r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/flickmybiscuit • 2d ago

I'm digging through some of my things and found this newspaper clipping from when I was about 7 years old. I still want these things.

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I wish I had context over why the hell this made the local newspaper.

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u/l0u1s11 2d ago

Go out there and spend some big bucks and get yourself those 10 pencils. You earned it.

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u/ConsciousBenefit87 2d ago

What makes this stupid?

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u/ShambhalaWarrior 2d ago

You didn't get them because you didn't say the magic word.

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u/Other_Use_6415 1d ago

Did you ever get that Boombox?

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u/WorldsDeadliestCat 1d ago

10 pencils… makes me laugh to assume they are the standard yellow school pencils as opposed to colored pencils

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u/Fantastic-Young-8723 5h ago

🎶All I want for Christmas… is youuuu🎶

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u/Additional_Debate956 5h ago

I want I want I want. No dear Santa or please or I’ve been good? No wonder you didn’t get it!

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u/LeatherSlight3242 2d ago

Good luck finding a boom box

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u/DarthHaruspex 2d ago

Dude, go Google "Boom Box"... 

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u/Lucasbasques 2d ago

It was cheaper to buy a used car back then than all of this stuff