Steph

I don't recognize them. Would be great to hear from someone who does.

Well, it's memorable!

Boys Playing Marbles, Delphi, Greece, by Ann Parker

I had cupcakes.

If this is the Vacor I have in mind, I'd guess it was after the year 2000. The ones I found in my search don't quite match but I'm still considering it as a possibility. (Thinking of Vacor Jungle.)

That one makes me think of Vacor. I still don't see Vacor on your other two-colors in transparent. This one though ... ? How old do you think it is?

My small Wisconsin town is not very diverse. It has a thriving Hmong population though, so that's a nice culinary influence.

Tried to find a magazines thread. Will start a new year thread instead. Courtesy of Paul Germann

Fun one Paul Germann posted on facebook

I can dig it. Go Royals!

ooooh

Bump from March! I just noticed the pale blue bases on some of these ..... ... or it looks like pale blue bases .....

Pelt Broken Cork

Ooops, did I kill the thread? :ph34r:

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Charming

How much do Europeans cook from scratch? I use nearly instant foods -- like canned soup and just-add-boiling water soup pouches. So I'm not eating out but rarely am cooking from scratch. My grandmother cooked from scratch so much that she made her own noodles. But she was a home economics teacher in the first half of the 1900's.

We have a lobster-free house. Hubby is too conscious of it being boiled alive. I might try not to think of it but he won't let me not.

Well anyway, in case that sounded smug or something, yeah, I agree with Peltier.

Oh, I thought Peltier was understood. I thought we were just trying to figure out what the name of it might be.

In the photo it looks like there is a significant amount of green in that base. Is that accurate in hand?

Welllll ... I found it. But not in the couch. While taking a breather, I searched for the rest of the set to show my husband what this whole escapade was about. I found the set where I remembered putting it three years earlier -- in a shelf, in its original mailer, which also contained an open Chinese Checkers box full of Japanese pinchers which I had acquired at the same time from the same seller. And nestled on the edge of the green row of pinchers was the missing green fiber optic marble. I never did drop it in the couch after all. I dropped it back into the mailer. I only imagined that it dropped into the side of the couch and I only imagined that I saw it dropping further down as I reached for it. At least that's what I'm telling myself. My husband assures me there is no such thing as poltergeists who find lost marbles and return them to their mailers while I am not looking.

What's the craziest thing you've done to retrieve a lost marble? Three years ago I got a set of peewee fiber optic marbles in various colors. What's the first thing I do? Drop one down the side of the couch. And I couldn't find it again when I felt around for it. I didn't have enough room at the time to turn the couch up on its end to try to get it out, so for three years I've been conscious of needing to get that marble out if we ever decided to get rid of the couch. Wellll .... Sunday was the day of reckoning. Time to send the couch to the dump. So time to get the marble out. So I stripped the couch down to the skeleton. Just to find a tiny round bit of fiber optic glass.