Kids These Days (You Know You're Old When...)

[JerryBaumchen 1,468]

Hi John,

I'm thinking that everyone here is 'just a kid' when compared to Jimmie T, you and me.

And let me add: Reading the headlines when Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute mile.

JerryBaumchen
A kid of the 40's

[Tink1717 2]

8 of 9. I don't remember Microsoft vs DOJ. (Someone fill me in). Yep, I'm old. I knew I was getting old the first time I drove past a high school and found myself looking at the teachers.

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

[Tink1717 2]

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The Gong show.

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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

[flygirl1220 0]

I remember when kids played outside and used their imaginations. You only got to talk to your friends at school or on the bus. And I'm a kid of the 80's.

[FlyingRhenquest 1]

Tink1717

8 of 9. I don't remember Microsoft vs DOJ. (Someone fill me in). Yep, I'm old. I knew I was getting old the first time I drove past a high school and found myself looking at the teachers.

Really? 'cause I was looking at some of those teachers when I was 16...

I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

[Tink1717 2]

Yeah, right. I had one teacher who was hot ( even by today standards she was hot ), but the rest were old, fat, and very much on the battle axe side of things.

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

[jimmytavino 16]

Most of my teachers were Nuns... BUT a Couple were Hot!!! ( Now you Know why i FAILED Religion... in the 10th Grade )!!!

you Know you're OLD...
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... If you KNOW what a BattleAxe is !
jmy

[kallend 2,150]

JerryBaumchen

Hi John,

I'm thinking that everyone here is 'just a kid' when compared to Jimmie T, you and me.

And let me add: Reading the headlines when Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute mile.

JerryBaumchen
A kid of the 40's

That too.

I met Roger Bannister about 15 years ago. And if you visit the track where he did it (basically dirt, not a modern composite surface track) you wonder that he ever managed it. He was a medical student too, not a professional athlete like the folks we see at the track events these days,

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[kallend 2,150]

jimmytavino

Most of my teachers were Nuns... BUT a Couple were Hot!!! ( Now you Know why i FAILED Religion... in the 10th Grade )!!!

you Know you're OLD...
.
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... If you KNOW what a BattleAxe is !
jmy

All of my teachers from 5th grade on were men (went to a single sex school). And all had college degrees in the subject they taught.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[davjohns 1]

It has started getting colder in Belgium. They use radiators here. I was standing beside one after getting out of bed this morning and thought of floor furnaces. I remember having hash marks on my footy pajamas from standing on those things.

I know it just wouldnt be right to kill all the stupid people that we meet..

But do you think it would be appropriate to just remove all of the warning labels and let nature take its course.

[wmw999 2,589]

When my son was about 5, we were watching baseball, and there was a video montage of stadiums around the country.

We live in Houston (think Astrodome at the time). In the montage, most of the stadiums were covered, until the last one. He looked at it, and asked "where's the roof?"

Puts a whole new perspective on the whole "what the world is like" question.

I remember straws made out of straw, kids playing with tops and marbles, oxcarts going down the street, and dogs with rabies (yeah, this wasn't the US).

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[rushmc 23]

wmw999

When my son was about 5, we were watching baseball, and there was a video montage of stadiums around the country.

We live in Houston (think Astrodome at the time). In the montage, most of the stadiums were covered, until the last one. He looked at it, and asked "where's the roof?"

Puts a whole new perspective on the whole "what the world is like" question.

I remember straws made out of straw, kids playing with tops and marbles, oxcarts going down the street, and dogs with rabies (yeah, this wasn't the US).

Wendy P.

I remember going to town with dad in his Chevy pickup
We would go to the train depot and load coal with shovels for our winter heat

It was heaven when we got the heating oil injector installed

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[Bertt 0]

" knew I was getting old the first time I drove past a high school and found myself looking at the teachers. "

No dude, you're getting old when you drive past a high school and don't look at the teachers.

You don't have to outrun the bear.