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William Herbert "Herb" Schaper (1914—1980) was a Minnesota postman who created, developed, and manufactured a children's game known as Cootie. [4] [5] After whittling a fishing lure in 1948, he molded the object in plastic, fashioned a game around it, and formed the H. W. Schaper Mfg. Co., Inc. to manufacture and publish the game.
The game was invented in 1948 by William H. Schaper, a manufacturer of small commercial popcorn machines in Robbinsdale, Minnesota.It was likely inspired by an earlier pencil-and-paper game where players drew cootie parts according to a dice roll and/or a 1939 game version of that using cardboard parts with a cootie board. [2]
A hand-held game, the Cootie Game, was made by the Irvin-Smith Company of Chicago in 1915; it involved tilting capsules (the cooties) into a trap over a background illustration depicting a battlefield. [6] Other cootie games followed, all involving some form of "bug" or "cootie", [6] until The Game of Cootie was launched in 1948 by Schaper Toys ...
Cooties is a 2014 American zombie comedy film directed by Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion from a screenplay that was written by Ian Brennan and Leigh Whannell.It stars Elijah Wood, Alison Pill, Rainn Wilson, Jack McBrayer, Whannell, Nasim Pedrad, Brennan, and Jorge Garcia as a group of elementary school employees who fight to survive an outbreak among students that turn them into aggressive ...
Highest-grossing films of 1980 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 The Empire Strikes Back: 20th Century Fox: $209,398,025 2 9 to 5: $103,290,500 3 Stir Crazy: Columbia: $101,300,000 4 Airplane! Paramount: $83,453,539 5 Any Which Way You Can: Warner Bros. $70,687,344 6 Private Benjamin: $69,847,348 7 Coal Miner's Daughter: Universal ...
Don't Spill the Beans is a children's game for 2 or more players ages 3–6 published by Milton Bradley Company, a subsidiary of Hasbro The game was originally manufactured by Schaper Toys but acquired by Milton Bradley in 1986 through its then owner, Tyco Toys. [1] The game is described by Hasbro as a "Classic Preschool Game.
Battle Cry: A Civil War Game (American Heritage magazine) 1961-1965; Battle Masters (1992), produced in conjunction with Games Workshop; Battleship (1967) Battleship Galaxies (2011) Bed Bugs (1985) Beetle (a.k.a. Cootie) (1927) Beetle Bailey: The Old Army Game (1963) Benji Detective Game (1979) Bermuda Triangle (1976) Big Foot (1977) The ...
Michael Grady (born 6 February 1946) is an English character actor. He is best known for his comedy roles in films and television, particularly as Ken Mills in Citizen Smith (1977-1980) and Barry Wilkinson in Last of the Summer Wine (1986-2010).