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01-14-2004, 04:54 PM
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| Lusting Over Leelee  Join Date: Aug 2003
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  | Do you remember when....? I got this sent in an e-mail, and whilst a lot of it is particular to America, it still set me thinking...particularly as I was just horrifed last night watching one of the music channels and Guns N' Roses were played and the caption showed that Appetite For Destruction was out in 1987....that's 17 years ago...and then I realised that that meant I was getting old.....Damn!! Anyhoo....... DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...? All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? 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, (it was 10p for me!), 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? Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a ..." 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? And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today? 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 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? Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening? It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"? The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"? Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot? A foot of snow was a dream come true? Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures? "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense? Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles? The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team? War was a card game? Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle? Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin? Water balloons were the ultimate weapon? AND DO YOU REMEMBER...? 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....(Cherry 1-2944.) 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 Jewel Tea man 5 cent packs of baseball cards with that awful pink slab of bubble gum Penny candy As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar Apparently, I am reliably informed by this e-mail that If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!
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01-14-2004, 05:28 PM
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| 70's Coke Fiend  Join Date: Dec 2003
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 | Interesting
Over Here In NZ- Theres A Radio Station Called 'Radio Hauraki' They Use A Similar Method As Advertising. In The 60's And 70's You Got Out Of Your Tree In The Mid-Day Sun, Today You Get Under A Tree In The Mid-Day Sun. In The 60's And 70's You Were Growing Pot, Today You're Trying Not To Grow A Pot. In The 60's And 70's Love Was A Drug, Today You Need Drugs To Make Love. Etc, Etc.
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01-14-2004, 05:33 PM
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| Lusting Over Leelee Join Date: Aug 2003
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| The really stupid thing is that I never really feel that I'm actually getting older...and then I receive e-mails like that or hear things like the radio adverts and it hits me like a ton of bricks!! However...you're only as old as the woman you feel..and my wife is 4 years younger than me!!  
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01-14-2004, 06:44 PM
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| 70's Coke Fiend Join Date: Dec 2003
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| Yeh- Being Wealthy Sucks.
Being Wealthy Sucks From A Relationship Perspective, The Only Reason That Women-Once Again In Many Multiples- Will Marry You Is To Get A Part Of The Bank Account. But I'm Sure You've Got That Problem Too , Right? Oh And If Anyone Want's To - Add Me To MSN Or Yahoo- Jacobfie@hotmail.com- Jacobfie04 (Yahoo).
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