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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Wayout on April 04, 2011, 07:02:52 AM
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If you are 40, or older, you might think this is hilarious!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes
about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking
twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH
ways...yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I
was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it
and how easy they've got it!
But now that I'm over the ripe old age of forty, I can't help but look around
and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my
childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids
today, you don't know how good you've got it!
1) I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know
something, we had to go to the darn library and look it up ourselves, in the
card catalog!!
2) There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a
pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the
mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!
3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter
of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our butts!
Nowhere was safe!
4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music,
you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!
5) Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would
usually talk over the beginning and mess it all up! There were no CD players!
We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when
finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless.
6) We didn't have fancy stuff like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and
somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!
7) There weren't any cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't
make a call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your
"friends". OH MY GOSH! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone
24/7! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea
how annoying you are.
8) And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no
idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your
bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know! You had
to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with
high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space
Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually
had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens,
it was just one screen.. Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept
getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like
LIFE!
10) You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You
were out of luck when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your butt
and walk over to the TV to change the channel! NO REMOTES!
Oh, no, what's the world coming to?
11) There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on
Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for
cartoons, you spoiled little kids!
12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we
had to use the stove! Imagine that!
13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no,
no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were
doing chores!
And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung
on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last
moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well
that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!
See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it
too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes
back in 1970 or any time before!
Regards, The Over 40 Crowd :old:
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:lol
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Thanks!
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When I was a kid you'd get two whippins', one from the neighbor and one when you got home.
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Good stuff lol!
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Also:
No CGI! You wanted special effects, you had to buy 8 or 9 plastic model kits and bash em together to make a spaceship, then blow it up with a firecracker.
Han shot first! The CIA tried to shoot E.T.! None of this kid-friendly no guts/no guns crap!
No crystal clear sound over the radio. Our music was enhanced by the distortion, snap, crackle and pop of AM non-stereo!
No video screen in your minivan. No minivan, either.
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I'm 19 and I couldn't stop laughing, or agreeing for that matter :uhoh
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No crystal clear sound over the radio. Our music was enhanced by the distortion, snap, crackle and pop of AM non-stereo!
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I have a vivid memory of coming back from the Jersey shore on a Sunday night, stuck in bumper-to-bumper northbound traffic on the Garden State Parkway: all the cars had their windows wide open - no air conditioning in the good old days - and every radio was tuned to New York's WABC-AM, playing some top forty pop song. The world's biggest surround-sound speaker system, circa 1964.
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The television stations were 3, 6, 10, 12(PBS) and UHF channels 17, 29 and 48. That's it. There was nothing good on back then either, but at least it was free. Got my first tv when I was 13. A hand-me-down tiny black and white pos. It went well with the AM transistor radio that comprised my collection of technological entertainment. We had a giant sofa-sized "stereo console" with a turntable and some really crappy speakers in it that I could play the two 45 speed records in my collection: Grand Funk "We're An American Band" and "Philadelphia Freedom" by Elton John. Most times I had to listen to the likes of The Lettermen and The Carpenters (my parents wanted to keep that evil rock n roll away from us). And at least you kids today don't have to go to school in a multi-color plaid three piece leisure suit. Oh the humanity. :uhoh
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What i miss is... If your car broke down, you didn't need to plug it into a special computer to figure out what was wrong with it. A person with a little knowledge, or maybe a Haynes Repair Manual, could get his hands greasy and fix it in the driveway.
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Nobody sued toy companies for making toys with sharp edges or pointy sticks in them.When you were dumb enough to cut yourself or shove a stick toward your eyes,you learned not to do that again.If you didn't learn,everyone knew you as the idiot kid who poked his own eye out,not the poor helpless victim of the evil toy companies.
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When the president gave a speech, it was on all the channels, and you were stuck with it!
You could gather pop bottles off the side of the road to get enough money for gas for the lawn mower, then mow lawns for some "real" money. $5.00 set you up pretty good for a night at the movies. Every bottle was worth 3 cents to a nickle depending on the size.
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I'm 19 and I couldn't stop laughing, or agreeing for that matter :uhoh
lol same here.
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When I was a kid you'd get two whippins', one from the neighbor and one when you got home.
THE neighborhood i grew up in.....all of us kids parents had an agreement......and there was no escaping owning up to our offenses because of this.
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being 51 i really miss them good days :old:
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Thanks wayout, just have a large amount of flashback of my days. I have to say that life was better then. can you guys remember gas price around .50, .60, .70 cent a gal. :rolleyes:
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Then again, life has gotten better.
1.) Women's rights have made huge strides, along with minority groups being able to get a decent job
2.) Medicine has made huge strides, steriliztion has become mandatory for all things
3.) No more lead in the paint
4.) No more lead in the gasoline
5.) No more lead in the pipes
6.) Airbags and full seatbelts mandatory on all non-racing cars
7.) Electric lawnmowers (thank goodness for those, the gasoline ones make my ears ring)
8.) The personal computer
9.) The internet
10-10,000.) New things one can do with the internet (research, find old friends)
10,010.) Non-stop flights from California to Bejing
10,011.) Genetically modified crops to boost food supply
10,012.) Fall of Communism
10,013.) AH2
You guys are confusing how fun being a kid was with the actual quality of life back then. Now that you're an adult and life sucks, you blame it on the time period.
-Penguin
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When I was a kid it was pretty much the way the OP said. Didn't even get AC in the house 'till we sold it. Video games....... they were around, but we didn't have them. Was pretty much go outside and play all day. We had one TV, never watched it. Caller ID? Didn't know what it was. If I wanted to go someplace it was either walk or take the bicycle.
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I'm 19 and I couldn't stop laughing, or agreeing for that matter :uhoh
sadly so, same here. He's very right..although I'm not nearly as dependant on Computers or other things as some of my friends. I look around in class and half of them have their iPods or phones out.
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Then again, life has gotten better.
1.) Women's rights have made huge strides, along with minority groups being able to get a decent job
2.) Medicine has made huge strides, steriliztion has become mandatory for all things
3.) No more lead in the paint
4.) No more lead in the gasoline
5.) No more lead in the pipes
6.) Airbags and full seatbelts mandatory on all non-racing cars
7.) Electric lawnmowers (thank goodness for those, the gasoline ones make my ears ring)
8.) The personal computer
9.) The internet
10-10,000.) New things one can do with the internet (research, find old friends)
10,010.) Non-stop flights from California to Bejing
10,011.) Genetically modified crops to boost food supply
10,012.) Fall of Communism
10,013.) AH2
You guys are confusing how fun being a kid was with the actual quality of life back then. Now that you're an adult and life sucks, you blame it on the time period.
-Penguin
Do you want people to hate you or are you just that clueless?
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Do you want people to hate you or are you just that clueless?
+1. while all he said is great and true...it is not like it was.
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penguin do you even play AH?
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+1. while all he said is great and true...it is not like it was.
actually I think most of the things he mentioned are just more chains around the necks of people, and one day will be used to completely subjugate every one except a very few.
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Great Post!
Forgot...at my age we didn't get a television until 1955! 3 Channels is all ya got and it was crappy reception compared to today.
We listened to the radio. No Color TV until 1967, and all shows did not broadcast in Color!
If ya got a beating in School, ya got another one when you came home. Naturally the Principal called your Parents and let them
know what you did. My Grandparents had a party telephone line which meant more then one household used the same phoneline.
If you needed the phone and your neighbors were chatting (sometimes up to 4) you had to ask politely for them to hang up.
I remember my grandmother talking with 3 neighbor ladies swapping recipes.
Comic Books! Yayyyyyyyy Back in our day we could actually read!!!
there's more.....but not enuff room or time LOL :old:
Curry1....with Penguin...I'll go with clueless!
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Its funny to see parents raising hell about violence in movies and cartoons when we grew up on the original Roadrunner. And thats all I got to say about that Jen nay.
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3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter
of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our butts!
Nowhere was safe!
I live in Kentucky, what are you talking about?
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penguin do you even play AH?
this
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penguin do you even play AH?
Yes, it's just that homework keeps getting in the way.
actually I think most of the things he mentioned are just more chains around the necks of people, and one day will be used to completely subjugate every one except a very few.
How will women's rights, clean medical equipment, safer cars, the fall of communism and the removal of toxic lead from paint and drinking water pipes subjugate us?
+1. while all he said is great and true...it is not like it was.
It's not like it was, true. However, do realize that you grew up in a time where blacks, women, and those from the Eastern bloc (Poland for instance, where my mom was from) were under a glass ceiling. There was also the possibility of an earth-shattering nuclear war. I thank the previous generation for saving the world from the abyss of that possible holocaust.
-Penguin
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Yes, it's just that homework keeps getting in the way.
game name? just curious if ive flown with ya or around you
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Yes, it's just that homework keeps getting in the way.
How will women's rights, clean medical equipment, safer cars, the fall of communism and the removal of toxic lead from paint and drinking water pipes subjugate us?
It's not like it was, true. However, do realize that you grew up in a time where blacks, women, and those from the Eastern bloc (Poland for instance, where my mom was from) were under a glass ceiling. There was also the possibility of an earth-shattering nuclear war. I thank the previous generation for saving the world from the abyss of that possible holocaust.
-Penguin
thats why I said MOST :aok
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game name? just curious if ive flown with ya or around you
Penguin, former squeaker of Duxford Wing (we got a midget, so he took my spot as mascot and squeaker). Look up ZENSEN, he'll tell you all about how long it took me to get in (2 years and 2 attempts).
-Penguin
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thats why I said MOST :aok
Oh, I get it, you're saying that my reasons 10 through 10,000 are bad... wow, I fail at comprehending my own writing. FAIL.
-Penguin
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Duxford wing is a good group of gents
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Oh, I get it, you're saying that my reasons 10 through 10,000 are bad... wow, I fail at comprehending my own writing. FAIL.
-Penguin
not this again :rofl
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And we had toys guns that weren't orange. We played "Army", sometimes occaisionally pointing the toy guns at each other whilst making shooting sounds. Strangely enough, we all grew up and to my knowledge neither I nor any of my friends from those days have yet gone on a killing rampage.
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And we had toys guns that weren't orange. We played "Army", sometimes occaisionally pointing the toy guns at each other whilst making shooting sounds. Strangely enough, we all grew up and to my knowledge neither I nor any of my friends from those days have yet gone on a killing rampage.
YES, and going to construction sites and taking wood scraps to make your own gun. :lol
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How can you not like the sound of a lawnmower on a summer evening while sitting out on the porch having a beer?
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YES, and going to construction sites and taking wood scraps to make your own gun. :lol
the good ol days, back in 72 they was constructing a 40 Home neighborhood ( former raspberry Fields) and after they dug all the utility ditch's oh man the war was on, about 20 of us neighborhood kids all got together and just battled morning till dark ( breaks for rations lol) and never had to worry about getting in trouble, the guy who owned the property didn't mind as long as we respected his property, the same 20 plus kids we would play football/baseball in the pasture, total entertainment without electronics, today's its all about electronics, its making us lazy and less caring as a society in general
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I let my dog pee on an old lady's rose bushes when I was a wee lad (no pun intended). SHE whipped me with her da** purse which had to be filled with cement. Then she told my parents and jeez, they whalloped me good. Needless to say, I'm not one of the kids who does stuff on a whim anymore. (Not the only occurrance, btw).
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Sheesh ... over 40??
I didn't even solo till I was 43.
*the year I found out about General Aviation Medical Waivers* .. wish I had known that when I was a kid :)
Got my Daisy BB-gun when I was 7 or 8
.. had my own .22 lever action Marlin (with the 8-sided barrel) when I was in 8th grade ....useda make summer money shootin crows for the local farmers.
First few cars I owned didn't have seat belts, had steel dashboards, and were a total blast to drive :)
Yanno what cracks me up .. every single decade since I was 20 people have said 'life is over as you know it' when you reach 30 .. 40 .. 50 ..
.. I will be 61 this year .. feel like someone stole the last 40 years 'cause no way it feels like that much time has gone by!
The only difference from my 20's to now is .. I don't burn as much rubber as I useda,
..and it's been awhile since the wife grabbed the keys an tossed 'em out the window :)
(yes .. we just celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary ..it's gonna be a great summer ;)
-GE aka Frank
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Do you want people to hate you or are you just that clueless?
he's trolling.
he's very good at it. :aok
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wanna confuse a young engineering student?
show him one of these......
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.diamondracing.net/images/DialIndicator.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.diamondracing.net/TechArticles.asp&usg=__l8Ee5Xxb_gxY4g1Mgwas--P7lMg=&h=480&w=640&sz=58&hl=en&start=0&sig2=SJBfGk4CLqf6yrQ4SFiaLA&zoom=1&tbnid=KGm7gW7WxnU6SM:&tbnh=133&tbnw=176&ei=tZ6aTcisEIG40QGS9bDKBg&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddial%2Bindicator%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D871%26tbm%3Disch0%2C456&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=636&vpy=226&dur=1265&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=151&ty=83&oei=tZ6aTcisEIG40QGS9bDKBg&page=1&ndsp=35&ved=1t:429,r:31,s:0&biw=1280&bih=871
then be prepared to laugh as he tries to figure out how to read it. :devil
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Combat! and 12 O'Clock High on TV. 1/72nd scale models of Spits, Mustangs 109 etc for 99 cents, all those 1/48th scale Monogram birds with droppable torps and bombs! Blue shag carpet for model carrier and battleship wars! We didn't need no stinking computer to be pretend pilots!
Most of us could actually throw a baseball, football and shoot a basketball without an Xbox controller! :)
Dad's Impala with the 350 in it could really move and it was bigger then my SUV now!
Bobby Orr and the big bad Bruins!
Table Hockey, Electric Football.....ahh the memories :)
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Then again, life has gotten better.
1.) Women's rights have made huge strides, along with minority groups being able to get a decent job
2.) Medicine has made huge strides, steriliztion has become mandatory for all things
3.) No more lead in the paint
4.) No more lead in the gasoline
5.) No more lead in the pipes
6.) Airbags and full seatbelts mandatory on all non-racing cars
7.) Electric lawnmowers (thank goodness for those, the gasoline ones make my ears ring)
8.) The personal computer
9.) The internet
10-10,000.) New things one can do with the internet (research, find old friends)
10,010.) Non-stop flights from California to Bejing
10,011.) Genetically modified crops to boost food supply
10,012.) Fall of Communism
10,013.) AH2
You guys are confusing how fun being a kid was with the actual quality of life back then. Now that you're an adult and life sucks, you blame it on the time period.
-Penguin
thats some funny watermelon Beet1e, err I mean penguin
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<-----40 in 2weeks :O
Not a clue where the time went :lol
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thats some funny watermelon Beet1e, err I mean penguin
Anyone else notice that penguin is what I have dubbed "the funny thread SAM site"?
seriously, he turns up, and suddenly its a drama, slanging match or both.
Incidently the first page is hysterical!
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Sheesh ... over 40??
I didn't even solo till I was 43.
*the year I found out about General Aviation Medical Waivers* .. wish I had known that when I was a kid :)
Got my Daisy BB-gun when I was 7 or 8
.. had my own .22 lever action Marlin (with the 8-sided barrel) when I was in 8th grade ....useda make summer money shootin crows for the local farmers.
First few cars I owned didn't have seat belts, had steel dashboards, and were a total blast to drive :)
Yanno what cracks me up .. every single decade since I was 20 people have said 'life is over as you know it' when you reach 30 .. 40 .. 50 ..
.. I will be 61 this year .. feel like someone stole the last 40 years 'cause no way it feels like that much time has gone by!
The only difference from my 20's to now is .. I don't burn as much rubber as I useda,
..and it's been awhile since the wife grabbed the keys an tossed 'em out the window :)
(yes .. we just celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary ..it's gonna be a great summer ;)
-GE aka Frank
congrats on your anniversary sir!!
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SST Racers
Smash up derby cars
Stretch Armstrong...........
Ahh the good stuff
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Slot car racing! Water rockets! Kick the can!
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LMAO, Good stuff and so true. :)
5) Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would
usually talk over the beginning and mess it all up! There were no CD players!
We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when
finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless.
I had 8 Track tapes, they sucked ! :D
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When gas was 49 cents a gallon, schools actually taught and parents could discipline their kids. I am building a time machine to go back. :bhead
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When the president gave a speech, it was on all the channels, and you were stuck with it!
Ok, now I'm showing my age. But I remember when JFK was shot, we got out of school for the next several days, but every TV station was running all day long stuff about JFK, the shooting and what ever that I cann't remember. No cartoons or anything that a kid in 3rd grade wanted to watch.
"And we were happy to just have that!". :lol
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Sheesh ... over 40??
I didn't even solo till I was 43.
*the year I found out about General Aviation Medical Waivers* .. wish I had known that when I was a kid :)
Got my Daisy BB-gun when I was 7 or 8
.. had my own .22 lever action Marlin (with the 8-sided barrel) when I was in 8th grade ....useda make summer money shootin crows for the local farmers.
First few cars I owned didn't have seat belts, had steel dashboards, and were a total blast to drive :)
Yanno what cracks me up .. every single decade since I was 20 people have said 'life is over as you know it' when you reach 30 .. 40 .. 50 ..
.. I will be 61 this year .. feel like someone stole the last 40 years 'cause no way it feels like that much time has gone by!
The only difference from my 20's to now is .. I don't burn as much rubber as I useda,
..and it's been awhile since the wife grabbed the keys an tossed 'em out the window :)
(yes .. we just celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary ..it's gonna be a great summer ;)
-GE aka Frank
Congrats GE, you still doing that nursing thing?
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<-----40 in 2weeks :O
Not a clue where the time went :lol
^THIS
<-- 40 in November.... not that it means anything, I'm pretty much a 19 year old living in a 70 year old's body!
Oh yeh.... 5 channels? And my brother and I were the remote control!! We had the big ChannelMaster antenna on top of the house with the rotary dial control sitting on top of the TV... if you turned the channel you then turned the dial to rotate the antenna to where that channel came in best. We didn't get cable TV or a VCR until almost 1990.... I remember my great aunt in Georgia got a VCR when they first came out... it loaded from the top and cost almost as much as what my parents had just paid for a car....
Rock'em Sock'em robots, black plastic toy M-16 that made machine gun sounds when you pulled the trigger (although most of our guns were made from scrap wood), green plastic army men, GI-Joe was a foot tall and had a beard, cartoons ONLY came on on Saturday morning, trampolines didn't have nets and padding.....I had a model kit of the USS New Jersey and the USS Enterprise...when it would rain heavily there was a HUGE puddle that would form in our yard (think 50-60 feet across and 4-5 inches deep)... Oh it was WAR in the Pacific time! Summertime mom would put us out in the morning and we weren't allowed to come back in except for lunch... and play til dark. We would wander for miles, and no one worried about child abducters and the likes.... when mom would go shopping we were expected to stay in the car and behave while she was in the store. Now they put people in jail for going in the store and leaving kids in the car. :huh
I've got lots of old vinyl from the late '70's and early '80's.... AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Judas Preist, KISS...... and the original Star Wars 2-record Soundtrack!
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GI-Joe was a foot tall and had a beard,
And Kung-Fu grip! Then they got a little PC and GI Joe became more of a big game hunter adventurer type on the Action Team.
There were movies like Star Wars and Jaws...
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Lots of fun building stuff with these...
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OivUW6Rl7F8/TSjTBY8IG5I/AAAAAAAAN5w/vLgvb7Z98dk/s1600/erector-set.jpg)
Remember these adds?
http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/4538/ (http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/4538/)
http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/3649/ (http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/3649/)
Here's link to more...
http://www.retrojunk.com/list_commercials.php (http://www.retrojunk.com/list_commercials.php)
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And Kung-Fu grip! Then they got a little PC and GI Joe became more of a big game hunter adventurer type on the Action Team.
There were movies like Star Wars and Jaws...
BOLDED....
is doing to this country what no other power in the world can do.
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Have you ever watched G.I. Joe cartoon? That was the best. The HUB, that is a new channel if you never heard of it, is showing them again late at night. Must have watched four episode so far.
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Then again, life has gotten better.
1.) Women's rights have made huge strides, along with minority groups being able to get a decent job
2.) Medicine has made huge strides, steriliztion has become mandatory for all things
3.) No more lead in the paint
4.) No more lead in the gasoline
5.) No more lead in the pipes
6.) Airbags and full seatbelts mandatory on all non-racing cars
7.) Electric lawnmowers (thank goodness for those, the gasoline ones make my ears ring)
8.) The personal computer
9.) The internet
10-10,000.) New things one can do with the internet (research, find old friends)
10,010.) Non-stop flights from California to Bejing
10,011.) Genetically modified crops to boost food supply
10,012.) Fall of Communism
10,013.) AH2
You guys are confusing how fun being a kid was with the actual quality of life back then. Now that you're an adult and life sucks, you blame it on the time period.
-Penguin
most people gain intelligence as they age...you're proving that the opposite is possible.
every socio-political item you consider "good", has had ramifications that you're generation will never understand.
only new construction is absent lead in paint and plumbing...removing it from gasoline has only proven to be an economic windfall for gasoline manufacturers...sterilization is not mandatory for all things only in medical and food processing industries, still doesn't stop infections from occurring and it's becoming more evident that sterilization processes have created resistant strains of bacteria and viruses...not sure what the difference is between a seat belt and a full seat belt is, i've seen them in cars since the mid 60s...electric lawn mowers were around in the 70s, and just as useless as they are now...
10,011.) Genetically modified crops to boost food supply
been happening since the 60s and hasn't improved the world food supply a single iota...with the exception of creating some heartier crops, the quality isn't the same as what nature intended...let's not forget the economic impact on the american farmer.
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most people gain intelligence as they age...you're proving that the opposite is possible.
every socio-political item you consider "good", has had ramifications that you're generation will never understand.
only new construction is absent lead in paint and plumbing...removing it from gasoline has only proven to be an economic windfall for gasoline manufacturers...sterilization is not mandatory for all things only in medical and food processing industries, still doesn't stop infections from occurring and it's becoming more evident that sterilization processes have created resistant strains of bacteria and viruses...not sure what the difference is between a seat belt and a full seat belt is, i've seen them in cars since the mid 60s...electric lawn mowers were around in the 70s, and just as useless as they are now...
been happening since the 60s and hasn't improved the world food supply a single iota...with the exception of creating some heartier crops, the quality isn't the same as what nature intended...let's not forget the economic impact on the american farmer.
QFT
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thats some funny watermelon Beet1e, err I mean penguin
Who's Beet1le? Why do people keep calling me a shade? I really AM that clueless!
-Penguin
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Beets wouldnt be talking about womens rights...He likes to beat on em.
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You guys are making me all nostalgic.
Full on tackle football in the field across from the apartment in Chicago, pick up ice hockey in the winter, setting up your green plastic army men just so then throwing rocks at the other guys until the 'winner' had one man standing, taking the 22's to the neighbors pond to de turtle it, bottle rockets, bottle rocket wars, building ramps out of scrap wood from the construction site to see who could jump their bike the furthest (ME), not to mention we didn't have to gear up like an NFL linebacker to go bike riding, and so on..
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Then again, life has gotten better.
1.) Women's rights have made huge strides, along with minority groups being able to get a decent job
2.) Medicine has made huge strides, steriliztion has become mandatory for all things
3.) No more lead in the paint
4.) No more lead in the gasoline
5.) No more lead in the pipes
6.) Airbags and full seatbelts mandatory on all non-racing cars
7.) Electric lawnmowers (thank goodness for those, the gasoline ones make my ears ring)
8.) The personal computer
9.) The internet
10-10,000.) New things one can do with the internet (research, find old friends)
10,010.) Non-stop flights from California to Bejing
10,011.) Genetically modified crops to boost food supply
10,012.) Fall of Communism
10,013.) AH2
You guys are confusing how fun being a kid was with the actual quality of life back then. Now that you're an adult and life sucks, you blame it on the time period.
-Penguin
1- Yup. thus lowering individual incomes due to a surplus of workers. Now women have their equal rights. so much so that in most cases these days families cant afford to have stay at home moms. Now both parents HAVE to work just to make ends meet.
3 Yup, no more lead. Unfortunately a paint job no longer lasts 20-30 years anymore either. What people dont realise is everything that went into making quality paints. Is no longer allowed. Your lucky to get 10 years out of a paint job. So instead we have houses encased in plastic which contributes tot he rise of carbon monoxide and radon gas poisoning because before houses used to vent these gases out. Now everything is so airtight. The gasses no longer escape. Not to mention that the siding is made out of plastic and all the good that does to the environment.
There is a bit of misinformation on lead paint. Lead paint inand of itself is not dangerous. Or I should say not nearly as dangerous as the media has made it out to be. The problem lies in poorly maintained homes where the paint has been allowed to dry out and chip or turn into a powder. You could eat a bowlful of lead paint chips as you would cornflakes and suffer little to any effects from it because it has to be of a size that it would be able to enter your bloodstream.
such as would happen if you gnawed on and sucked on a windowsill. Or stuck your finders inot the dust in that windowsill cause by the movement of the window and then stuck your fingers in your mouth.
Or on the exterior if the home has been poorly maintained and the paint washes off the siding and into the ground where chipped paint also has a tendancy to be crushed into finer peices where it can enter the bloodstream though your skin.
Or in improper renovation techniques and improper cleanup.
Point is. a poorly maintained home or building is the primary cause of lead paint based poisoning. Or letting kids chew and suck on the wood.
Anything that has been properly maintained is not a hazard so long as you dont decide to develop an appetite for your woodwork. So if you live in a house built before 1978. Please dont eat your doors and windows.
If your home was built before 1978. there is a 25% chance it contains lead. and the odds get worse from there back to nearly 100% in the early 1900's and before.
How do you best deal with an older home you suspect has lead in it? You encapsulate it. You do that by painting it and keeping it maintained. Putting siding over it does not encapsulate it. On the inside you either paint it. Rock over it. Or rip out all the walls and redo it.
There is no way to remove lead from wood even if you strip it. In fact stripping it places you and your family at even greater risk..
The reason why kids tend to get lead poisoning rom paint more often then adults is because of poorly maintained buildings.
I know all this crap cause I had to spend $100 and 8 hours on an EPA approved class pass the test (I scored 100%). Then send the EPA another $300 for a license to work on homes built before 1978
5 misinformation. Even with teh above mentioned the vast majority of lead poisoning currently in the USA is not from old paint. But from the lead that in the water mains. While your home may no longer use lead based solder holding the pipes together. Cept for new developments. Most of the old mains still do. That is why you are told to run your water before drinking.
And for the record. Some 250,00 kids tested positive for "elevated" levels of lead in their blood. thats not lead poisoning. Which sounds like alot and it is.
And thats the number they like to throw out thre to alarm everyone.
But as a percentage of all kids tested. Came out to 2%. You stand a better chance of having a child born with a birth defect or being born gay.(both around 6%) then you do of getting lead poisoning or even testing positive for "elevated" levels of lead in your blood.
8 which has helped create a society of people who no longer do anything helping in the rise of childhood obesity and a rise in anti social behaviour
9 (see 8)
10,011. between that and additives currently being suspected in possible causes of everything from peanut butter allergies to a rise in autism
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Back on topic.
I remember my parents telling me to "go outside and play and dont come home until dinner time"
Not where you going? What you doing, call us what you get there. Just "go out" and "dont come home until"..
One day I remember as if it were yesterday. I went outside but none of my friends were around or even home. So I hung out at the park carving things into trees with my buck knife. I was 11, and it was just before my mothers birthday. (She was born Jan 15th) and it felt like it was about 2 degrees out.
Can you imagine the uproar and shock people would be in today if someone let their 11 year old outside in the freezing cold unsupervised and with a full sized folding buck knife?
Cell phones so that mom could get in touch with us when she wanted? Heh.
I bet more then one person will testify that a mothers voice can carry a long long way without the need of a cell phone.
How many could clearly hear their mothers voice calling them from blocks and blocks away. And if you didnt hear her. your friends often did. Moms didnt need any cell phones.
Coming home early usually meant doing chores.
And the one thing you learned real fast not to say was "Im bored. there's nothing to do." Cause they would find something for you to do. Like cleaning the basement.
And you either ate what everyone else ate for dinner like it or not. Or you literally went to bed with no dinner. Those were the only two options.
Not " ok since you dont like this you can have a hot dog".
No. You either ate what was on your plate. or you went hungry.
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Back on topic.
I remember my parents telling me to "go outside and play and dont come home until dinner time"
Not where you going? What you doing, call us what you get there. Just "go out" and "dont come home until"..
One day I remember as if it were yesterday. I went outside but none of my friends were around or even home. So I hung out at the park carving things into trees with my buck knife. I was 11, and it was just before my mothers birthday. (She was born Jan 15th) and it felt like it was about 2 degrees out.
Can you imagine the uproar and shock people would be in today if someone let their 11 year old outside in the freezing cold unsupervised and with a full sized folding buck knife?
Cell phones so that mom could get in touch with us when she wanted? Heh.
I bet more then one person will testify that a mothers voice can carry a long long way without the need of a cell phone.
How many could clearly hear their mothers voice calling them from blocks and blocks away. And if you didnt hear her. your friends often did. Moms didnt need any cell phones.
Coming home early usually meant doing chores.
And the one thing you learned real fast not to say was "Im bored. there's nothing to do." Cause they would find something for you to do. Like cleaning the basement.
And you either ate what everyone else ate for dinner like it or not. Or you literally went to bed with no dinner. Those were the only two options.
Not " ok since you dont like this you can have a hot dog".
No. You either ate what was on your plate. or you went hungry.
LOL I can still hear my Mom's voice in my head.
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Back on topic.
I remember my parents telling me to "go outside and play and dont come home until dinner time"
Not where you going? What you doing, call us what you get there. Just "go out" and "dont come home until"..
One day I remember as if it were yesterday. I went outside but none of my friends were around or even home. So I hung out at the park carving things into trees with my buck knife. I was 11, and it was just before my mothers birthday. (She was born Jan 15th) and it felt like it was about 2 degrees out.
Can you imagine the uproar and shock people would be in today if someone let their 11 year old outside in the freezing cold unsupervised and with a full sized folding buck knife?
Cell phones so that mom could get in touch with us when she wanted? Heh.
I bet more then one person will testify that a mothers voice can carry a long long way without the need of a cell phone.
How many could clearly hear their mothers voice calling them from blocks and blocks away. And if you didnt hear her. your friends often did. Moms didnt need any cell phones.
Coming home early usually meant doing chores.
And the one thing you learned real fast not to say was "Im bored. there's nothing to do." Cause they would find something for you to do. Like cleaning the basement.
And you either ate what everyone else ate for dinner like it or not. Or you literally went to bed with no dinner. Those were the only two options.
Not " ok since you dont like this you can have a hot dog".
No. You either ate what was on your plate. or you went hungry.
I'm pretty sure I'm hard of hearing, I have a tough time making words out. 11 year old with a folding knife? Recipie for disaster.
-Penguin
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jeez. you people over 40 complain alot, no offence but we get enough of it from our parents EVERY SINGLE DAY. my mom tells me to go outside and play, i make sure i do or else its 4 full weeks of cleaning every single nanometer of the house. im told to go take the trash out, i take it out or get a good boot up the butt. and lastly...with my mom she says eat what i got or else i starve for the night.
things in my house havent changed much, all i have is this computer, a cell phone and a TV.
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I have no memories like you guys have :(
I do remember the "home box office" we had at a foster home, that was were I got to play atari the first time also, I think 82 it was...."pittfall" and "frogger" where the sickest :rofl
I was a late starter to the whole "gaming" thing It was "resident evil" on PS1 I believe, that game just blew me away, got me hooked on gaming :rofl
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bottle rockets, bottle rocket wars, building ramps out of scrap wood from the construction site to see who could jump their bike the furthest (ME), not to mention we didn't have to gear up like an NFL linebacker to go bike riding, and so on..
Haha! We use to have bottle rocket wars in the grave yard close by. I had a curtain rod with a handle on it like a bazooka. There was an opening cut in the rod where the fuse would show.
As far as jumping bikes,we had a huge road sign.One of those 1.5 inch thick --> signs. We would set it up on cinder blocks and jump trenches. Man we did some crazy stuff on those bikes. I had a yoke break on me in mid air, front wheel fly off in mid air. It was all good tho.
They would arrest people today for sledding on the hill we sledded on and I dont blame em. That was some dangerous stuff but we all somehow survived it. Technology has turned kids into candy tulips for sure lol.
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11 year old with a folding knife? Recipie for disaster.
WTF?? :huh :huh :huh
By the time I was 11 I had a 12 ga shotgun. Folding knife? I had a K-Bar in the 4th grade. It was just made sure of that I left it in the car when we got to school in the morning.
But then again that was an 11 year old then.... not your average 11 year old now.... so I see your point. My daughter is 10 and I see the crap they watch on TV and the stuff that goes on in her school (my wife is also a teacher at that same elementary school)... and I can say..... kids today are Nancy-boy sissy morons compared to a couple generations ago. :old: :old:
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By the time I was 11 I had a 12 ga shotgun.
So did I. I had a Marlin 22 by that age also.
My youngest daughter is 8, she is learning to shoot. This is her shooting a pistol for the first time, she was 7 last November when this was taken.
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Here she is with a 10/22 early in the summer.
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Here she is firing a 22 rifle that belonged to my Grandfather when he was a young boy in the 1920s.
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I'm pretty sure I'm hard of hearing, I have a tough time making words out. 11 year old with a folding knife? Recipie for disaster.
-Penguin
Seriously?
By the time Squid was that age he had at least one sword.
*shrug*
Don't exactly understand the attraction but, okay, it's his bag and he carries it well.
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WTF?? :huh :huh :huh
By the time I was 11 I had a 12 ga shotgun. Folding knife? I had a K-Bar in the 4th grade. It was just made sure of that I left it in the car when we got to school in the morning.
But then again that was an 11 year old then.... not your average 11 year old now.... so I see your point. My daughter is 10 and I see the crap they watch on TV and the stuff that goes on in her school (my wife is also a teacher at that same elementary school)... and I can say..... kids today are Nancy-boy sissy morons compared to a couple generations ago. :old: :old:
LOL new years eve I gave my 12 year old nephew a lit cigar,couple of bottle rockets and a pack of firecrackers to light off. I was astounded That after standing there watching him and two of his friends looking at them that I actually had to show them how to do it.
Hell by that age we were figuring out ways to use them to blow things up. Models, ant hills etc.
Knives werent allt hat uncommon. And I lived in a pretty rough town. I think Cap1 can probably testify as to the type of rep New Brunswick had back in the early 70s.
Oddly enough nobody back then ever pulled a knife on one another. That didnt come till much later in my teens. But thats another story
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Hell by that age we were figuring out ways to use them to blow things up. Models, ant hills etc.
Oh yes, many a model airplane died by firecracker and gasoline!
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Johnny Quest. GI Joe before the beards and Kung Fu grip. "Polish Cannons" made from taped together Tennis ball containers, a hole near the bottom, lighter fluid and a tennis ball :)
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I'm pretty sure I'm hard of hearing, I have a tough time making words out. 11 year old with a folding knife? Recipie for disaster.
-Penguin
:huh
We used to make monkey apple guns (called this because of the fruit we started off using for war) a piece of PVC pipe and the finger of a rubber glove (dishwashingglove)and a bit of tape hours of fun and welts...(if you think it sounds soft..make one and give it ago..birth of paintball I reckon hahaha
Bullrush....with friends at the park and on the field at school..the game is banned at schools here...oh and another thing...just on the banning side...do you remember going to a christmas parade and waiting for santa and the lollies he threw out...well guess what...lolly scrambles are dangerous and public ones like we used to have are not allowed
I have to give my kids a slap everyday just to keep them from turning into a marshmellow hahahah (only joking)
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Thoughts on TV and Sports from forty something.
Thirty five years ago:
If there was a kid's special on TV that you really wanted to see, like Charlie Brown, then you planned for it. I remember running all the way home from school in third grade because King Kong was going to air at 3:30. If I missed it, it might be another year before it came on again.
No VCR or DVR. If you wanted to see a show on TV you better find out when it's on and get yer butt in front of a TV. No pause. No rewind. No replay. When the commercial break started you got up and ran to the bathroom, and if you were fast enough you could make it to the cookie jar too before the show started again, or else you just plain missed it.
Your big sports league games were on TV with regularity. But all the amazing, unusual, incredible variety of sports was showcased on Saturday afternoon in ABC's Wide World of Sports. And the OLYMPICS. Oh, my. How do I say this. The Holy Grail of Amateur Sports. Once every four years, Summer/Winter. It was an all consuming sports festival, and it was majestic. I don't know if it's because of todays multiple 24/7 cable sports channels "all-sports-all-the-time" or the IOC's decision to move away from "amateur" athletes, but the magic of today's Olympics has worn thin. Thirty years ago the broadcast of the Olympics was something really special.
my few cents :old:
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Just sent a copy of that to my kids wayout.
Great find there.
:aok Coogan
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11 year old with a folding knife? Recipie for disaster.
-Penguin
Are you kidding me? It was pretty much mandatory in the scouts. We also had hatchets and other useful tools for the outdoors.
Somehow we all survived.
Today's kids probably don't do much camping unless there's an "app" for that.
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Are you kidding me? It was pretty much mandatory in the scouts. We also had hatchets and other useful tools for the outdoors.
Somehow we all survived.
Today's kids probably don't do much camping unless there's an "app" for that.
LOL, One of my fondest childhood memories is my best mate at scouts chopping himself out of a tree with a hatchet by removing the branch he was hanging on to. The angle of his fall placed him fair and square in the middle of the campfire scattering our sausages everywhere, we managed to brush the dirt off most and they were still edible.
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Icky Twerp and Slam Bang Theater! :rock :rock :rock
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Thoughts on TV and Sports from forty something.
Thirty five years ago:
If there was a kid's special on TV that you really wanted to see, like Charlie Brown, then you planned for it. I remember running all the way home from school in third grade because King Kong was going to air at 3:30. If I missed it, it might be another year before it came on again.
No VCR or DVR. If you wanted to see a show on TV you better find out when it's on and get yer butt in front of a TV. No pause. No rewind. No replay. When the commercial break started you got up and ran to the bathroom, and if you were fast enough you could make it to the cookie jar too before the show started again, or else you just plain missed it.
Your big sports league games were on TV with regularity. But all the amazing, unusual, incredible variety of sports was showcased on Saturday afternoon in ABC's Wide World of Sports. And the OLYMPICS. Oh, my. How do I say this. The Holy Grail of Amateur Sports. Once every four years, Summer/Winter. It was an all consuming sports festival, and it was majestic. I don't know if it's because of todays multiple 24/7 cable sports channels "all-sports-all-the-time" or the IOC's decision to move away from "amateur" athletes, but the magic of today's Olympics has worn thin. Thirty years ago the broadcast of the Olympics was something really special.
my few cents :old:
Yup yup yup
ahh wide world of sports
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2AZH4FeGsc
Sat mornings were dominated by cartoons
And the evening news just was interested in reporting the news...period. Very little spin and almost no entertainment value. The most entertaining part of the news was the weather guy. I remmeber ABC out of NY had this guy that looked exactly like Frank Perdue
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Johnny Quest. GI Joe before the beards and Kung Fu grip. "Polish Cannons" made from taped together Tennis ball containers, a hole near the bottom, lighter fluid and a tennis ball :)
Tennis ball cannon was great fun!
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creature double feature......and the Chinese movies...cant remember what they were called?
oh just remembered "Thundar the Barbarian"...and ohkla the monk.
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Johnny Quest. GI Joe before the beards and Kung Fu grip. "Polish Cannons" made from taped together Tennis ball containers, a hole near the bottom, lighter fluid and a tennis ball :)
Too bad the youth of your generation came 10-years before the invention of commercial-grade hair spray. :t
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We were lucky after the new house. We got color tv in 1969.
I loved listening to the radio...hence my future career.
Every kid had a flat-top haircut and a short sleved shirt and pair of slacks were 3x a week church wear.
Saturday morning cartoons went quickly into playing with the neighborhood kids, cap guns, firecrackers, dirt clod fights in the farm fields. Snow forts and snowball fights that went on all day. Mom made popcorn in an old covered stock pot and we had popcorn with Lowrey's Seasoned Salt on "Bewitched" TV show night. Snow-cream was big in NE Illinois in the winter. There was no need for "keeping up with the Jonse's on clothes. A pair of shorts, t-shirt, socks and sneakers was all the "fashion" you needed. Little League baseball rocked and there was no prize for 2nd or third place. If you were rotten you got the belt or the cherry tree switch and that was that.
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Saturday morning cartoons went quickly into playing with the neighborhood kids, cap guns, firecrackers, dirt clod fights in the farm fields. Snow forts and snowball fights that went on all day. Mom made popcorn in an old covered stock pot and we had popcorn with Lowrey's Seasoned Salt. Snow-cream was big in NE Illinois in the winter.
all of that, with the exeption of cartoons are still stuck with me today...my mom never let go of those times because well id admit it too-its fun. why not be stupid with your friends and go throw firecrackers at the birds in your neighbors birdbath or shoot bottle rockets at birds passing by. sometimes (and i still do this today with my friends) we go out with our airsoft/paintball rifles and have a little fun-aka 4 on 4 war!
yeah only half of the stuff is still here today but i see why. people need their Xbox 360's and PS3's and whatnot...seriously i dont care for video games. dont see why people do anyways, it just sucks the life out of you.
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On ch 9 WGN-TV Chicago when I was a kid Ray Rayner (Raynor?) did a kids/parents show in the mornings with cartoons and then again a low key cartoon show after school with Gigantor & Clutch Cargo.
Not many people knew that Ray was a former B-17 gunner. Got shot down over Germany and sent to a Luftstalag in Silesia...the exact same Luftstalag where the tunnels and escape plans were the basis of "The Great Escape" movie. He even helped dig the tunnels, but was transfered to a different camp only weeks before the original "Great Escape" happened.
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creature double feature
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Ultraman, Speed Racer, Wacky Racers, Marine boy, Kimba the white lion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQsQqOlPjhs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQsQqOlPjhs
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We never had freaks like this trying to sell us something for 30 minutes at a whack.
Believe it or not, we all don't have cable or satellite.
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Coogan
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Ahh heres one I was looking for
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Had really good stop motion animation effects for is day
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when I was a kid we would get slashed to sleep by our father with a broken beer bottle and we were thankfull! Monty Python, as though yall didnt know.
Yea things were different back then but atleast in grade school when some dweeb relentlessly talked trash to ya, you could probably knock em around a bit without having to worry about getting sued.
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When I was a kid you'd get two whippins', one from the neighbor and one when you got home.
this mess still happened to me in the 90's and to make things worse id get a whoopin from each parent becuase they don't communicate and tell one another ya already got whooped lol. In their defense it probably wasn't that cool of me to take everybody on the blocks newspaper an start a bon fire in the front yard. :noid
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this mess still happened to me in the 90's and to make things worse id get a whoopin from each parent becuase they don't communicate and tell one another ya already got whooped lol. In their defense it probably wasn't that cool of me to take everybody on the blocks newspaper an start a bon fire in the front yard. :noid
Hell in our day communication had nothing to do with it.
If your neighbor whooped you for something. You didnt dare complain or tell your parents about it because they would only say and I quote "Well what did you do to deserve it?"
"nothing" was never an acceptable or a believed answer
Then you would get whooped again not only for what you did. But for causing your parents the embarrassment and of putting the neighbor through the trauma of having to whoop you.
And whooping were real whoopings. Like with a belt. My fathers favorite
My mother got tired of breaking wooden spoons on me so she went to a construction site and got a piece of wood flooring.
After I hid that on her I remember one time getting it with a metal soup ladle for spilling shoe die in the carpet.
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I can remember I had to be about 6 or 7 years old. My older sister was always stuck with bringing me along if she was going down to the corner store. One day she had tried to ditch me and I ran out in the street screaming her name to wait for me.... SCCCCRRRREEEEAAAACCCCHHHHHH.. .....
Big old chrome grill about 2 inches from my nose, guy stopped just in time..... He jumps out of the car yelling his fool head off at me because I had run out into the street into traffic and he proceeded to haul off and give my rear end the emphasis of his anger.. yes I was crying.... So, our lovely neighbor Mrs. Murvay who saw the whole thing runs over and tells the guy she will get me home to my mother as she is whacking my a%%% and yelling at me for running out in the street... I saw my sister across the street wide eyed and you can tell she was realizing she might also be in trouble for running away from me... the plot thickens.... my mother having heard the story is crying her fool head off and telling me how hurt she would be if I got hurt or killed by getting hit by a car because I ran out in the street.... all the while she is whacking me on the rear and a few shots to the head for a little more emphasis on how hurt she would be.....
I have often wondered over the years if I would have got off easier by actually getting hit by that car....
:rolleyes:
NwBie
Don't know why, but reading this thread brought back that memory...
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I can remember I had to be about 6 or 7 years old. My older sister was always stuck with bringing me along if she was going down to the corner store. One day she had tried to ditch me and I ran out in the street screaming her name to wait for me.... SCCCCRRRREEEEAAAACCCCHHHHHH.. .....
Big old chrome grill about 2 inches from my nose, guy stopped just in time..... He jumps out of the car yelling his fool head off at me because I had run out into the street into traffic and he proceeded to haul off and give my rear end the emphasis of his anger.. yes I was crying.... So, our lovely neighbor Mrs. Murvay who saw the whole thing runs over and tells the guy she will get me home to my mother as she is whacking my a%%% and yelling at me for running out in the street... I saw my sister across the street wide eyed and you can tell she was realizing she might also be in trouble for running away from me... the plot thickens.... my mother having heard the story is crying her fool head off and telling me how hurt she would be if I got hurt or killed by getting hit by a car because I ran out in the street.... all the while she is whacking me on the rear and a few shots to the head for a little more emphasis on how hurt she would be.....
I have often wondered over the years if I would have got off easier by actually getting hit by that car....
:rolleyes:
NwBie
Don't know why, but reading this thread brought back that memory...
:rofl
Bet you looked both ways before going out into the street after that!
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I work for a Grocery store so I relive this daily. When I was 4 or 5 I threw a tantrum while we were in the checkout line because I wanted some candy and Mom said no. She didn't negotiate, she didn't promise presents, she didn't cave. She said "No". What she did do was yank my little hide down to the ground, put her foot on my neck and thrashed the tar out of my butt with her purse strap in front of God and every Spot Cash customer in sight until I shut up.
Nobody called the cops or Child Protective Services. I don't think anyone batted an eye.
Oh, BTW... I never threw a fit ever again.
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LMAO
Just now remembered this.
One time I was getting a whooping for something and I made the mistake of saying "The devil made me do it" (A popular catchphrase at the time)
My mothers response.
"(Whack) Oh yea? (Whack!) Well I'll BEAT that devil out of you! (Whack!) That Devil (Whack!) Will NEVER (WHACK!!) Ever (Whack) want to make (Whack) You (Whack)do anything (whack!) Ever (Whack) again (Whack)"
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Are we related?
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LMAO
Just now remembered this.
One time I was getting a whooping for something and I made the mistake of saying "The devil made me do it" (A popular catchphrase at the time)
My mothers response.
"(Whack) Oh yea? (Whack!) Well I'll BEAT that devil out of you! (Whack!) That Devil (Whack!) Will NEVER (WHACK!!) Ever (Whack) want to make (Whack) You (Whack)do anything (whack!) Ever (Whack) again (Whack)"
A good bellybutton spanking goes a long way
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I can remember I had to be about 6 or 7 years old. My older sister was always stuck with bringing me along if she was going down to the corner store. One day she had tried to ditch me and I ran out in the street screaming her name to wait for me.... SCCCCRRRREEEEAAAACCCCHHHHHH.. .....
Big old chrome grill about 2 inches from my nose, guy stopped just in time..... He jumps out of the car yelling his fool head off at me because I had run out into the street into traffic and he proceeded to haul off and give my rear end the emphasis of his anger.. yes I was crying.... So, our lovely neighbor Mrs. Murvay who saw the whole thing runs over and tells the guy she will get me home to my mother as she is whacking my a%%% and yelling at me for running out in the street... I saw my sister across the street wide eyed and you can tell she was realizing she might also be in trouble for running away from me... the plot thickens.... my mother having heard the story is crying her fool head off and telling me how hurt she would be if I got hurt or killed by getting hit by a car because I ran out in the street.... all the while she is whacking me on the rear and a few shots to the head for a little more emphasis on how hurt she would be.....
I have often wondered over the years if I would have got off easier by actually getting hit by that car....
:rolleyes:
NwBie
Don't know why, but reading this thread brought back that memory...
more than likely not.
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My mothers fav tool was one of those dusters with the 1/4 inch metal rod that went in the shape of a u about 3 feet long with a duster that slipped over it. Could get some serious leverage with that thing too. Talk about leaving marks.
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:rofl :lol you old turds are dredging up some very old memories with the spankings...back in the 60s and 70s a kid didn't dare throw a screaming hissy fit tantrum in the store with mom and/or dad like you see today...spankings in the store were looked at as acceptable child discipline for the public good...if the "time out, can't spank your child" child less wannabe experts hadn't brain washed the lemming morons reproducing back in the 80s/90s...guarantee you there wouldn't be kids running around schools with guns shooting people.
i can't remember the last time i saw a group of kids playing marbles in the dirt...or doing anything that requires imagination and doesn't have a $300 price tag on it...
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I'm pretty sure I'm hard of hearing, I have a tough time making words out. 11 year old with a folding knife? Recipie for disaster.
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My 10 year old has a folding knife. As a Scout he has been properly trained and carries certification in his wallet(whittling chip card).
No issues at all. He is VERY serious about keeping his whittling chip and knife privileges.
Both of my young boys have BB rifles. Once again, training and range supervision is the key.
My 16 year daughter, also a Venture Scout, has her own 22 rifle, and is also proficient with pistol, shotgun, and Dad's AR-15s. Don't mess with her :rock
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Ahh heres one I was looking for
(http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR_anQosHLfvpJYtcm7keSDdInWUtAY6jskIJOlIekcq21UlVIg&t=1)
Had really good stop motion animation effects for is day
(http://hotmovienow.com/images_link/tajucoro.jpg)
(http://www.ffffilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/screenshot-med-27.jpg)
Reminds me of what we would watch on Saturday afternoons with "SuperHost"
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13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no,
no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were
doing chores!
:rofl ... I can still remember that like it was yesterday ... "Go outside and find something to do or I WILL FIND SOMETHING FOR YOU TO DO !!!".
Took me a nanosecond to clear out.
What I wish my kids/grandkids could do ...
I use to get up at 7am ... eat breakfast and out the door by 8am ... jump onto the bike and not see/hear/talk to my parents until 5pm ... and they never worried for a second. God forbid you were late for dinner tho ... my sister and I had a 5 minute grace period. If you weren't seated (hands washed) by 5:05pm, trouble was right around the corner.
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Oh I disagree with the remote, my dad had a great one.....I would feel a slap on the back of the head followed by an immediate, change it to channel 4! I of course with my wordly experience could flick that round dial to any of the three stations *VHF* so fast it would make the ol pop proud even today! I was an excellent remote control and the great thing is, pop never had to ask, now where did I put that remote :banana:
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:rofl ... I can still remember that like it was yesterday ... "Go outside and find something to do or I WILL FIND SOMETHING FOR YOU TO DO !!!".
:rofl
I must confess that I have heard that before, and have used it on my own children now.
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Oh I disagree with the remote, my dad had a great one.....I would feel a slap on the back of the head followed by an immediate, change it to channel 4! I of course with my wordly experience could flick that round dial to any of the three stations *VHF* so fast it would make the ol pop proud even today! I was an excellent remote control and the great thing is, pop never had to ask, now where did I put that remote :banana:
:rofl sounds familiar...did your dad have an automated boot polisher too? i could parade shine combat boots in 15 minutes by the time i was 13.
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Oh I disagree with the remote, my dad had a great one.....I would feel a slap on the back of the head followed by an immediate, change it to channel 4! I of course with my wordly experience could flick that round dial to any of the three stations *VHF* so fast it would make the ol pop proud even today! I was an excellent remote control and the great thing is, pop never had to ask, now where did I put that remote :banana:
I wasn't the remote control but rather the "antenna turner". We had a crappy old set of vise grips rusted to the antenna pole. I would go outside and turn the antenna until the picture got better and then my dad would bang on the wall for me to stop. That was fun in the middle of winter when trying to get NY Ranger games out of NYC. I would much rather have been the tv controller on those days.
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:rofl sounds familiar...did your dad have an automated boot polisher too? i could parade shine combat boots in 15 minutes by the time i was 13.
I could do it by the age of 8. The fallout of being the son of a West Point graduate.
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:rofl :lol you old turds are dredging up some very old memories with the spankings...back in the 60s and 70s a kid didn't dare throw a screaming hissy fit tantrum in the store with mom and/or dad like you see today...spankings in the store were looked at as acceptable child discipline for the public good...if the "time out, can't spank your child" child less wannabe experts hadn't brain washed the lemming morons reproducing back in the 80s/90s...guarantee you there wouldn't be kids running around schools with guns shooting people.
i can't remember the last time i saw a group of kids playing marbles in the dirt...or doing anything that requires imagination and doesn't have a $300 price tag on it...
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THIS!
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I could do it by the age of 8. The fallout of being the son of a West Point graduate.
:rofl :lol ah a "point brat"... :lol my old man was a combat engineer...hated shining his boots and i hated using that hard kiwi boot polish until i figured out some tricks with it.
those lessons served me well when i went to boot camp though...very few could make their boots glow without the polish cracking... :D
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Ahh the beatings.
It was soooo much fun going out to grandmas orchard and finding a switch so she could reinforce the lesson. And God help you if you thought a small stick looked like JUST the right implement.
10 years old and getting my first shotgun (single shot 4-10) and going quail hunting in the West Texas scrub with my grandfather. Rabbit hunting with a .22 and you only got one shot. If you wounded it you had to chase it down and kill it with your bare hands if a proper size stick couldn't be found. Watching 'pa' jump out of the car and calmly walk to the side of the road and decapitating a rattlesnake with an entrenching tool.
Good times :D
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lmao dicho...now i know what's wrong wit ya...durn texican... :lol
i didn't start seriously shooting real guns until i was 15/16...damn 12 gauge shotgun laid me out cold when i was 10 and i had no desire to repeat the effort until i got older...had a lot of fun with gasoline, hair spray, sulphur, acetylene and other things that go boom in the mean time though. :x
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For Christmas, you would get a chemistry set full of all kinds of poisonous and harmful chemicals. Goggles and respirator not included. I remember riding my bike down to the drug store and ask for some salt peter. I was denied.
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lmao dicho...now i know what's wrong wit ya...durn texican... :lol
i didn't start seriously shooting real guns until i was 15/16...damn 12 gauge shotgun laid me out cold when i was 10 and i had no desire to repeat the effort until i got older...had a lot of fun with gasoline, hair spray, sulphur, acetylene and other things that go boom in the mean time though. :x
If you're born and bred here you can be classified as insane in many civilized countries ;)
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Anyone mention this yet?
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/04/08/commodore-64-welcome-back-old-friend/?mod=google_news_blog
Retro styling, contemporary technology!
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any of ya old peoples (over 40 or so) ever take a match to some air freshener or hairspray?
good time...:devil
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any of ya old peoples (over 40 or so) ever take a match to some air freshener or hairspray?
good time...:devil
long before you thought about it being fun... :D ...white rain was the best...v05 was good too.
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any of ya old peoples (over 40 or so) ever take a match to some air freshener or hairspray?
good time...:devil
PSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Only a few hundred times to shoot down wasps :)
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Wild Kingdom, poor Jim would jump on the back of a charging Rhino or lasso a grizz. Then there was the world wide sports on Saturday. They always showed that skier during the intro out of control on the ski jump. and then Disney movie on Sunday night.
Edit
He lived to jump again http://www.yourememberthat.com/media/2636/Famous_Ski_Jump_Crash/
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Wild Kingdom, poor Jim would jump on the back of a charging Rhino or lasso a grizz. Then there was the world wide sports on Saturday. They always showed that skier during the intro out of control on the ski jump. and then Disney movie on Sunday night.
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He lived to jump again http://www.yourememberthat.com/media/2636/Famous_Ski_Jump_Crash/
The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.
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there is something thumping from twin big blocks. Around 4000 to 5000 they purr.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ5GRbKs840
Keys on, blowers on, push buttons on a 1988 engines till about 5 pounds of fuel, an let her fire.
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there is something thumping from twin big blocks. Around 4000 to 5000 they purr.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ5GRbKs840
Twin Chevy at 5 grand.
Rash
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:rofl :lol ah a "point brat"... :lol my old man was a combat engineer...hated shining his boots and i hated using that hard kiwi boot polish until i figured out some tricks with it.
those lessons served me well when i went to boot camp though...very few could make their boots glow without the polish cracking... :D
Yup kiwi only, nothing else. He wouldn't let me shine his shoes ... No one could do it like him, if ya know what I mean. On the other hand, he would not shine mine, that was my job and they had better look good.
I played a lot of hockey back in the day, and he showed me how I could polish up the toe on the boot so you could almost comb your hair in the reflection. Shiny toes were "in" back then.
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Fireworks
Real fireworks, at 12 I could get m80's, cherry bombs and black cats by the hundreds. Worst trouble I ever got in was I had a habit of throwing lit cherry bombs high to get air bursts. Had one that had a slow fuse, had thrown too near the road and it went off just head high from a motorcycle cop driving by. Ended up in the police station for hours with the red faced cop screaming at me. Don't even want to think about getting home in the back seat of a cop car getting let out, uncuffing me in front of parents and neighbors.
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I remember sitting in School during Geography. All of a sudden over the PA system a radio blares. At first we didn't know what was going on.
In a few short seconds we did. President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas Texas and was otw to the Hospital. Later we learned he died.
Rocky and Bullwinkle and the hunt for the Kerwood derby. (was a play on Derwood Kirby who was Gary Moores' sidekick) old radio and TV show.
Cuban Missle Crisis. Being young we had no idea. We had to ask and then we were afraid, very afraid.
Duck and cover! We actually hid under kindling in case of a Nuclear attack. Had those drills once a month in School.
All radio dials had a triangle marked on them in two places. They were Konelrad Stations (spelling) to be tuned to in case of Nuclear attack.
Walt Disney Show......Davey Crockett and Coonskin caps. Lots of kids had them.
Lucy and Desi Arnaz, The Danny Thomas Show, The Peoples Choice, The Life of Riley,& Topper, all hit shows.
1950 era Cars...beautiful! Chrome all over the place and HUGE. Every year car designs changed. Unlike now where they are mostly clones year after year.
1958...the first NFL Title game broadcast on TV live. NY Giants against the Baltimore Colts. Great game and put the NFL on the map.
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It's real funny that I think back about the conversations my dad had with me when I was a kid. Being told "Just wait. You'll see." My dad is a very wise man.
Great post. You sound like my dad. :D
And he did walk to school....in a snow storm without shoes, uphill....both ways too!
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I`m 40 and when I go visit my mom And she drives anywhere I still get the "Safety Arm" lol we joke about it :lol
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I wasn't the remote control but rather the "antenna turner". We had a crappy old set of vise grips rusted to the antenna pole. I would go outside and turn the antenna until the picture got better and then my dad would bang on the wall for me to stop. That was fun in the middle of winter when trying to get NY Ranger games out of NYC. I would much rather have been the tv controller on those days.
Same here. Visiting grandparents in Northeast Mississippi the antenna rotor was ME. They'd sent me outside (in the dark mostly) and hollar through a window to turn the antenna from the Tupelo station to the Memphis station. When my uncle hollared "THAT's IT!" I was done....until they wanted it changed again after that show was over.
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PSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Only a few hundred times to shoot down wasps :)
so im not the only one who uses it as a weapon against bugs in the baseball diamond? :lol
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When I grew up, my country had one radio channel and one tv channel, both run by the state.
The radio channel had almost no pop music at all, - about 2 hours a week or so.
The TV started in 1967, was black & white untill 1975 (my parents got a colour tv in 1982), and, - hold yer breath, - there was no tv on thursdays, and also not in July. The program was usually between 18:00 and 22:00, but there was a movie on Friday and Saturday night. Normally the movies were decades old, so I grew up with favourites like Bogart and John Mills.
So, to evilly continue these glory-days, my daughters hardly get to see any TV at all. We sometimes turn on the set for a firetest.
:devil
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any of ya old peoples (over 40 or so) ever take a match to some air freshener or hairspray?
good time...:devil
dude, Stick firecracker down ant hole. "BLAM"
Opens the hole a little bit more. Let things settle a bit then take a thin piece of chicken bone such as from the wing or a fish bone down the hole, leave for a minute then slowly pull out. When all the ants come charging out. Then ya hit em with the flame thrower. Dont forget to make imitation screaming noises of agony for improved realism. lmao
Shooting down flies in mid air with hairspray and a lighter is fun too. Usually doesnt kill em outright but burns their wings off. Then take the survivors and drop em onto your nearest spider web.
Be careful when doing indoors lest you set your house on fire
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Wild Kingdom, poor Jim would jump on the back of a charging Rhino or lasso a grizz. Then there was the world wide sports on Saturday. They always showed that skier during the intro out of control on the ski jump. and then Disney movie on Sunday night.
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He lived to jump again http://www.yourememberthat.com/media/2636/Famous_Ski_Jump_Crash/
Yea Jim did all the dangerous stuff while Marlin Perkins often just looked on
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dude, Stick firecracker down ant hole. "BLAM"
Opens the hole a little bit more. Let things settle a bit then take a thin piece of chicken bone such as from the wing or a fish bone down the hole, leave for a minute then slowly pull out. When all the ants come charging out. Then ya hit em with the flame thrower. Dont forget to make imitation screaming noises of agony for improved realism. lmao
Shooting down flies in mid air with hairspray and a lighter is fun too. Usually doesnt kill em outright but burns their wings off. Then take the survivors and drop em onto your nearest spider web.
Be careful when doing indoors lest you set your house on fire
You wouldn't happen to be currently serving 15 to 22 at Joliet would you? :lol
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His name is Jake...............
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dude, Stick firecracker down ant hole. "BLAM"
Opens the hole a little bit more. Let things settle a bit then take a thin piece of chicken bone such as from the wing or a fish bone down the hole, leave for a minute then slowly pull out. When all the ants come charging out. Then ya hit em with the flame thrower. Dont forget to make imitation screaming noises of agony for improved realism. lmao
Shooting down flies in mid air with hairspray and a lighter is fun too. Usually doesnt kill em outright but burns their wings off. Then take the survivors and drop em onto your nearest spider web.
Be careful when doing indoors lest you set your house on fire
:rofl ah man i gotta do that one of these days, and BTW i do the agonizing screams of death when i nail the bugs outside :lol
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Wayout, great thread . . . hopefully some of the kids will dig this . . . we will . . . this never fails to stop me dead in my tracks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSAesBwEBUE&feature=player_embedded
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The orange hotwheels car track was an excellent way to fire bomb your plastic soldiers. Just set them up in their defensive positions, light up a bit of track and let the fireballs drop, they even made a little "pew, pew, pew" sound as they rained down upon the helpless infantry men.
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The orange hotwheels car track was an excellent way to fire bomb your plastic soldiers. Just set them up in their defensive positions, light up a bit of track and let the fireballs drop, they even made a little "pew, pew, pew" sound as they rained down upon the helpless infantry men.
Empty Clorox bottles are the best for that and easy to get ... was always mesmerized by the "pew pew pew" sounds.
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Oh, and we made our own ice cream. AWESOME stuff. We could have added fresh fruit, chocolate, nuts, etc., but never did. It was great just as is.
Oh, and none of that "electric" crank ice cream maker stuff...WE cranked it manually...and in 105F degree heat it was quite the chore. Amazing what ice, rocksalt, and some elbowgrease can do.
And if you've never been on a 2-holer in December with only the Sears & Roebuck catalog for TP and chickens pecking at your backside....
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i remember my friend put fire crackers in the neighbors toilet once...that sure caused some chaos! ah man that was hilarious!
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1963 when Kennedy was shot I was a small child at this god forsaken place. 1961-64:
http://6937th.50megs.com/6937th_photos.htm
The russians sent two Yak25 over the place at low level around the time Kennedy was shot. I was standing in the middle of the bases sports feild as they buzzed the base at 500ft. The PAF drove them away in F86 launched from Peshawar airfeild. This was the place Gary Powers launched from a few years earlier when he was downed over russia. If you poke around in the linked picture's you will see an aireal view that shows the base with the Peshawar airfeild runway about 5 miles in the background. My father was freinds with the Mayor of Peshawar who taught him to fly Taylorcraft Austors.
No radio, no TV, no nothing. Occasional cobras, vipers, carats, camel spiders, jackels, rabies carrying bats and dogs. Got rabies that way. All of the mothers on the post knew each other so you couldn't pull any crap. All of the airmen and personel knew to just tell your father after getting your name and that night you came home to a kester whompin. You lived for saturdays and the afternoon matinee. Or summer for the pool. It was in the 90's all summer with two weeks of monsoon in july.
We had to make it up as we went along with lots of community things from the church womens organisations during the year to spending evenings watching the mens softball, touch football, and the movie theater/church. The saturday after "The 300 Spartans" showed, every garbage can lid and mop handel in base housing disapered while 20 small boys lined up and beat the crap out of each other for a day. Half the base made an effort to pass by the feild at some time during the day to laugh at us.
It was when we upped the arms race to bows and arrows that our mothers called a truce for us. They figured knocking each other down with mop handels and trash can lids was burning up our youthfull energy and the base dispensery was just around the corner. We did worse to each other playing contact football with no pads. But, arrows could take out eyes and some of our sisters were close enough laughing at us that a stray arrow was a problem. For todays PC hand wringers note, no mothers came shreiking out to save their offspring from getting cracked over the knoggin with a stick or sue anyone over it. They just pulled the plug on our fun when bystanders could get hurt. We also had to return everyones trash can lids and mop poles before we could come home that day.
About a month later I got shot in the leg with one of those arrows and got a butt whompin when I got back from the dispensery for pissing off the kid who shot me. While I was recovering from my whompin that night I could hear the whailing of the kid down the road who shot me while his father whomped him. A year later I fell in a foundation trench for some new construction on the post and broke my wrist. We kids had been warned to stay away from it. I was the third kid that month getting a cast for breaking his wrist. Some of us younger kids were too small to jump the trench like the older boys but we kept trying anyway. I got a butt whompin when I got home that night for being stoopid.
The service club scheduled year round saturday road trips to points of interest around northern Pakistan to give service members something more to do than go to India and get the clap. Two I remember going to were the Khyber Pass at Landi Kotal and the Taxila Ruins. Back then it was a badge of honor for boys to have broken a wrist/leg or get stiches at least once. Rabies or a snake bite were an exotic elective.
Taxali: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxila
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Alas, I fear I will not live to be past 30, I intend to die in war. But I think This board won't be here when i'm 40 :(
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I'm betting it will
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Alas, I fear I will not live to be past 30,
I thought the same thing. Let me tell you it's a poor plan. When you turn 50 your body reminds you how much you put it thru when you were 20. :old:
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Alas, I fear I will not live to be past 30, I intend to die in war. But I think This board won't be here when i'm 40 :(
Don't bet on it,it's a lose-lose wager.