> > WHEN...?
> >
> > All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
> >
> > It took five minutes for the TV warm up?
> >
> >
> >
> > Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?
> >
> > Nobody owned a purebred dog?
> >
> >
> >
> > When a quarter was a decent allowance?
> >
> > You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
> >
> > Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
> >
> > All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had
> > their hair done every day and wore high heels?
> > When the men teachers had huge paddles with holes drilled in them and did
> > not hesitate to use them?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
> >
> > It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner
> > at a real restaurant with your parents?
> >
> > They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . .and they did?
> >
> >
> >
> > When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise,
> > peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> > Lying on your back in the grass with your friends
> > and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a".
> >
> > and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
> >
> > Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals
> > because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > When being sent to the principal's office was nothing
> > compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
> > 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.
> >
> > Send this on to someone who can still remember
> > Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy,
> > Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery,
> > the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows,
> > Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
> >
> >
> > As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games,
> > Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool,
> > and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
> >
> > Shooting Marbles (for keepsies) until your thumb was sore.
> > Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember
> > that"?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> > And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between
> > old enough to know better and too young to care.
> >
> > How many of these do you remember?
> >
> >
> > Candy cigarettes
> > Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
> > Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
> > Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
> > Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
> > Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
> > Newsreels before the movie
> >
> > Apple Core! Baltimore! Who's your friend?
> >
> >
> > P.F. Fliers
> >
> >
> > Telephone numbers with a word prefix....(Raymond 4-601).
> > Party lines
> >
> >
> > Peashooters
> > Howdy Dowdy
> > 45 RPM records
> > Green Stamps
> > Hi-Fi's
> >
> > Metal ice cubes trays with levers
> > Mimeograph paper
> > Beanie and Cecil
> > Roller-skate keys
> > Cork pop guns
> > Drive ins
> > Studebakers
> >
> >
> > Washtub wringers
> > The Fuller Brush Man
> > Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
> > Tinkertoys
> > Erector Sets
> > The Fort Apache Play Set
> > Lincoln Logs
> > 15 cent McDonald hamburgers
> >
> >
> > 5 cent packs of baseball cards -
> > with that awful pink slab of bubble gum
> >
> > Penny candy
> >
> > 35 cent a gallon (or less during a gas war) gasoline
> > Jiffy Pop popcorn
> >
> > Do you remember a time when...
> >
> > Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?
> > Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"?
> > "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
> > Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?
> > It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?
> >
> > The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was
> > "cooties"?
> > Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
> > A foot of snow was a dream come true?
> >
> > Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action
> figures?
> > "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?
> > Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
> >
> > The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
> > War was a card game?
> > Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
> > Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?
> > Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
> >
> > If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!
Borat remembers.
> >
> > All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
> >
> > It took five minutes for the TV warm up?
> >
> >
> >
> > Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?
> >
> > Nobody owned a purebred dog?
> >
> >
> >
> > When a quarter was a decent allowance?
> >
> > You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
> >
> > Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
> >
> > All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had
> > their hair done every day and wore high heels?
> > When the men teachers had huge paddles with holes drilled in them and did
> > not hesitate to use them?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
> >
> > It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner
> > at a real restaurant with your parents?
> >
> > They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . .and they did?
> >
> >
> >
> > When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise,
> > peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> > Lying on your back in the grass with your friends
> > and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a".
> >
> > and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
> >
> > Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals
> > because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > When being sent to the principal's office was nothing
> > compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
> > 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.
> >
> > Send this on to someone who can still remember
> > Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy,
> > Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery,
> > the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows,
> > Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
> >
> >
> > As well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games,
> > Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool,
> > and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
> >
> > Shooting Marbles (for keepsies) until your thumb was sore.
> > Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember
> > that"?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> > And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between
> > old enough to know better and too young to care.
> >
> > How many of these do you remember?
> >
> >
> > Candy cigarettes
> > Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
> > Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
> > Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
> > Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
> > Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
> > Newsreels before the movie
> >
> > Apple Core! Baltimore! Who's your friend?
> >
> >
> > P.F. Fliers
> >
> >
> > Telephone numbers with a word prefix....(Raymond 4-601).
> > Party lines
> >
> >
> > Peashooters
> > Howdy Dowdy
> > 45 RPM records
> > Green Stamps
> > Hi-Fi's
> >
> > Metal ice cubes trays with levers
> > Mimeograph paper
> > Beanie and Cecil
> > Roller-skate keys
> > Cork pop guns
> > Drive ins
> > Studebakers
> >
> >
> > Washtub wringers
> > The Fuller Brush Man
> > Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
> > Tinkertoys
> > Erector Sets
> > The Fort Apache Play Set
> > Lincoln Logs
> > 15 cent McDonald hamburgers
> >
> >
> > 5 cent packs of baseball cards -
> > with that awful pink slab of bubble gum
> >
> > Penny candy
> >
> > 35 cent a gallon (or less during a gas war) gasoline
> > Jiffy Pop popcorn
> >
> > Do you remember a time when...
> >
> > Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?
> > Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"?
> > "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
> > Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?
> > It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?
> >
> > The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was
> > "cooties"?
> > Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
> > A foot of snow was a dream come true?
> >
> > Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action
> figures?
> > "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?
> > Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
> >
> > The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
> > War was a card game?
> > Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
> > Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?
> > Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
> >
> > If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!
Borat remembers.
