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dcnovice -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/12/2008 5:24:30 PM)
quote: That is indeed the toy! Excellent! Glad I could help. [:)]

MissMagnolia -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/12/2008 5:44:24 PM)
I remember the rag and bone man too. Only he collected old clothing, sheets, etc (dunno where the "bones" came into it). I'd beg Mum to give me enough to get a half dead goldfish in a plastic bag, but all I ever got was a balloon. I was so deprived as a child.[:D] The very first mobile phones, that were the size and weight of a housebrick, but you were oh so chic if you had one.

NakedOnMyChain -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/12/2008 6:35:29 PM)
I had a Skip-It as a kid. I also had a Sit & Spin. It wasn't until much later that I realized how inappropriately named it was. grin

carlie310 -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/12/2008 6:55:05 PM)
Santa brought 2 Skip-Its to our house this Christmas. As well as a pogo stick. Somehow we end up with the toys the more nostalgic elves make.

MissMagnolia -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/12/2008 10:03:45 PM)
A Sit and Spin??? God, my eyes are watering.[&:]

dcnovice -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/12/2008 10:57:43 PM)
Wood paneling on station wagons Those long strips of white paper with dots of candy on them Filmstrips <beep!> IBM "golfballs" Red Hots Wooden tennis racquets Cents signs on keyboards The New York Yacht Club's being the eternal home of the America's Cup Black-and-white photos Card Catalogues "Once upon a time, there were three little girls who went to the Police Academy . . ." Rectal thermometers (not that I particularly miss them) "Mr. John Doe accepts with pleasure . . . " Bug juice Leaving cookies for Santa Christmas Club accounts Disaster movies Chablis Burning leaves Whom Store Christmas decorations that went up in December Seasonal foods Nurse's caps

NaiveTempest -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/15/2008 5:19:38 PM)
Family reunions with bushels of crabs! Yes, bushels along with enough melted butter to fill two or more Country Crock buckets. We liitle ones ate crab till our fingers and tummies hurt......... Playing MAS*H and hoping like hell that I didn't end up married to the ugly guy, with an old hoopty, with 14 kid in a shack....... Jumping rope, doing cheers/steps, Miss Mary Mack, Cinderella dressed in yella, I like coofee, I like tea, I like a boy and he likes me, Atari and Nintendo, the big "floppy" floppy disks, playing Oregon Trail on DOS........, Shame, shame, shame, I don't wanna go to Mexico no more, more, more......., the Itsy Bitsy Spider, There Was an Old Lady, Limbo-ing, Hula-hooping and then using the hoop as a Skip-It, Walking down the road bare foot with friends to go pick apples, pecan, sweet potatos, and cucumbers. Riding in the back of the truck, charging people 50 cents for a can of beer and one of Grandma's weekend parties, going to the Hot Dog Shop where Mr. Clark made the hot dogs special order just for you instead of picking one off a menu, my first encounter with my aunt's waterbed, using an outhouse!, getting candy for two cent or 3 pieces for five cent at the ice cream truck..... Getting popped in the mouth for saying the word 'bastard', my aunt scaring me with my cousin's My Buddy Doll right after we'd just finished watching 'Child's Play' on VHS, sneaking with friends to watch one of their daddy's porn, climbing a tree with a skirt one cause a boy dared me,...... Man, I could just go on and on.......good memeries, real good. Glad to remember them.

tigerstyle -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/15/2008 5:56:50 PM)
Bushels of crabs.....I was just thinking about that the other day. My grandmother had a summer house on the Chesapeake bay and you could walk out on the old dock, throw a chicken neck on a string into the water and pull out huge fat blue crabs as fast as you could work the net. I go crabbing when I make it back down to old VA once every couple years and they seem to have dissapeared. It's sad and kind of scary, too. The big crab boil with the newspapers and Old Bay and the beer and my drunk uncles is one of my early memories.

tigerstyle -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/15/2008 6:09:31 PM)
Riding on the highway in the back of a pickup with my cousins, standing up in the bed looking out over the roof.

Feric -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/18/2008 6:30:44 PM)
Rotary telephone that used real bells inside them (I know because I dissected one); Astro-Pops; paying 50¢ to get into the movies; banana seats; sissy bars on bikes; playing Red Rover; fireflies; Star Trek walkie-talkies; tree-forts; President Nixon; Saturday Night Fever; Bubble Yum; hippies; Skylab; Lancelot Link - Secret Chimp; A Chorus Line; Fizzies drink tablets; Speed Racer; waiting in line to see Star Wars for the first time(!); "Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end...."

pahunkboy -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (1/19/2008 9:27:39 AM)
Wtaching the sunset w Mr R. He was like a grampa to me. held nurse a jim beam and weld listen to elevator music. it would be kick ass to do it one more time!

parttimehotty -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (3/13/2008 11:32:41 AM)
With all the hate in the world, i'd like to revive an old thread that made most of us smile at the memory. Anyone care to add onto this?.....

masterfixer -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (3/13/2008 11:37:10 AM)
I remember my cousins being spanked as I was pampered and spoiled.

SummerWind -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (3/13/2008 7:29:08 PM)
Tree Forts Disappearing from home from 9am to 5pm on bikes riding all over town Endless Wiffle ball games The absolute joy of being at The Jersey Shore

YourDomNow -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (3/13/2008 8:00:27 PM)
parachute pants..... how awesome it was to have or see the black t-top trans ams of the 80s... no computers or cell phones...face to face communication..... using our minds instead of so many things done for us

patwi -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (3/13/2008 8:01:16 PM)
Mister Rogers Neighborhood.

TheBanshee -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (3/13/2008 8:25:05 PM)
The Soupy Sales "scandal" Does anyone at all remember Birthday House "Hi Mike, Hi Mike, I like Hi Mike" Dark Shadows was the afternoon soap to watch Girls wore dresses to school, boys wore real shirts that had to be ironed, everyone wore actual shoes, not sneakers. We changed to gym suits for gym class. Girls took Home Ec, boys took shop at about 7th grade and that's just the way it was. Having the RIGHT lunchbox for the new school year was an important decision. Girls always wore a hat or kercheif on her head in church. In a true emergency, a lunch napkin could be substituted. You had to actually TYPE your term papers, and if the teacher was particularly nice, he or she MIGHT allow you to use "End Notes" instead of "Footnotes" because you really had to be a good typist to plan out the typed page.

MissAngelandsub -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (3/13/2008 8:31:26 PM)
Hay rides in the fall on the back of a tractor in the dark. Picking raspberries and blackberries in my back yard. Playing baseball with my cousins in our own yard. No airconditioning so was always cooler outside than in. Running around outside barefooted. Going to the park and not have to worry where my mom was. Console TVs, no cable, no phone, no computer...and I really ain't that old lol. Growing up poor made us get out of the house and acutally play.[:D]

TheBanshee -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (3/13/2008 8:32:35 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: dcnovice Cents signs on keyboards Ya know, I just looked and you're right - it isn't there. Damn, I have no cents.

sillyfool -> RE: Do you remember.............................. (3/14/2008 12:21:06 AM)
i remember riding this little green plastic tractor up and down sidewalks pretending it was a car and loving the sensation of "driving" over the cracks and unevenness in the pavement (i still do love doing it in a car and im 21, lol) and sitting on the sidewalk making and collecting up chalk dust (the process was to take sticks of chalk and keep rubbing them down in a small area and then collecting up the 'dust' in a container--which eventually i would add water to and 'paint' the sidewalk instead of draw.) i remember selling bracelets i made in front of our house (which was a suburban out of the way neighborhood which nobody ever drove by. Only sold two, same person. i remember dancing around our basement having dancing contests with my siblings and cousins and collecting rocks from underneath our deck. i remember going to swim meets and crying on the way there almost every time because i was nervous. i remember sneaking around and watching my dads porn. Oh Oh and lastly i remember always playing with little toy cars and driving them around the dirt patches that mingled throughout our lawn. Ahh the gold ol' days. Thanks for giving me the chance to reminisce.

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