Topic: The perfect age is somewhere between (Read 6813 times)

Unleashed · « **on:** September 07, 2002, 03:23:55 AM »

old enough to know better and young enough not to care!

So, how many do you remember?

1. Candy cigarettes.
2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
4. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes.
5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with cardboard stoppers.
7. Party lines.
8. Newsreels before the movie.
9. P. F. Flyers.
10. Butch wax.
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix, (Drexel-5505).
12. Peashooters.
13. Howdy.
14. 45-RPM Records.
15. Green Stamps.
16. Hi-fi's.
17. Metal ice cube trays-with levers.
18. Mimeograph paper.
19. Blue flash Bulbs.
20. Beanie and Cecil.
21. Roller skate keys.
22. Cork pop guns.
23. Drive ins.
24. Studebakers.
25. Wash tub wringers.
26. The Fuller Brush man.
27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders.
28. Tinker toys.
29. The Erector Set.
30. The Fort Apache Play set.
31. Lincoln Logs.
32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers.
33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that awful pink bubblegum.
34. Penny candy.
35. 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline.

AND A TIME WHEN ..................

-Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
-Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do over!"
-"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
-Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening.
-It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
-The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties.
-Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.
-A foot of snow was a dream come true.
-Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action figures.
-"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense.
-Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles.
-The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
-War was a card game.
-Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
-Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
-Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.

hob goblin · « **Reply #1 on:** September 07, 2002, 12:19:41 PM »

I am 14, I got like 2.

Unleashed · « **Reply #2 on:** September 07, 2002, 12:26:37 PM »

Thats why I posted this it kind of determines the age group thing here

LFD · « **Reply #3 on:** September 07, 2002, 12:44:08 PM »

Quote from: Unleashed

old enough to know better and young enough not to care!

So, how many do you remember?

1. Candy cigarettes. ---bubblegum ciggs and chocolate cigars hell yeah
2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside. still have em
3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles. I saw one a while back
4. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes. does Pizza hut in 1989 count?
5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum. can't say I do
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with cardboard stoppers.not even I am that old
7. Party lines. thank god those died
8. Newsreels before the movie. I don't think so
9. P. F. Flyers. those were real?
10. Butch wax. np[e
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix, (Drexel-5505). nada
12. Peashooters. those were great
13. Howdy. I'm in Texas howdy is a given
14. 45-RPM Records. I HAVE 10!!
15. Green Stamps. nope
16. Hi-fi's. I know my grandma has one somewhere
17. Metal ice cube trays-with levers. grandma has some of those to
18. Mimeograph paper. what?
19. Blue flash Bulbs. nada
20. Beanie and Cecil. beania and who
21. Roller skate keys. before my time I guess
22. Cork pop guns. I have one
23. Drive ins. Does sonic count?
24. Studebakers. no comment
25. Wash tub wringers. no idea
26. The Fuller Brush man. thank you for my new aim s/n
27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders. <== has seen one
28. Tinker toys. bought a few
29. The Erector Set. HELL YEAH!!
30. The Fort Apache Play set. I had cowbois and I had injuns no playset
31. Lincoln Logs. WWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers. is that like the 39 cent taco at tacobell?
33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that awful pink bubblegum. nope 45 cent packs
34. Penny candy. my mom remembers these
35. 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline. what you smokin

AND A TIME WHEN ..................

-Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo." -Yep
-Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do over!"-Yep
-"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest. -Messed up child hood..nope
-Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening. yep
-It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends. I was anti-social in my previous life.
-The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties. I always had them
-Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot. Slingshots are great
-A foot of snow was a dream come true. HELL YEAH
-Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action figures. Captain Bucky O'Hare, Captain N the gamemaster.
-"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense. Never in my life.
-Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles. yep
-The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team. yep
-War was a card game. still is
-Water balloons were the ultimate weapon. its nerf or nothing baby.
-Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle. I knew people who did that.
-Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin--Flinstones chewables..

Well what can I say I am 16

I am an old man

Unleashed · « **Reply #4 on:** September 07, 2002, 12:46:35 PM »

yes you are old .. by next year you'll prolly need a cane

Unleashed · « **Reply #5 on:** September 07, 2002, 12:48:18 PM »

backs up ... 16 ? omg the picture you posted makes you look like you are in your early 30's

Dark Shade · « **Reply #6 on:** September 07, 2002, 12:48:21 PM »

Ah yes. Little orange pills....

The kind they give out in SENIOR'S LODGES, right Demo?

Unleashed · « **Reply #7 on:** September 07, 2002, 12:51:21 PM »

So dark does that mean you are 60 sumthin?

Dark Shade · « **Reply #8 on:** September 07, 2002, 12:53:33 PM »

No no no no. Just a little joke among fellow smart-asses.

I'm in my mid-twenties, if you must know.

LFD · « **Reply #9 on:** September 07, 2002, 12:56:15 PM »

yeah, a cane would be nice, I could have fur coat too and everytime someone passed me in the hallway they would whisper

"It's the Kool-Aid King"

and I would be like "Oh yeah"

I would get all the hot girls and pimp em out for cash and when they came home and didn't have my money I would shove a broom stick up dey ass then I would be in league with all the drug dealers and icecream man pimps and we would sit around at a table eatin fried scrimp. I would get paid laid and never be swayed by the neighborhood crack head who is trying to sell me his brothers shades then I would walk down the street and the cops would fear and all the little kiddies would be like "The Kool-Aid King is here" I would hold up an icecream truck and buy all the kids treats and make the neighborhoold bullies bow at my feet and I would steal cable and buy back my moms vcr which was pilfired and stolen by some jack ass named Tom then I would buy all the cops donuts and while they would eat I would tell the neighborhoold gangs to frolic in the streets. Nooone would care, I think it would be neat if I had a cane and was a pimpin kool-aid freak.

LFD · « **Reply #10 on:** September 07, 2002, 12:57:28 PM »

I look about 20 yrs younger when I am clean shaven but that is not too often.

Dark Shade · « **Reply #11 on:** September 07, 2002, 12:57:58 PM »

Now THAT'S perfect...

"The Pimpin' Kool-Aid King"

Unleashed · « **Reply #12 on:** September 07, 2002, 01:16:33 PM »

Quote from: Dark Shade

No no no no. Just a little joke among fellow smart-asses.

I'm in my mid-twenties, if you must know.

Yes ty for sharing that tid bit of info ...

Binoboy · « **Reply #13 on:** September 07, 2002, 02:50:42 PM »

Quote from: Dark Shade

Ah yes. Little orange pills....

The kind they give out in SENIOR'S LODGES, right Demo?

"The red ones keep ya from screamin!"

Dark Shade · « **Reply #14 on:** September 07, 2002, 04:18:31 PM »

Thank you, Mr. Paranoia.

Oh, by the way, THERE'S A BEAR BEHIND YOU!

mel · « **Reply #15 on:** September 07, 2002, 07:09:33 PM »

14 & remembered three of the tops ones
(1. Candy cigarettes.
2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
29. The Erector Set.)

but all of the bottomones, that's how i was when i was a kid

Unleashed · « **Reply #16 on:** September 07, 2002, 11:41:36 PM »

Quote from: mel

14 & remembered three of the tops ones
(1. Candy cigarettes.
2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
29. The Erector Set.)

but all of the bottomones, that's how i was when i was a kid

Yeah .. thumbs up .. finally someone that remembers something I do

Unleashed · « **Reply #17 on:** September 07, 2002, 11:53:01 PM »

Shakes head .... koolaide king omg whatever happen to some kind of stuff like whos your daddy http://joecartoon.com/pages/microgerbil/

LFD · « **Reply #18 on:** September 08, 2002, 12:54:33 PM »

that's what you get when you tell a poor nostalgic 16 yr old he needs a cane while he is drinking some Blue-Lemonade Kool-aid. It just came out I realized it started rhyming and couldn't stop

Dark Shade · « **Reply #19 on:** September 08, 2002, 01:04:12 PM »

Rhyming's fun. Here's a new one:

I have no life, Aufen...Aufen...
The light is bleeding silently...Aufen...Aufen..
Adu....Adu....Aufen...
The light is bleeding silently....

*bows*

Thank you, I AM a poetic genius. Actually it's just some shit I made up...but you probably all knew that.

Unleashed · « **Reply #20 on:** September 10, 2002, 01:55:58 PM »

Quote from: Dark Shade

Rhyming's fun. Here's a new one:

I have no life, Aufen...Aufen...
The light is bleeding silently...Aufen...Aufen..
Adu....Adu....Aufen...
The light is bleeding silently....

*bows*

Thank you, I AM a poetic genius. Actually it's just some shit I made up...but you probably all knew that.

And I thought it was Rap

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