Middle Aged Memories
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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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I don't remember the leaving the ciggies in the bar joke. Maybe it was a regional thing?
Are these the Freakies?
Don't remember these, either. Beginning to wonder what alternate universe I grew up in!
Are these the Bay City Rollers?
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Hi NativeMainer. You've got both correct. LOL!! I loved that cereal! That was back in the 70's. Really? No one remembers it? Maybe I'm the one who grew up in an alternate universe.
OMG, I can't believe I was in love with the Bay City Rollers. They don't look so hot in that picture. Especially in those goucho plaid pants. ROTFL!
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Okay, I have a few more for you. I hope they haven't already been mentioned. I couldn't get through a 100 pages.
How about the Jean Nate after shower splash? It was a big thing back then. I actually saw a bottle of it at our local CVS Pharmacy recently.
Does anyone remember the Hudson Brother's variety show? It was like the Donny & Marie show.
Did anyone watch the Carol Burnett Show? That Tim Conway was a hoot! It was funny to see him and Harvey Korman trying not to laugh at each other.
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Oh my heavens, The Carol Burnett Show was HILARIOUS!!!! So many memories from that one.
I do remember Jean Nate:
Don't remember the Hudson Brothers, but looks like they had fun!
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Oh, my! Look at that little Christie Brinkley. Look at that little Kate Hudson's dad. So young!
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Oh my goodness! I didn't even know that was Christie Brinkley and Bill Hudson. Yes, so very young!
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Sixty's!!!0 -
I used St. Ives apricot scrub today, I was preparing for a fake tan. How long has that scrub been around? 1960s??
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So cool to see these pics and read the posts. Brings back such memories. Some things still around like licorice whips, swedish fish, the button candy on the paper that you somehow you always wound up eating some paper, bazookas, laffy taffy.... Nothing is a penny anymore but for $1.00 in the 70's I'd go after school and get a whole brown bag full of candy.
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Today I was remembering a game my class had in the first grade. It was called Stadium Checkers. The only place I ever played it was at school. When I looked it up, it was made by Schaper, the makers of Cootie. You all remember Cootie, don't you?
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Oh I loved the Cootie game. Funny, Mr. Potato Head came to mind before I even finished reading your post. But I agree. Cooties was more fun. I feel very fortunate that my family played games all the time. I could never interest my DH. Good to see you Eli.
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This was fun too!!!!
Don't Break the Ice
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I remember Don't Break the Ice!
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Tip It.0 -
Your posts made me think of Tip It. Originally, I had been thinking about the many, many permutations of Magic Slate. Always seemed to have one of these around the house as a kid.
The search for a pic of Magic Slate also led me to Magic Window, which came later, cost more, and was quite boring in an unaltered state.
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We have a auto repair shop that has an attached old time candy store. Between all the candies in the containers you can buy by the piece and make up your own bag of candy, the old games, soda in the old tyme bottles etc. I get a kick going in there when they find some other goodie from way back when and stock it.
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Does anyone remember playing the card games "Old Maid" (so politically incorrect today) or "Authors? I remember all of the other games, etc. that others have posted.
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Oh yes, we played both of those card games. Thanks for the memories of time spent with my long departed parents Celia.
Eli - I thought Magic Slate was always more fun then Etch-A-Sketch too.
Just got my fall Vermont Country Store catalog. I love looking through their old time candies & games & toys. Even some clothes. I treasured a Lanz night gown that was passed down from a cousin when I was in junior high. (disclaimer - I have no ties to the company). I do buy their original TANGEE lipstick that is a different color on each person.
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Magic slates are still around, I see them in the stores occasionally.I remember the Magic Window, didn't remember what it was called. I could spend hours playing with that, and another item like it only instead of crystals it had a liquid and changed color from the heat of your finger on the back side. Can't remember the name of that, either.
Beach--WOW, what a store!I could spend a lot of time looking around in there!
Celia--I remember Old Maid, certainly couldn't play that one today!
Minus--I love looking through the Vermont Country Store catalog, too. I've even been in once or twice.Hmm, that might make a nice day trip this fall, see the foliage and rummage through the store.
AHA! I found a pic of the toy that I used to love:
Still no idea what it was called, though. Anyone remember?
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Beach, I could not make out everything in the jars, but that is quite the selection! I got a Turkish Taffy at Cracker Barrel last time.
Celia, I had forgotten about Authors, but I did have that game. (Edgar Allen Poe, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper...)
Native, The name of your toy escapes me too, but I remember it. It was from the "mood ring era." Maybe it will come to me.
MInusTwo, Magic Window was like sand art without the work or the mess (until the inevitable breakage!)
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