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Close your eyes... And go back...
...Before the Internet or PC or the MAC...
...Before semi-automatics and crack...
...Before Playstation, SEGA, Super Nintendo, even before Atari...
...Before cell phones, CD's, DVD's, voicemail and e-mail...
...way back...
...way... way... way back...
I'm talkin' bout hide and seek at dusk
Red light, Green light
Red Rover... Red Rover...
Playing kickball & dodgeball until the first... no... second... no... third Streetlight came on
Ring around the Rosie
London Bridge
Hot potato
Hop Scotch
Jump rope
Duck... duck... GOOSE!!!
TAG, you're IT!!
Parents stood on the front porch and yelled (or whistled) for you to come home - no pagers or cell phones
Mother May I?
Hula Hoops
Seeing shapes in the clouds
Endless summer days and hot summer nights (no A/C) with the windows open
The sound of crickets
Running through the sprinkler
Happy Meals
Cereal boxes with that GREAT prize in the bottom
Cracker jacks with the same thing
Ice pops with 2 sticks you could break and share with a friend
...but wait... there's more...
Watchin' Saturday Morning cartoons
Fat Albert, Road Runner, Smurfs, Picture Pages, G-Force & He-Man,
Schoolhouse Rock
Watchin' Sunday morning oldies (Abbott & Costello, Three Stooges)
Wonder Woman & Super Man Underoos
FONZIE.....AYYYYYYYY !!!
Playing Dukes of Hazard
Catchin' lightning bugs in a jar
6 a.m. Christmas morning
Your first day of school
Bedtime Prayers and Goodnight Kisses
Climbing trees
Swinging as high as you could to try and reach the sky
Getting an Ice Cream off the Good Humor Truck
A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers
Jumpin' down the steps
Jumpin' on the bed
Pillow fights
Sleep-overs
A 13" black and white TV in your room meant you were RICH
Runnin' till you were out of breath
Big Wheels
Sit & Spins
Stuffing ALL your Hot Wheels into your pockets, to take them over to your friends house
Sticking a Playing Card, or Balloon in the spokes of your bike, because you thought it made you sound like a motorcycle
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt
Being tired from PLAYING (imagine THAT)
WORK: meant taking out the garbage or doing the dishes
Your first crush
Your first kiss (I mean the one that you kept your mouth CLOSED and your eyes OPEN)
Rainy days at school meant playing "Heads up 7UP" or hangman" in the classroom, Remember that?
Oh, I'm not finished yet....
Kool-Aid was the drink of the summer
So was a swig from the hose
Giving your friends a ride on your handlebars
Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school
Class Field Trips with soggy sandwiches
When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there
When a quarter seemed like a fair allowance
...and another quarter a MIRACLE
When ANY parent could discipline ANY kid, or feed him, or use them to carry groceries... And nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
When your parents took you to McDonalds and you were COOL
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you 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! And some of us are still afraid of em! (rightfully so, I might add)
Didn't that feel good? Just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that!"
Well, let's keep going!!
Let's go back to the time when...
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "do over!"
"Race issues" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "monopoly"
Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
Being old, referred to anyone over 20. (CRAP! I'm positively ANCIENT!)
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties.
Nobody was prettier than Mom
Scrapes and bruises were kissed by mom or grandma and made ALL better
It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people" rides at the amusement park.
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.
Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare"
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles.
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
Water balloons were the ultimate, ultimate weapon.
Older siblings were your worst tormentors, but also your fiercest protector
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!!
Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown up" life......I TRIPLE DOG DARE YA!!!!!!
...Before the Internet or PC or the MAC...
...Before semi-automatics and crack...
...Before Playstation, SEGA, Super Nintendo, even before Atari...
...Before cell phones, CD's, DVD's, voicemail and e-mail...
...way back...
...way... way... way back...
I'm talkin' bout hide and seek at dusk
Red light, Green light
Red Rover... Red Rover...
Playing kickball & dodgeball until the first... no... second... no... third Streetlight came on
Ring around the Rosie
London Bridge
Hot potato
Hop Scotch
Jump rope
Duck... duck... GOOSE!!!
TAG, you're IT!!
Parents stood on the front porch and yelled (or whistled) for you to come home - no pagers or cell phones
Mother May I?
Hula Hoops
Seeing shapes in the clouds
Endless summer days and hot summer nights (no A/C) with the windows open
The sound of crickets
Running through the sprinkler
Happy Meals
Cereal boxes with that GREAT prize in the bottom
Cracker jacks with the same thing
Ice pops with 2 sticks you could break and share with a friend
...but wait... there's more...
Watchin' Saturday Morning cartoons
Fat Albert, Road Runner, Smurfs, Picture Pages, G-Force & He-Man,
Schoolhouse Rock
Watchin' Sunday morning oldies (Abbott & Costello, Three Stooges)
Wonder Woman & Super Man Underoos
FONZIE.....AYYYYYYYY !!!
Playing Dukes of Hazard
Catchin' lightning bugs in a jar
6 a.m. Christmas morning
Your first day of school
Bedtime Prayers and Goodnight Kisses
Climbing trees
Swinging as high as you could to try and reach the sky
Getting an Ice Cream off the Good Humor Truck
A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers
Jumpin' down the steps
Jumpin' on the bed
Pillow fights
Sleep-overs
A 13" black and white TV in your room meant you were RICH
Runnin' till you were out of breath
Big Wheels
Sit & Spins
Stuffing ALL your Hot Wheels into your pockets, to take them over to your friends house
Sticking a Playing Card, or Balloon in the spokes of your bike, because you thought it made you sound like a motorcycle
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt
Being tired from PLAYING (imagine THAT)
WORK: meant taking out the garbage or doing the dishes
Your first crush
Your first kiss (I mean the one that you kept your mouth CLOSED and your eyes OPEN)
Rainy days at school meant playing "Heads up 7UP" or hangman" in the classroom, Remember that?
Oh, I'm not finished yet....
Kool-Aid was the drink of the summer
So was a swig from the hose
Giving your friends a ride on your handlebars
Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school
Class Field Trips with soggy sandwiches
When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there
When a quarter seemed like a fair allowance
...and another quarter a MIRACLE
When ANY parent could discipline ANY kid, or feed him, or use them to carry groceries... And nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
When your parents took you to McDonalds and you were COOL
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you 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! And some of us are still afraid of em! (rightfully so, I might add)
Didn't that feel good? Just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that!"
Well, let's keep going!!
Let's go back to the time when...
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "do over!"
"Race issues" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "monopoly"
Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
Being old, referred to anyone over 20. (CRAP! I'm positively ANCIENT!)
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties.
Nobody was prettier than Mom
Scrapes and bruises were kissed by mom or grandma and made ALL better
It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people" rides at the amusement park.
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.
Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare"
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles.
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
Water balloons were the ultimate, ultimate weapon.
Older siblings were your worst tormentors, but also your fiercest protector
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!!
Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown up" life......I TRIPLE DOG DARE YA!!!!!!
5th Gear
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 6,508
From: South Bay
RE: NO ONE under 35 is permitted to view this thread!
how the heck do you think up all this stuff??? does that just ooz out of your brain all at once or did it take you a few years to make that list?iactually had fun reading all that, i feel really happy now....thanks jazz!!
btw,i'm only 23 but most of that applied to me
btw,i'm only 23 but most of that applied to me
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RE: NO ONE under 35 is permitted to view this thread!
It was actually an email that my Aunt (fathers' sister) sent me, and, yes, I *DID* forget to add Big Wheels, although, like many of the other thinbgs on teh list, they dint come out until AFTER I was too old/big to have one[:@]
So, cut & paste it into an email, and send it to someone YOU know, who YOU KNOW needs to smile, today!
edyt: two other things come to mind...
1. You can ADD things, if youthink they apply
2. Apparently you "under 35-y/o's" weren't taught to follow instructions very well, were you?!?!?
So, cut & paste it into an email, and send it to someone YOU know, who YOU KNOW needs to smile, today!
edyt: two other things come to mind...
1. You can ADD things, if youthink they apply
2. Apparently you "under 35-y/o's" weren't taught to follow instructions very well, were you?!?!?
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that about covers me lol and even further back when my dad had a car with push up windows and leaving the keys in the ignition all night and the car would still be there untouched ( now what do we have ) thieves/muggers/murderers/terrorists/too much news about the dumb backward middle east/many of the democratic world loosing good people to to a worthless cause trying to help the west when we should just build a wall round it.
I know the last bits are controversial but that's how I feel when I see it on the news and way back in the 50s-60s you would even hear anyone swearing and always full of respect for their elders heheheh hell I feel bloody old now
I know the last bits are controversial but that's how I feel when I see it on the news and way back in the 50s-60s you would even hear anyone swearing and always full of respect for their elders heheheh hell I feel bloody old now
2nd Gear
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I'm 32 and it all applies...forgot paper airplanes and building jumps for your BMX....Man thats a long time ago...Thanks for rmaking me space out for 20 minuteswhile I'm at work..That was a pleasant break.
BTW--Hot Wheels Rule....
BTW--Hot Wheels Rule....