I always loved stuff that glowed in the dark. Stickers, necklaces, shirts. I had a Star Wars paint by number kit that I thought was really cool because of the glowing lightsaber. Another favorite of mine was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles t-shirt although I guess I never got to show it off much. I didn’t really hang out with people in the dark back then. Did anyone have one of those cool bedroom ceilings covered with the glow-in-the-dark planets?
I used to have a glow-in-the-dark T-rex skeleton. it was the coolest
I had a glow in the dark star ceiling in my old room…in fact, they’re all still stuck up there and I can’t get ‘em off.
Now it’s the guest room…oops!
Wehehehe, Biff is all green and glowy.
My ceiling has little stars on them and a moon, it was left there by the people who lived here before. Its cool.
Holy crap, I remember the glow-in-the-dark stars and planets. Those were awesome.
I want them again.
chris, i would still love to have those glow in the dark planets
I have a glow in the dark spiderweb on my ceiling it took forever to paint
Radium and Tritium glow green, but Tritium is a gas. Radium used to be painted onto the hands and numbers on clock and watch faces so they’d glow in the dark. Radiation? What?
Now you can get stuff with vials of Tritium gas that glow, watches with it in the hands, gunsights, keychains, landing lights for airstrips out in the middle of nowhere, emergency illumination on ships and submarines and lots more uses. The radiation from Tritium is very weak so it only takes a thin glass or plastic vial to contain it completely.
I had one but it always kept me up at night.
I still have a package of glow-in-the-dark stars AND one of planets to figure out where to put up. Also, I once stole a wicked cool tee shirt from a boyfriend; it says “GODZILLA” in big block letters and has a closeup of his eyes inside the lettering. Imagine my surprise like a year and a half later when I wore it for a nightshirt and discovered that the eyeballs glow in the dark! Hey–does anyone else have this weird little quirk? I canNOT see glow-in-the-dark stuff if I look directly at it! It disappears. I have to look an inch or so to one side to see anything that glows in the dark, and I always have. Otherwise my eyesight’s pretty good.
I have glow-in-the-dark sheeps on my bedroom’s ceilings
i had them as a kid.us my mom sponge painted the ceiling & walls, and the effect was awe-inspiring at night. also, anyone ever see the x-files episode of the simpsons? O.o
When i was a kid, my ceiling was COVERED in glow in the dark stars and planets. After the big light in the ceiling was turned off they would glow so brightly I could see well enough in the otherwise-dark room to find my way around my room without tripping over anything. They would glow like that for HOURS! It was so nice to fall asleep to them…
Now I live in a house with that cruddy bumpy ceiling stuff and I dont think the glowey stars will stay there now if I got them.
I miss my personal night sky so much… especially now since I work night shift and don’t ever get to see the real stars cause of the city… :{
I had one. I’ve always had one cause i love stars and space and such
infact, I STILL have one even though i go to a boarding school. no planets, but tons of stars! I
I had a bunkbed with a regular sized box spring. They make bunk-bed boxsprings that are a lot thinner… You can probably imagine that sleeping in that bed was almost like a coffin as I grew bigger. When I was little I had the glow in the dark stars that I put on my ‘coffin’ ceiling. I enjoyed watching them lose their glow as I tried to afoid falling asleep.
@bizzybody ; “Radium and Tritium glow green”
Again, not true. In their native state, they give off no vivible light. Only when combined with a phosphor do you get a visisble-light glow (usually green, but not always). As I note above, copper-doped zinc sulfide is one such material, which is commonly used in combination with radium to make watch hands and instrument indicators glow. Silver and magnesium have also been used in combination with zinc sulfide.
Tritium gas is enclosed in borosilicate glass tubes, the interior of which is coated with a thin layer of phosphor.
So sorry to be such a wet blanket, but as a former Navy Nuc, I sometimes get annoyed at the misinformation out there on the subject. Radiation isn’t a mystical magical force; anyone can learn how it works – it’s not, at its core, all that hard. And no, I don’t glow; Not blue, not green, nor in any other hue.
Yeah! I had stickers on my ceiling like that. Every week when I got my allowance I’d spend it all on packs of those. I planned to cover my entire ceiling in them.
I had thosse glowing stars and planets! And I’d count them every night before going to sleep. And I was always disappointed that I got the same number every time.
I used to have those glow in the dark planets and stars hanging from my ceiling. It was quite interesting lying on my back at night and just staring those planets.
i had those sticky glow in the dark stars on my ceiling. they were always falling down.
he looks just like Ambush Bug here!
I had a glow in the dark koosh ball. That was pretty sweet when it got enough sunlight to actually glow at night.
It’s the Incredible Biff!!
I used to have Ghostbuster pjs that glowed in the dark. They were by favorite pajamas and I wore them for years…and this was when I needed a new pair of shoes every week because I was growing so much. My mom finally took them away from me when the long sleeves were just below my elbows and the pants barely covered my knees. I’m hoping they are still in a box somewhere.
I had a ceiling with a full solar system, astroid belt included. I still have a bunch of glowing stars that I keep meaning to put up, but I keep getting destracted by various web-comics and such, when I mean to put them up.
I made my daughters nightgowns a few years ago, out of fabrics they chose. The younger one chose Care Bears with glowy moons, stars, and clouds. I did a hideous job, but she still loves the thing and wears it, even though she’s grown a good 8 inches since I made the thing.
my finger nails have glow in the dark polish on them right now. when i was little i, for reasons i no longer remember, completely outlined my bedroom door with glow in the dark stuff. I say stuff because some of it was dinasaur toys that i’d hung from yarn tacked to the wall.
Heh, I expected some of the hulk jokes. Yeah, best glow in the dark thing I have is a glow in the dark poster of pinhead looming out of my closet. No one will spend time in my room now.
I has ceiling stars ^^ Don’t worry Nero, the Hulk was my first thought too
And the_gail, I would kill a man for glow-in-the-dark nail polish.
My mum’s got an R2-D2 t-shirt that has an LED where R2′s round light thingy is… It hasn’t got a battery, though.
I had both the planets, and I believe fish. It was awesome.
One of my all time favourite Biff comics, I have been making a game since way before I discovered The Book of Biff (which is fairly recently) in which i decided to explain everything with Uranium, and this comic made me realizes, the preexisting settings in this Universe suite Biff exactly, describing everything about him including the eyebrows!
I still have the glowing stars and planets on my ceiling.
He just doesn’t want to admit he cosplays as invader zim
I still have a few stars on my ceiling after all these years, and a cool glow-in-the-dark poster that have aliens marching out of a flying saucer.
My first post, though I’ve read this far.
My brother has stars, planets and UFOs that glow in the dark in his bedroom. Well, they were there when we moved in. He’s probably past that stage, seeing as he’s 21.
I had those glow in the dark stars stickers many times as a kid. I ordered them from Johnson Smith Company. I can’t seem to find those exact ones anymore. The new ones are crap.
I let my daughters paint their room in a Pollock style. Slinging paint all over the place. Along with the normal house paint was some glow in the dark paint. The room is interesting at night with strings of glowing all over the place.
Yes, my cieling was covered in stars and planets. My brother’s too
But then I had to change rooms, and didn’t bring them with me
im 17 and i have them up still
Just another stubborn fact: Plutonium is probably the deadliest poison in the world. One thimble-full, if evenly distributed, would eliminate mankind. I won’t ask where he gets his plutonium, but Biff doesn’t have long for this world. If he had lived in the early 20th century, he could have drank Radithor instead, and lived just a little longer. Poor Biff. He’s finally done himself in this time.
At least he’ll be a candidate for a posthumous Darwin Award. 