Middle Aged Memories
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Here's a nostalgic Christmas gift idea for your loved ones...
I found this because I first thought about another cigarette slogan: "LSMFT." Can you name the brand? No Google cheating!
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LSMFT, Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco
My parents smoked Kools (mother) and Chesterfield (father).
At nearly 81, I'm a bit past middle aged but couldn't resist responding!!!
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OK - Beaver beat me. But of course I remember LSMFT.
Smoked from age 20 to age 63. Started with Kents because that's what my boyfriend's father smoked. Smoked Virginia Slims for many years. (You've come a long way baby). Ended up with Benson & Hedges. Quit in 2007 but I still miss it. Not every day & not frantic, but at least once a week I remember how much I loved smoking.
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Oh, man, I wish I could remember! I do remember the ad - just not the product. How about, "I'd walk a mile for a ???" Was it Camel? Now I have all these jingles going through my head. Do you remember the jingle, "For a __________ it's a __________... and it goes on. The ending is something like "For a _______ it's the Parliament, for a smoker, it's a Kent." That's all I remember of that. Will probably have those stuck in my head all day now. LOL
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"I'd walk a mile for a mild, mild Camel." Sorry I don't know the 2nd one. But you're right about earworms that get stuck.
Since elimer never enforced a "strict" definition of middle age - thought I'd share these ages from the AARP bulletin: Snoop Dog is 50; Wynton Marsalis is 60; Meg Ryan is 60; John Mellencamp is 70; Paul Simon is 80; Chubby Checker is 80. I can't believe that one. Last year was the 60th anniversary of "The Twist".
Edited to add - I think this must be the Kent commercial you're talking about. Funny - I smoked Kent for a lot of years before Virginia Slims, but don't remember this ad.
https://sonichits.com/video/Kent_Cigarettes/Radio_...
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Paul Simon is 80! I can't believe it.
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Yeah Cowgirl - blew my mind too. Joan Baez is 80 also.
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Joan Baez is 80 OMG
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One of my favorite rockers, Alice Cooper is 73. Saw him back in Oct. 2018 and he still can rock
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I am surprised by your longtime cigarette habit!
Always a bit shocked by the ages of the classic rockers nowadays, but Snoop Dogg being 50? Really? Gangsta Grandad!
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Never made a hard and fast rule about who was in the Mid-Age and who was "beyond," but it is TIME for a ruling...right here, right now:
If you can actually REMEMBER another monarch ruling Great Britain besides QEII, then let's face it, you are definitely an elder. That being said, it will simply not be allowed for anyone to post their fond memories of George IV on THIS thread. You will have to take those elsewhere. I mean it.
Will also say that when the time comes for a new monarch to take over, I will just not know how to live in that world.
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Eli - yes I smoked from age 19 to my 60s - and loved every minute of it. I quit in 2007 - the hardest thing I ever did. I no longer actively miss it every day, but I still have times I wish I could have a smoke. Luckily it doesn't last long. Nope - if I have one, it's all over. Edited to say, I quit for bone health - before cancer.
I don't personally remember King George. Whew - I'd hate to be kicked out.
But I do remember making paper chains for the Christmas tree and stringing popcorn & cranberries. And going with groups to sing to 'shut ins'. And making cut out sugar cookies to leave out for Santa (they were fun but in retrospect, not very pretty). And waking up at 5am but not being allowed to go down the stairs until our parents were up.
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I remember the goofy stuff we made as kids in school for Christmasdecorations
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Have we brought up Little Golden Books yet? What was your favorite? I have a few. I got a recent reprint of this one that only had two flesh colored Band-Aids in it, not the 6 colorful ones that came in the original I once had. I never tortured my dog with an adhesive bandage...not like the oblivious and unsupervised little Dan. Look how traumatized his dog looks already, and wait til that bandage has to come off.
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Oh I never saw Doctor Dan. Did you know it is in the National Museum of American History?
I liked The Little Engine That Could, The Little Red Hen, and Poky Little Puppy. My son loved those & also How to Tell Time (it had clock hands that moved) I've already passed along most of the books from my childhood & also my son's. But I still have The Little Golden Mother Goose - 75 favorite rhymes. Must have been my little brothers since it was published in 1957. The price on the cover is (wait for it) $0.39. Looks like when they first came out on 1942 they were $0.25.
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elimar, oh my gosh, I haven't thought of Milton the Monster in YEARS!
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I remember sharing a room with my older sis. We were only responsible for cleaning a half of our room. I used to drag my heels on cleaning my side and would always wait until my sister was done and her side was clean. Then as soon as she would leave the room, I’d mess up her side of the room and mine would miraculously be neat as a pin. She would get into so much trouble and I came out looking like a perfect angel I was such a little stinker!
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Love's Baby Soft and Maybelline Kissing Potion.
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In all these pages, I don't think anyone has mentioned that Maybelline Kissing Potion...I do remember that. One was "bubblegum."
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Meow, meow, meow, meow,
meow, meow, meow, meow,
meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow,
meow-meow, meow-meow,
meow-meow, meow-meow,
meow! meow! meow!
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The plastic unisex coin purse has been around for ages. Used to be a business advertising/promo give-away back in the day. I first used one for "lunch money."
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Elimar, I loved those! I remember how they smelled, too!
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This is two memories in one...
Right now, Tiki Bars are trending again and I remembered having a Tiki medallion at some point during my childhood. The thing about it was I made it myself one summer when Parks & Rec. operated out of my nearby school. Mine had glowing orange jewels for eyes. Very cool.
Some of you other urban kids probably remember how Parks & Rec. had summer programs centering around sports, art and group activities. The art component usually featured making lanyards and painting plaques. (My Tiki was a small ceramic that I painted.) You just could not go wrong painting a plaque...if it came out good, you had a gift for Mom; if it came out bad, well, it wasn't long before it got purposely dropped and turned into a half dozen pieces of sidewalk chalk. I think it cost 10-25 cents, depending on size, to make one. Now that was truly a golden era.
Bonus memory: The school's summer janitor, Mr. King, helped teach me to play chess. He was just a bored janitor but it was a point of pride if a kid got good enough for Mr. King to accept a challenge. (Don't worry, no cold case file scenario involved here.)
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Ah Eli - lanyards and pot holders.
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Trying to get my hair like Farrah Fawcett but I could only get the flick on one side of my hair, or the film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxes_(film) which I really relate to, I meet some of my friends from my teenage years recently and we fell about laughing because here we were at nearly 60 talking about gardening our teenage selves could not have imagined thats how out lives would turn out.
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Charlie perfuem
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Nowadays, even kindergartners get 100+ page, full color, school year books.
For me, it was not until high school that a yearbook was even offered. In jr. high, I think they had an 8"x12" class pics in black and white. But in elementary school, I don't remember any sort of photo op. I do remember that some older kids had AUTOGRAPH BOOKS. One nice teacher gave one to every kid in her fourth grade class, including me. That was everyone's favorite teacher. In years to come, a few posh kids showed up with autograph DOGS! That is what went thru' my mind today.
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Oh I had one of those dogs. Mine was pink.
Anybody remember Patience & Prudence? My brain has been singing "Tonight, you belong to me" all week.
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Charlie perfume??? OMG, I had totally forgotten about that! How about "Every Night Shampoo" with the jingle about how you could now wash your hair every night?
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