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Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 1:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Let me clarify something that I just figured out about myself:

As a kid, Barbie had to be with GI Joe.....Ken never won and GI Joe always saved Barbie.

I was obsessed with the Dukes of Hazzard and was in love with Bo.

BUT the MARINE I married, is blonde, wears wranglers, sports a white stetson once in a while, kinda a rebel bad boy. When I met him was right when he joined the Corps. and he had a classic car (1966 Ranchero that now sits rotting in our backyard, like a typical hillbilly's house) his best friend from the marine corps. lives in Hazzard County Kentucky, and when i was 19, had to be like Daisy so I bought me a jeep! Huh....funny.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 1:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
That was me too, Sharinia. I was probably 9 or 10 before I had a girlfriend that I invited home or went to her house to play with. I played with some of the girls in the neighborhood but only if they were out playing kickball or capture the flag with me and the boys. I never went to slumber parties cuz of the dress up and fixing hair, lol, though I did host a few and kept them pretty neutral and did things like playing games (Sorry and Uno were favorites!)

I haven't much changed either, most of my close friends are guys, my eyes glaze over when my women friends discuss hair, makeup, clothes, or worst of all shoes, lol.

Reading this thread and thinking back to my childhood though, I can definitely say my favorite toys were always gender neuteral or boy toys..

Naja
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06-28-2003

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 1:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Tony Defranco was my first celebrity husband. I think this is from 1973. Anybody else remember this?


http://www.defranco.com/heartbeat_jb.htm

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 2:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Naja, I was a jr. in high school and a friend who was 2 years younger was really into the Defranco's! So much so that she named a litter of kittens, Tony, Nina, Benny, Merlina, and Marissa (and how awesome is it that I didn't even have to look their names up?).

Naja
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06-28-2003

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 2:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Wow, you're good, Hukd! I only remembered Tony's name. (Because we were married..LOL)

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 2:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Thinking of music, it reminded me that we used to cut 45 rpm records off of the back of cereal boxes. I specifically remember the moon landing record (darn, wished I'd saved it). I don't remember these exact ones, but I'm guessing we had the Sugar Bear one and the Monkees. The Monkees were way more my type than the Beatles (back in the day). Sugar Bear we likely had because I loved Sugar Smacks cereal.

It was so hard to cut them out on the dotted lines. Even if you did it well, they still tended to curl up. But we didn't worry, we just taped a nickle to the record player arm so they would play!



Serate
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08-21-2001

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 2:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Oh Naja Donny Osmond and Tony Defranco used to FIGHT over me. Donny usually won, but I would wink at Tony when Donny wasn't watching. I cried the day Donny got married, and vowed she tricked him into it and it would never last. But even tho it did last it is really just a farce of a marriage cuz he has to marry a Mormon to please his folks and I'm still his number 1 love!

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 2:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Me and my sister found an old Monkey's LP and we played it over and over and over again. This was about the time that Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite were new and they were playing the reruns to the Monkey's TV show. We were obsessed. It was also about the time the Monkey's released their Album "Pool It". We had that too. This was early to mid 80's. I remember it like it was yesterday, dancing in the playroom to Daydream Believer and Last Train to Clarksville.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 2:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Now thinking of cereal, I remember having the very cool Winnie the Pooh and the Eeyore "spoon sitters". It just attached to your cereal spoon while you ate. I don't think I had any of the others, but I proudly owned the Pooh and Eeyore.



I also saved up 50 cents and sent in boxtops from Cocoa Krispies cereal (omg, I've eaten nothing but sugary goodness since I can remember!), and got this Yogi Bear mug. Yes, I still have it, but he's a little worse for wear. The poor Huckleberry Hound bowl is nowhere to be found. I continue to search for a nice one on E-Bay because I have to have it...



Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 2:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    


Here is a pic of one from E-Bay. Mine is in similar shape. These were from the early to mid 1960's

ETA: It's probably lead paint, lol!

Cinnamongirl
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01-10-2001

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 2:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cinnamongirl a private message Print Post    
Red Rose Tea Figurines

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 3:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Darrellh a private message Print Post    


Remember them?

Naja
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06-28-2003

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 3:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Bay City Rollers! WOO HOO!

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 3:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
donnie

okay I had the Donnie and Marie Dolls--here they are shown posing for their U2 style album cover ;)

treehouse

I also had the Weeble Wobble treehouse with the little Weeble wobbles. Man, I was so into that thing.

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 3:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
Ok, Marie looks down right scary in that picture. Is she a vampiress?

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 3:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Darrellh a private message Print Post    


The first album my parents bought for me.

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 3:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Darrellh a private message Print Post    


First one I bought myself

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 3:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
a When I was in elementary school I used to save the empty packages of Planters Peanuts and then send them back to the company to get a prize.

Did anyone else do this?

Darrell .... are those the Bay City Rollers?? :o))

Sharinia
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09-07-2002

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 3:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sharinia a private message Print Post    
omg! I loved the weeble wobble treehouse, hee

Escapee, ita on GI Joe vs Ken (I was a Luke girl tho )

War, lol. yea I liked Sorry, Uno, kickball, capture the flag...all of that :-)

eta: yup vnick


Darrellh
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07-21-2004

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 3:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Darrellh a private message Print Post    
Yes they are Vnick!

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 3:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Worse than Marie's face, look at Donny's neck! I'm guessing it's something Serate did to him when she found out he was getting married!

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 3:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
Discography--a history

simon

When I was little, I shunned Disco Duck and liked Simon and Garfunkel--we had this on 8 track tape. I still love them so much.

beatles

My parents had the Sargeant Peppers Beatles album, with the weird movie booklet inside--I loved Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

xanadu

I took a detour in the 5th grade with Xanadu. OMG I seriously loved Xanadu. I love that movie, it is the best.

purple rain

1999


We listened to 1999 and Purple Rain in Middle School. Prince was the shizzle!

mj

We also had Thriller--everyone did! I was more into Prince though.


rio

In early high school it was Rio by Duran Duran. Still a great album.


whiteshake

It only got worse from there, much worse, as I descended into the high-hair Whitesnake years (shudder.)

hair

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 3:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I had the Yogi cup and I had the Piglet spoon sitter that I carried everywhere.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 4:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Ok, right now I am roflmao because they are working on the speakers in my office (surround sound) and the music they are using to test the speakers is none other than Waylon Jennings' Good Ol Boys....the theme from the Duke's of Hazzard, lol!

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 4:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
I can remember when Thriller came out and the video scared my older sister to death (I had to be like 3 or 4) but I wasn't afraid and I'd do the dance much to the delight of my mom.