What makes you say Oh Yeah?.....

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remaxrealtor

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Tigerlily said:
This seems appropriate considering the topic.

To all the kids who survived the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's.

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmuts, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seatbelts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day long, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day and we were OK.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes, After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers,no Internet or internet chat rooms,WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms and although we were told it would happen, we did not put very many eyes, nor didi the worms live in us forever.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with the disappointment. Imagine that!!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation had produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
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remaxrealtor

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otter said:
Glenn Dale Country Club in the summer, spending all day at the pool, then the evening playing whiffle ball in the parking lot drinking beer.

Sunday afternoon softball games in Highbridge Park, then going to a gf's pool by the park and swimming all evening. Funny how her parents never minded as long as we brought enough beer for them even tho we were 16/17 at the time.

Ice cream cones from the University of Md dairy in College Park. :yay:

Fourth of July and Labor Day family picnics, volleyball, basketball, horseshoes.
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Chesapeake Country Club, swim lessons w/ Mr. Williams. I swear I will never again taste a burger as good as the ones at the pool bar after swimming all day!

And Calvert Christian School...that'll bring back some memories!
 
kom526

kom526

They call me ... Sarcasmo
exploring every inch of the Elm's Property
Following the spring fed stream down to the bay
Listening for Mom to blow the car horn for dinner (what are streetlights?)
riding homemade "go karts" down the hill on Bay Forest Rd.
tree forts
pretending I was Evel Kenievel (jumping my bike over whoever I could talk into laying under the ramp)
learning to make stuffed ham
chicken neckin' off my Aunt's pier...



That's it, I officially resign from being an adult.
 
fttrsbeerwench

fttrsbeerwench

New Member
Faygo Moonshine soda
Kroger's
Chess pie
Coke in the little glass bottles
Rick Springfield video for "Sunglasses at Night"
Converse sneaks
Aquanet
80's heavy metal music :rockoutwithmycockout:
 
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Makavide

Not too talkative
Was watching the Fat Albert movie the other day - they were playing buckbuck on it, hadn't thought of that game in years.
 
CMC122

CMC122

Go Braves!
kwillia said:
Nope... that's not it... I'll bet our PA Gobs can whoop your Whoopie Pies anyday...:bubble:
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My Gob recipe is from Paula Dean. I bet her's are way better then yours.


Gob off anyone:lmao:
 
CMC122

CMC122

Go Braves!
4th of July fireworks at Glenn Dale golf course :lmao: Lord they were awful!

Railroad Inn Pizza:yum::yum:

Going fishing and catching eels:ewww:

Frog races

Catching tadpoles

Sleigh riding behind the barn at night

The feel of the woodstove in the winter

Sound of the dogs tracking a rabbit

J Mart ice cream , coleslaw and potato salad:yum::yum:

Baking cookies for weeks at Christmas time

Smell of the tobacco barn

Rotten tomato fights

Hiding in the cornfield

ahh I could go on and on
 
CMC122

CMC122

Go Braves!
kwillia said:
:yeahthat: I'm already committed to tag teaming with K_Jo...
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I could entertain and have a Redneck Gob Exchange Bonfire party:jet:
 
virgovictoria

virgovictoria

Tight Pants and Lipstick
PREMO Member
I feel like I have had to stave off tears! :bawl: Oh to be a kid!

There is a candy shoppe in North Beach on the boardwalk that sells all of the vintage :janey: candy -- I met with some girlfriends last year or so at a friends and we went walking and I bought us all the wax lips, candy buttons, candy smokes, root beer bottles and so on...

:heavysigh:
 
K_Jo

K_Jo

Pea Brain
PREMO Member
CMC122 said:
I could entertain and have a Redneck Gob Exchange Bonfire party:jet:
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:lmao: Would that take place after the Whoopie-Gob Off?

kwillia said:
:yeahthat: I'm already committed to tag teaming with K_Jo... <img src="http://www.kurts-smilies.de/marsch.gif">
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:high5: Back in action!
 
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