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Old 09-17-2003, 07:39 PM
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To Those Over 25

I got this very cute email today and I thought it rang VERY true for today's society!!!


To the survivors:
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's probably shouldn't have survived.

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 seat belts 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 shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this. 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 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 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 did not have Play stations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.

We had friends! We went outside and found them. We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents. 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.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't, had to learn to deal with disappointment.
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. Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good. Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors?

A must read for people over 25 yrs of age.


I LOVE THIS EMAIL!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 09-17-2003, 07:47 PM
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LMAO! so true all of it!

I saw a comedian not long ago that joked about the toys we had - like the LAWN DART.....and how our playgrounds weren't built on rubber pellets, but CONCRETE with 11 ft off the ground monkey bars

HAHAHAHHA
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Old 09-17-2003, 08:04 PM
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LMAO! so true all of it!

I saw a comedian not long ago that joked about the toys we had - like the LAWN DART.....and how our playgrounds weren't built on rubber pellets, but CONCRETE with 11 ft off the ground monkey bars

HAHAHAHHA
I can vouch for the concrete. I FELL off one of those monkey bars, and a rockery wall, and the stairs (many times). We had lawn darts!

In fact, I fell down the stairs at my grandparent's house SO many times that I was forbidden tp go down them without an adult. So, the next time dad went with me.............

and I proceeded to roll right down the stairs past him.

And they weren't carpeted.
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Old 09-17-2003, 08:44 PM
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Geez, this would make me feel really good...if it didn't make me feel so tired.
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Old 09-17-2003, 10:05 PM
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Old 09-18-2003, 02:43 AM
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By the time I was a year old, I was already running amok. I would cross the streets on my own and it scared the living sh!t out of my mom.

A few years ago, George Carlin discussed the kids of today vs. the kids of yesterday in his "You Are Diseased" special back in 1999.


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Old 09-27-2003, 03:29 AM
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The 80's were the best years of my life. I can go on and on talking about the things of the 80's. Things like:

Atari
Apple IIe with that darn dot matrix printer (playing Oregon Trail on it)

stirrup pants, Hypercolor shirts (those shirts that changed color with heat), LA Gear, British Knights, Air Pumps
Boy George, MC Hammer, Paula Abdul (who figured she'd be a judge on American Idol?)

Bart Simpson shirts (I had the one that said Aye Caramba cuz it was least vulgar..haha), Cabbage Patch Kids, Garbage Pail Kids, Lite Brite

CARTOONS! Oh my gosh...there were Transformers (More than meets the eye), Care Bears (Care Bear Stare!), Strawberry Shortcake, My Little Pony, Jem, Thundercats (Thunder thunder thundercats, HOOOOOOOOO), He-Man and She-Ra, Smurfs, Snorks, Popples, Gummi Bears (Bouncing here and there and everywhere, Rainbow Brite, Ghostbusters, Voltron

Mr. Belvedere, Silver Spoons, Family Ties, Growing Pains, A-Team, Knight Rider, Who's the Boss, Different Strokes, MacGuyver, Fall Guy
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