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#1955214 - 08/20/14 04:45 PM
Re: Remembering the good old days
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Loved playing foamball baseball as a kid. My mom had Christmas ornaments that if you stripped all the string off, were made of styrofoam. They were perfect for use as baseballs.....they'd start off fairly fat....then after getting hit a lot, they'd compress in size, you'd wrap electrical tape around them and it was perfect.
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#1955256 - 08/20/14 05:21 PM
Re: Remembering the good old days
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Red rover, red rover, let Monica come over.
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#1955272 - 08/20/14 05:34 PM
Re: Remembering the good old days
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Field Day on the last days of school, up through middle school. We'd have 3-legged races, wheelbarrow races, and many other races I can't remember. And only 3 place ribbons: first, second, third. If you didn't win this year, try harder next year.
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#1955310 - 08/20/14 05:56 PM
Re: Remembering the good old days
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we called it thunder and lightning because we rang and also beat/kicked on the door
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#1955317 - 08/20/14 05:59 PM
Re: Remembering the good old days
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kick the can...at night. You couldn't start until dark which is 8pm in the summer. My kids and all the neighbors' would be out till after 10 running and squealing and laughing. It was music to my ears. got dark around 9:15 for us, kick the can usually started around 7:30 after everyone had dinner...with their family...at the table...with no TV on...and games were epic and lasted until 10-10:30 or someone's mom yelled it was time to go inside...
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#1955327 - 08/20/14 06:03 PM
Re: Remembering the good old days
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My brother and i used to play cross-country (cross pasture) golf with my dad's golf clubs. We'd pick one club each (he'd get the pitching wedge, i'd get the 9-iron) and we'd play from one end of the pasture (not just a flat pasture, lots of trees and ditches too) to the other.....i guess we were playing a par-27 hole.
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#1955328 - 08/20/14 06:04 PM
Re: Remembering the good old days
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Field Day on the last days of school, up through middle school. We'd have 3-legged races, wheelbarrow races, and many other races I can't remember. And only 3 place ribbons: first, second, third. If you didn't win this year, try harder next year. well, that certainly explains the 5 years it took you to finish middle school
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#1955337 - 08/20/14 06:09 PM
Re: Remembering the good old days
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Now let us get back to the good old days of Happy ending up in the hospital and somehow living to tell about it. anyone remember Lincoln Logs? kind of like poor man's legos...well, if you throw them at your old brother and hit him in the head and then he chases you and you think you can get away by climbing onto the top bunk bed and jumping off..don't be surprised if you land funny and break your ankle...also don't be surprised if your parents say "well, that's what you get for being mean to your brother."
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#1955354 - 08/20/14 06:28 PM
Re: Remembering the good old days
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One of several interests that have followed me through life is shooting sports, a hobby I had way back when. Upon reflection I'm amazed that times have changed with regards to attitudes toward firearms. In the early '70s our high school student parking lot was full of pickups (in those pre-extended cab/quad cab days) having gun racks in their rear windows festooned with long arms of all sorts. We'd all inspect each other's favorites or that newest acquisition before school or at lunch. No one ran amok. No accidents. No thefts. No guns were brought out to settle the "hippie" versus "goat-roper" fist fights that occurred. Not one single pop tart was gnawed into the shape of a gun, landing the elementary miscreant who would do such a deed into suspension either.
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#1955364 - 08/20/14 06:47 PM
Re: Remembering the good old days
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Now let us get back to the good old days of Happy ending up in the hospital and somehow living to tell about it. anyone remember Lincoln Logs? kind of like poor man's legos...well, if you throw them at your old brother and hit him in the head and then he chases you and you think you can get away by climbing onto the top bunk bed and jumping off..don't be surprised if you land funny and break your ankle...also don't be surprised if your parents say "well, that's what you get for being mean to your brother." I have my brother's Lincoln Logs and my grangirls still play with them with my husband. I broke my collar bone when I jumped off the top bunk trying to get past my sister and got much the same response from my mother.
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#1955427 - 08/20/14 07:52 PM
Re: Remembering the good old days
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We had Lincoln Logs!!! And because of them, when I was about 24 a friend of mine and I got the bright idea to build a log cabin in the mountins near Red Cedar Oklahoma. We had done it with lincoln Logs, how tough could it be?!?! Well, we did get it built and used as a hunting cabin, but to say it was a learning experience would be misleading. Looking back its a miracle we didnt kill ourselves once the walls got over about 3ft tall!
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#1955471 - 08/20/14 08:31 PM
Re: Remembering the good old days
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When we were little (9 and 10 years old), my sister and I got into a fight and she locked me out of the house. I got so mad I kicked a hole in the door. Needless to say, I learned to control my temper a bit after Mom's "Anger Management" class. I don't remember my sister getting in trouble for locking me out in the first place...
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#1955474 - 08/20/14 08:34 PM
Re: Remembering the good old days
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When we were little (9 and 10 years old), my sister and I got into a fight and she locked me out of the house. I got so mad I kicked a hole in the door. Needless to say, I learned to control my temper a bit after Mom's "Anger Management" class. I don't remember my sister getting in trouble for locking me out in the first place... Hey, I did the *exact* same thing with my sister and ruined the screen door. My dad was pretty bent, but he was just such a nice guy he couldn't stay mad for long. I miss that guy.
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#1955475 - 08/20/14 08:36 PM
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Yeah, my dad didn't say much, just fixed it and moved on. My mom on the other hand...lol
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#1955478 - 08/20/14 08:37 PM
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LOL, you're not my sister are you?!?!?!?!? EXACTLY the same here!
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#1955546 - 08/21/14 11:04 AM
Re: Remembering the good old days
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When we were little (9 and 10 years old), my sister and I got into a fight and she locked me out of the house. I got so mad I kicked a hole in the door. Needless to say, I learned to control my temper a bit after Mom's "Anger Management" class. I don't remember my sister getting in trouble for locking me out in the first place... I fixed the hole and repainted and no one was the wiser
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#1956889 - 08/26/14 01:18 PM
Re: Remembering the good old days
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Truff, that was a great article, thanks. I shared that with some family and friends, and my wife, lol.
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