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To All The Kids Who Survived the 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !! (cute email)
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Posted on 05/18/2005 9:07:02 AM PDT by LIConFem

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930'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 dressing, tuna from a can, 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 helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts 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, white bread and real 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, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

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 video tape movies, 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 ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

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 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 has 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!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

AND while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!


TOPICS: Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: 1970s; 20somethinglist; 20somethingslist; childhood; rememberwhen; stfuadmodwannabes; thisischat; thisisnewsidiots; thisisnotnews
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To: retrokitten

Some of those shows I think were filmed locally in L.A
My mom took me when I was 5 to Sheriff John Show and my brother was on Winchell Mahoney Show and Billy Barty!

Yes Bozo was great! lots of kids wanted to be on his show!

My best cartoon was the Jetsons!


41 posted on 05/18/2005 10:19:49 AM PDT by missyme (The Conclusion is:)
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To: MotleyGirl70

LOL..I think there was an episode of the Brady Kids doing that and a big thunderstorm came!


Kids sure miss out on so many things today it's truly a shame!


42 posted on 05/18/2005 10:21:50 AM PDT by missyme (The Conclusion is:)
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To: missyme

I love the Jetsons, too. I was a Flinstones addict. I can still sing a lot of the songs.

Theres a town I know where the hipsters go
They call it Bedrock
Twitch! Twitch!


43 posted on 05/18/2005 10:26:14 AM PDT by retrokitten ("I've seen you break up entire bridal and baby showers with one catty remark!"- Peggy Hill)
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To: missyme

We're the last of a dying breed.


44 posted on 05/18/2005 10:34:47 AM PDT by cowboyway (My heroes have always been cowboys.)
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To: retrokitten

Flinstones meet the Flinstones!

Jetsons!
His boy elroy!

No sex or violence we just sat to close to the TV and mom had to say sit back!


45 posted on 05/18/2005 10:38:05 AM PDT by missyme (The Conclusion is:)
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To: Conservatrix
You said well the response I try to give when someone talks about the "old days" before safety was such a big issue. I especially like to point out the part about how we're around to say "we survived," but others aren't.

Sure, like most other Freepers I'm nostalgic for when I used to bike all around town for hours at a time. But whenever there's a story in the news now about a kid getting abducted, most Freepers are also quick to jump on the parents for not keeping a close enough watch on their kid. Times do change, and we have to change with them.
46 posted on 05/18/2005 10:39:34 AM PDT by drjimmy
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To: cowboyway; retrokitten; All

It really is sad! it sucks to be a kid now a days!

We are just lucky to have some great memories!
IMHO:
What many of us do with each other on Freerepublic reflects who we are as people who interacted socially with others it's just now it's on the Internet because we don't all live in the same neighborhood! but if we did what a heck of a Block Party it would be!


47 posted on 05/18/2005 10:42:34 AM PDT by missyme (The Conclusion is:)
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To: missyme

Could you imagine if there were a huge FR meet-up? Some place big, like the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. I know I would be there with Mr. RK in a heart beat.


48 posted on 05/18/2005 10:45:36 AM PDT by retrokitten ("I've seen you break up entire bridal and baby showers with one catty remark!"- Peggy Hill)
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To: retrokitten

Me too! A Vegas trip would be real fun! One hotel only for Freepers!
Everyone would have to wear there Freeper Screename Tag

That would be so cool!


49 posted on 05/18/2005 10:48:26 AM PDT by missyme (The Conclusion is:)
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To: missyme
Everyone would have to wear there Freeper Screename Tag

Of course! That would be a fantastic time!

50 posted on 05/18/2005 10:50:43 AM PDT by retrokitten ("I've seen you break up entire bridal and baby showers with one catty remark!"- Peggy Hill)
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To: missyme
I love threads like these when they pop up on FR. It's fun to remember all the fond memories of being a kid.

If there were a FR block party, I'd of course bring the brats.

No cheese jokes people :)

51 posted on 05/18/2005 10:52:05 AM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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To: retrokitten
Could you imagine if there were a huge FR meet-up? Some place big, like the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

As they say on the Flintstones, "Viva, Rock Vegas!"
52 posted on 05/18/2005 10:52:27 AM PDT by drjimmy
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To: retrokitten

Maybe we should post that on *Announcements* and see how many would be interested in doing that!

I proably know at least 50 on here that would definetly come!


53 posted on 05/18/2005 10:54:30 AM PDT by missyme (The Conclusion is:)
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To: drjimmy

LOL!! The nice thing about Vegas is that it's pretty affordable no matter where in the US people are traveling from.


54 posted on 05/18/2005 10:56:17 AM PDT by retrokitten ("I've seen you break up entire bridal and baby showers with one catty remark!"- Peggy Hill)
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To: LIConFem; 2Jedismom; Corin Stormhands; ecurbh

And we got sunburns ;~D


55 posted on 05/18/2005 10:58:21 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: missyme

I'm sure we could get a ton of people. What would be really cool is if we could get some big name conservatives to be guest speakers. That would attract more people and provide something to keep us all out of trouble... at least during the day ;-)


56 posted on 05/18/2005 11:03:18 AM PDT by retrokitten ("I've seen you break up entire bridal and baby showers with one catty remark!"- Peggy Hill)
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To: retrokitten

Yeah! That would be Oh so Cool! Maybe we should...????


57 posted on 05/18/2005 11:05:03 AM PDT by missyme (The Conclusion is:)
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To: retrokitten

Maybe we could post on Gen Chat a Vanity thread on who would be interested in doing or attending something like this, and if there serious we could plan, I have done things like this before in the working world regarding convention stuff...


58 posted on 05/18/2005 11:08:30 AM PDT by missyme (The Conclusion is:)
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To: missyme

It is a really cool idea, but I have absolutely no idea where even to start with planning something like that. There was a FR cruise I think planned by MinuteGal or maybe the Inaugural Ball people could help? At the very least we would need a ballroom for a big party. If it turned into some kind of conference then there would be even more planning.


59 posted on 05/18/2005 11:12:51 AM PDT by retrokitten ("I've seen you break up entire bridal and baby showers with one catty remark!"- Peggy Hill)
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To: LIConFem

I think they make the parents stupider these days.

or the kids... or both...


60 posted on 05/18/2005 11:14:08 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher ("When you want to fool the world, tell the truth." ~ Otto von Bismarck)
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