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100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
ahoo.com ^ | 7-22-11 | Nathan Barry

Posted on 07/22/2011 5:55:13 PM PDT by Justaham

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To: Jane Long

Yep, when the street light came on you had to come in.

We played jumprope (I’m a girl), May I, I Declare War, Foxes and Hounds, Hopscotch, Hand Clapping Games, and rode bicycles EVERYWHERE in a way that would be shocking to people nowadays.

Chalk, a ball, and a bicycle. Nothing else was necessary.


41 posted on 07/22/2011 7:41:36 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: Justaham

I have one.

Not knowing the sex of your baby until it was born. It seems amazing to me (and sort of missing something) that everyone knows what they are going to have in advance. That inital call from the recovery room - It’s a baby boy!

And people rushing in with little blue blankets they just ran out to buy to bring baby home in.


42 posted on 07/22/2011 7:46:29 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: buccaneer81
More: Manual transmissions Postage stamps Pop in glass bottles Rexall drug stores Sears

Add to that toilets that work,

showers that give you enough water to rinse off,

being able to do what you want with your own property,

light bulbs that give you enough light to read a book by...

.being able to kill and wolf that is threatening your life or killing your animals...

.being able to keep more than 50% of your income.

a town with no swat team that likes to kill dogs and innocent citizens in their own home.

being able to smoke a cigarette in the park.

free speech, freedom of religion,

( I love manual transmissions and pop in glass bottles,)

43 posted on 07/22/2011 7:53:08 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: MarkL

Rexall drug store, a drug store that sold only drugs.


44 posted on 07/22/2011 7:57:14 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: MarkL
"You've got questions, we've got blank stares."

Or "You've got questions, we've got cell phone deals".

45 posted on 07/22/2011 8:03:11 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Justaham

While working as a DJ we used reel-to-reel tape recorders to play commercials and promos.

Today, I suppose all of that is on CDs or something similar.

And BTW, we actually had live people running the station. Today, there are no announcers, just computers which play the music and commercial CDs and in the case of national talk radio, the entire process is automated as the local station’s computer turns the network on and off.


46 posted on 07/22/2011 8:23:21 PM PDT by OldPossum
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To: MarkL
Today, Radio Shack's motto should be, You've got questions, we've got blank stares we've got cell phones."

There. Fixed it.

47 posted on 07/22/2011 8:26:49 PM PDT by Peanut Gallery
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To: I still care

“Chalk, a ball, and a bicycle. Nothing else was necessary.”

But - I’ll bet you had an EasyBake Oven :-)

(Even as a boy I was secretly jealous of my sister - how cool to create tasty little cakes with a 60-watt bulb!)


48 posted on 07/22/2011 8:29:14 PM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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To: goat granny
It depended on the owners of the franchise. One of the three stores that my cousins had actually had a little luncheon counter and soda fountain. They served sandwiches, soups and a few desserts, including ice cream sodas. They also sold some other items as well, although they didn't have the selection of a "real" convenience store.

Mark

49 posted on 07/22/2011 8:33:05 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Justaham

Sometimes it’s fun to say to people when this topic comes up “you know, isn’t it amazing that for a child today, there’s been only one Queen of England in their lifetime.”

It’s a good way to see if people are listening.


50 posted on 07/22/2011 8:49:56 PM PDT by Our man in washington
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Push button transmission in our ‘63 Chrysler New Yorker!


51 posted on 07/22/2011 8:54:42 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: Jess Kitting
The Apollo 11 moon landing was on July 20, 1969. That was 42 years ago.

"No Way! That's Great...WE'VE LANDED ON THE MOON!"

52 posted on 07/22/2011 8:54:56 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Justaham

The Statler Brothers did a song about this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig81TcnCxD0


53 posted on 07/22/2011 8:58:29 PM PDT by Huntress ("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
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To: muir_redwoods
Rubber overshoes

Just saw some of those at a Tractor Supply Company this winter. I tried to buy some, but none fit over my shoes.

110 Film

And 126 and disc film and 35mm and Polaroid instant and...

Carbon paper

Still left over in the cc: line on emails.

vacuum tube test stations

There's still one a few miles from my house (or at least was a few months ago) at an electronics surplus warehouse.

54 posted on 07/22/2011 8:59:47 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The Dems demanding shared sacrifice are like Aztec priests doing it while cutting out my heart.)
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To: Justaham

Record player.


55 posted on 07/22/2011 9:18:04 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin ("Credit is the ruination of a nation")
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To: Justaham

dart guns

manual dymo labeler

rubber stamps

paper dolls

cordless drills - the kind with a crank

candy cigarettes


56 posted on 07/22/2011 9:44:52 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: I still care

I collected and read every one of The Hardy Boys Mysteries.


57 posted on 07/22/2011 9:45:14 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: goat granny

Making soap at home on the back porch.


58 posted on 07/22/2011 9:45:58 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are...)
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To: smokingfrog

If they just listen to pop music stations.....Music with actual melody.


59 posted on 07/22/2011 9:46:34 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

100 things: Is “working for a living” one of them?


60 posted on 07/22/2011 9:50:40 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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