Going through the last few pages of my 2002 Dave Barry desk calendar - for 12/30 he said:
Now why does that bring back memories when I never even had a Lionel train?
As a child, I spent countless fun hours watching my Lionel train go araound and around, and of course around. The train had a milk car with a milkman who loaded and unloaded milk cans by means of the mysterious power of -- prepare to become excited -- magnetism! There was even a missile car that used magnetism to launch a missile, which went straight up and came back down on the train, sometimes hitting the milkman, who apparently represented some kind of military threat.
Now why does that bring back memories when I never even had a Lionel train?