Black & White

10 Feb 2009

Sent to me by a 60 year old ex Marine

(Under age 40? You won't understand.)

You could hardly see for all the snow,Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go. Pull a chair up to the TV set,'Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet.'

My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.

My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes, too.

Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice-pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli .

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.

The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.

We all took gym, not PE .. and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.Flunking gym was not an option .. even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.

Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention. We must have had horribly damaged psyches.

What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself..

I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations

Oh yeah ... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked there and then we got butt spanked again when we got home.

I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.
To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family.. How could we possibly have known that?We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive?

LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA, AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T. SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING.

10 Feb 2009

10 Feb 2009

I felt like I grew up like this Chef and I am under 40. I remember most of these as reruns and I especially miss the "Lil' Rascals"......the only pic I don't know is that Superman one..... dontknow

"Love all, trust a few, and do wrong to none."

10 Feb 2009

How true.

10 Feb 2009

I am (almost) old enough to remember these, but my 10 year old knows them from cable TV reruns. She too loves the Little Racals!. hello1

10 Feb 2009

I grew up that way too and I will be 39 very soon. Also what I remember most from back then are the family get togethers we had all summer long. And playing outdoors every minute we could.

10 Feb 2009

I grew up with the reruns and it was a much simpler time.
Even when i grew up it was simpler, than now.

Carpe Diem

Red out

11 Feb 2009

Yes how I do miss those days being able to just go on my bike disappear for the day without saying where I was just riding my bike everywhere no helmet back then or now just to go fishing or whatever. Love all those shows the Lone Ranger me and my Grandfather used to watch all the time. And my Grandmother cooked like that too never got sick either. I am also under 40 As said I wouldn't trade growing up that way for anything too damn much fun back then.

11 Feb 2009

Annette sure looked different when she hit the beach.

11 Feb 2009

I know some of those shows just don't look the same now as they did back then....

"Love all, trust a few, and do wrong to none."

11 Feb 2009

I hate the reurns of those shows, but back then - they rocked.

As far as cooking and the kitchen things, I believe our 'Safety Orpinazations - OSA and NSF" are making us sick.

And BB - I miss it, too. I wish my kids would just try and do some of those things, instaed of I-pods and PS2 and DVD's. The things we had - we still have, if you do it.

Good stuff Chef.

Bat

11 Feb 2009

Thanks Bat flower

11 Feb 2009

Great Post & Reads !

11 Feb 2009

Well met Sir Knight runonwords!lol

11 Feb 2009

My memory only goes back as far as Solo, Kuryakin and Waverly
in The Man from Uncle

I must be younger than most ..oor more senile

12 Feb 2009

We used to play outside all day, no matter what the temperature was. We didn't care. Then Mom had to call us inside for supper, every night.

Those days are gone for many kids.

12 Feb 2009

I think that's why kids are so fat now. We watched a little tv but not hours a night. and did like you did Roc we played outside until the street lights came on.
And I swear the moms in the neighborhood had a yelling system. My mom would yell for me and if I didn't answer the neighbor lady would yell my name and then another and another etc until I was found.

12 Feb 2009

Quote by roccotool
. Then Mom had to call us inside for supper, every night.

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You got supper ...Rich people eh!!!

12 Feb 2009

Quote by DBarclay
Quote by roccotool
. Then Mom had to call us inside for supper, every night.

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You got supper ...Rich people eh!!!

And if you didn't like what was put on the table you didn't eat

12 Feb 2009

And you got the lecture about people starving in China.

12 Feb 2009

And you could not leave the table until you had finished it all no matter what time it was....and God forbid you fell alseep on the table....LOL!

"Love all, trust a few, and do wrong to none."

12 Feb 2009

Quote by DBarclay
My memory only goes back as far as Solo, Kuryakin and Waverly
in The Man from Uncle

I must be younger than most ..oor more senile

"Love all, trust a few, and do wrong to none."

12 Feb 2009

ok. If we all remember this and think it was great, what the hell is wrong with the kids now? I don't have any so I can't have fucked any up.

12 Feb 2009

Didn't someone mention Dr.Who?

http://www.whopix.net/

13 Feb 2009

There is no mom or dad to call them home, or even see where the hell they are, many times.

13 Feb 2009

Quote by roccotool
And you got the lecture about people starving in China.

LOL..Mine was Africa ...

14 Feb 2009

Quote by roccotool
There is no mom or dad to call them home, or even see where the hell they are, many times.

Not to mention you almost can't let your kid be a kid for fear someone will abduct them while they are out. I know when I was younger Mom and Dad half the time never knew where I was but knew I was safe and having fun somewhere.