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Darksaga · Post by **Darksaga** » February 22nd, 2006, 4:42 pm

Jim wrote:
Sweet Jesus, 1983 was the year I was promoted to Major.

Sweet Jesus Sir! I was 12 years old and starting the 7th grade.

BTW have you taken your Centrum Silver and other "meds" yet today?

Jim · Post by **Jim** » February 23rd, 2006, 7:12 am

Darksaga wrote:
Jim wrote:
Sweet Jesus, 1983 was the year I was promoted to Major.
Sweet Jesus Sir! I was 12 years old and starting the 7th grade.

BTW have you taken your Centrum Silver and other "meds" yet today?

That's OK, Darksaga, you will find yourself in the same canoe one day. There is only one alternative to growing old. Nobody gets out alive.

AbnRgr289 · Post by **AbnRgr289** » February 23rd, 2006, 5:20 pm

Jim wrote:
AbnRgr289 wrote:
66G_RN wrote:Corporal punishment was still around in Louisiana when I graduated HS in 1985. The teachers had wooden paddles and so did the principal. You really had screwed up if you had to go see the principal for licks. He was about 6 1/2 feet tall, 275 pounds.
Been There and Done That as a 18yr old Senior in High School 1983!
Sweet Jesus, 1983 was the year I was promoted to Major.

While you were getting promoted I was getting my ass beat by the Principle for smoking in the bathroom at school.

A 2x4 with holes in it works rather well.

I learned not to get caught again!

66G_RN · Post by **66G_RN** » February 24th, 2006, 1:11 pm

AbnRgr289 wrote: While you were getting promoted I was getting my ass beat by the Principle for smoking in the bathroom at school.

A 2x4 with holes in it works rather well.

I learned not to get caught again!

This is when I got caught saying the "F" word at 15. A 2 x 4 with holes connecting with the buttocks will adjust one's attitude. :? I learned to lower my voice!

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » February 26th, 2006, 3:43 am

AbnRgr289 wrote:
Jim wrote:
AbnRgr289 wrote: Been There and Done That as a 18yr old Senior in High School 1983!
Sweet Jesus, 1983 was the year I was promoted to Major.
While you were getting promoted I was getting my ass beat by the Principle for smoking in the bathroom at school.

A 2x4 with holes in it works rather well.

I learned not to get caught again!

It took me ten more years from your promotion date to discover what it felt like to smoke out in school. Mind you, I was making my first regular trips to the Sandbox in '83

wellfed · Post by **wellfed** » February 26th, 2006, 4:45 am

Whatever happened to the :

Slinky = Still around just not as popular
Lionel Trains = Company went bankrupt and reorganized (chinese made now)
Tyco Slot Racing Cars (I remember I loved my 1966 new red Buick Riveria) = still there but battery operated now (spongebob model available)
The Draft (not the beer) = no comment
The original Volkswagen Bug or Van (Van akin to todays Family vans) =Volkswagon attempted a version in early to mid 90's didn't sell and quit making them
Silly Putty = definetely still here (Son's hair is proof)
Fountain Pens & Ink wells in your desk (CEO's have them as Paperweights)
Schwinn Bike's (with springs on the fork in the front) = also went bankrupt and reorganized and only sell certain models and yes they're chinese made
Roller skates (ya clamped on your sneakers)= still there but plastic now.
Wooden Milk crates we made into skooter by nailing a wooden milk box, a 2X4" 2 feet long and then nailing 1/2 of a roller skate for its wheels =Collapsible metal scooters now
Skellsie (Bottle Caps filled with wax to add heft and shoot them into drawn boxes on the ground outside) = Gone!
Marbles (Shooting Cats Eyes [not the dice]) = Still around.. (son's X-rays to prove it)
Chicken Pox, the Mumps = vaccines for both now!
Sneaker brands, was two types: PF Flyer & Keds (then came along Converse) = Keds still around, women's styles
Black Cars - (all the major American Car companies stopped making black cars except Limos)
Rambler Car Works met its demise in the 70's. Along with the AMC Pacer
No air conditioners while I was growing up (my neighborhood)
I was one of the few that the Nuns didn't try to make me write with my right because I grew up writing lefty. Still threw the ball with my right tho. So that made me ambi- dexterous. = Me too!
girls, Peddle Pushers, Two tone shoes
boys, putting baseball cards on rear wheel with a clothes pin to increase the sound similar to a engine with a bad muffler.= used playing cards also
Flipping, tossing matching while playing with baseball cards - bubble gum with the baseball cards. =Cards are colorized with 3D watermarks now
Chicklet Gum Machines at every Station platform on the Subways, put 2 pennies for a few pieces of gum. Ride the Subways 27 miles through all of NYC for the cost of one token. Token cost all of 15 cents to get on the Subway - exposed ceiling fans on the Subway Cars - The seats on Subway cars and buses were made of woven straw. The neighborhood vegetable seller/man came on a horsedrawn cart right to your door.
Pizza 15 cents a slice 75 cents for a pizza pie.
Hertz car rental commericals - showed a man in a sitting position being floating through the air into the drivers seat of a Hertz.
Soap Detergent - This one I loved watching to know I wansn't crazy after coming hom from Vietnam - Through the open door of a washing machine -came a mucle man's fist tell you to use strong soap bla bla bla. (When was the last time you saw a muscle mans arm come up through the door of your washing machine) = Gum 25 to 50 cents
The T.V. shows were a hoot - Father Knows Best, with Donna Reed, Carl Best (whatever), Shelley Fabres who sang Johnny Angel on the show. The past was their whole family sitting at the table together with their father in a suit and mom in a nice dress, yeah right that show meant my family came from outter space. =Dont get me started about TV

~Like me outter here~

Hoover · Post by **Hoover** » March 1st, 2006, 9:30 am

I remember when you would pull into a gas station....the guy would come out, dressed in a clean uniform,pump the gas,clean the windshield and check the air pressure in all the tires. Great Service always!
There were clean restrooms available too.

These days the guy can barely bring himself to look up from reading the newspaper and just takes the money whilst making some barley audible grunting sound; they have pure contempt for the customer at the same time.....and gas is over $2.50 a gallon to boot.

502in62 · Post by **502in62** » March 1st, 2006, 5:42 pm

Hoover wrote:I remember when you would pull into a gas station....the guy would come out, dressed in a clean uniform,pump the gas,clean the windshield and check the air pressure in all the tires. Great Service always!
There were clean restrooms available too.

These days the guy can barely bring himself to look up from reading the newspaper and just takes the money whilst making some barley audible grunting sound; they have pure contempt for the customer at the same time.....and gas is over $2.50 a gallon to boot.

Remember when you could pump before you pay?

AbnRgr289 · Post by **AbnRgr289** » March 1st, 2006, 7:14 pm

Hoover wrote:I remember when you would pull into a gas station....the guy would come out, dressed in a clean uniform,pump the gas,clean the windshield and check the air pressure in all the tires. Great Service always! There were clean restrooms available too.

These days the guy can barely bring himself to look up from reading the newspaper and just takes the money whilst making some barley audible grunting sound; they have pure contempt for the customer at the same time.....and gas is over $2.50 a gallon to boot.

That was me................................but no uniform! :D

Silverback · Post by **Silverback** » March 1st, 2006, 7:21 pm

Jim wrote:
AbnRgr289 wrote:
66G_RN wrote:Corporal punishment was still around in Louisiana when I graduated HS in 1985. The teachers had wooden paddles and so did the principal. You really had screwed up if you had to go see the principal for licks. He was about 6 1/2 feet tall, 275 pounds.
Been There and Done That as a 18yr old Senior in High School 1983!
Sweet Jesus, 1983 was the year I was promoted to Major.

I was a DEP!

rgrpuck · Post by **rgrpuck** » March 1st, 2006, 9:03 pm

Damn ...I was a freshman

AbnRgr289 · Post by **AbnRgr289** » March 1st, 2006, 9:06 pm

rgrpuck wrote:Damn ...I was a freshman

My 6 was 6! :D

rgrpuck · Post by **rgrpuck** » March 1st, 2006, 9:07 pm

Damn ...cradle robber

rgrpuck · Post by **rgrpuck** » March 1st, 2006, 9:08 pm

....and the biggest post whore on the forum ......other than Vee.

AbnRgr289 · Post by **AbnRgr289** » March 1st, 2006, 9:11 pm

rgrpuck wrote:Damn ...cradle robber

:D She was 17 when we got married.......................I got tired of trying to run away.