People over 35 should be dead.

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[alnick]

In the deep south, we'd rarely get snow, but when we did, my mom would make snow ice cream for us. A little sugar and vanilla added to a dish of snow, and we'd gobble it up.

[beaureguard]

We used to have chickens when I was growing up.

I would get my Daisy BB gun, get about 150' or so from the chickens, and pop them in the tail or body. Wouldn't hurt them too bad, but they would run. They finally got to where they would scatter for the four ends of the earth when they saw me, and I would have to quit for a while till they "forgot."

Made one mistake one time - hit a rooster in the neck - he flopped around for a while, and I thought my butt was dead (as well as his!). Didn't kill him though. He recovered, and my parents never found out. I quit after that.

[RandallFlagg]

When I was two, I stuck a hairpin in an electric socket that didn't have a childproof cap on it. I'm dead.

I've got that one beat. I used Dad's car key.
Needless to say, it didn't start the house up for a drive.

Also, Kerry didn't go to MY funeral!

[RandallFlagg]

Rock wars.
TP-ing houses. Sometimes the school.
Playing around construction sites.
Learning how to use nunchaku and riddling the drywall with holes from shurikens.
Spitball kits made from McDonald's straws and napkins.
Building motorized go-karts -without brakes, proper restraints or lighting gear.
Getting hit by cars -many times.
Fearing, yet loving, my parents.
Adventures with BB guns.
Throwing the cat at the curtains.
Throwing the cat at my Brother.
Vaccuuming my Brother's toes.
Taking apart everything from the lawnmower to the sprinkler timer box.
Learning how to pick locks.
Grinding up Alka-Seltzer, packing it in a straw and taping the straw to the bottom of a model boat -without having environazis kill me on sight for water pollution.
Knowing that the sound of breaking glass is about the funniest sound ever.
Taking out solar panels with my BB gun at 400 yards (Ya gotta arc your shot REALLY steep!)
Catching black widows and praying mantids and making them fight each other in the basement.
Slingshots, and homemade archery devices.
Buying cigarettes before it was a felony offense.
Learning how to coax worms from the soil with 2 metal sticks and a wire plugged into the house (I learned it from an old Dennis the Menace comic) and grabbing one of the sticks -and getting electrocuted.
Getting beaten with the rake by Grandpaw after electrocution (He unplugged me).

Not only should I be dead, but I should have died in PRISON!

[InvisibleChurch]

Sally Leroy: America's greatest contribution has been to teach the world that getting old is such a drag. (Wild in the Streets - 1968 )

[TX Bluebonnet]

We used to also take the old smudgepots they used as flares near constuction and pretend they were bombs. Can you imagine - the horrors of an untended open flame!!

[MontanaBeth]

"Some station wagons had the back seat facing to the rear, remember those?"

Yes, I do remember them.
Beth

[tertiary01]

We used to ride our bikes behind buses in order to get great big whiffs of exhaust. It gave you a great buzz then you would try to knock the other person off their bike. Maybe that why so many Boomers are brain dead!!

[Allegra]

Yeah, my sister and I had these terrycloth slacks when we were little. Dad used to put all the seats down in the back of our station wagon and while driving he'd say "Slide, Baby, Slide!" and gently put the brakes on. We'd squeal with delight as we went sliding from the back of the car to just behind the driver's seat.

Dad and I laugh about how he'd be arrested for that today.

As for my sister and me, how did we survive such brutal treatment? LOL

[Axenolith]

ARF! I used to do that too!

Grandpap, at different times, sucked welding fumes, asbestos, cigarette smoke, and gasoline fumes and rode in seatbeltless cars and home made off road vehicles (some with only 3 wheels). I think he's been dead for at least 65 years. I'll have to email this to him :-)

[cyborg]

hehehe

[humblegunner]

We used to jump on our bikes and chase off in the cloud of pesticide fog being sprayed by the city.

Hey, I did that!
It was like riding in a cloud, and actually smelled kind of good.

[monday]

"People under 30 are WIMPS !"

Only one problem. People over 35 are the ones who have created this brave new world in which we now live. They are the ones in charge now. They are the ones who pass seatbelt laws and give multi billion dollar class action settlements to trial lawyers.

It is the legacy of the baby boomer generation that has created this sissy culture where everyone looks for someone else to blame for their problems and people actually believe that government can solve social ills.

If people under 30 are wimps, it is because we have been trained to be wimps by the petty tyrants of the baby boomer generation. Considering the sniveling decadence of our parents generation, what did you expect?

[tertiary01]

I think you can include the greatest generation and the silent generation, as they were also in on this. But the Boomers were the first to embrace secular humanism, in all it's narcissistic glory, (and in such high number) which basically states that man is responsible for everything and nothing should be left to chance. In other words there is no such thing as: "Sh!t Happens" Instead the motto is: Let's micromanage everyone's life!!!!And...of course using the government as the enforcer, because many influential boomers (Kerry, Clinton, etc. ad nauseum) don't believe that history repeats.

[Dawgmeister]

DEAD?!?! Does that mean that they're going to switch my voter registration from Republican to Democrat??!!

[tertiary01]

Whoops sorry! My mistake.. Kerry is, according to the strict generational protocols set up by prior generations a Silent, but he bleeds like a Boomer.

[An American In Dairyland]

I remember being a regular consumer of candy cigarettes and I even had a ball point pen that looked exactly like a cigarette so I could smoke even after the candy package was empty.

[EQAndyBuzz]

We had wrist rockets and sling shots. The police would give us fireworks for the fourth from what they took from the Chinatown gangs. They would then take us to the hospital after one of us got burned from the punk that lit the firework.

OPur parents would thank the policeman then belt us.

[EQAndyBuzz]

We had wrist rockets and sling shots. The police would give us fireworks for the fourth from what they took from the Chinatown gangs. They would then take us to the hospital after one of us got burned from the punk that lit the firework.

OPur parents would thank the policeman then belt us.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Max (from "Wild in the Streets."):

That's an idiotic suggestion! Now, everyone knows that those over 35 should be permanently institutionalized and drugged with heavy doses of narcotics and tranquilizers.