{"id":10659,"date":"2010-02-02T10:30:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=10659"},"modified":"2010-02-02T23:28:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T06:28:32","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-fool-your-fiends-squirtgun-fake-pens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-fool-your-fiends-squirtgun-fake-pens\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day &#8211; 1950&#8217;s &#8220;Fool Your Friends&#8221; Squirt Gun Pens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10703\" title=\"pen-squirt-gun_2200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/pen-squirt-gun_2200.jpg\" alt=\"pen-squirt-gun_2200\" width=\"306\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/pen-squirt-gun_2200.jpg 306w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/pen-squirt-gun_2200-183x300.jpg 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/>These cheap, flimsy plastic fake pens were all the rage as similar &#8216;joke&#8217; toys made in Hong Kong like snapping packs of gum and snakes exploding out of peanut cans flooded novelty and drugstores shelves in the 1950&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s. You pull the cap off, squeeze the pen as you hold it in water (or invisible ink!) and then aim. I bought these ultimate squirt guns by the carton full with my allowance money and spent my youth asking people if they needed a pen.<\/p>\n<p>I found this set for three bucks recently.&nbsp;&nbsp; I was only paying 29 cents back in the day, which means 14.5 cents a pen\/squirt gun. Though I&#8217;m still never without 10 (real and more expensive) pens on me at all times these are still my favorites.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10707\" title=\"pen-squirt-gun_2204\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/pen-squirt-gun_2204.jpg\" alt=\"pen-squirt-gun_2204\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/pen-squirt-gun_2204.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/pen-squirt-gun_2204-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10705\" title=\"pen-squirt-gun_2202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/pen-squirt-gun_2202.jpg\" alt=\"pen-squirt-gun_2202\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/pen-squirt-gun_2202.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/pen-squirt-gun_2202-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These cheap, flimsy plastic fake pens were all the rage as similar &#8216;joke&#8217; toys made in Hong Kong like snapping packs of gum and snakes exploding out of peanut cans flooded novelty and drugstores shelves in the 1950&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s. You pull the cap off, squeeze the pen as you hold it in water (or &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-fool-your-fiends-squirtgun-fake-pens\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[317,87,193,585],"tags":[61,3232,3245,957,959],"class_list":["post-10659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-toy","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-pen-squirt-gun","tag-pen-squirtgun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}