caravaggio
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posted on June 22, 2001 05:55:53 PM
Not one of the heavier topics on the RT, but I got a lava lamp today and I am amazed by it. Does anyone else have one? My husband doesn't seem to understand how truly remarkable it is . Are there others who feel like me? If so, maybe we can start a lava lamp lovers group. 
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rancher24
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posted on June 22, 2001 06:03:12 PM
caravaggio, CONGRATS on your new lava lamp!! I wanted one sooooo bad, back in the 70's (my teen years) but my mother didn't approve, so all I got was a soda can lamp with a flicker bulb (poor substitute!). Last Christmas my niece bought one for me and my DH. Finally, we both had one! Unfortunately, my 16 year old sucked that puppy into his room before the tinsel had fallen from the tree! Sometimes late at night, I wander into his room, lit by MY lava lamp & assorted blacklights (another thing MY mother didn't let me have!) light a stick of incense, stick a 70's cd into the stereo & remember my youth!!!
Enjoy it!!
~ Rancher
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Zazzie
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posted on June 22, 2001 06:05:43 PM
I'm gonna go listen to my Woodstock album in honour of this thread---and then my 'Best of the Guess Who"
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uaru
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posted on June 22, 2001 06:21:03 PM
Yup, all of the sudden I have a craving for my old lava lamp, the waterpipe, and my Door's album. I feel my mind going Dave...
Peace, Love, Stop the War! 
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joice
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posted on June 22, 2001 06:23:36 PM
Dave? Dave's not here! 
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hepburn
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posted on June 22, 2001 06:24:20 PM
Groovy. I had one, myself. I could sit and stare at it for hours. All those outta sight colors, you know
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uaru
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posted on June 22, 2001 06:32:51 PM
Dave? Dave's not here!
LMAO!!! I swear I almost hurt myself listening to that Cheech and Chong routine one night. I was living in an interesting household to say the least, 5 of us renting a house in Seattle and God knows how many that were passing through. It was groovy.
You resurrected an old memory that started me laughing again making my wife come to the computer to see what I was up to.
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ExecutiveGirl
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posted on June 22, 2001 06:33:33 PM
I have a lava lamp! Bought it a couple years ago. Yellow & red in a black stand.
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Zazzie
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posted on June 22, 2001 06:53:04 PM
"Don't bogart that........
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hepburn
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posted on June 22, 2001 06:55:11 PM
It was Dave? I thought it was Steve! Ah well...no wonder I forgot the name. Too many bong hits, probably
"Pass it over to me" Zazzie
"Up against the Wall...." (you can finish that one, lol.
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joice
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posted on June 22, 2001 06:59:58 PM
uaru,
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caravaggio
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posted on June 22, 2001 08:18:35 PM
Lava lamp lovers unite!We must make others see how wonderful the lava lamp is!Maybe we can start a grass roots campaign?
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caravaggio
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posted on June 22, 2001 08:26:35 PM
EG:Black base with aqua and green lava juice.
UA: Great gif!
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gravid
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posted on June 23, 2001 06:22:02 AM
A free lava lamp screen saver for each of you:
http://www.3dhavoc.com/products/lava.html
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Muriel
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posted on June 23, 2001 06:25:20 AM
Hubby and I used to see one in an antique store that we frequented, and it was REALLY old. It was gold, and the stuff inside just laid at the bottom in a petrified blob, looking like something from a really creepy movie. I'll bet that lamp is still for sale since I can't imagine anyone wanting it in their home.
BUT - we bought my son a nice blue one for his birthday three years ago, and it still graces his bedroom nightstand at his apartment.
"Who is it?" "It's Dave". "Dave's not here". 
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ZILvy
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posted on June 23, 2001 06:54:44 AM
Lava Lamps are wayyy keeewwlll!
[ edited by ZILvy on Jun 23, 2001 06:56 AM ]
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Hjw
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posted on June 23, 2001 07:09:44 AM
I just knew you would think that. 
Helen
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ZILvy
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posted on June 23, 2001 07:14:11 AM
Again,I lied!! Just wanted to use the blue smilie!! You are not a clairvoyant are you, you rascal you?
I am actually learning all about mental health issues...too emotional for me to partake in those threads!
[ edited by ZILvy on Jun 23, 2001 07:15 AM ]
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Hjw
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posted on June 23, 2001 07:27:35 AM
"Blue" smileys?
Sort of a contradiction going on there.
I prefer yellow.
Helen
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triplesnack
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posted on June 23, 2001 11:43:20 AM
Hooray lava lamps! I've had them since I was a kid (no flicker bulb on a 7-Up can for me -- LOL!).
They were still going strong in the 70s, and then those "fiber optic" lights appeared on the scene as the perfect complement to your groovy swinging pad. The fiber optics don't seem to be so popular now (although they do make some pretty remarkable fiber optic Christmas trees).
By the 80s it seemed like lava lamps were out of vogue (not for me), and all the groovy people were getting those "electricity sphere" lamps. They seemed to replace lava lamps as the weird "futuristic" set piece in sci-fi movies. (Anybody remember the utterly laughable 13-episode TV series Otherworld?)
These days I think the "new" lava lamp is the Sculptured Electra Lamp. These are pretty cool. Like the "electricity sphere," only made out of blown glass.
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tinkerismyname
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posted on June 23, 2001 11:58:22 AM
My oldest daughter has one. That's the reason I can't go into her room. The thing is mezmer...messmer...I HAVE to sit and stare at it for hours! The lava lamp and the fact that her room is a pigpen!!LOL. Mostly the lava lamp.
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gaffan
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posted on June 23, 2001 09:43:43 PM
I've got a remote switch by my monitor for mine. I got my first one around 1967, when I was nine; my dad carried them in his corner market when they first came out, and they moved out of there at warp speed. Back then the container was a plain cylinder. Judging from the threading on the top opening and the structure of the cap, they just ordered some standard sized bottle. Your choice of colors was green, green, or green (with walnut base and simulated brass finish). You either instictively apprecate the utter coolness of lava lites, or you don't. I've never met a convert in either direction.
-gaffan-
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rawbunzel
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posted on June 23, 2001 11:10:21 PM
Uaru? That house wouldn't have been on Capitol Hill would it? During the late 1960's early 70's?
My 84 year old mom is fascinated by lava lamps. I am going to get her one. My brother had one when he was staying there for awhile and she just was mesmerized. I have one too. I am also unable to take my eyes off the thing when it is going. They are addictive.
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Borillar
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posted on June 24, 2001 12:21:07 AM
The Lava lamps wer4e fine, but what I really wanted was the Ocean in a Bottle. you know the one: the one where it slowly rocks back and forth and there looks like waves upon the ocean? That's the one that I like better. That, and blacklights. I never got to own any because we were too poor.
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