How's This For Nostalgia?
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| All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
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| It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?
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| | Nobody owned a purebred dog?
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| | When a quarter was a decent allowance?
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|| You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
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| | Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
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| | You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
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| Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
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| | It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
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| | They
| | threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . and they did it!
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| | When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
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| No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never
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| locked?
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| | Lying on your back in the grass with your friends?
| and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '?
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| Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
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| | Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
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| | And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.
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| | When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
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| Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
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| . .as well as summers filled with bike rides, Hula Hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with
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| sugar.
| Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'?
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| I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on. To remember what a Double Dog Dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.
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| Send this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody
| and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow knows, Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk
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| | How Many Of These Do You Remember?
| Candy cigarettes
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| Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
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| | Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
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| Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes.
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| Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
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| Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
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| | Newsreels before the movie.
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| Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Yukon 2-601). Party lines.
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| | Peashooters.
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| | Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.
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| | 78 RPM records!
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| | Green Stamps.
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| | Mimeograph paper.
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| The Fort Apache Play Set.
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| Do You Remember a Time When…
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| Decisions were made by going
| 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?
| Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'?
| 'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
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| | Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening?
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|
| | It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best
| | Friends'?
|
| | Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot?
|
| Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
|
| | 'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense?
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| Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
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| | The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
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| War was a card game?
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| Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
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| Taking drugs meant orange - flavored chewable aspirin?
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| | Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
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| | If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!!
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| Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life . .
I Double-Dog-Dare-Ya!
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| All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
|
| It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?
|
| | Nobody owned a purebred dog?
|
| | When a quarter was a decent allowance?
|
|| You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
|
| | Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
|
| | You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
| |
| Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
|
| | It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
|
| | They
| | threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . and they did it!
|
| | When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
| |
| No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never
|
| locked?
|
| | Lying on your back in the grass with your friends?
| and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '?
|
| Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
|
| | Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
|
| | And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.
|
| | When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
|
| Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
|
| . .as well as summers filled with bike rides, Hula Hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with
|
| sugar.
| Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'?
|
|
| I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on. To remember what a Double Dog Dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.
|
| Send this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody
| and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow knows, Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk
|
| | How Many Of These Do You Remember?
| Candy cigarettes
|
| Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
|
| | Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
|
| Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes.
|
| Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
|
| Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
|
| | Newsreels before the movie.
|
| Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Yukon 2-601). Party lines.
|
| | Peashooters.
|
|
| | Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.
|
| | 78 RPM records!
|
| | Green Stamps.
|
| | Mimeograph paper.
|
| The Fort Apache Play Set.
|
| Do You Remember a Time When…
|
| Decisions were made by going
| 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?
| 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'?
|
| | Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot?
|
| Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials 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?
|
|
| Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
|
| Taking drugs meant orange - flavored chewable aspirin?
|
| | Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
|
| | If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!!
|
| Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life . .
I Double-Dog-Dare-Ya!
