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nanook

Just an email i got a couple of weeks ago and thought i woudl share

This takes me back... a decade or 2.....
Close your eyes.....And go back in time.... Before the Internet. Before
DVD. Before semi-automatics machine guns, 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, Bulldog,
Beano, Twinkle and Roly Poly, Hula Hoops, jumping in enormous puddles,
Building dams. 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 - 99's, screwballs or a cider lolly.
Wait......
Watching Saturday Morning cartoons...short commercials, The Double Deckers,
Road Runner, He-Man, Captain Caveman, Swapshop, and Why Don't You.
Staying up late for Starskey and Hutch or Minder. When around the corner
seemed far away, and going into town seemed like going somewhere. A million
mosquito bites, wasp and bee stings. Sticky fingers. Cops and Robbers,
Cowboys and Indians. Zorro. Climbing trees, building igloos out of tiny
amounts of snow. Walking to school, no matter what the weather. Running
till you were out of breath. Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt.
Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights. Spinning around, getting dizzy and
falling down was cause for the giggles.
Being tired from playing... Remember that?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team. Water balloons
were the ultimate weapon. Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike
into a motorcycle I'm not finished just yet...Eating raw jelly, orange
squash, ice pops. Remember when.. There were two types of trainers - girls
and boys. Dunlop Green Flash and the only time you wore them at school, was
for "gym." 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 10p. When nearly
everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there from School. It was
magic when dad would "remove" his thumb. 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, And some of us are still
afraid of them!!!
Didn't that feel good? Just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!
Remember when....
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo". "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 dodge ball wasn't an Olympic event. Having a
weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult. Nobody was prettier
than your 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. Abilities
were discovered because of a "double-dare". Older siblings were the worst
tormentors, but also the fiercestp rotectors.
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-DARE YA!!!

Dr. Loon

Sticky fingers.

Ye filth bag!!!


Cops and Robbers,
Cowboys and Indians. Zorro. Climbing trees, building igloos out of tiny
amounts of snow. Walking to school, no matter what the weather. Running
till you were out of breath. Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt.
Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights. Spinning around, getting dizzy and
falling down was cause for the giggles.
Being tired from playing... Remember that?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team. Water balloons
were the ultimate weapon. Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike
into a motorcycle I'm not finished just yet...Eating raw jelly, orange
squash, ice pops. Remember when.. There were two types of trainers - girls
and boys. Dunlop Green Flash and the only time you wore them at school, was
for "gym." 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 10p. When nearly
everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there from School. It was
magic when dad would "remove" his thumb. 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, And some of us are still
afraid of them!!!
Didn't that feel good? Just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!
Remember when....
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo". "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 dodge ball wasn't an Olympic event. Having a
weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult. Nobody was prettier
than your 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. Abilities
were discovered because of a "double-dare". Older siblings were the worst
tormentors, but also the fiercestp rotectors.
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-DARE YA!!!

That's pretty cool alright... I remember the lot. I like it

nanook

The one thing that brought me back was the saturday morning television, the cartoons and the saturday swapshop, my god noel edmonds had bad taste in everything. But like i said i thought i would share

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The last page of the internet

Nooo nostalgia flashbacks......

Let it go Louie, Let it go.......

phaxx

Ice cream was considered a basic food group. Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.

What's changed about that?

Lump

HE HE, I like that, maybe I'm just a bit sentimental...... but it is good to remember your childhood (I'm only 18), it's amazing how much things change. Thanks.



John

Boston

yea i remember most of it, god all the people that touch your life in ways you will never know

bonyn

They don't make threads like this any more.

NIMAN

I closed my eyes but couldn't read all the text.

Sir Osis of Liver.

You left out White Dog Sh1t.

Oh,the memories.

Outlaw Pete

Lump wrote: »

HE HE, I like that, maybe I'm just a bit sentimental...... but it is good to remember your childhood (I'm only 18), it's amazing how much things change. Thanks.

John

You joined Boards when you were 1?







You were being sarcastic. I get it now.

Samaris

Mod:

...This thread is fourteen years old.

I feel old.

Also locking it because really, it's fourteen years old.