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happygirl
Joined: 20 Feb 2006
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| Thanks Poker Player. That did bring back some memories. Those cards in the bicycle spokes... and lucky we were if we found on of those hard plastic cards. Oh, what a joy. |
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poker player
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Location: On the river
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| happygirl wrote: |
| Thanks Poker Player. That did bring back some memories. Those cards in the bicycle spokes... and lucky we were if we found on of those hard plastic cards. Oh, what a joy. |
Yeah, my cousin still likes to remind me how I used Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle and Moose Skowron baseball cards in my spokes because I had so many "extras" of them. No wonder they are so rare now, all of us who were little kids in the 50s used them up. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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I'm so old that I remember:
It took five minutes for the TV warm up
Nobody owned a purebred dog
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,
without asking, all for free, every time
And you didn't pay for air
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. and they did
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 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,
Candy cigarettes
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
45 RPM records
Cork pop guns
Drive ins
Washtub wringers
Tinkertoys
Penny candy
Jiffy Pop popcorn
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"
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 |
ALL of these above were my childhood memories too in the seventies
(i edited out a third of your list) |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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older than the last 50 or 60 times I answered this question in a poll here. Certainly can't speak for anyone else, but I always choose the first or the last choice, just to skew the results.
I hope others are doing the same... |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 9:44 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 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
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
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.
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
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...( Hillcrest 4-601).
Party lines
Peashooters
Howdy Doody
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
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
"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense
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 |
Don't forget: Going shopping for a TV with dad meant going to Sears to buy a replacement vaccum tube for the black and white set (which had the screen mounted on top of the box on a swivel arm, or course). |
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tacon101
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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| i wont fit on that until august... |
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Newbie
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 12:35 am Post subject: |
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When I first came here people would ask me what university I go to.
Now, people yell ajjosi to get my attention  |
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little mixed girl
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
Location: shin hyesung's bed~
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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| i'm 22. wheeee~~~ |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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| little mixed girl wrote: |
| i'm 22. wheeee~~~ |
I'm not jealous one bit. You'll understand when you're over 30. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 5:37 am 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 etc..... |
I'm so old, I don't remember how old I am!!! The only thing I really know is that I am MUCH older than you, poker player..........
DD
Happiness is only good health and a poor memory[/quote] |
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Bo Peabody
Joined: 25 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 7:36 am Post subject: |
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Apple Scruff
Joined: 29 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 7:34 am Post subject: |
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| To the 6 people who are above fifty: things not go as you planned? |
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joyfulgirl
Joined: 05 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 8:31 am Post subject: |
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| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| little mixed girl wrote: |
| i'm 22. wheeee~~~ |
I'm not jealous one bit. You'll understand when you're over 30. |
i'm glad i'm not 22 anymore. i'm much better in bed now.
but, i'm wondering now, at 32...do i stay here, 'cause it's easy money and work, or go home and look for real work..and, ya know, be a 'normal' person? |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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| To the 6 people who are above fifty: things not go as you planned? |
Now that isn't nice. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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| a bump! |
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