Mtnjim
06-05-2006, 03:41 PM
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
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.
Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger
threat!
But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
Maybe you remember 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.
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.
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 dog dare
to pass it on. To remember what a double dog 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?
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
and the best candy ever - Dots;
those drops of sugar stuck to a long
strip of paper
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond
4-601)
Party lines
Peashooters
Howdy Dowdy
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 White Castle burgers
5 cent packs
of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of "bubble
gum"
Penny candy
25 cent a gallon gasoline
Jiffy
Pop popcorn
Do you remember a time when...
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
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-dog-dare-ya!
This message brought to you
by an old guy. If you aren't familiar with
most of the above, try Googling the unfamiliar terms - that should be
interesting! Or you might be able to learn something from someone over
50.
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
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.
Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger
threat!
But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
Maybe you remember 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.
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.
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 dog dare
to pass it on. To remember what a double dog 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?
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
and the best candy ever - Dots;
those drops of sugar stuck to a long
strip of paper
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond
4-601)
Party lines
Peashooters
Howdy Dowdy
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 White Castle burgers
5 cent packs
of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of "bubble
gum"
Penny candy
25 cent a gallon gasoline
Jiffy
Pop popcorn
Do you remember a time when...
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
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-dog-dare-ya!
This message brought to you
by an old guy. If you aren't familiar with
most of the above, try Googling the unfamiliar terms - that should be
interesting! Or you might be able to learn something from someone over
50.