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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #30 on: February 19, 2012, 04:25:26 AM »
nah, i was born in the late 80s. the kids parents being of a similar age to my older sisters just makes me feel old...
What you don't realize is there almost was no 1966, ergo no late '80's, no older sisters, no you.  :headscratch:
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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #31 on: February 19, 2012, 05:55:23 AM »
I got a candy apple red sting ray bike in about 68.  Then a few years later, I got a honda 50 mini bike.  There was a go-cart somewhere about the that time.  I made the mistake of dragging my arm under one of the back wheels.  The cart just wants to run over you.
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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #32 on: February 19, 2012, 06:03:42 AM »
I was 8 and busy watching the World Cup.

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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #33 on: February 19, 2012, 06:05:35 AM »
Then about 1975, I got a kawasaki 100, it had 5 gears and would do about 60 mph.  Looking back, think my parents wanted to kill me. :)
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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #34 on: February 19, 2012, 06:23:58 AM »
England won the World Cup
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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #35 on: February 19, 2012, 06:28:03 AM »
I wasn't a glimmer in my dads eye for another 2 years.
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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #36 on: February 19, 2012, 08:36:36 AM »
I was 5

I remember the plastic monkeys but I dont remember the story behind them. But my mother sure does!

They bring me to this fancy restaurant called "the Barge" in Perth Amboy NJ And order me a soda while we're waiting for dinner. Well they served a cherry with them  and the way they did that was they had these little plastic monkeys that hung from the side of the glass to which the cherry was affixed.

I thought those monkey were soo cool. And the waitress was sooo impressed at how cool I thought those monkeys were she came back with a whole fistfull of them for me to play with while we were waiting and for me to take home.

So she comes over and dumps the whole fistful in front of me and so impressed was I at all the monkeys and even then never being one to understate something that I quickly exclaimed real loud.

"Jesus Christ! Look at all the F--- Monkeys!!"

My parents were soo not proud.  LMAO
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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #37 on: February 19, 2012, 08:55:41 AM »
Turned 17 in Sep 66 and was on a bus heading to El Paso from Albuquerque to Ft Bliss for Army Basic on that birthday. :old:
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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #38 on: February 19, 2012, 09:21:48 AM »
I can still remember every Nun in school in '66 and her personal favorite form of corporal punishment. One favored a left hook, another a series of combinations slaps to each side of your face until the smirk dissapeared, another swung a mean ruler, one was a hair puller, one an ear puller/face slapper, one stiff arms to the forehead. The Principle of the school was a nun who was about 4' tall who must have been schooled by the VietCong in Psychological warfare the way she, in between cracks, would threaten to call your old man at home that night. A 9yo, at the end of one of her sessions, would end up on his knees shaking and praying to God to transform you from a little jackoff to a good Catholic kid.

Her name was Sister Clement and to this day I cant watch the capture scenes in "The Deerhunter".

The funny thing is you never got into trouble for fistfighting in the schoolyard. Unless it was an older kid bullying, and even then some older kid would straighten it out. Nowdays I cant stand the shrieking of the teachers when a couple kids take a few swings at each other. Back in '66 they wouldnt even bother breaking it up. If the old man heard you stood up for yourself and smacked some other kid he'd probably buy you a double chocolate at Dairy Queen. LOL, in '66 Dads would take their sons to the Local tavern just to get away from the old lady. I'd sit there at the bar with the other "sons" drinking orange pop watching baseball, or playing the slot/bowling machines.

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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #39 on: February 19, 2012, 10:24:19 AM »
At that point I was nothing more than some potassium, carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and trace sulfur and iron atoms in the soil of Poland and the US.  I would later become food, which my parents would then consume to create the gametes that would form me.  Man, was it boring- things really slowed down after that last asteroid hit, but it was better than sitting in the center of a sun.  People complain about heat waves- bah, that's nothing, try living where it's so hot that matter no longer exists in the gaseous state.  After the star blew up I got in this horrible car accident- it was a 2x10^(2x10^(2x10^10)) atom pileup- it took me billions of years just to get the insurance paid off.  When things finally cooled down I found a job at the local sea bottom sealing off dead plankton, but after a while I got bored of just sitting there in the ground with nothing to do but oscillate and talk to my neighbors who could never make up their minds: wave, or particle.  By 1966, my dad was around 10-12, and my mom was just 2-3 years old.

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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #40 on: February 19, 2012, 10:53:38 AM »
I was 5

I remember the plastic monkeys but I dont remember the story behind them. But my mother sure does!

They bring me to this fancy restaurant called "the Barge" in Perth Amboy NJ And order me a soda while we're waiting for dinner. Well they served a cherry with them  and the way they did that was they had these little plastic monkeys that hung from the side of the glass to which the cherry was affixed.

I thought those monkey were soo cool. And the waitress was sooo impressed at how cool I thought those monkeys were she came back with a whole fistfull of them for me to play with while we were waiting and for me to take home.

So she comes over and dumps the whole fistful in front of me and so impressed was I at all the monkeys and even then never being one to understate something that I quickly exclaimed real loud.

"Jesus Christ! Look at all the F--- Monkeys!!"

My parents were soo not proud.  LMAO

Barrel of monkeys...what could be more fun??
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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #41 on: February 19, 2012, 12:40:08 PM »


The funny thing is you never got into trouble for fistfighting in the schoolyard. Unless it was an older kid bullying, and even then some older kid would straighten it out. Nowdays I cant stand the shrieking of the teachers when a couple kids take a few swings at each other. Back in '66 they wouldnt even bother breaking it up. If the old man heard you stood up for yourself and smacked some other kid he'd probably buy you a double chocolate at Dairy Queen. LOL, in '66 Dads would take their sons to the Local tavern just to get away from the old lady. I'd sit there at the bar with the other "sons" drinking orange pop watching baseball, or playing the slot/bowling machines.

My,my The world has changed.

THIS!

Yes the world has changed.
And based on what I see of many parents today. Not for the better either.
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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #42 on: February 19, 2012, 12:49:39 PM »
nah, i was born in the late 80s. the kids parents being of a similar age to my older sisters just makes me feel old...
Parents are in their early 30's, they had me super early, in fact I have some of the youngest parents at my high school given my current age
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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #43 on: February 20, 2012, 09:36:56 AM »
 :old: I was at Fort Bragg, NC - jumping out of airplanes..
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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #44 on: February 20, 2012, 10:00:09 AM »
66... hmm I was somewhere in the US. Traveled so much I can't remember.

I was 7 years old.
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