As kids, Tim and I often used our imaginations and created toys out of everyday common objects. This was due to our high intelligence and creativity (and also because we would break most of our toys shortly after opening them on Christmas). We were both experts at breaking toys, not intentionally for the most part, but as a result that we played hard and rough. I remember a few typical examples quite well. It was our birthday, I think around our 9^th or 10^th, and our maternal grandparents brought us our usual birthday presents. This time we got a “BINGO” game and new Thermos’s for our lunch boxes. We immediately started playing BINGO and it was probably no longer than a minute or so until one of us broke the crank off the plastic mixer. We then proceeded to drop a marble into our brand new Thermos’s to listen to it roll around inside. Of course, we didn’t realize how fragile they were inside. I remember dropping a marble in mine and the shock and surprise I felt as I heard a “PHUMMMP” and the whole inside lining immediately exploded and shattered into what seemed like several hundred small aluminum pieces! That REALLY impressed our mother! Her standard phrase to us was, “Well…  you satisfied, you broke it”!  We grew up hearing that phase constantly! Even today, Tim and I say it to each other when we accidentally break something! One of our legendary “make shift toys” was the “HUH-AH-AH STICK.” I invented both the stick and the name of it. The best ones were made from auto radio antennas. The first one I invented was from the old antenna from our old “1950-something” Buick convertible. The way you use a “HUH-AH-AH STICK” is you throw it like a spear. However, to be a true “HUH-AH-AH STICK”, you first have to get into the “hurling position” by holding it in the “ready throwing” position, then you yell, “Huh-Ah-Ah, Ah-Ah-Ah, A-A  (then you get a running start), and as you throw it as hard and far as you can you yell, “Ha-Mnom-Mnominah, Ha-Mnom-Mnominah”!  (I think I got the throwing syllables from watching old Tarzan movies on T.V.).  If the previous method is not followed exactly, then it’s not a genuine “HUH-AH-AH STICK”! If we couldn’t get an old auto radio antenna, we used any reasonably length stick. Once in a GREAT while, if I find the right kind of stick on the ground, I’ve been know to turn it into a “HUH-AH-AH STICK”, if I’m SURE no one is around. I wouldn’t be surprised if Tim has done the same thing too! However, it’s still best if I avoid finding old auto radio antennas lying around, especially if I’ve forgotten to take my medicine!!!!  J