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Describe the Good Old Days

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TMNT was the sh!t, Saved By the Bell was cool, before Power Rangers, watching the Simpsons when they were actually funny, free porn from cable by turning the cable the right way. Those were the days.
 
Originally posted by: dragonballgtz
TMNT was the sh!t, Saved By the Bell was cool, before Power Rangers, watching the Simpsons when they were actually funny, free porn from cable by turning the cable the right way. Those were the days.
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the simpsons sucked ass in the early 90's
 
Super Balls, Hoola Hoops, Fizzies, Silly Puddy, Slinkys, G.I. Joes and frizzbies.

All products invented during my miss spent youth. 😉
 
-Oil came in cans
-You had to choose between leaded or unleaded gas
-you had to get off the sofa to change the TV channel via a rotary dial
(there were only 4 stations available anyway)
-you had to reheat leftovers in the oven , and make popcorn in an
"air-popper" or on the stove (no microwaves)

 
Oh some times I think back to when I was younger
Life was so much simpler then
Dad would be up at dawn
He'd be watering the lawn
Or maybe going fishing again

Oh and mom would be fixing up something in the kitchen
Fresh biscuits or hot apple pie
And I'd spend all day long in the basement
Torturing rats with a hack-saw
And pulling the wings off of flies

Those were the good old days
Those were the good old days
The years go by but the memory stays
And those were the good old days

I can still remember good old Mr. Fender
Who ran the corner grocery store
Oh, he'd strolled down the aisle with a big friendly smile
And he'd say "Howdy" when you walked in the door

Always treated me nice, gave me kindly advice
I don't know why I set fire to his place
Oh I'll never forget the day I bashed in his head
Well you should've seen the look on his face

Let me tell ya now

Those were the good old days
Those were the good old days
The years go by but the memory stays
And those were the good old days

Do you remember sweet Michelle
She was my high school romance
She was fun to talk to and nice to smell
So I took her to the homecoming dance

Then I tied her to a chair and I shaved off all her hair
And I left her in the desert all alone
Well sometimes in my dreams
I can still hear the screams
Oh I wonder if she ever made it home

I tell ya

Those were the good old days
Those were the good old days
The years go by but the memory stays
And those were the good old days

Let me tell ya buddy

Those were the good old days
Those were the good old days
The years go by but the memory stays
And those were the good old days
 
Swatches of all different colors and design, Vision Street Wear, Tony Hawk was God, banana-seat bikes, Transformers, Jayce and Wheeled Warrior, Galaxy Ranger, Starblazers, and Robotech.

Flouresent clothing, hypercolor, spandex, muscle shirts. *shudder*
 
mazinga z
godzilla action figure
gi joe action figures with the arms with the extra lateral joint above the elbow
star wars action figures without knee joints or elbow joints
gilligan's island repeats every day
three's company having hot chicks
cap guns
nerf football
the electric football game with the little guys who would move around the football field randomly
the handheld football game that used dashes for people
the x-men comic with the x-men in the original goofy yellow costumes
evel knievel revving motorcycle and ramp
hot wheels vs matchbox cars
atari 2600
catch that pigeon
saturday morning cartoons
walking down to other neighborhood houses by myself to ring doorbells and play with other kids
knowing those kids' parents
biking everywhere
neighborhood football, baseball, basketball games
hide and seek
 
The good old days were hopping on the Huffy to go to a friends house or just take a ride around the mountain. Fishing on the little pond by the corner in the summer and playing ice hockey on that same pond in the winter. Sledding through the thorn bushes over a big ramp with as many kids crammed on the sled as we could fit. Playing basketball, baseball and football in the front yard until it got too dark to see. Cutting down our Christmas trees from the farm up the road and even shoveling that long ass gravel driveway. Camping by the lake in the late summertime and swimming or taking a boat out fishing for the day. Visiting the grandparents bungalow at the shore every summer and body-surfing in the ocean or crabbing in the bay. Stopping at the arcade on the corner for some Excitebike or Crazy Climber then heading out to the boardwalk for some chocolate-vanilla swirl ice cream and a few quarters on double zero on the wheel at the candy booth. I don't remember the stuff really, just the doing.
 
WALKING to shcool in the snow 2 miles each way both uphill!
Oh yeah, and living in a cardboard box.
 
Davy Crockett hats, Sky King, Sea Hunt (on our black & white 5 inch TV), getting under the desk for civil defense drills, erector sets, chemistry sets with real chemicals in them, Sputnik, metal trucks.

Also segregation, diphtheria pertussis and tetanus, lining up in school on sunday adults and all to take the polio vaccine on a sugar cube, etc.
 
The days when there was nothing on tv during the day that would interest a kid, no video games, so we spent all day outside, fixing up our bikes, building tree forts, playing ball.

camping out in the back yard was a big deal. watching the one nationally televised baseball game on Saturday, with Dizzy Dean and Peewee Reese as the broadcasters was a big deal.

 
Rigging the ancient cable box we had in GA around '84 to get ALL of the channels including Playboy which to a 14 year old at the time was heaven on Earth. Atari, Nintendo, riding my bike all over town in safer times, no worries of bills or life's troubles, getting up early on Saturday and watching Scooby Doo, Thundercats and the old school cartoons, playing with my army men and matchbox cars. *sigh*

Being a kid was great...
 
Watching captain Kangaroo, Muppet Babies while playing with Teddy Rukspin while wearing jelly shoes and having crimped hair. mid 80's!
 
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