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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2011 21:18:54 GMT
This was a common term when I was little. Does anybody recognize the term?
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2011 7:13:58 GMT
Nope!
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Post by mickthecactus on May 12, 2011 8:04:28 GMT
Nope again.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 12, 2011 8:42:31 GMT
I'm from near the same area where you grew up, but don't recognize the term at all.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2011 11:36:44 GMT
"Wiggle pictures" was the name given to the little plastic images that would appear to move (for example a cartoon character) when you moved them back and forth. Back in those days, they were often found in boxes of Cracker Jack.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 12, 2011 17:18:37 GMT
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. No. I know exactly what you're talking about now, but that may have been a term specific to you and your playmates. I think we called them "those pictures that switch back and forth". Okay, I just googled cracker jack prize moving pictures and one hit gave me this: lenticular - The trade term for a tilt card, which has more than one picture printed in parallel lines on the same plane, and a plastic lense is used to filter the image so that only one view can be seen at a time. The lenticular lense, which is applied to the printed card in the manufacturing process, enables the viewer to see only the image determined by the angle at which the image is viewed, thus the item can be turned (tilted "to and fro" as the backs one set of Cracker Jack lenticulars instruct), or the viewing angle changed, and different images will be seen. Source: www.crackerjackcollectors.com/Jeffrey_Maxwell/hobbykid/dictionary.htmlI assume you can swear on the same stack of bubble gum comics as I that you never once used the term "lenticular" in your childhood. Well, until this moment, I never used it in my adulthood either. If I'd heard it, I would have assumed it referred to a legume, as in "We'll be having a lenticular meal tonight." Armed with my new word, I hit Google Images with the search term lenticular picture gif. Ooooo ~~ found stuff such as this: Biggest 3D Lenticular Mural Ever Made. Note that the writer makes use of your same analogy to describe "lenticular". The hits page is a great source of time-wasting fascination: www.google.com/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&biw=1024&bih=613&gbv=2&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=lenticular+picture+gif&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2011 17:40:34 GMT
I think wiggle pictures is a much better name.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 12, 2011 19:40:42 GMT
I knew what you meant Kerouac...and it is a perfect way of decribing them. They're quite sophisticated nowadays aren't they? I have several pretty cool bookmarks that are wiggle pictures... ;D
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Post by hwinpp on May 20, 2011 4:24:23 GMT
I thought he meant gifs... like your avatar, peabrain.
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