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Old 09-10-2005, 01:22 PM
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anyone remeber all of this stuff

Take time Just for a minute, forget everything stressful and read
> >>this........all the way to the bottom........
> >> Close your eyes and go back in time...
> >> Before the Internet or the Apple Mac.
> >> Before semi-automatics, joyriders and crack....
> >> Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...
> >> Way back........
> >> I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park.
> >> The corner shop.
> >> Hopscotch.
> >> Butterscotch.
> >> Skipping.
> >> Handstands.
> >> Football with an old can.
> >> Fingerbob.
> >> Beano, Dandy, Buster, Twinkle and Dennis the menace.
> >> Roly Poly.
> >> Hula Hoops,
> >> The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.
> >> Bazooka Joe bubble gum.
> >> An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a
> >>tune Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or
> >>perhaps a screwball Watching Saturday morning cartoons....short
> >>commercials, The Double Deckers, Road Runner, He-Man, Zeebedee
> >>Tiswas or Swapshop?, and 'Why Don't You'?
> >> or staying up for Doctor Who.
> >> When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed
> >>like going somewhere.
> >> Earwigs, wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings.
> >> Sticky fingers.
> >> Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro.
> >> Climbing trees.
> >> Walking to school, no matter what the weather.
> >> Running till you were out of breath and getting a stitch, laughing
> >>so hard that your stomach hurt. Jumping on the bed.
> >> Pillow fights , Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was

> >>cause for giggles.
> >> Being tired from playing....remember that?
> >> The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team. Water
> >>balloons were the ultimate weapon playing cards in the spokes
> >>transformed any bike into a motorcycle. Choppers and
> >>Grifters...........
> >>
> >> I'm not finished just yet.....
> >> Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice pops.
> >> Remember when...
> >> There were two types of trainers - girls and boys, and Dunlop Green

> >>Flash - and the only time you wore them at school was for P.E. You
> >>knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents. It wasn't
> >>odd to have two or three "best" friends.
> >>
> >> You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas eve.
> >> When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.
> >> When 25p was decent pocket money
> >> When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
> >> When nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids Got there.
> >>When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out To dinner
> >>at a real restaurant with your parents.
> >> When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to

> >>carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
> >>
> >> When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to the
> >>fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home.. Basically, we were

> >>in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings,
> >>drugs,gangs etc.
> >>parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! - and some of us

> >>are still afraid of them!!
> >>
> >> Remember when....
> >> Decisions were made by going " Ip Dip Dog Sh*t "
> >> "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest. Money issues

> >>were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly". The worst
> >>thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs. And the worst

> >>thing in your day was having to sit next To one. It was unbelievable

> >>that 'British Bulldog 123' wasn't An Olympic event.
> >>
> >> Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult.
> >>Nobody was prettier than Mum. Scrapes and bruises were kissed and
> >>made better. Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.
> >> Ice cream was considered a basic food group Getting a foot of snow
> >>was a dream come true Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but
> >>also the fiercest protectors
> >>
> >> If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED
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cant belive i sat and read that
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