How to be envied by every boy in town

Boys' Life - Dec 1916

Little Folks Children's Magazine - Dec 1918

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Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 21, 2014
Category: Toys | 1910s | Weapons

Comments

But it's not a penis substitute, oh no, honestly it isn't.

Posted by Richard Bos on 09/21/14 at 09:54 AM

Hay, BD, got one of these yet?

It even comes with 36 'wood pills' for rapid fire action.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 09/21/14 at 10:10 AM

Hay ? I'm already hung like a horse Expat.

Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 09/21/14 at 10:34 AM

Back in 1916 you could get a big dick for only $2.50. Costs more now.

Posted by F.U.D. on 09/21/14 at 10:46 AM

Mare?

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 09/21/14 at 10:58 AM

I wanna Big Dick!!! Those wood bullets sound dangerous though. Reminds me of a famous quote, "You'll shoot your eye out!"

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 09/21/14 at 11:20 AM

Mares eat oats and Doe's eat oats and Greeks never eat lively.

Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 09/21/14 at 11:48 AM

Dick has been a four-letter word since at least the 1880s. Any boy by 1916 would have known what joining the Big Dick Brigade could mean.

Still -- pretty awful that they were flogging toy machine guns during the worst carnage ever.

Posted by Harvey on 09/21/14 at 06:24 PM

With dimensions like that, all the other kids in the neighborhood would have major Richard envy. That is getting into alleged Long Dong Silver territory and beyond. Forget about John C. Holmes.

Posted by Harvey on 09/22/14 at 01:08 AM

"Big Dick is a gun that will be enjoyed both indoors and out". What parent would let their kid use this inside?!

Posted by Dave Plechaty on 09/22/14 at 02:00 AM

LITTLE JOHNNY:" Mommy ! Mommy!! I want get a BIG DICK!!!!!"
MOMMY: " Thats nice, go ask your Father, if he says yes, tell him I want one too!!!"

Posted by MOM on 09/22/14 at 12:00 PM

There seems to be at least one that still exists.

http://www.gunauction.com/buy/10443224/toy-guns/1922-big-dick-machine-gun-milton-bradley

Posted by Jeff on 10/01/14 at 03:03 AM

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