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I remember

LowFalutin

Stems Analyst
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the other Barney
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noyd666

I remember when wearing a suit and tie was a sign of respectability,lol. fucken glad I hate both.
 

aridbud

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"State your beef." Joe Pyne call in/audience talk show. The guy was a heavy chain smoker ('coffin nails' he called cigarettes),quite confrontational and rude....used to watch him late nights while babysitting as a teen, guzzling Coke eating Charlie's Chips as part of my $.50 an hr. pay.

"Why don't you go out and play on the freeway?" He was a hoot!
 

Perpetual Nooch

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I remember when you played baseball, and to decide who batted last you tossed a bat to a guy on the other team. Then you would alternately placed a fist or two fingers up the bat until someone capped it.

Crab apple fights. Chestnut fights. Making Fred Flintstone guns out of a broken hockey stick, clothes pin, two nails and a bunch of elastics, which we would get by begging the mailman when he came around. Making slingshots and bow and arrows.

I remember a knife sharpener guy who would come around the neighbourhood pushing his cart. We would bring our kitchen knives out to him to sharpen.

Playing Risk with our neighbours out on the picnic table.

Good times.
 

McKush

Éirinn go Brách
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I remember when common civility ruled.


just lightening it up chaps. in fun. peace
 

Jhhnn

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What I remember most fondly were some of the aspects of the sexual revolution. I worked as a surveyor for a govt agency in the early 70's. We traveled a lot, never stuck around anywhere for longer than a week. The small town wannabe hippy chicks would boff our brains out after getting high, because they could, just for sport, because they didn't plan on keeping any of us, because they knew we wouldn't be around to ruin their reputations. Just passin' thru, no complications, just the way they wanted it.

Seems like maybe things have changed, but it's hard to tell from an aged perspective.
 

aridbud

automeister
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Ahhh, the sexual revolution...I remember those days. Now you have to be uber careful....lots of STD's out there. Chlamydia is the silent carrier and gonorrhea strains that are antibiotic resistant.

I recall condoms being behind the counter, having to ask for them. Now they are in the aisles, next to other OTC birth control.

And back in the '70's $25-$35 an ounce. Yep, those were the days.

Enjoyed giving unsuspecting friends ZOTZ, a candy that exploded in your moth. Miss FIZZIES, too.
 

justpassnthru

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Remember the Beatle thing, especially the movie HAIR. People waiting for hours and hours to see it. Something that only seemed equaled with STAR WARS.
Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.”
May the Force be with you.”

Had a broken leg for HAIR and did not go. For Star Wars, I was old enough to know..One day, it'll be on TV, no waiting and free popcorn.

My motto: Life is too short, to stand in lines. Life should be EZ!
jpt
 

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