| Author | Message | ||
     Mr_grumpy |
Received this from my sis the other day, thought I'd pass it on to you all. I know some of you'll get it & the puppies probably won't but what the..... enjoy. __________________________________________________ ____________________ DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...? It took five minutes for the TV to warm up? Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when they got home from school? Nobody owned a purebred dog? When a shilling was a decent allowance? You had to be home when the street lights came on? Your Mum wore stockings that came in two pieces? All your male teachers wore ties Female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels? You got your windscreen cleaned, oil checked, and petrol pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? Cereals had free toys hidden inside the box? It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents? Schools threatened to keep kids back a year if they failed. . .and they did? When a Ford Capri was everyone's dream car? 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..." Playing footy and cricket with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? Stuff from the shop came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger? When being sent to the headmaster's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home? And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace, and share it with the children of today? 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, Laurel and Hardy, The Famous Five, Secret Seven, Biggles, the Lone Ranger, Phantom, Roy and Dale and Trigger at the flicks. As well as summers filled with bike rides, cricket games, Hula Hoops, monkey bars, cobbers, visits to the beach and "conversation" lollies. 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 dare to pass it on. To remember what a double 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? Lolly cigarettes, pogo sticks, marbles, Home milk delivery in glass bottles with aluminium tops Newsreels before the movie Sandshoes/Desert wellies Four digit Telephone numbers 45 RPM records Hi-Fi s Metal ice cubes trays with levers Mimeograph paper Spud guns Ford Capris Twin Tubs Reel-To-Reel tape recorders houses made of cards Meccano Sets Anglo/Bazooka Joe pink bubble gum MoJos/black jacks/fruit salads Two bob for a gallon of petrol Do you remember a time when... Decisions were made by "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"? "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest? It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"? The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "boy or girl germs"? Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a catapult? There were no Saturday morning cartoons with 30-minute adverts for action figures? Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles? The worst embarrassment was being caught playing doctors and nurses by your parents Playing cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle? Taking drugs meant the Polio shots at school Water balloons were the ultimate weapon? 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 double-dare-ya! | ||
| Buellshyter |
Do you remember when Mohammed wasn't the most popular name for newborn boys in England | ||
| Glitch |
Do you remember when Mohammed was a boxer that had changed his name from Cassius Clay? | ||
| Slaughter |
Lew Alcindor was a great college basketball player! | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
BS, yes I do, it's one of the reasons I no longer live there.  | ||
| Xbrad9r |
Mr_Grumpy thanks for that...i needed it the lying on your back in the grass saying "that cloud looks like a " almost made me cry my son plays games on his Xbox where peoples heads blow up and blood splatters everwhere...the scariest game i had when i was his age was Pitfall on the atari | ||
| Doughnut |
I love getting into these type of talks with my neighbors from the old house. I'm 30, they are mid 60s. They were recently remembering how everyone knew the name of the cop who had their beat, and that cop knew everyones' parents. | ||
| Ulywife |
I remember lots of those things. One of my favorite childhood games was jacks. I still have a set and my Mom can still kick my butt when we play! Needless to say, I still go first so I can have turn!! | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Remember When Your first set of wheels was the Green Machine because the Big Wheel couldn't corner for c#%$%^? The first time you caught air on a bike/ motorcycle? Your first water balloon fight? Running through a cemetary at midnite on Halloween? The first time your neighbors/ classmates/ friends parents/ dates parents thought you were a bad influence because you rode a motorcycle? Your first speeding ticket? Or even more, the time you KNEW you should have be tagged but weren't...? And of course, when going from a XR75 to a YZ125 was a HUGE jump in bikes ? | ||
| Danger_dave |
I remember these really interesting facts about the effects of smoking pot on your memory retention....now...what were they again.... or nostalgia ain't what it used to be. (Message edited by danger_dave on February 19, 2007) | ||
| Trojan |
Remember when you could leave all your worldly possessions, including your prized comics, in your school desk and they would still be there the next day? | ||
| Thansesxb9rs |
Remember when you did something stupid and no one sued over it. | ||
| Jimidan |
I am sick and tired of the way folks obsess about nostalgia...why I can remember in the good ol' days when folks didn't get all hung up on nostalgia... jimidan | ||
| Trojan |
You are so right Jimidan, Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be  | ||
| Slaughter |
In 3rd grade, they shut down school (Brookfield, WI #4) mid-day because of a blizzard. We made our way home as best we could. I went packed in a teacher's car with a half dozen other kids. She could only get within a block and let me out and I had to make it across a field through about 3 feet of snow. A neighbor saw me lie down when I gave up trying to make it any farther through the snow, came out and carried me the rest of the way to his house and called my parents. DAD WAS FURIOUS! He went to the next school board meeting and forced them to change their school closure policy - from that day on, no student was dismissed except to a parent or guardian. They had weather monitors whose job it was to remain at the school til all the kids were gone. I think they even had minimal provisions in case folks had to overnight. Nobody got sued but the school board sure got an earful from my Dad! Remember the Red Scare? Remember bomb shelters? Duck and cover? Remember a set of car tires going as far as 10,000 miles? (the good ones) Remember rebuilding an engine at 100,000 miles and bragging because it lasted twice as long as it should have? Remember when any amount of pot was a felony? |
