'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense. 'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest. ************
On Saturday, October 26th, 2024 at 8:00 PM, someone wrote: 'Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times'
On Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 05:43:18 PM PDT, someone wrote:
On Saturday, October 26th, 2024 at 11:15 AM, someone wrote: It's something I often think about - how good and different we lived in back then compared to the relative insanity of today. Reminds me of something related. Some of you have surely heard it before: Seems to me we were living in the good times created by strong men. But our generation became weak, many completely insane (but outwardly seem normal). So we've now created hard times. Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home). That was good. The young generation now have the opportunity to become strong and I know my kids will do that. there are signs that some younger men are waking up (but not enough and not fast enough) And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between new enough to know better and too young to care. And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today. As well as summers filled with bike rides, hula hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar. Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle. Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat!?But we survived because their love was greater than the threat. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum. Candy cigarettes. Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening. Coffee shops with table-side jukeboxes. Do You remember a time when decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'? Doesn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'. Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot. Hi-fi's & 45 & 78 RPM records. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers. I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on. To remember what a Double Dog Dare is, read on. If you can remember most or all of these, THEN YOU HAVE LIVED!!! It took three to five minutes for the TV to warm up. It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents. It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends.' Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box.Not to mention Cracker Jacks! Lying on your back in the grass with your friendsand saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a…'. Mimeograph paper. Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!' Newsreels before the movie. No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked. Nobody owned a purebred dog. Nostalgia - For Those Who Graduated From High School In The 50's and 60's Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life. Peashooters. Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game. S&H Green Stamps. Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures. Send this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, N Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk. Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home). Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles. Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger. Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Yukon 2601). Or, some of us remember when there were just four numbers with no word prefix at all.And, nearly everyone had a party line. The Fort Apache Play Set. The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team. They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed...and they did it! War was a card game. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles. When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady. When a quarter was a decent allowance, and made with real silver!You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.Made with real copper! Looking to see if it wasa 1943 copper penny! When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home. Yes, there are some. Those have a chance to survive what's coming. The purple and blue haired young idiots will not last long in this world. They've already removed themselves from the gene pool with the self castration and sterilization shots they took. The tranny movement isn't all bad, I guess. You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time.And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot. [1950s SMILING HAPPY MOTHER HOLDING HANDS SON AND DAUGHTER WALKING ACROSS SUBURBAN HOUSING DEVELOPMENT STREET LOOKING AT CAMERA] [1950s TEENAGE COUPLE PLAYING MANY MUSIC RECORDS SPREAD OUT ON LIVING ROOM FLOOR] [1950s: Rotary telephone.] [Young girls and their dog run on an Australian beach, ca. 1955.] [vintage tv and little boy cowboy - 50s nostalgia stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images]
