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I remember when ....Stamps used to come in breakfast cereal boxes

It was safe to leave a window open when you went to bed

.... a letter cost 4c to mail -- I was in high school.

You wrote on rice paper (super fine paper) to keep the postage cost low

...I could go to the pictures by tram, buy a bag of hot greasy chips wrapped in newspaper afterwards, and go home by tram again - total cost 11d (9 cents).

Norm

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We had 3 sometimes 4 TV channels and they went off at 10PM.

I remember when you could get the strap when you broke the rules, either at home or at school. Dad used the razor strop and the teacher had a cut down one, 1½ inches wide and 15 inches long.

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Waroff49

The last chapter of the Never_Ending Story is being written.

I remember when our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, .. and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets.
(Not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.)

As children, we would ride in cars with no seatbelts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.

Horrors!

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.

After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day.

NO CELL PHONES!!!!!

Unthinkable!

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, videotape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.

We had friends!

We went outside and found them.

We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt.

We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

They were accidents.

No one was to blame but us.

Remember accidents?

We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them.

Local football teams had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.

Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade.

Horrors!

Tests were not adjusted for any reason.

Our actions were our own.

Consequences were expected.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was Unheard of.

They actually sided with the law.

Imagine that!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever.

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.


We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal With it all.

And you're one of them!

Congratulations!

Christmas was Fun. eagerly opening our presents and no matter what they were, got a kick out of each and every one. It's sad to see my grandkids opening their present, tossing it aside without even really seeing what it was, because there are so many more. We got one big pressie, and maybe one or two smaller ones, but they were appreciated and loved for what they were and who they come from, not for how much or how popular they were.

Ah Yes the good old daze.

I remember I used to have to get out he window,then get a shovel to clear the snow from the back door,

I remember it being so cold the water pipes would bust,

I remember it was so cold indoors,we all huddled round one
open fire,and we would have frost INSIDE the windows,

I remember food Rationing,

I remember having an EX regimental Sargent Major as a Wood Work Teacher,

I remember walking to school in the wind and rain and snow,No 4 wheel drives then to drop you off at the gate.

I remember getting up at 5.00.am to go and do a paper round before school
[/b]IN ALL WEATHER

I remember doing a Betterware Brush Delivery after School.
and warming my hands up off the exaust of the guys car who used to sell the brushware,( Thats Another story)

I also remember warming my hands up off a load of Horse droppings,just left by the coal horse.

I also remember have to break up large lumps of coal into smaller ones for the fire,also cutting up firewood With an AXE[b]still have all my digits,

MORE RECENT MEMORIES,
how about no air conditioner in your car,
6.00 o.clock closing,
no shops open at the weekends,
petrol at 10 pence a GALLON.
feet and inches,
one pound of butter cut off a larger slab by the man behind the counter,who also cut the cheese,with a wire,and handled the broken biscuits that he bagged up.usually all done with a fag in his mouth............
oh Happy days.

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cockles and winkles?

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Small sea shells that were housing to little Slugs,
that one eat with salt, pepper ,and Vinegar .all to kill the taste

actually they were very tasty,I remember having some at Blackpool.also a small bag of Shrimp.that I eat half of and put the rest in my jacket pocket for later,

Yup Later was 3-4 weeks later when Mum finally tracked down the smell to my jacket pocket in the wardrobe.

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Yes, I know of the song, but I never thought much about it. Never realised that they were eaten. Can't say they look very tasty..lol.. but then again, either do oysters huh, but I love them smoked. (at) Mrboggler leaving them in his pocket. hehehe Poor Mum

...free school milk in Victoria, which was left out in the sun until morning play time, and you had to scrape the solid mass off the top to drink it. None of us died.

Norm

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We used to do such things, never waste anything. You don't know when you might need it.
Leftovers from the Sunday roast were minced and made into shepherds' pie which gave us another meal cheap. You only had a limited range of vegetables and they were all fresh not frozen.

You had to shell the peas and mum knitted your jumpers.

The family sat around the 1 radio and there was not a TV in every room.

Aaaaaaaahhhhhh,

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Waroff49

The last chapter of the Never_Ending Story is being written.

Aaaaaaaahhhhhh.......

the radio:

Life with Dexter
Superman (I believe Leonard Teale was the voice of Superman)
...who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows
No Holiday for Halliday
White Cargo
listening to the test matches from England on the home made Crystal Set.
The Hit Parade Top 10

And the fascinating part... Australia virtually closed from lunchtime Saturday until Monday at 9:00AM.

Not to forget buying a packet of 50 different World Stamps from the local newsagent for 6d (5 cents) (which is about what these particular stamps are still worth )

Norm

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In Scotland on a Sunday ONLY THING ONE COULD DO WAS GO TO CHURCH NO play outside,NO SHOPS OPEN
I used to play at home or help Mum and Dad in the garden or help in the house,or I read a lot.

The problem we used to have with the Free Milk,was it often FROZE in the bottles outside,quite often some of the bottles broke cause of the cold.

ah the good ole days,

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I remember when going to the drive-in wasn't to watch the movie. Now they sleep at each others houses !!

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I remember when I was double-jointed..now I think my joints are just doubled

Remember cracker night (Queens Birthday weekend) - when you and your mates could build a huge bonfire made of whatever you could gather. You could buy big fireworks then (no not pretty sparklers, rockets or whatever), I'm talking 2d. bungers here people. Big enough to do some really serious injury.

And home made bunger guns, you know the type where you flattened one end of a steel tube, put a lighted bunger down one end, quickly dropped in a steel ball bearing or two and then pointed it at something - ah those were the days

And blowing up letter boxes with bungers (officially checking them for undelivered mail beforehand of course ) - ah those were the days

Now the only place you can buy them and let them off without some officially ordained permit is in Canberra. Go figure

Cracker Night..Sigh..Yes, I sure do miss that. I remember when we would collect bottles and take them to the shop for the deposit, then buy our crackers with them.

I remember when I was a child in central Ohio that us kids used to go out to play on Saturday morning and the only instructions were to "be home before the streetlights came on" It seems that the world was a much safer place for kids then as compared to today. I remember having a coal furnace in the basement and having to stoke it (add more coal) before going to bed. Everything was closed on Sunday except for the churches. A double feature movie on Saturday with cartoons for a quarter, if I had a dollar I was one wealthy kid. Some of the best memories of my life were in that little town, how the world has changed.

Patrick

I think most of us remember a safer world back then. Makes me wonder what my grandkids would put here in about 50 years time. I remember when cars had 4 wheels and drove on what was called a road?

I remember when I used to go fishing almost every morning around 4am. Caught our own bait, and found the hooks and sinkers on rocks or in the jetty cracks.

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No doubt what the Grandkids world will be like after just thinking of the changes since I've been around. About the fishing, my mate and I went fishing last sunday with all 4 of my kids (all grown). I was telling her about fishing when I was a kid, fishing with cane poles, no reels or any fancy tackle, just the pole a hook and whatever you could find for bait, AND CAUGHT FISH,,,Now hundreds of dollars of tackle and lures and don't catch jack sh*t.

Patrick

Ahhh Scotland on a Sunday,best you could hope for was a gang fight with the mob living in the next street that was of course after Sunday school--bin lid for a shield and a clothes pole for a lance,if only health and safety could have seen us then

I remember when my big brother was my hero..

Woohoo..200 posts in just over a week..
Oops..Not even a week..hehehe

I remember when rock was young
Me and Suzie had so much fun

Suzie was with you too????????????????????????????????

Oh no..If you knew Suzie like I knew Suzie..Oh Oh Oh what a gal

guess so,,,,,,oh what a night,,,,,late December back in '63,,,Oh, what a night, Hypnotizing, mesmerizing me.
She was everything I dreamed she'd be

wake up lil' suzie wake up..

I remember when I was young,
the world had just begun,
and I was happy.
I used to wonder about the earth
and how it moved around the sun
so snappy...

I remember going to watch Rotherham United with 30p in my pocket, getting a bus both ways (2p each way), buying a programme (5p), admission to the ground was 20p, so there was enough left to get a penny Bubbly which lasted all afternoon...

I remember when we were so poor...........

The scene - Four well-dressed men sitting together at a vacation resort. "Farewell to Thee" being played in the background on Hawaiian guitar.

Michael Palin: Ahh.. Very passable this, very passable.

Graham Chapman: Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine, ay Gessiah?

Terry Gilliam: You're right there Obediah.

Eric Idle: Who'd a thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine?

MP: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.

GC: A cup ' COLD tea.

EI: Without milk or sugar.

TG: OR tea!

MP: In a filthy, cracked cup.

EI: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.

GC: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.

TG: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.

MP: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness."

EI: 'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.

GC: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!

TG: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor!

MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.

EI: Well when I say "house" it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpaulin, but it was a house to US.

GC: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!

TG: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.

MP: Cardboard box?

TG: Aye.

MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!

TG: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.

EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."

MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

ALL: Nope, nope..

LOL. A liittle far-fetched but not that far from the truth

Monty Python Rules

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you could walk down the street without gripping your handbag so no one will grab it

would spend $100 on groceries and get a trolley full

Thank you Tony....my very favourite Monty Python peice of all time. 'Luxury' is a commonly used phrase in my house

By the way- I remember the milkman decanting milk into our billy left at the front gate. Imagine the OHS 'concerns' that would raise now

Who remembers "THUNDER BOXES"

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I remember when I am so lonely

Speaking of OHS concerns......

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Who could forget thunder boxes and of course all the fun things that "lived" in them.Redbacks!!!eeeekkk..And what is OHS?

I remember when the OHS was mentioned and nobody was told what is that

Well I don,t care I will ask the question.
WHAT IS OHS

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Occupational Health and Safety.

Norm

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