To: Those of You Born 1930 - 1979

This morning's email | 5/31/2013 | Unknown

[expat2]

Good one, tho I much prefer telescopic to reflex sights.

[IbJensen]

Great profile!

[Java4Jay]

Back when you called your best friends folks Mr and Mrs

[RedMDer]

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[Baynative]

Born in America (California) in 1946, I’ve truly lived in the greatest country and the greatest era it has known. I’ll never be able to explain what freedom was like to my grand kids.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I was at a barn sale this past weekend and actually saw, held and fired a fully functional Red Rider BB gun.

It was priced at $24 and I struggled with the dilemma to buy it or not.

In the end I figured I had no good use for it except for nostalgia...so I passed on it. But it was a very cool thing. Near mint condition too.

[MulberryDraw]

Thanks. That email pretty well nails it.

My go-cart had an old lawn mower engine (no brakes).

[txrefugee]

Great article....but I got my first bb gun when I was six, and I didn’t put my eye out.

God has been replaced by government now, and the results were totally predictable.

[DonkeyBonker]

And rode minibikes with lawnmower engines and no helmet! Got spanked with a leather belt when we needed it!

[basil]

Thanks

This brought back a lot of memories.

[RetiredArmy]

You sure this from Leno? This seems another one of those emails that when checked out, finds he did not send it out, someone else did.

[Personal Responsibility]

I am friends with someone who got his eye shot out with a bb gun. I still have scars in my shoulder and back from my idiot friends who broke the “3 pump” rule !

[IbJensen]

He should feel honored if he didn’t say it.

[buckalfa]

"There were no kidnappings, rapes or molestation of children."

Of course in that era people with those tendencies were mysteriously sent away to institutions. Morals were as such that no respectable family would risk bearing the shame of deviant behavior amongst one of their own.

[Phillyred]

Our society is so friggin screwed up. Now these poor parents are being charged with child endangerment. No one would have blinked an eye 20 years ago! I can't tell you how many times...in the 80s...I rode in the back of a pickup on highways for hours. It was a blast! But now it's a crime. And this girl may lose her parents. We need another planet to discover. This planet has lost it's collective mind. Police: Girl rode with dog in cage on Pa. turnpike

[Sans-Culotte]

While likely true in its conclusions, the saying, at least for me, is difficult to believe that Jay Leno ever said it.

If I were to pass this on, I'd delete all references to Jay Leno. The celebs referenced in these types of emails almost never say what is attributed to them. If you ever see an email with good, conservative wisdom from Robin Williams or Andy Rooney, it's always bogus. Doesn't mean the email isn't good. Just ignore the attribution to the celeb.

[BuckeyeTexan]

You sound like me. I was (am) a tomboy through and through.

[RetiredArmy]

I have seen several emails that were suppose to be from Leno and when checked out were not. But, I agree. But he is a lib so I guess not.

[VanDeKoik]

When you could bring a toy like this to show-and-tell (which I did), and not have the entire frigging state go into meltdown.

[kingu]

I grew up in Southern California. We’d have blazing summers, with playgrounds that were tiny and full of metal structures, old tractor tires, and concrete in awkward places. Not that the sand was much better, for most of the year it was just as hard as the concrete.

I look at playgrounds today with hundreds of thousands spent on wheelchair ramps, rubber mats, plastic coated structures, and even roofs. Gone are swings and jungle gyms, what is left are boring slow slides, plastic tic-tac-toe games and if you’re really lucky, a climbing wall that extends all of three feet up.

Great for the under 5 set, but I can’t count the number of times I’ve gone past on the running course and seen a seven or eight year old bored with the playground and instead sitting there with an iPad.