Remeber this?
Thursday, September 4, 2003 by eieio | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
It took five minutes for the TV warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a quarter was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
All your male teachers wore neckties and female
teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,
without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air?
And, you got trading stamps to boot?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a
real restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed . . .
and they did?
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car... to cruise, peel out, lay rubber
or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the
car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like,
"That cloud looks like a ..."
and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals
because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
It took five minutes for the TV warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a quarter was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
All your male teachers wore neckties and female
teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,
without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air?
And, you got trading stamps to boot?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a
real restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed . . .
and they did?
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car... to cruise, peel out, lay rubber
or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the
car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like,
"That cloud looks like a ..."
and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals
because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
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Koasati
Reply #22 Thursday, September 4, 2003 7:00 PM
Coca-Cola never had cocaine in it, it was coca,(hence the name) and there is a difference.......... but that was outlawed in the 30's I think. Definitely long before the time period we're discussing.
Reply #22 Thursday, September 4, 2003 7:00 PM
| and still had cocaine in them to way back when... |
Coca-Cola never had cocaine in it, it was coca,(hence the name) and there is a difference.......... but that was outlawed in the 30's I think. Definitely long before the time period we're discussing.
WOM
Reply #23 Thursday, September 4, 2003 7:14 PM
Reply #23 Thursday, September 4, 2003 7:14 PM
Koasati, coke had cocaine in it when it first came oyt in the 1800's as it wasn't a soft drink, it was for medicinal purposes and was sold as a cure all.
Koasati
Reply #24 Thursday, September 4, 2003 7:21 PM
Reply #24 Thursday, September 4, 2003 7:21 PM
No, it had coca in it, which is what cocaine is derived from, but to say coca, and cocaine is the same, would be to say opium, and heroine are the same thing. btw.......... most of the older drinks, we think of as soft drinks now, were originally some sort of tonic, or a 'cure' for something. Dr. Pepper was originally a hangover cure.
ama02
Reply #25 Thursday, September 4, 2003 7:22 PM
Reply #25 Thursday, September 4, 2003 7:22 PM
Remember when "homework" consisted of plopping down 4 or 5 textbooks (after carrying them all day...pre-backpack days) and notebook paper and pencil...reading the assignments, and writing your notes/answers? Or researching an assignment meant going to a library...
Didn't have computers then...well, not anything that would fit in a classroom, much less on a desk!
Darn computers!....they're evil I tell you! 
Didn't have computers then...well, not anything that would fit in a classroom, much less on a desk!
Darn computers!....they're evil I tell you! 
eieio
Reply #27 Thursday, September 4, 2003 7:34 PM
Reply #27 Thursday, September 4, 2003 7:34 PM
Anybody here ever have to learn how to use a slide rule? (no calculators allowed in class)
eieio
Reply #29 Thursday, September 4, 2003 7:54 PM
Reply #29 Thursday, September 4, 2003 7:54 PM
Yeah, after I got the hang of it, they decided calculators were ok after all.
messybuu
Reply #30 Thursday, September 4, 2003 8:04 PM
I never knew that soda was originally good for people. I'm going to tell people this next time they criticize me for drinking so many sodas!
Reply #30 Thursday, September 4, 2003 8:04 PM
| No, it had coca in it, which is what cocaine is derived from, but to say coca, and cocaine is the same, would be to say opium, and heroine are the same thing. btw.......... most of the older drinks, we think of as soft drinks now, were originally some sort of tonic, or a 'cure' for something. Dr. Pepper was originally a hangover cure. |
I never knew that soda was originally good for people. I'm going to tell people this next time they criticize me for drinking so many sodas!
Tecumseh
Reply #31 Thursday, September 4, 2003 8:08 PM
Reply #31 Thursday, September 4, 2003 8:08 PM
Wow, what a trip down memory lane! They were, indeed, good days. Funny, I always felt that I belonged in the '40's as an adult.
Also, it was way cool to smoke and political correctness didn't exist (this in itself would be a great reason for time travel)
Pictoratus, I still have my Pickett log/log/duplex/deci/trig slide rule. But I used a cheap wood one for exams .. penciled in formulas and select theorems under the slide!!
[Message Edited]
Also, it was way cool to smoke and political correctness didn't exist (this in itself would be a great reason for time travel)
Pictoratus, I still have my Pickett log/log/duplex/deci/trig slide rule. But I used a cheap wood one for exams .. penciled in formulas and select theorems under the slide!!
[Message Edited]
eieio
Reply #32 Thursday, September 4, 2003 8:19 PM
hehe ... better than writing it on your hand.
Reply #32 Thursday, September 4, 2003 8:19 PM
| penciled in formulas and select theorems under the slide!! |
hehe ... better than writing it on your hand.
RockinMike
Reply #33 Thursday, September 4, 2003 8:29 PM
Reply #33 Thursday, September 4, 2003 8:29 PM
Good to see old values are still remembered here,,,,
walking to school a couple miles one way never worrying bout drunk drivers, kidnappers, etc.
out playing at the other end of town till midnight
mom and dad never waiting up for you after a date (well unless you had the family vehicle)
using a "cuss" word got you soap in your mouth
standing out front of the local grocery store by the soda machine which only cost a quarter and you open it up to pull the bottle out of it
hanging out at the bar with dear oh uncle tom cause he wanted a beer and the guys would give you money for the pool table
woah i guess we are going way back..............
walking to school a couple miles one way never worrying bout drunk drivers, kidnappers, etc.
out playing at the other end of town till midnight
mom and dad never waiting up for you after a date (well unless you had the family vehicle)
using a "cuss" word got you soap in your mouth
standing out front of the local grocery store by the soda machine which only cost a quarter and you open it up to pull the bottle out of it
hanging out at the bar with dear oh uncle tom cause he wanted a beer and the guys would give you money for the pool table
woah i guess we are going way back..............
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Reply #21 Thursday, September 4, 2003 2:53 PM
and still had cocaine in them to way back when...
And when oh when are we going to finally get rid of pennies?