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Title: Remember? Post by tanner on May 20th, 2007, 3:46pm When........... All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? It took five minutes for the TV warm up? Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school? Nobody owned a purebred dog? When a quarter was a decent allowance? You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces? All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels? You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot? Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box? It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents? They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . . and they did? When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady? No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked? Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a " and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger? And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today? When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home? Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat. Share this with someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk. As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar. Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"? I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on. To remember what a double dog dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. How many of these do you remember? Candy cigarettes Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers Newsreels before the movie P.F. Fliers Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). Party lines Peashooters Howdy Dowdy 45 RPM records Green Stamps Hi-Fi's Metal ice cubes trays with levers Mimeograph paper Beanie and Cecil Roller-skate keys Cork pop guns Drive ins Studebakers Washtub wringers The Fuller Brush Man Reel-To-Reel tape recorders Tinkertoys Erector Sets The Fort Apache Play Set Lincoln Logs 15 cent McDonald hamburgers 5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of bubble gum (I actually loved the gum ::)) Penny candy 35 cent a gallon gasoline Jiffy Pop popcorn Do you remember a time when... Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"? Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"? "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest? Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening? It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"? The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"? (Sorry Pam :-*) Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot? A foot of snow was a dream come true? Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures? "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense? Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles? The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team? War was a card game? Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle? Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin? Water balloons were the ultimate weapon? If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!! Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown-up" life . . .I double-dog-dare author anon, a little editing by..........Tim |
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Title: Re: Remember? Post by Jonny on May 20th, 2007, 4:06pm I remember all of them and im damn glad I do! I feel sorry for the kids that are going to have to deal with this onslaught of immigrants! |
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Title: Re: Remember? Post by kayarr on May 20th, 2007, 4:17pm What the heck was that color for the polyester gym trunks anyway? (seam down the front :P I believe we can still have some of those same values today. It takes not bowing down to the pressure of "well Bobby gets to....". It's knowing that parenting isn't a popularity contest and that being your childrens friend isn't as important as being a parent. The reward for teaching your children right from wrong, manners, a good work ethic and their duty to the world around them is enormous. As parents and adults in order to be credible we have to be willing to live what we teach. Wow, didn't realize I was going to get that nose bleed from that HIGH soap box I am standing on....lol. Just my opinion;) Kimberly |
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Title: Re: Remember? Post by cynjeep89 on May 20th, 2007, 4:18pm Tim, you stirred up so many good memories... Loved Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry Gum....remember the Teaberry Shuffle? All of the neighborhood kids would go to the 7-11 store and get slurpees (followed by intense brain freezes because we drank them way too fast) in the morning hop on our bikes and be gone until dinner time and our parents never worried about us. We didn't need cell phones...go figure? Playing kick the can, whiffle ball, kick ball, dodge ball, jacks, marbles, hop scotch, pick-up sticks and marathon monoply games. Loved watching Rat Patrol, F Troop, Soupy Sales and Fang, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (never saw one show where all the people were thrown to the same side of the sub at the same time when they were being attacked by some strange sea creature....there were always one or two actors who were always going in the opposite direction...bad casting, I guess :-/) Thanks for the stroll down memory lane, Tim!! |
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Title: Re: Remember? Post by medic1852 on May 20th, 2007, 5:22pm on 05/20/07 at 15:46:35, tanner wrote:
This is the list I remember. You forgot to mention ghost man on first when you did not have enough players for the ball game. Rodger |
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