turtlespeed 226 #1 August 17, 2004 ----- DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...? All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? It took five minutes for the TV warm up? Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school? Nobody owned a purebred dog? When a quarter was a decent allowance? You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces? All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels? You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot? Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box? It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents? They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . .and they did? When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady? No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked? Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a .." and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger? And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today? When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home? Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat. Send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk. As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar. Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"? I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on. To remember what a double dog dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. How many of these do you remember? Candy cigarettes Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers Newsreels before the movie P.F. Fliers Telephone numbers with a word prefix....(Raymond 4-601). Party lines Peashooters Howdy Dowdy 45 RPM records Green Stamps Hi-Fi's Metal ice cubes trays with levers Mimeograph paper Beanie and Cecil Roller-skate keys Cork pop guns Drive ins Studebakers Washtub wringers The Fuller Brush Man Reel-To-Reel tape recorders Tinkertoys Erector Sets The Fort Apache Play Set Lincoln Logs 15 cent McDonald hamburgers 5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of bubble gum Penny candy 35 cent a gallon gasoline Jiffy Pop popcorn Do you remember a time when... Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"? Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"? "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest? Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening? It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"? The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"? Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot? A foot of snow was a dream come true? Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures? "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense? Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles? The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team? War was a card game? Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle? Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin? Water balloons were the ultimate weapon? I remember most of these - it made me feel pretty good just to rememeber that I was there for alot opf this - Expecially the part about the keys in the car and the tamper proof caps - Life was alot - what's an appropriate word - "gentler" - then.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Luv2Fall 0 #2 August 17, 2004 You just reminded me why my hair is turning gray. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyIvan 0 #3 August 17, 2004 Thank you for making me feel OLD __________________________________________ Blue Skies and May the Force be with you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelel01 1 #4 August 17, 2004 QuoteThank you for making me feel OLD And thank you for making me feel YOUNG. Half of that stuff was before my time. Kelly Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slappie 9 #5 August 17, 2004 Thanks ya asshole "Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #6 August 17, 2004 QuoteThanks ya asshole Glad I could help - there. That was before the times of "Buttcheetos", "Asshats", and "Creeper Slingshots."I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sunshine 2 #7 August 17, 2004 QuoteWax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside Those are still around. I love 'em!! ___________________________________________ meow I get a Mike hug! I get a Mike hug! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #8 August 17, 2004 And Pixxy stix and Damn what was the little candy spoon one - three packets or different flavored stuff.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slappie 9 #9 August 17, 2004 QuoteQuoteThanks ya asshole Glad I could help - there. That was before the times of "Buttcheetos", "Asshats", and "Creeper Slingshots." Don't forget getting "BYTCHISIZED" and "Fuktard" (Fucking Retard) "Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sunshine 2 #10 August 17, 2004 Quoteand Damn what was the little candy spoon one - three packets or different flavored stuff. Lick Aid or something like that. Speaking of licking things.... ___________________________________________ meow I get a Mike hug! I get a Mike hug! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tink1717 2 #11 August 17, 2004 OK, you're an old fart. What's your point?Skydivers don't knock on Death's door. They ring the bell and runaway... It really pisses him off. -The World Famous Tink. (I never heard of you either!!) AA #2069 ASA#33 POPS#8808 Swooo 1717 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #12 August 17, 2004 QuoteOK, you're an old fart. What's your point? Dude - it was just a feel good post - have fun with it - My Dad sent it to me. What you ain't got no lovin' feelin'? Did you lose your lovin' feeling? He's lost hi - looovin' feeeeeeeeling . . .whoah o whoah - ok - I'll stop.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sunshine 2 #13 August 17, 2004 QuoteDid you lose your lovin' feeling? I lost mine....you should bring it back to me. It will only cost you $277.37 ___________________________________________ meow I get a Mike hug! I get a Mike hug! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adamjenner 0 #14 August 17, 2004 QuoteAnd thank you for making me feel YOUNG. Half of that stuff was before my time. i too have to agree that a lot of this stuff was before my time. haha i'm so young Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flypunk 0 #15 August 17, 2004 fuckers, now that explains why everything hurts on monday.... ... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brains 2 #16 August 17, 2004 QuoteQuoteand Damn what was the little candy spoon one - three packets or different flavored stuff. Lick Aid or something like that. Speaking of licking things.... wasn't it fun-dip? I always ate the candy spoon thingy and ate the powder with my fingers, thus turning them all red Yeah, I'm old. Never look down on someone, unless they are going down on you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sheenster303 0 #17 August 17, 2004 No I don't. The only thing I remember is candy cigarettes. The only place they had them was the gas station across the street from my neighborhood that the neighborhood kids and I would always walk to. My mom would never give me money for them. So I'd say I was buying Dr. Pepper instead and then go and buy the cigarettes. I was such a heathon. I thought they were cool.I'm so funny I crack my head open! P.M.S. #102 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhillyKev 0 #18 August 17, 2004 QuoteQuoteand Damn what was the little candy spoon one - three packets or different flavored stuff. Lick Aid or something like that. Speaking of licking things.... Lick-em Aid Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #19 August 17, 2004 Yeah - FunDip - My Ex called it Oral Candy - I'm not telling why. Remember lemonade stands?I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sunshine 2 #20 August 17, 2004 I remember Fun Dip and Lick-em Aid. Never tried it as oral candy...hrm... ___________________________________________ meow I get a Mike hug! I get a Mike hug! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cloudynot 0 #21 August 17, 2004 are you kidding its hard enough to remember yesterday.....seems I'm always in a rush need slower days Clouds are cool to move through but not if they are NOT jumpable Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mjosparky 4 #22 August 17, 2004 Man, thats scary. I remember all of that shit. Well at least the parts I didn't forget. What is it I am supposed to remember? Did I get in, did I pull. SparkyMy idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cloudynot 0 #23 August 17, 2004 QuoteQuoteQuoteand Damn what was the little candy spoon one - three packets or different flavored stuff. Lick Aid or something like that. Speaking of licking things.... wasn't it fun-dip? I always ate the candy spoon thingy and ate the powder with my fingers, thus turning them all red Yeah, I'm old. I did that too are you calling me old too?????? huh Clouds are cool to move through but not if they are NOT jumpable Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
