Posted on 05/08/2013 12:54:30 PM PDT by Daffynition
Doe Snot? Is her mother named Bambi?
er... mucus eating= Booger eating
And your point is?
Sad really.
We got many an idea from the Little Rascals.
I made a “cannon” from a coffee can and thick rubber band and the cover part of an old ball cap and shot stuff out of it. I could shoot a tomato about 75 yards, rocks further. I was able to get a wasp nest into a bucket (intact with residents) and dropped it in my neighbor buddies fort in a “war”.
Ah, I am remembering some good stuff.
This picture brings back pleasant memories to those of us who enjoyed listening to “Fibber Magee and Molly” and “Our Miss Brooks” on the radio with our families. We didn’t get a TV until I was in high school, and since the hours when there was broadcasting were limited, we didn’t watch very much. I do recall my uncles enjoying the wrestling matches on Saturday nights, though.
Those were indeed the “good old days.”
Yea but Illiac gave us all a good chuckle for the day..:o)
Mine was different, but it involved being outside. Our closest neighbor was 1/2 mile away. Nearest kids over a mile.
But when my brother and I built a fort, it involved chainsaws and front-end loaders. Dad limited the motorcycle jumps to 3 feet tall. And just because a horse can swim doesn't make it a good idea to try and ride him into the deep end of the pond.
When I wuz in ‘Bama in HS during the early 60’s, some friend had a German water cooled machine (WWI?) gun under his bed (he claimed that his pari units didn’t know). We’d go out in the woods behind his house and shoot off some bursts. I wuz impressed by the tracer rounds...
I grew up on the main street in town, we were a family of 6 children next door to a family of 10 children, we had a blast everyday. We came home, changed out of our school clothes and didn’t come back in until it was time to set the table for dinner.
I don’t remember having any homework until late jr. high and I was a lot less ignorant than the kids these days.
Politeness was in order and even though we crashed a few NCO picnics at the AFB, we always tried to earn our way in by being helpful. We would cook, pick up trash, pass out sodas, keep the ice level up, help the AF brats with their plates, etc.. I think the AF guys knew we were Navy brats but they never asked us to leave.
Rollerskate scooter has been replaced with an Iphone.
You’re right, we were happy in general during that time. No video games but then our parents couldn’t have been able to afford them anyway. We did watch TV though not much on compared to today (remembering Elvis on Ed Sullivan blacked out from the waste down). We weren’t thrown out of the house to play outside all day and a lot of times we spent time in the house with friends when we weren’t wandering all over the area, sneaking into the National Guard Armory to crawl all over the parked tanks or sneaking our first puff of a cigarette in the back alley or stealing strawberries from the garden of the guy down the street. We did plenty of stupid (once in a while illegal) things; more than our parents ever knew.
Life then wasn’t all Leave It To Beaver or Father Knows Best. We didn’t know anyone who lived like that; even friends whose parents were fairly well off didn’t live like that, it was TV mythology. We all knew swear words and bad language that we learned from each other and from the older brothers and sisters who were greasers and malt shop rats. Not all parents were the close parents who gave good guidance to their kids and not all kept a close control on their kids activities. It wasn’t all that different. I later in high school knew kids who were arrested, girls who got pregnant, got into drunken accidents, more than a few and they came from what were considered to be good families.
Yes, a lot of parents don’t monitor their kids these days and I didn’t monitor/control my kids as much as I might have but then again, they are a lot more strict on their kids than we were on them, more like their grandparents were with us.
Those days were mostly happy for those of us who grew up during that time but they were hardly the idyllic vision that many of my generation see in retrospective.
Video games? The wife and I play them a lot these days since we can now afford that mode of entertainment.
As much as the leftists hate this show, it was the best for teaching a kid why he should not ignore his conscience.
Maybe too long....yeh, I know I’m doomed...live in infamy, tho......
Now I overcompensate with a whole room of computers and peripherals covering the last 20 years.
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