Middle Aged Memories
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That and puka shell necklaces
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I never worked in the puka shell medium, but DO still have a plant hanger made out of those.
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Today, the saying "limbo lower now!" came into my mind. Remember how popular doing the limbo was? There were popular songs about it, and a limbo pole set that you could buy, and people actually did it at parties. I know it was something we played in the neighborhood as kids, usually just with two kids holding a big stick, lower and lower.
Last time I saw people doing it IRL was about 20 years ago at my kids elementary school sock hop.
Most recently, I've seen it was about six mos. ago in a movie, when I watched Girl Happy (with some co-eds doing limbo on Spring break in FL, with Elvis and the band.) Now that movie really took me back. Who could forget the classic songs such as "Wolf Call" and "Do the Clam" and "Puppet on a String." O.K., I did have the album once upon a time.
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Started by remembering skate keys (and I had mine long after the roller skates rusted away)...
...but then continued to think about Zoo Keys. Remember those? They were used for Talking Storybooks at the zoo so that kids could hear animal facts at some of the popular exhibits. I didn't have one, but had occasion to covet them when my class went on a zoo field trip.
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I still have my skate key in the kitchen 'junk' drawer. But I never saw a zoo key. Cute.
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Here's something I mentioned before but now have found a PICTURE. Kids on my block loved to make these because they flew quite far and then broke apart on impact. Rebuild, repeat. Keep in mind that mom was not buying me a popsicle every day of the week, so it actually took some time to get the five popsicle sticks. Maybe a neighbor would donate one to your cause now and then. Nobody, and I mean nobody, ever had 100 in a bag from a craft store, and I don't even know if they had those available back then. Maybe. But it seems like all my "craft items" came out of the trash.
Egg carton = cut in half, paint to look like caterpillar
Newspaper = roll up, cut, and make a tree out of it
Net bags that lemons and limes used to come in = scrunch it, put rubber band around middle, give mom a bath scrubber
Popsicle stick = flying toy (and if you have never made one...there's still time!)
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How does the popsicle flying toy work? How do you make it fly?
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I have the same question. I never made these either. Maybe like a frisbee?
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It looks like when you pull the middle stick out, the top stick would go flying from the release of pressure? Looks kinda fun :-).
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Ha, ha, ha! Nothing tricky...just grip it by a corner and fling it...like a frisbee. If you've got a god arm on ya', it can go surprisingly far for just a few wooden sticks wedged together but, more importantly, it satisfies that childish urge to see things bust apart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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OK, I found a video that shows how this works, and it is great fun!
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Remember when dentists would actually give kids a piece of candy at the end of the office visit? That irony was lost on most patients/families at the time.0
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My current dentist, up until about 2 years ago, had a basket of "freshly baked" Otis Spunkmeyer cookies to choose from as you exited. Now, it is a Keurig machine & "healthier" snack bars. However, I do remember those candy treats from childhood. Ironic, indeed.
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And a lollipop from the pediatrician if we didn't cry for our routine shots.
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Did anyone suspect I had a dental appt. today? Hahaha. Yes, I did. All they gave me was a whopping $$ bill.0
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El, didn't you get a toothbrush along with the bill? Cheap Dentist!
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I don't remember ever getting a toothbrush when I was a kid. Although I think my son did at a pediatric dentist when he was little. Of course we get toothbrushes now, but I'm not a fan of "ultra soft" brushes. I donate to the battered women's home or use to clean around the taps at the sink. Yes, of course I brush, but I use a Sonic Care. And I floss & use a water-pik. What ever happened to just eating an apple to clean your teeth?
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Dr. Scholl's sandals were the THING in the 70's. I could not, for the life of me, get them to stay on my feet right.
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Neither could I. I stuck with thongs (and not the underwear kind) or SAS.
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I remember Dr Scholl's! I also remember them flying off people's feet all the time.
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Also remember the Dr Scholl's and the pains in my arches when my feet would slip sideways! What god awful things they were!
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When you grow up in a neighborhood with a gang of kids, all it takes is one kid to learn a joke or saying and, within 48 hours, every kid is going to know it. Something came to mind the other day, and it is what passed for hilarity back when I was about 8 or 9 years old. I'm going to lead you off, and see if you can (without Googling) fill in the punch line...
I don,t drink, I don't smoke, and I don't swear; but ________ ___ __ _____ ___ ___________ ___ ___ ____!
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I don't remember that at all, but for 8-9 year old kids, I expect swear must rhyme with underwear.
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No rhyme involved. Actually, I think it was part the punchline of a longer joke, but we only had to repeat the part I wrote above to another kid to initiate a fit of laughter. It's a little naughty, but actually one of the cleaner ones we had going at the time.
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BTW - we're on page 99. Almost to 100 !!!!! Hope someone knows the answer & I don't have to google.
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Soon to hit ONE HUNDRED pages of memories...woo-hoo!!!!!!!!!!! Why do I feel like I filled up about 50 of those pages? We need more people and more memories!!! Maybe that is not appropriate among the chemo-brain crowd, but I'm throwin' down a challenge here.
Don't worry, MT, I'll give it a day or two before I fill in the blanks, if someone does not beat me to it. Then you can say, "Oh, that was so not worth waiting for!"
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Maybe no one is even reading this thread anymore. Maybe this old joke/saying was not as popular as I thought it was in my childhood. Anyway, it wouldn't be right to keep MinusTwo in suspense any longer...
I don,t drink, I don't smoke, and I don't swear; but goddam it, I left my cigarettes in the bar!
From what I could tell, when my kids used to repeat after riding home on the school bus, the level of humor ran about the same in the next generation. Ah well, there's always hope for the grandkids. ;-)
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I sure hope it's not true that everyone has lost this thread from their 'favorites' list. Maybe everyone is on vacation?
Thanks for the answer Elimar. I never heard that one, but I was pretty much raised in a paper bag.
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How about Freakies cereal? They always had a collectible "Freakie" creature inside every box. My mom still has one of the magnets that I pulled out of a cereal box on her refrigerator. I must have been around 10 years old when this cereal was on the market. I think they stopped making it a long time ago.
Oh, and I was in love with the Bay City Rollers...LOL!
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Freakies cereal? How did I miss that one? I don't remember the figures either.
Well, we are on the 100th PAGE now...where is Native Mainer to celebrate that fact?
Thank you very much, Mr. Peanut! Shall we try for 100 more?
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