Stuff you don't hear anymore...
10-08-07, 09:24 PM
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I used to sleep out in the front yard, then run off down the road with my best friend, as above. Walked four miles to see my girlfriend. No fancy bikes for me. 
Another one, Get some bailing wire, that'll hold it for awhile.
Another one, Get some bailing wire, that'll hold it for awhile.
10-08-07, 09:37 PM
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"I had to walk 10 miles one way to school every day in the snow."
Not only uphill both ways, but also carrying a bucket of coal for the stove!
Not only uphill both ways, but also carrying a bucket of coal for the stove!
10-08-07, 09:52 PM
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"Wipe that smile off your face or I'll knock it off!"
10-08-07, 09:59 PM
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Buffalo Bob: "Hey kids, what time is it?"
Peanut Gallery: "It's Howdy Doody time!"
Remember the black and white "test pattern" on the TV??
Peanut Gallery: "It's Howdy Doody time!"
Remember the black and white "test pattern" on the TV??
10-08-07, 10:12 PM
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Dropping (and breaking) a thermometer and getting to play with the mercury.
Doctor visits were $5 if you were sick, $7 if he (notice I said HE), came to your house.
Christmas Club accounts, 25cents a week.
5.25 % interest regular savings accounts. Guaranteed by the fdic.
Girls had to wear skirts and nylons to high school.
Jeans were not allowed in school.
Boys were sent home if their hair was just over the ears.
Boys swam nude in the high school swim phy ed class (not coed).
Movie theatres advertising "Air Conditioned" with little icicles drawn on the signs.
Horse drawn fruit and vegtable carts.
Brown milk bottles delivered.
Seltzer water delivered in squirt bottles.
20 cent major league baseball game tickets.
The knife and scissor sharpener wandered the streets with a pedal driven sharpening stone calling out his service.
JD cards. (JD = Juvenile Dilinquent)
Murray the K and the swinging swaree
All of this was in The Bronx, NY. I'm 58 years old.
Doctor visits were $5 if you were sick, $7 if he (notice I said HE), came to your house.
Christmas Club accounts, 25cents a week.
5.25 % interest regular savings accounts. Guaranteed by the fdic.
Girls had to wear skirts and nylons to high school.
Jeans were not allowed in school.
Boys were sent home if their hair was just over the ears.
Boys swam nude in the high school swim phy ed class (not coed).
Movie theatres advertising "Air Conditioned" with little icicles drawn on the signs.
Horse drawn fruit and vegtable carts.
Brown milk bottles delivered.
Seltzer water delivered in squirt bottles.
20 cent major league baseball game tickets.
The knife and scissor sharpener wandered the streets with a pedal driven sharpening stone calling out his service.
JD cards. (JD = Juvenile Dilinquent)
Murray the K and the swinging swaree
All of this was in The Bronx, NY. I'm 58 years old.
10-08-07, 10:28 PM
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Same thing for the Jehovah's Witnesses. I always wondered if they were the same...
10-08-07, 11:28 PM
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"Don't make me turn this car around."
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10-09-07, 12:08 AM
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Don't mince words
I don't know which is more frightening -- your question or the fact that I remember & can relate to many of the these memories. Gah!!!
10-09-07, 05:58 AM
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"Does anybody know where the bottle cap opener is?"
"Would you please get up and change the TV channel?"
"Would you please get up and change the TV channel?"
10-09-07, 06:26 AM
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"Shank's mare".
"Hobson's choice".
Bicycles refered to as "wheels", and cyclists as "wheelmen".
TCS
"Hobson's choice".
Bicycles refered to as "wheels", and cyclists as "wheelmen".
TCS
10-09-07, 08:44 AM
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10-09-07, 09:23 AM
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"Kids should be seen and not heard",
"I can't wait till you have 10 kids just like you".
Can I have a penny for the Gumball machine?
How would you like to go to the Principal's office and get put in the Spanking Machine?
(That one worked until about the third grade in our school).
Fill it up!
Check your oil sir?
High test or Regular?
This car is going up.
Number please.
"I can't wait till you have 10 kids just like you".
Can I have a penny for the Gumball machine?
How would you like to go to the Principal's office and get put in the Spanking Machine?
(That one worked until about the third grade in our school).
Fill it up!
Check your oil sir?
High test or Regular?
This car is going up.
Number please.
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10-09-07, 09:55 AM
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10-09-07, 10:04 AM
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NO! It (BB gun) could put an eye out.
If (enter kid's name) jumped off a bridge, would you do it too????
Kids in Korea are starving.
Take care of your pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.
Stop whining....the only diference between easy and hard is the amount of effort it takes.
Roll the car window down/up...
If (enter kid's name) jumped off a bridge, would you do it too????
Kids in Korea are starving.
Take care of your pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.
Stop whining....the only diference between easy and hard is the amount of effort it takes.
Roll the car window down/up...
10-09-07, 10:29 AM
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10-09-07, 10:52 AM
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10-09-07, 11:19 AM
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Can we stay up late until the TV channel signs off?
Let's ride over to the ballfield to see who wants to get a game up.
Santa's going to leave you a lump of coal in your stocking!
It would be OK for you to date a Catholic, but don't ever marry one!
Do you want a box of candy cigarettes?
If this snow gets any worse, we'll have to put the chains on.
Let's ride over to the ballfield to see who wants to get a game up.
Santa's going to leave you a lump of coal in your stocking!
It would be OK for you to date a Catholic, but don't ever marry one!
Do you want a box of candy cigarettes?
If this snow gets any worse, we'll have to put the chains on.
10-09-07, 12:18 PM
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When my son was still small enough to be in a stroller (he is a university student now), I remember going to visit a friend who lived in UCSD graduate student housing. We (my wife, son and I) were surrounded by the sound of manual typewriters banging out term papers. I commented to my wife that when our son grew up, he wouldn't recognize the sound of the typewriter, and she was sure that I was crazy.
Same goes for the sound of a phonograph needle moving across a record - kids today recognize the sound as a sound effect, indicating an abrupt change in the music, and have no idea where it came from - ask one!
Same goes for the sound of a phonograph needle moving across a record - kids today recognize the sound as a sound effect, indicating an abrupt change in the music, and have no idea where it came from - ask one!