Archive through May 14, 2001
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Juju2bigdog | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 07:15 pm   Cutting a hole in an orange and squishing the orange and then sucking out the juice through a peppermint stick. |
Kady | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 07:29 pm   I remember taking coffee cans and decorating them. We would then cut a whole in the top just big enough for a marble to fit in. You would set the can on the ground. A person would try to drop a marble through the hole. If they made it, they would win like maybe 5 of your marbles. If they didn't make it, you kept theirs. When we lived out in the country, my two brothers and I would go armidillo(sp?) catching. It was fun chasing them and finally cornering them up. I also remember catching crawfish out of the ditches. My favorite doll was a Baby First Step. Santa brought that to me when I was 6. I remember playing beauty shop on my Dad's hair. Even though it was short, I put many barettes in it. My oldest brother was very mean. When I was going through my beauty shop phase, he convinced me that if I cut off my baby dolls hair, it would grow back. Needless to say, I had some of the ugliest dolls on the street. I was in tears forever. And to this day I do not trust him. |
Gail | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 07:38 pm   I remember making romper stompers out of coffee cans. |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 09:08 pm   I remember going across the monkey bars (is that what they were called? LOL I think that's what we called them. Anyhow I went across them and uh always skipped one (we had a name for that but I forget what it was) anyhow I did that till my blisters popped and I couldn't do them for a few days. I really have no idea why we did that so much but we all had all of our special tricks on the monkey bars - and names for those tricks... |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 09:09 pm   Juju that reminds me of something I prolly shouldn't say here but uh... it was when we used to take sack lunches to school (8th grade) anyhow we gals would have um bannana eating contests - the guys would watch.... and cringe when we finally bit the bannanas LOL ): We were such teases!!!! |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 09:12 pm   ok i know someone remembers this SEE SEE OH PLAYMATE - COME OUT AND PLAY WITH ME AND BRING YOUR DOLLIES 3 CLIMB UP MY RAINBOW - CLIMB DOWN MY CELLER DOOR AND WE"ll BE JOLLY FRIENDS FOR EVRE MORE -MORE - MORE - MORE (um we did that to the hand clapping thing) Some of us could do it soooooo fast - |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 09:21 pm   When I was in school one of THE biggest things was who had the coolest binders. It was back when they were really new - and all the makers of them were competing to have the coolest one with the most features. I can't really remember now what they had in them - but I just remember at this moment how someone always had a better one then me and how big a deal it was for those who did have the best ones. I also remember the same thing a few years earlier about who had the best lunch box. I didn't get a new one every year I had to use the same red plaid one for 3 years in a row. But everyone else got the newest spiffiest ones and would compare them, as I sat with my same red plaid one LOL We really were the last of the innocents weren't we? Or perhaps I should say I was - I don't think those who were in highschool during the late 60's were they had to deal with the riots / nam and so on. |
Lancecrossfire | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 09:41 pm   Skate keys Those fruit flavored drinks in the wax tubes. |
Max | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 09:56 pm   In elementary school, one of our favorite things to do was get our hands on those soft erasers. Not the pink ones, but the sort of beige ones. When you erased with them, they left piles of really soft fluffy stuff. We used to erase them all over the tops of our desks and then save the fluffy stuff in empty bandaid cans. I have NO idea why, but we thought it was so cool! Teachers used to get really mad at us for wasting school supplies. Did anyone ever play 4-square at recess? I don't remember how it went, but there was a big square painted on the blacktop, divided into 4 smaller squares and you bounced one of those big rubber balls around in a sequence of some sort. We used to play dodge ball, too. That got brutal sometimes. Yes, monkey bars were great. I used to get huge blisters on the palms of my hands from those. We also had a big bar that was high enough off the ground you could hook one knee around it and then spin. Some of the girls used to do that with their skirts flying. The boys would stare. This was back in the days when girls wore full skirts with big poofy slips under them. I LOVED those slips! It was unheard of for girls to wear pants to school. We weren't allowed to do that until 8th grade and then only after mounting a big petition campaign. Our elementary school playground was mostly gravel with one section of intact blacktop (where the 4-square stuff was) and lots of spots where old blacktop was breaking up. We used to play out there and when you fell down, you got the most horrendous skinned knees (remember, we couldn't wear pants). I still have dark spots on my knees from where the decaying blacktop would get embedded--I guess the tar left stains. Oh, the apple pie recipe wasn't much really. In fact, I used canned apple pie filling! The secret was in the crust (as it is for most pies). I guess I learned good crust-making techniques in the 4-H classes I took! I don't make crust anymore. Why spend the time when Pillsbury does such a good job?! Does anyone remember "My Three Sons", "My Mother the Car", and "Car 54 Where Are You?" ??? |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 10:08 pm   Max! Ya I remember those beige erasers and we did the same thing with them - there was actually a reason um but I can't for the life of me remember what the reason was LOL Maybe someone else remembers? The erasable pens came out when I was in school - and having one of those two toned eraasrs made you COOL. I also remember that bar we used to spin on but besides me the girls mostly wore pants - and those wearing dresses were wearing shorts under them We had tons of special tricks we did while we spinned around on it (we put our sweaters between our knee and the bar Four square I do remember the details well cause well cause I was THE champ 3 years in a row Four people would play - one in each of the four squares everyone else would form a line around the four squares (to catch the balls going out of bounds and to await their turn) I suppose there were different rules but in our rules you HAD to let the ball bounce in your own box - and then you could hit it to whichever other box - to whowever was slowest or not paying attention etc. if it bounced in their square and they did not hit it to another square they were out. The 3 left would all switch squares and the new person would take over the left over square. We played dodge ball to but frankly the boys were mean about it and I didnt like it that much - only time I played it really was during pe - didn't play it on playground cause the boys would intentionally throw the ball REALLY hard at me - I remember um making our own envelops - It's really vague - does someone else remember making enevelops - and how we did it? |
Lancecrossfire | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 10:08 pm   Yep to 4 square! The idea was to hit the ball in such a manner that the other person couldn't return it to one of the other three. The other person have to hit it so that it bounced in your square, or they were out instead of you. All sorts of different "allowances", like blocks, spinning, or holding the ball. The purest 4 square player wouldn't play with blocks allowed (where you stop the ball so that it again bounces in front of you before having to hit it), or where you can actually catch and hold it momentarily. It was made tougher by using progressively smaller and smaller rubber balls. |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 10:15 pm   Don't know about anyone else here but I couldn't have lived through a week without spending my entire sunday morning listening to Casey Cassum's top 40. I lived and breathed music from about 13 to 16 - and knew just about every song by heart and could name the top 40 almost verbatum My life size poster of ... Shaun Cassidy and my wall plastered with Erik Estrada - and Lief Garrett and hmm some others I forget at the moment LOL I had the entire wall next to my bed full of the pullouts from the teen magazine not sure what it was called though (the magazine....I don't think it was 16...but it might have been) |
Tess | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 10:26 pm   We had 4 square, too, and a church parking lot for our playground so it was 4 square, tether ball, volley ball, dodge ball, Red Rover and tag. And...this is the icky part (for the boys anyway) we had to learn folk dancing out in the parking lot, too. The boys really, really didn't like that. One of my favorite candies was Pixie Stix the long paper straws filled with flavored powder and Sugar Babies. |
Max | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 10:27 pm   Oh! Just remembered super balls! We had favorite corridors at school where we could throw them really hard at a wall and have them ricochet around for a long time. Used to try and see who could get the most ricochets. Usually, this was done on weekends or in the summer 'cause if a teacher caught you, you got in trouble. Casey Cassum came along a bit later for me. Dick Clark's American Bandstand was it. I also used to watch Soul Train to learn new dances and see the outfits the kids wore. This was back in the days when they actually got dressed up to go on the show! I remember when music videos first came out and you had to stay up until 1:00 a.m. on Saturday nights to see them. I stayed up to see the "Billy Jean" and "Thriller" videos and my mom thought I was nuts. |
Tess | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 10:28 pm   Whit, was it Tiger Beat or Seventeen? I bought both those when I was in high school and it drove my mom crazy that I would spend my babysitting money on magazines. |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 10:34 pm   Max yup I watched bandstand too I tried so hard to copy their dances but I was no good at it (didn't get good at dancing till I was about 23) Tess ya it was tigerbeat LOL Remember those pullouts of the hunk's? Man I drooled over some of those guys!!! I'm still trying to remember who they were... I know lief/shawn/and eric - I thought Eric estrada was the sexiest man alive then And hutch from Starsky and hutch....who else? I had an entire wall full only about 20 of them were Eric... so I know I'm missing some obvious ones LOL |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 10:35 pm   I'm betting the 20 something lurkers are soooo skipping this thread LOL |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 10:45 pm   Hehe I got one - remember when mom's ALWAYS wore apron's? I haven't worn an apron when cooking since sheesh about 1982 - but my mom ALWAYS always wore one in the kitchen. |
Tess | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 11:11 pm   I even remember making my mom aprons in Girl Scouts for presents. She always had to wear an apron because she was always wearing a dress! |
Gail | Monday, May 14, 2001 - 05:06 am   Try and find an apron these days! I remember my mom always wore an apron when she was in the kitchen. IF I am making something kind of messy, I have these white bar towels I bought to use in my kitchen. Handy when making cheese enchiladas. I loved playing 4 Square!! |
Twiggyish | Monday, May 14, 2001 - 06:18 am   These are all bringing back memories. I played 4 square, too. I remember Jacob's ladder (can still do it) and cat's cradle with string. We played all the hopscotches and jump rope games, too. I haven't seen this one yet.. White Castle (or Royal Castle) hamburgers which were square and had these delicious little onions on top. They were only a quarter each, I think. |
Karuuna | Monday, May 14, 2001 - 09:08 am   Oh, Whit, you make me feel so old. We weren't allowed to wear pants to school. In my freshman year of high school, we free-spirited rebel females all colluded to wear pants one day, and almost every female teen in our high school of over 2500 did. They couldn't send us all home, and eventually, they gave in and changed the dress code. |
Lafatme | Monday, May 14, 2001 - 10:59 am   HEY! i'm a long-haired short person and i was gonna apply but now........ |
Juju2bigdog | Monday, May 14, 2001 - 11:18 am   I remember a song about long-haired freaky people need not apply ("sign says you gotta have a membership card to get inside...") And a song about short people got no reason to live. But I don't remember a song about long-haired short people. But maybe that is because I am too old, and I remember everything else. There was NEVER a time in elementary or high school when girls could wear pants in my day. Well, except when you were real little and wore flannel lined jeans under your skirt to keep from freezing while walking three miles to school in the snow. LOL |
Lancecrossfire | Monday, May 14, 2001 - 11:51 am   I think she just combined the two for the thread Juju. Signs was done by 5 Man Electrical Band, and Short People was done by Randy Newman. "They've got tiny little hands, They've got tiny little feet. They've got tiny little cars goin' beep-beep-beep." "They've got tiny little minds, they've got tiny little mouths tellin' great big lies." Randy was short himself and did the song for the sake of humor--not taking himself seriously. He too a lot of flack for it, and did a song about tall people. It was just as "complementary". |
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