Reminisce?

[Benny]

I get loads of spam mail, so you'll can read it. got bored of formatting it.  
         

 Just for a minute, forget everything stressful and read
           this...............
 
 
 
          Before the Internet or the Apple Mac.
          Before semi-automatics, joyriders and crack....
          Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...
          Way back........
          I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park.
          The corner shop.
          Hopscotch.
          Butterscotch.
          Skipping.
          Handstands.
          Football with an old can.
          Fingerbob.
          Beano, Dandy, Buster, Twinkle and Dennis the menace.
          Roly Poly.
          Hula Hoops, jumping the stream, building dams.
          The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.
            Bazooka Joe bubble gum.
            An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van
            that plays a tune
            -
            Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan
            or perhaps a screwball
          Wait......
            Watching Saturday morning cartoons....short commercials,
            The Double Deckers, Road Runner, He-Man, Zebebedee ,
            Tiswas or  Swapshop?, and 'Why Don't You'? - or staying up for
            Doctor Who.
            When around the corner seemed far away and going into
            town seemed like  going somewhere.
            Earwigs, wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings.
            Sticky fingers.
            Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro.
            Climbing trees.
            Building igloos out of snow banks.
            Walking to school, no matter what the weather.
            Running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard
            that your stomach
            hurt.
            Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights.
            Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was
            cause for giggles.
            Being tired from playing....remember that?
            The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a
            team.
            Water balloons were the ultimate weapon
            Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into
            a motorcycle.
            Choppers and Grifters
            I'm not finished just yet.....
            Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice pops.
            Remember when...
            There were two types of trainers - girls and boys, and
            Dunlop Green
            Flash -
            and the only time you wore them at school was for P.E.
   
   
            You knew everyone in your street - and so did your
            parents.
            It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
            You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas eve.
            When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.
            When 25p was decent pocket money
            When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
            When nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids
            got there.
            It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb.
            When it was considered a great privilege to be taken
            out to dinner at a
            real restaurant with your parents.
            When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him
            or use him to
            carry
            groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a
            thing of it.
            When being sent to the head's office was nothing
            compared to the fate
            that
            awaited a misbehaving student at home.
            Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't
            because of
            drive-by
            shootings, drugs, gangs etc. parents and grandparents were
            a much bigger threat! - and some of us are still afraid of them!!
            Didn't that feel good?
            Just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!

            Remember when....
            Decisions were made by going " Ip Dip Dog S**t "
            "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
            Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker
            in"Monopoly".
            The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex
            was germs.
            And the worst thing in your day was having to sit next
            to one.
            It was unbelievable that 'British Bulldog 123' wasn't
            an Olympic event.
            Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a
            catapult.
            Nobody was prettier than Mum.
            Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
            Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.
            Ice cream was considered a basic food group
            Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true
            Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the
            fiercest protectors
            If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED.

[Doorman]

Oh boy have you started something!
Saturday morning pictures
Dick Barton-Special Agent
Journey into space
Riders of the range. All radio programmes, and were never missed. They were on at 7o/c and we listened to them in our pjs.
If you fell off a swing you HURT!
Cigarette cards
78rpm records (my first was 'Heartbreak Hotel' by Elvis Presley and my Mum said 'You're not bringing that rubbish in here!)
Getting the cane at school and getting a whack when you got home, for getting the cane at school. Damn! That was harsh.

[MAD_ness]

riding on your CHOPPER down to the local park (that wasn't covered in dog crap ) and playing 20 a side footy until it got that dark you couldn't see the other end of the park..then riding like the wind up all the backstreets on your chopper (with no lights ) terrified in case a copper seen you and came back with you to your parents house to get you a right whuppin' for havin' no lights on

gettin payed 2.50 for gettin up at 6 to deliver everyones papers in the morning 6 days a week !!

and 20 fags were 65p

eeeeeeeee    great days !!

[Anonymous]

Spangles.

DM

[MAD_ness]

TEXAN bars .......now thats a blast from the past ......

I loved 'em but wow they were murder for ya teeth !!