Here's yer basic. Unalloyed bliss on the festive morn, at 606 17th St, Brooklyn. This is the place of my soul.
The tinsel on the tree is that great old lead stuff they banned a few years later. Seems some dumb kids used to chew on it!
Ahem. Lead poisoning... it might explain a lot. When they banned the lead icicles I had to resort to gnawing on the "Lead Pipe" from the game CLUE. It was actually made of lead! Not for long. Soon that was gone, too. F'ing safety nazis! Bummer.
Then I found that roll of solder in Dad's tool box. Mmmm!
Haven't chewed lead in years.
Well, a few years ago I began collecting packages of the old lead icicles on Ebay and antique stores. Sure, I dipped a little. Still great.