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Offline SKColt

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Re: The Over 40 Crowd
« Reply #105 on: April 07, 2011, 11:17:15 AM »
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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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Re: The Over 40 Crowd
« Reply #106 on: April 07, 2011, 11:41:57 AM »
Quote from: DREDIOCK on April 06, 2011, 09:32:41 PM
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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Reminds me of what we would watch on Saturday afternoons with "SuperHost"
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Re: The Over 40 Crowd
« Reply #107 on: April 07, 2011, 12:53:48 PM »
Quote from: Wayout on April 04, 2011, 07:02:52 AM
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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Re: The Over 40 Crowd
« Reply #108 on: April 07, 2011, 01:02:38 PM »
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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Re: The Over 40 Crowd
« Reply #109 on: April 07, 2011, 02:10:58 PM »
Quote from: SlapShot on April 07, 2011, 12:53:48 PM
: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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Re: The Over 40 Crowd
« Reply #110 on: April 07, 2011, 03:01:47 PM »
Quote from: The Jekyll on April 07, 2011, 01:02:38 PM
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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Re: The Over 40 Crowd
« Reply #111 on: April 07, 2011, 03:06:52 PM »
Quote from: The Jekyll on April 07, 2011, 01:02:38 PM
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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Re: The Over 40 Crowd
« Reply #112 on: April 07, 2011, 03:08:25 PM »
Quote from: gyrene81 on April 07, 2011, 03:01:47 PM
: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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Re: The Over 40 Crowd
« Reply #113 on: April 07, 2011, 04:44:17 PM »
Quote from: gyrene81 on April 07, 2011, 10:42:18 AM
: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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Re: The Over 40 Crowd
« Reply #114 on: April 07, 2011, 06:43:32 PM »
Quote from: SlapShot on April 07, 2011, 03:08:25 PM
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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Re: The Over 40 Crowd
« Reply #115 on: April 07, 2011, 06:53:51 PM »
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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Re: The Over 40 Crowd
« Reply #116 on: April 07, 2011, 08:01:13 PM »
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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Re: The Over 40 Crowd
« Reply #117 on: April 07, 2011, 08:36:10 PM »
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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Re: The Over 40 Crowd
« Reply #118 on: April 07, 2011, 09:56:50 PM »
Quote from: gyrene81 on April 07, 2011, 08:01:13 PM
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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Re: The Over 40 Crowd
« Reply #119 on: April 08, 2011, 07:45:46 PM »
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