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RebelDarlin
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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Location: Illinois
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:21 am Post subject: It was all Black & White |
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Black and White
(Under age 40? You won't understand.)
You could hardly see for all the snow,
Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.
Pull a chair up to the TV set,
'Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet.'
My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.
My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice-pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli.
Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.
We all took gym, not PE .. and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.
Flunking gym was not an option . even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.
Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.
We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.
I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.
I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.
Oh yeah ... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.
Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked there and then we got butt spanked again when we got home.
I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.
To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that?
We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive?
LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA, AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T; SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING. |
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jayburd
Joined: 28 Feb 2007
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Location: Wortham,Texas
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:34 am Post subject: |
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I remeber all of them and more to boot!
Combat with Vic Morrow! My favorite. :D |
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Twilight Flyer
Joined: 13 Nov 2002
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:52 am Post subject: |
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Yep, those were the days.
*deep sigh* |
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thebaldeagle655
Joined: 27 Dec 2006
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Location: Wichita Falls, Tx
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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Saw a show the other day comparing today to yesterday. Surprised me that Sesame Street from my childhood is now not fit for kids. They showed things like playing in construction zones, young girls that meet strangers and go into the stranger's house for cookies and milk and standing in the seat of the car while moving.
Yep, them were the days, fewer kids in trouble, fewer kids and adults taking anti-depressants, lower crime rates. |
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RebelDarlin
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Location: Illinois
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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jayburd wrote: I remeber all of them and more to boot!
Combat with Vic Morrow! My favorite. :D
Don't forget Rat Patrol and Rawhide... :wink: |
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mommee
Joined: 04 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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Mercurochrome
Was that the red medicine parents used to put on cuts? I just remember "the red medicine" everytime I cut a cut and bandaids. |
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jayburd
Joined: 28 Feb 2007
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Location: Wortham,Texas
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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RebelDarlin wrote: jayburd wrote: I remeber all of them and more to boot!
Combat with Vic Morrow! My favorite. :D
Don't forget Rat Patrol and Rawhide... :wink:
Never! :D
I have Rat Patrol on DVD! :wink:
What about Honey West?
Branded?
Man from Uncle... |
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RebelDarlin
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:41 am Post subject: |
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mommee wrote: Mercurochrome
Was that the red medicine parents used to put on cuts? I just remember "the red medicine" everytime I cut a cut and bandaids.
Yes. I still use it. |
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jayburd
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Location: Wortham,Texas
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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And don't forget that black sticky stuff that looked like tar.... :lol:
Remember the astronaut space stick energy treats?
There was peanut butter and chocolate flavors and more and then there's fizzies... |
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Ratdog
Joined: 11 Feb 2008
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Location: Ohio
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| You guys are taking it back! I was an F-Troop, Petticoat Junction, The Wild, Wild West and Hogan's Hero's guy. I will admit that I even watched Gomer Pyle. Sgt. Carter, how he ever put up with Pyle, I'll never know!!! |
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Jumbo
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Location: Northern Wisconsin
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="Twilight Flyer"]Yep, those were the days.
*deep sigh*[/quot
In the above pictures TF do you still have that car? |
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jayburd
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Location: Wortham,Texas
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| LOL Ratdog.......the 60's were good years! |
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Ratdog
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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jayburd wrote: LOL Ratdog.......the 60's were good years!
I know Nickelodeon use to run a nick at night and run all the old shows. I now watch the History channel, and I use to hate history back in school. The Military Channel and the Scifi channel are my other favorites. Unless anything with Clint Eastwood is on, then I will watch it for the millonth time... :D |
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RebelDarlin
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rons247
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| Paradise lost |
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