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04-10-2007, 12:36 PM
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Re: Post for old farts (if under 35 do not read)
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Old guys - good luck with the ED thing. [/ QUOTE ] They got these little pills for that. Work great -- you just need an hour or two's notice. That, and of course they're 12 freaking dollars apiece 
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#14
04-10-2007, 12:45 PM
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Re: Post for old farts (if under 35 do not read)
And we had to use typewriters instead of computers but STILL got our homework done. Or, wait a minute, sometimes we didn't. Never mind.
Fun post, OP. I'd add: We got left at home while Mom went to the neighbors for a while or to the store to get a few groceries, and nobody died, and Mom wasn't arrested for child abuse and thought by everyone to be a human monster. We went trick or treating on Halloween with our friends, not our parents, and we had fun and felt bad about the few kids who had to go with their parents. That must really suck, we thought, little knowing that pretty much everyone would grow up to be those parents themselves, and there would never be kids running around free again. We ran around playing with cap guns and B.B. guns and nobody thought we were corrupting our souls, training for an adulthood of murderousness, or destined to be knee-jerk political arch-conservatives. We watched the best cartoons ever, but they didn't make us crazed with violence, and we still wound up trying to turn very few friends into walking accordions. They also had no messages, except perhaps that trying to outsmart Bugs Bunny was probably a bad idea, yet we didn't find our ability to love people or obey traffic laws remarkably diminished. We grew up at the dawn of the fast food age with parents who said fat was good for us, and wound up with kids in love with saying the same thing, but somehow timed it right that we wound up with less obesity than either of them.
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#15
04-10-2007, 12:47 PM
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Re: Post for old farts (if under 35 do not read)
I rode a bicycle -- WITHOUT A HELMET!!!!!
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#16
04-10-2007, 12:50 PM
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Great logic here, guys. "I didn't die from doing stupid [censored] so it's okay."
"We played Russian Roulette and only 1/6 of us died!"
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#18
04-10-2007, 12:52 PM
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For those that are younger and say this all applies to them, I think you're the exception. When I was growing up in the 70's, almost zero thought was put into safety. No bike helments, no pads when skate boarding, no seat belts, trick-or-treating on Halloween all over the place. Most my childhood I had a bedroom in the basement with no fire escape except the stairs. I don't have kids, but from what I see in my kid filled neighborhood is the opposite. I can't remember seeing a kid riding a bike without a helment.
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#19
04-10-2007, 12:58 PM
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"We played Russian Roulette and only 1/6 of us died!" [/ QUOTE ] That's a really butt-[censored] stupid analogy. Did you make it up all by yourself?
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#20
04-10-2007, 01:00 PM
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Re: Post for old farts (if under 35 do not read)
Born in '72. Nice trip down memory lane.
I coach a little league team. Last night, our second-string catcher got to start behind the plate in a scrimmage (36 degrees is springtime in Massachusetts). The kid was jawing with all the batters. Between innings I asked him, "must be pretty cool to be the best catcher in the league, right?" The kid looked perplexed. "You are the best catcher in the league, right?" I asked him. "No, I'm just learning to catch," he replied. "Well, if you're not the best catcher in the league, keep your mouth shut behind the plate," I responded. The kid kept his mouth shut for the rest of the time he was behind the plate. I told him that he did a great job afterward, but I still expect a nasty phone call from his parents any minute now. The wussification of America.
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