folders (or some such) to keep other things. The Trapper Keeper was a three-ring binder together with “trapper” folders. A trapper folder had extra folds to make sure its contents didn’t spill out. It also had holes punched in the side so that it could fit in a three-ring binder. The Trapper Keeper held these in its three ring binder, and had an extra flap with a bit of velcro to seal the whole thing up, so that even in the most clumsy situations it wouldn’t spill its contents all over the floor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP6Ievts6B0
Wow. I was in WTF land with Chris till I looked it up. And I can safely say we didn’t have those things in Nova Scotia when I was in school (82-95). Wish they did tho, wouldn’t have needed a 3 inch binder each for 12 subjects a year…… weighed my backpack once, it was 67lbs(binders+ textbooks) , that was grade 5!!! (no lockers till high school, and yes you were expected to have everything everyday)
The harpoon is obviously superior.
Mom bug debut? We’ve seen motherly bugs, but not necessarily bug’s mom. The hair is distinctive so I’m thinking it’s possible. I can’t remember the designs on any of my old Trapper Keepers, so mom must not have let me get a cool one
What I do remember is that they were deliberately designed not to last a year. I wonder if kids still use them and if they’re still cool. Maybe they just use iTrapper iKeepers. Well except the lucky ones who scored cheap HP Touchpads 
Naw, it’s just a really weird-looking head tumor.
Go with the SCUBA gear. Yes, a harpon gun can get you out of trouble–once–if you don’t miss. But with the SCUBA gear you can lie on the bottom at fifty feet until Mr Great White decides to go after the real seals darting by overhead. If you had to do that holding your breath, you could break the world breath-hold records and still drown long before the air in an Al-80 reached the half pressure mark. To put it simply, spearguns are great if you already have SCUBA gear, but a speargun is in no way a prereq for SCUBA gear.
Shoddy Hookers Purse! Nice. I didn’t have Trapper Keepers. I had Pee Chee Folders. My KIDS had Trapper Keepers. I thought they were stupid. Pee Chee’s all the way, man!
I remember Pee Chee folders. Spent a lot of time doodling in class by coloring in the athletes’ clothes.
You’re right, Pee Chee folders win:
http://www.creativepro.com/files/story_images/090904_fg6.jpg
I wish I could have found a Trapper Keeper with Magnum punching a shark, and if it came with the bonus harpoon gun that would have been sweet.
I just had a binder…
You spoiled brats! When I was young, all we got was a sharpened stick and a rock. If we wanted to write, we gouged our hands and wrote with our blood. If we wanted to carry something, we had to use our hands or kill an animal and skin it.
A stick and a rock, and the rock had to be shared by the whole class.
Blood?!? You spoiled kid. We wrote in the dirt! Talk about a pain…you did your homework, scooped it up in your hands to take in to Mrs Thoog, and had to re-do it all because it had disappeared and all you were left with was just loose DIRT!
Dirt? You had DIRT?
Luxury…
I had to google Trapper Keeper – yours are much cooler in the UK we just have manila coloured ones.
excuse me if im being a bit of a life n0ob here but wtf is a trapper keeper?
I was wondering the same thing. Sorry, Adam. Not as funny when we don’t know what you’re talking about.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=trapper+keeper
They came out in the late 70s and early 80s. Before, you had three-ring binders to keep hole-punched things and manila folders (or some such) to keep other things. The Trapper Keeper was a three-ring binder together with “trapper” folders. A trapper folder had extra folds to make sure its contents didn’t spill out. It also had holes punched in the side so that it could fit in a three-ring binder. The Trapper Keeper held these in its three ring binder, and had an extra flap with a bit of velcro to seal the whole thing up, so that even in the most clumsy situations it wouldn’t spill its contents all over the floor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP6Ievts6B0
ignorance of the audience, not really his fault. Luckily euphgeek googled for you. Now you know. yay!
I used to love rapper Keepers, but because of the school I went to I had to carry a three-ring binder made from stainless steel diamond deck.
And, for those that think I’m kidding: http://i.imgur.com/oMoRf.jpg
Shoddy hooker’s purse – I almost choked on my oatmeal. Excellent stuff!
Wow. I was in WTF land with Chris till I looked it up. And I can safely say we didn’t have those things in Nova Scotia when I was in school (82-95). Wish they did tho, wouldn’t have needed a 3 inch binder each for 12 subjects a year…… weighed my backpack once, it was 67lbs(binders+ textbooks) , that was grade 5!!! (no lockers till high school, and yes you were expected to have everything everyday)
Oh yeah!!! MAGNUM P.I. is tottaly manly!!! WOOOOO HOOOOO!!!
I loved the trapper keeper and then when they came out with the zippered folder…oh my gosh!
I’m such a geek when it comes to school supplies.
Oh, God. Hooker’s purse nearly made me fall out of my chair.
Just added “hooker’s purse” to urbandictionary. (slang for “trapper keeper”).
LOL!
and now i WANT a magnum p.i. trapper keeper!