Remember when?

[BabyFacedAbortion]

This is sort of depressing in a way...explained after the list of thingies.

Remember back....
Before the Myspace frenzy
Before the Internet or Text messaging...
Before Sidekicks & Ipods
Before Playstation2 or X-BOX
Before the 5 hours of homework you put off every night...
When you rented VHS taps.. not DVDs
When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing...
When we recorded stuff on VCRs & paid $3.50 for a movie...
When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off our WALKMANS!!!
***Way back..***
Tag
Hide-N-Go Seek at dusk!
Red light, Green light!
Heads up 7 up!
Playing kickball & dodgeball until your porch light came on.
Hopskotch!
Slip-n-Slides
Tree Houses
Mother May I?
Red Rover
Four square
Hula Hoops
the annoying nano pets and furbies
Playing Street Hockey with the neighborhood friends
Running through the sprinklers
Happy Meals where u chose a Barbie or a Hot Wheels car
Getting the privelage to sit in the front seat of the car
***Wait...
....Watchin' Saturday Morning cartoons in your PJ's still wrapped up in your Garfield comforter...
...Hey Arnold, Doug, RUGRATS!
The ORIGINAL Power Rangers!
Or what about...
The Secret Life of Alex Mac!
Ren and Stimpy
Double Dare!!!
Rocko's Modern Life!
AAAHH!! Real Monsters!!!
Wild & Crazy Kids!
Clarissa explains it all!
ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK!
The Original 'All That' Cast Members!
Kenan and Kel!!! lol (who loves orange soda)
Who could forget Snick?! & Nick at Nite! with Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie, facts of life & I LOVE LUCY!!!
Where every1 wanted to be in love after watching THE WONDER YEARS!
***Not finished yet...
Kool-Aid was the drink of choice
Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school
Class Field Trips
When Christmas time was the most EXCITING time of the year!
When getting high was swinging on the swingset
When $5 seemed like a million, and another dollar a Miracle.
When you begged to go to McDonalds, for dinner...EVERYDAY.
When Toys r Us overuled the "mall"
***Go back to the time when...
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "do over!"
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "monopoly"
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
Being old, referred to anyone over 20.
The chance to skate as a couple at the local roller rink was like winning them lottery....
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties.
Nobody was prettier than Mom
Nobody was cooler than Dad
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better
It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people" rides at the fair...
When playing nintendo was the hardest thing ever.
When ninja turtles ruled the world.

This only makes me sort of sad because comparing all the things I used to love and know to the things I know now proves my innocence is completely gone. Does anyone know how I feel? Looking back on your childhood or even today's youth and picking up on the lack of innocence.

Oh, another thing along these lines. 25 sixth graders in a school near me got syphillis. Know how? They were having a rainbow party. I.e girls wearing different coloured lipstick and giving blow-jobs..leaving a ring of colours up the guys schlong. They're 12.

[squareguy]

i thought clarissa was so hot, when i was 12. we didnt have 'rainbow' parties though.

[Seag420]

that must of took an age to type! gota say i still love ninja turtles though. yer right though, kids today are growing up compleatly ignorant

[BabyFacedAbortion]

(I copied and pasted hehe)

[FunkyMonkey]

I couldnt read it all...yup its depressing to me right about now. Ill try again later and hope itll be a nice stroll down memory lane. Right now it reminds me that Im bringing my children up in a world void of the innocence I enjoyed and took for granted like kids should. "innocence" means "naive" and "vulnurable" nowadays. I mean, its a TOTALLY different reality than I grew up in and its kinda sad tonight.

Btw, some of those things made me question your age.
I mean...I remember but Im 31 and I had you pegged as much younger than your memories imply.

But beta and 8 track are not on your list ;)
( or smurfs, Captain Kangaroo , flinstones, shazaam, etc etc etc...)

[BiG WiCkEd]

Damn, goin back to the old school dayz...

[BabyFacedAbortion]

I'm 16. ;)

Didn't mean to depress anyone, just kick starting some thoughts.

[FunkyMonkey]

NO way youre 16. really?!
want a babysitting job hehehe? ;)


btw its not you depressing me its my own heap'o'shit lately making me reflective and a tad morose. Im looking forward to reading through it when Im in better spirits...a nice stroll down memory lane. :)
cheers!

[BabyFacedAbortion]

Hahah yes, I'm really 16 (sadly =P) and I know how that is, it sucks; hopefully you ch eer up :)

[lateralus]

:( Remember when?No. No I don't.

[sensikush1]

remember dont just sit there you cant do that on television danger mouse hey dude clarrissa explains it all little prince from outer space maya the bee and personal favorite todays special with jeff and muffy.

[STDzRus]

Damn why you gotta make me reminescence. <i'm stoned so i don't know or care how to spell it>

:( thingy

[Strikerrr]

damn that shit makes me want to cry .I used to do all of that. Like every single one of them shit.

[dustoned]

yeah dude, this is totally us. 80's kids.

[FunkyMonkey]

remember dont just sit there you cant do that on television danger mouse hey dude clarrissa explains it all little prince from outer space maya the bee and personal favorite todays special with jeff and muffy.

wow there is a blast from the past
I used to watch todays special ! Funny the things that lurk in your mind waiting for a little key to bring it back so vividly. Just like stepping back in time.
That was one show we all watched as a family. That show made me the man I am today :p ok kidding

Heres a trip down memory lane for you:
Hocus Pocus Alamagocus

[FunkyMonkey]

this place has the theme song and a few vid clips
http://www.megsplace.com/TimeWarp/tspecial.html

this place has the episode guides all 120 of them
http://epguides.com/TodaysSpecial/guide.shtml

After reading a few and watching the clips I decided Im going to try to find some episodes to dl for my son

well.... they're really for me but he can watch too if he's quiet
:p

[twistedlogic]

it's been a long way
(i'm 20 lol)
my favourites were rocko's modern life and real monsters
i also used to think that clarissa was hot

[LonerStoner]

wow there is a blast from the past
I used to watch todays special ! Funny the things that lurk in your mind waiting for a little key to bring it back so vividly. Just like stepping back in time.
That was one show we all watched as a family. That show made me the man I am today :p ok kidding

Heres a trip down memory lane for you:
Hocus Pocus Alamagocus


Holy shit blast from the past! I can still remember the opening of that shit when they were closing down the ?department store? and the manneqin/security guard came to life. Now that I'm trying to focus on it, it's all getting blurry again, but damn dude!

[king kong bong]

the good old days. now everything blows.

[Az.]

it actually makes me happy remembering all those things...i used to love the majority of things you wrote.....except the games....i didnt really play any of those games except for tag...

Thanks :)

[ADaisyChain]

I read like 1/4th of it and was like "damn.. i do miss all this stuff. Like.. alot." and then I realized I should probably be living in the moment and stopped reading.

[Lily420]

Thats adorable Babyface!!! :D I remember all those things mang, good times!!! xD >_> but you forgot my little ponies and Gumby oh and urekas castle!!! :D

[Roadking]

The domestic details spring to memory. Early on the evening of February 4, 1974, in her duplex apartment at 2603 Benvenue in Berkeley, Patricia Campbell Hearst, age nineteen, a student of art history at the University of California at Berkeley and a granddaughter of the late William Randolf Hearst, put on a blue terry-cloth bathrobe, heated a can of chicken-noodle soup and made tuna fish sandwiches for herself and her fiance', Steven Weed; watched Mission Impossible and The Magician on television; cleaned up the dishes; sat down to study just as the doorbell rang; was abducted at gunpoint and held blindfolded, by three men and five women who called themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army, for the next fifty-seven days.
From the fifty-eighth day, on which she agreed to join her captors and was photographed in front of the SLA's cobra flag carrying a sawed-off M-1 carbine, until September 18, 1975, when she was arrested in San Francisco, Patricia Cambell Hearst participated actively in the robberies of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco and the Crocker National Bank outside Sacramento; sprayed Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles with a submachine gun to cover a comrade apprehended for shoplifting; and was party or witness to a number of less publicized thefts and several bombings, to which she would later refer as "actions," or "operations."
On trial in San Francisco for the Hibernia Bank operation she appeared in court wearing frosted-white nail polish, and demonstrated for the jury the bolt action neccessary to chamber an M-1. On a psychiatric test administered while she was in custody she completed the sentence "Most men..." with the words "...are assholes." Seven years later she was living with the body-guard she had married, their infant daughter, and two German Shepherds "behind locked doors in a Spanish-style house equipped with the best electronic security system available," describing herself as "older and wiser," and dedicating her account of these events, *Every Secret Thing*, to "Mom and Dad."

It was a special kind of sentimental education, a public coming-of-age with an insistently literary cast to it, and it seemed at the time to offer a parable for the period. Certain of its images entered the national memory. We had Patricia Campbell Hearst in her first-communion dress, smiling, and we had Patricia Campbell Hearst in the Hibernia Bank surveillance stills, not smiling. We again had her smiling in the engagement picture, an unremarkably pretty girl in a simple dress on a sunny lawn, and we again had her not smiling in the "Tania" snapshot, the famous Polaroid with the M-1. We had her with her father and her sister Anne in a photograph taken at the Burlingame Country Club some months before the kidnapping; all three Hearsts smiling there, not only smiling but wearing leis, the father in maile and orchid leis, the daughters in pikake, that rarest and most expensive kind of lei, strand after strand of tiny Arabian jasmine buds strung like ivory beads.
We had the bank of microphones in front of the Hillsborough house whenever Randolph and Catherine Hearst ("Dad and "Mom" in the first spectral messages from the absent daughter, "pig Hearsts" as the spring progressed) met with the press, the potted flowers on the steps changing with the seasons, domestic upkeep intact in the face of crisis: azaleas, fuchsias, then cymbidium orchids massed for Easter. We had, early on, the ugly images of looting and smashed cameras and frozen turkey legs hurled through windows in West Oakland, the violent result of the Hearst's first attempt to meet the SLA ransom demand, and we had, on television the same night, the news that William Knowland, the former United States senator from California and the most prominent member of the family that had run Oakland for half a century, had taken the pistol he was said to carry as protection against terrorists, positioned himself on a bank of the Russian River, and blown off the top of his head.
All of these pictures told a story, taught a dramatic lesson, carrying as they did the frisson of one another, the invitation to compare and contrast. The image of Patricia Campbell Hearst on the FBI "wanted" fliers was for example cropped from the image of the unremarkably pretty girl in the simple dress on the sunny lawn, schematic evidence that even a golden girl could be pinned in the beam of history. There was no actual connection between turkey legs thrown through windows in West Oakland and William Knowland lying facedown in the Russian River, but the paradigm was manifest, one California busy being born and another busy dying. Those cymbidiums on the Hearsts' doorstep in Hillsborough dissolved before our eyes into the image of a flaming palm tree in south-central Los Angeles (the model again was two Californias), the palm tree above the stucco bungalow in which Patricia Campbell Hearst was believed for a time to be burning to death on live television. (Actually, Patricia Campbell Hearst was in yet a third California, a motel room at Disneyland, watching the palm tree burn as we all were, on television, and it was Donald DeFreeze, Nancy Ling Perry, Angela Atwood, Patricia Soltysik, Camilla Hall, and William Wolfe, one black escaped convict and five children of the white middle class, who were dying in the stucco bungalow.)
Not only the images but the voice told a story, the voice on the tapes, the depressed voice with the California inflection, the voice that trailed off, now almost inaudible, then a hint of whine, a schoolgirl's sarcasm, a voice every parent recognized: "Mom, Dad. I'm OK. I had a few scrapes and stuff, but they washed them up....I just hope you'll do what they say, Dad....If you can get the food thing organized before the nineteenth then that's OK....Whatever you come up with is basically OK, it was never intended that you feed the whole state....I am here because I am a member of a ruling-class family and I think you can begin to see the analogy....People should stop acting like I'm dead, Mom should get out of her black dress, that doesn't help at all....Mom, Dad...I don't believe you're doing all you can...Mom, Dad...I'm starting to think that no one is concerned about me anymore...." And then: " Greetings to the people. this is Tania."

Joan Didion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Didion)

[Ganj]

that must of took an age to type! gota say i still love ninja turtles though. yer right though, kids today are growing up compleatly ignorantDon't put it on us! It's the parents faults for raising us in such a industrializing period. We've always had instant gratification. Instant food, instant fun, it's caused our generation to grow up too fast. We're barely eighteen and already wanting $150,000 a year! Imagine what our kids are going to be like...*baby comes out of womb* "Where's my Ferrari?" I see a lot of mental dis-eases in the future. Holy shit! I'm Nostradamus!

I mean seriously. Kids these days aren't even afraid of Child's Play anymore. Wait a minute...I see something. Hover vehicles? Hover vehicles will be built by our children. This is truly a gift.

[BobBong]

Gumby
The Friendly Giant
Sharon,Lois & Bram
Mr.Dressup
Saved By The Bell


to list a few

There's a bunch of great classic shows i used to watch that i can never remember the name of...oh well.. :P

:stoned:

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

I used to like Melissa Joan Hart more in Sabrina the Teenage Witch haha :p

Yeah, that whole list applies to me.. sometimes i think i'd love to be 8 years old forever... such fun times!

[buddymyfriend]

I used to like Melissa Joan Hart more in Sabrina the Teenage Witch haha :p

Yeah, that whole list applies to me.. sometimes i think i'd love to be 8 years old forever... such fun times!


Melissa Joan Hart.....hmmmmm.....used to be my fantasy....still is!

Ahhh, the good ole days!

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

Melissa Joan Hart.....hmmmmm.....used to be my fantasy....still is!

Ahhh, the good ole days!

Haha, she was hot quite a lot of the time in Sabrina.. outfits not small enough though *zips up mouth*

:D

[jahjahjahjah]

its hard going back on childhood memories, i loved my childhood this thread makes me sad cuz it takes me back along tme. but thanx baby face for helping us all remember the good ol days, have a great one and a toke.

[robert42]

U know when were all old well say 2everythign was sooo cheap when i was young"

[psychopixi]

Lessee...

Before the Myspace frenzy
Yup. And back when you needed a code to make a livejournal.

Before the Internet or Text messaging...
And before mobile phones in general. I remember my dad's computer running Windows 3.1. :)

When you rented VHS taps.. not DVDs
I still rent VHS. We don't actually own a DVD player, only a PS2. I sometimes pout at the ever dwindling choice of VHS tapes available to rent.

Hide-N-Go Seek at dusk!
*yearns for childhood* I loved hide and seek, and blind man's buff. Give me the chance to play either again today, and I will.

the annoying nano pets and furbies
I had a giga pet, and a tamaotchi. Never understood the point in furbys though. My friend's younger sister had one, and it bugged the hell outta me when I went over their house.

Running through the sprinklers
And water fights. I still have those though. Water fights are possibly the most fun you can have in summer in your own back garden.

The ORIGINAL Power Rangers!
Damn, wasn't that a million years ago?! I had a crush on the green ranger. :)

Ren and Stimpy
Ack! I loathed Ren and Stimpy. They made my brain hurt.

Clarissa explains it all!
This program ruled the world. But Melissa Joan Hart looks really uneven. Seriously look at her face closely, and it's noticeably uneven!

When Christmas time was the most EXCITING time of the year!
Still is. I hope to never grow out of this. Christmas still is exciting because it always was exciting - it's always been a time of year I associate with people being happy, fun things happening and... presents!

Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"
You mean this isn't a valid way of making decisions? *uhoh*

Being old, referred to anyone over 20.
Nuh-uh, old was 16! Over 20 was ancient!!

It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people" rides at the fair...
I was lucky, and taller than most of my friends. Heehee. I got to go on the "big" rides when they couldn't!

[Kid Dynamite]

the fonz

[FunkyMonkey]

Gumby
The Friendly Giant
Sharon,Lois & Bram
Mr.Dressup
Saved By The Bell


to list a few

There's a bunch of great classic shows i used to watch that i can never remember the name of...oh well.. :P

:stoned:
Friendly giant there is one I remember fondly, as with Mr dressup.
This is like 'BabyFaces's Time Machine'!

[king kong bong]

did anyone else notice melissa joan hart's lazy eye?
i think i fucked her too hard cuz this one time......

[BlueCat00]

that was an enjoyable read...you forget all the little things you use to enjoy until someone reminds you...........thanks babyfaced.

[FunkyMonkey]

Anyone remember "the great space coaster" ?

Gary Gnu " no gnews is good gnews"
ahh the memories.

http://www.tgscoaster.com/