Remember When...

[SmokenFire]

I remember only 4 channels.  Beer with pull ring tabs.  The first car phones (like backpacks!).  When having Big League Chew could increase your popularity points by a significant margin.  Banana seat bikes.  Blatz beer.  Manual transmission trucks with the shift knob on the column.  Max headroom!

 

[Phil]

Remember when you turned on your brights or high beams by stomping the button on the floorboard? Remember when a $10 bill would get you a full tank of gas? Remember when ALL of the kids wore Toughskins jeans?

 

[Rymerpt]

Remember when the Boyscouts wanted you to have a snake bite kit. The ones where you cutt an X with a razor blade and suck out the poison?

 

[frydad4]

Remember when watermelons had black seeds in them...

 

[Lucky Dog Hot Sauce]

remember water weenies? 3' of surgical tubing and a ball point pen cap = 50' stream of water. No need for a super-soaker with one of those bad boys! 

 

[frydad4]

Remember when they used to sell cap-guns that had the rolled up red paper with little gunpowder "dots" on it, and you used to just take a hammer and smack them, sometimes several at a time...

 

[PexPeppers]

Remember when you had to connect your Commodore 64 to the TV but you did it while the TV was on and you had those Tongue Connectors? safety? what safety? i have socks on. good enough.

 

[PrimeTime]

Remember when you could buy a little kit with straws and a tube of horrible chemical goo that you could blow into bubbles?
 
(they still sell this somehow)

 

[PexPeppers]

remember when your mom denied you crystal pepsi because it was "just sugar water"? but oh no, in your heart you knew it wasnt just sugar water, it was something special.

 

[Phil]

Remember when Tonka trucks were made of high quality steel? Remember when you could roam the neighborhood, riding bikes with your friends at 8 years old and your parents WOULDN'T get arrested for child endangerment? Matter of fact, Nobody would even think of calling the cops on you, because it was normal! Remember riding in the back of dad's/grandpa's/uncle's pickup truck to go fishing?

 

[Lucky Dog Hot Sauce]

Remember never wearing a seatbelt or bike helmet or pretty much any safety gear for anything ever? Good times.

Remember camp back in the day when we had fishing, archery & (gasp!) rifle safety? 8-9-10 year old kids disassembling, cleaning, reassembling and shooting .22's. Good times.

 

[frydad4]

Remember when you collected Garbage Pail Kids, especially treasuring the ones that had your friends names on them!

 

[Lucky Dog Hot Sauce]

Remember when train sets were made of metal & had engines you could put drops into to make them puff smoke?

Remember when Duncan put out the butterfly Yoyo that lit up?

 

[Phil]

Remember when you wanted to play at your friend's house, because he had the cool Star Wars toys you didn't have.... like the Millenium Falcon?????

 

[PexPeppers]

remember when you blasted the neighbor kid's eye out with your super soaker? sure you do! you were drinking a Jolt Cola while you did it!

 

[frydad4]

Remember when the rich kids had that HUGE ass satellite dish that took up most of the back yard

 

[PexPeppers]

Remember when you had the anxiousness of calling a girl but fearing her dad may pick up?

 

[Phil]

Remember when it was cool to play "army"? We'd all make our guns out of dad's scrap wood.... we'd tape together nails to make throwing stars.... we'd make a bow and arrow with nails taped to the front of the dowel rod arrow so it would stick in the fence.... felony charges for kids today, I'm sure.

 

[cruzzfish]

 felony charges for kids today, I'm sure.

Nah, only if we include rubber band hand IEDs. Then it becomes terrorist practice.

 

[Phil]

lol.... reminds me of something else we used to do... cut the nock and broadhead insert off of an aluminum arrow shaft so it was hollow, then we'd make blow gun darts out of stick pins and thread... the thread would be the fletching.... worked great!!!!!