DO you remember WHEN?

hammerhed7

hammerhed7

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Stretch Armstrong
Erector sets with sharp metal rods and bolts the exact diameter of your windpipe (They don't make choking hazards like that anymore)
LAWN DARTS!
 
shroomie2u

shroomie2u

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the humpty dance
the electric slide
thundercats
he-man
GEM
east coast/ west coast beef
nerf
my buddy
teenage mutant ninja turtles
(OK i'm done)
 
texasmetal

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Originally Posted by Nano Reefer
http:///forum/post/2691146
Back in The Day vs. Today:
Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1968-Vice principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets him own shotgun to show Jack.
2008-School goes into lockdown, the FBI is called, and Jack is hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors are called in to assist traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1968-Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2008-Police are called: SWAT team arrives and arrests Johnny and Mark. They are charged with assault and both are expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario: Jeffrey won't sit still in class, disrupts other students.
1968-Jeffrey is sent to the principal's office and given a good paddling. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2008-Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra state funding because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him awhipping with his belt.
1968-Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2008-Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist.
Scenario:pedro fails high-school English.
1968-Pedro goes to Summer school, passes English, and goes to college.
2008-Pedro's cause is taken up by local human rights group. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that making English a requirement for graduation is racist. US Civil Liberties Association files class action lawsuit against state school syste and Pedro's English teacher. English is banned from core cirriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario:Johnny takes apart leftover Independence Day firecrackers, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up an anthill.
1968-Ants die.
2008-Homeland Security and the FBI are called and Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. Teams investigate parents, siblings are removed from the home, computers are confiscated, and Johnny's dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario:Johnny falls during recess and scrapes his knee. His teacher, Mary, finds him crying, and gives him a hug to comfort him.
1968-Johnny soon feels better and goes back to playing.
2008-Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces three years in a federal prison. Johnny undergoes five years of therapy.
That is awesome.
 
texasmetal

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Mork and Mindy was on.
Most movies weren't rated R.
Someone already touched on this but... MTV actually was about music.
A spade was a spade.
The Simpson's and Beavis and Butthead were blamed for childrens misbehavior. (Cuz ya know it's not like Wyle E Coyote didn't do anything violent 40 years earlier.)
"Music" wasn't created by a drum machine, and "musicians" were appreciated for their talent, instead of their skimpy stage outfits?
Poverty, violence, and sexism was not something to glorify or allow your suburban children to immitate.
Jimmy Swaggart got busted with a hooker and dirty magazines.
Tammy Faye and Jim Baker got busted too.
Pee Wee wasn't known as a pervert. (Didn't see that coming...pshhh)
 
flpriest

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Originally Posted by Mimzy
http:///forum/post/2690767
personally, I like the way things are now. being little sucked. u couldn't do what you wanted to do, go where you wanted to go.... I've never been more liberated or happier than I am now, living in this world the way that it IS. there are definitely things I would change - but never to what they USED to be.
man... take a chill pill Mimzy...
It wasn't that bad, was it?

Remember when you had to be home and in the door before the street lights came on.
After school specials.
Disco...YUK!
Playing sports with all of the neiborhood kids outside until someone got mad and took their ball home>

Charlies Angels.. ohhh they were such fox's
 
hammerhed7

hammerhed7

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no cordless phones (rotary)
no internet
no sell phones
no text messages
no cable
You actually had to leave your house and deal with people, The upside was it was easier to be unavailable.
The 80's really sucked
 
aw2x3

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You know...I've seen this thread, for two days and haven't gotten in on it. Now, you all are in trouble, because I'm going thru, quoting two pages of posts!
Originally Posted by T316
http:///forum/post/2690294
remember when...
Chips, The Dukes of Hazzard, Gilligan's Island
Dude!...on my Myspace, under "people I want to meet", I name Ponch! CHiPs was DA BOMB, when I was a kid! My girlfriend still gets mad at me, when I make her watch Dukes of Hazzard reruns, at 5am!
Originally Posted by Tizzo
http:///forum/post/2690381
Remember when you could actually get into a fist fight with your friends, then the next day you were best friends again.
As opposed to today. Be nice, act nice, seek couceling, lol
Later that day, when the same guy comes by, knocks on your door and asks your mom "Is it ok, if they come out and play?"
Originally Posted by bigarn
http:///forum/post/2690495
or you could actually carry a toy gun outside without having to worry about getting arrested or shot ...

Two words..."BB GUN WARS!"
Originally Posted by Payton 350
http:///forum/post/2690498
you could discipline your child and considered a good parent for it
helmets and knee pads were for the retarded kids on bikes
My mom used to carry a wooden spoon, in her purse...EVEN IN CHURCH! She used to tell me, at the grocery store "I'm gonna break your arm off and beat you with it!"
And, I work in a home for mentall and physically challenged people. I don't appreciate, nor accept the word "retarded". Sorry...just had to say it.
Originally Posted by Payton 350
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kids actually went outside and played games.
everyone in the neighborhood knew everyone .
When your parents told you "INSIDE OR OUTSIDE!"...and they meant it!
Originally Posted by Tizzo
http:///forum/post/2691027
Remember when Prince's song "party like it's 1999" came out, and we all thought that'd be SO FAR away!

And it was like 1989 and we thought "OMG...we're gonna be sooo old, when 1999 roles around!"
Originally Posted by Payton 350
http:///forum/post/2691029
Garbage Pail Kids

I still have original, unopened packages of Garbage Pail kids, collecting cards.
Originally Posted by Nano Reefer
http:///forum/post/2691144
when there were ovaltine ads.
It's 2008 and I still hear the TV yell..."I want Ovaltine, please!!!"
Originally Posted by deyoe1118
http:///forum/post/2691147
Goonies

One of the best moves, to date, ever made! "HEY YOU GUYS!!!!"
One thing, a few guys mentioned...HE-MAN! Yeah, buried all of mine, in the backyard, by my tree house, because there was a mass killing, in a huge neighborhood battle. It stormed the next day and I never found them again.
A few things, no one mentioned...
Big Wheels! Yeah...I had a Transformers one, till the neighborgood bullies stole it, took it apart and threw the individual parts in my bushes!
G.I. Joe...GO JOE! I still have every one!...including the vehicles and the G.I. Joe base, in my parents attick.
Anyone remember when Punky Brewster had "new" episodes, every week. How about "Different Strokes"?...anyone remember Webster?
Who remembers "In West Philidelphia, born and raised, on a playground was where I spent most of my days...chillin' out max and relaxin' out cool, playin' some b-ball out, after school, when a couple of guys..."
 
flpriest

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that were up to no good... started mak'in trouble in my neiborhood. I got in one little fight and my Mom got scared,
My little brother got to get a big wheel and I was to big for one by the time they came about. Man did that tick me off.. He got all the good stuff! And by the way... My oldest son loved The Fresh Prince of Belaire.
 
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