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zappalives
Joined: 15 May 2006
Location: Gyeongju
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| 26, but I can't tell if living here makes me feel younger or older than back home, just different I guess. |
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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| A pretty straight-forward curve, with the majority being 26-35. |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Apple Scruff wrote: |
| To the 6 people who are above fifty: things not go as you planned? |
hahahahaha .... you should be on the wireless .... |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| poker player wrote: |
I'm so old that I remember:
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 (a dollar - 0.25 GBP) was a decent allowance
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny
Your Mom (Mum) 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 (windscreen) 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 (year) if they failed. and they did
When a 57 Chevy (Jaguar 3.4) 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
and playing baseball (cricket) 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
When being sent to the principal's (Head'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.
Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, the Lone Ranger, (Muffin the Mule, the Woodentops, the Little Rascals)
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard (foil) stoppers (happily, that's still the case in UK)
Newsreels before the movie (film)
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Hillcrest 4-601) - (Royal Oh-four-oh-one)
Party lines
Peashooters
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 (haha, in UK too, they always were a cult car .... )
Washtub wringers
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
Erector Sets (Meccano)
The Fort Apache Play Set
5 cent (shilling) packs of baseball (football) cards - with that awful pink slab of bubble gum
Penny candy (sweets)
35 cent (dollar, 0.25GBP) a gallon gasoline
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
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon
Terrorism was a panty raid at the nurse's sorority
The "TV" had only one channel .....
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With a few minor mods, some even pre-dating .... but I am a bof. |
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