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by Time for a little nostolgia. Remember the toys that used to keep us happy and preoccupied? Lite Brite, Lincoln Logs, Spirograph, and any "Big Foot" (the monster truck) junk. As the poll mentioned, many good toys were "banned" like Transformers...but I still liked them. I remember listening to "the boss", Bruce Springstein, sing "Jersey Girl". I remember listening to Bon Jovi and Heart, and playing my Atari 7800. I remember playing softball in the summers, and sledding down the steep roads by my house, building igloos, and shoveling my driveway--when I liked it--during the winter. These things just popped into my head, so I wrote them down.
Oh, and I actually do still like to sled, build igloos, and shovel my driveway.
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i remember my friend jen used to invite boys over to play "lite brite" in the dark. she was only like 6 or 7.
lite bright is the one thing mom didn't sell...i think...
so basically you're just realizing how old you really are?
I just turned twenty-four last wednesday.
wow. i remember on this site when you were sayin you had just turned 23. which means i been here more that a year
i played with my spirograph until i was 16. and i am 22 now. ha.
I remember the countless manhunt games i had in my yard and in the woods by my house. I remember all the trouble me and matt got ourselves into and the retarted ways that we got ourselves outta it. I remember riding bikes in the summer into the river by my house, getting stung by multiple bees all the time, skating and playing hockey till my feet felt like they were on fire, beach days and the ice cream on the way home, the content tired feeling you had after a long day at the beach and the way you fell right asleep when you got home...
oh man! Manhunt rules! I remember riding bikes with Justin and Jarad. We rode all over Stroudsburg. I remember playing bats and tennis rackets and pots/pans like they were instruments...we sang to deep purple's "Smoke on the water, Fire in the sky". We would go swimming at Aunt Martha's and play wiffleball in the cul-de-sac, walk down the scary alley barefoot where there was lots of broken glass. We used to play slip and slide, and do front flips and lots of dives, and make big waves in the little end of the pool. Bo, Aunt Martha's dog, would get loose and Justin would have to go find him. I remember swimming in the hackettstown pool, and having an audience of little kids watching me and my friends do flips and dives into the pool. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....I remember the parties that my grandma threw for me and Jamie every year (if any of you can remember this, this goes wayyyyyyyyyyy back) and lastly, I remember building dams in the small creek/stream behind my grandparents house. "It's all about the memories"--What movie is that from?
holy memories, folks. i was a big beach kid when i was young. i still love the beach. i had a few transformers, but wasn't allowed to play with GI-Joes EVER. but my cousin had dozens of them. we used to tie the weapons on them with lil rubberbands. but a big toy memory was when i had my mom put in for a nestles quick sweepstakes and i won a whole set of the Masters of the Universe figures, with a few vehicles and two castles. and over the next year or so, they all got buried in my backyard, only to reappear like zombies now and then when it rained. don't ask.
OH, and by the way: "it's all about the memories, man" is from Can't Hardly Wait. which (shut up all of you) is my favorite silly teen party movie.
i love that movie too...and the soundtrack....me and cerrato always drive aroudn to "tell me what to say and i will say it to you"...and "i'm going OUT FOR A WHILE!!!!!!!! SO I CAN GET HIGH WITH MYYYYYY FRIENDS!!" (i just realized what that song is about...ahem.)
hahaha. i love special k in that movie. and jenna elfman when she talks about him being in love with barry mannilow?!?! such hysterical stuff. i fell off the couch the first time i saw it.
hehe, i called my physics teacher special k
but that's only becuase he called my the pillsbury dumb-boy
haha, no! leave me alone loser lol
hahhahaha. i love this.
I love it too..especially after you told me you didn't realize it was two people and just thought it was Pete fighting with himself!
sssssshhh! its a secret.
.. wat? wat's a secret?
how confused i was and why you kept replying to yourself. until lynz explained to me that one was adam and one was you.
ooooh ok, i get lost sometimes, bear with me
how are you on here..aren't you at the beach?
we left really late for the beach yesterday. i went on in the morning cuz everybody else was still sleepin. then they got up and we left.
MANHUNT IN THE DARK OWNS!
yes, yes it completely does!
i remember year after year Theremin would have Superbowl parties and we'd all eat pizza and watch a few superbowl commercials and end up playing man-hunt in his huge cavernous basement! we'd play ping ping and write on this huge school style chalkboard. another childhood memory: Theremin, do you remember falling off your bike and having to go to the hospital. rough, mate, way rough.
man, our basement is huge like that too. so everytime we had a sleepover we would play deep-dark tag. and everytime either amanda or heather would run face first into the poles that support our house and have a bruise. that's when you knew it was a successful sleepover.
and then that's back in the day when the boys always told us they were gonna dress up like girls and come. yeah. and then we would nail em with snowballs. i love winter!! and summer!! i am addicted to life!!!
We really need to have another sleep over since I only ever got to go to one cause the other one I had to leave. The second one was good though..waking everyone up with my singing voice!
we used to play in mike and jon lombardi's basement with staple guns. manhunt with staple guns. yep. and we used to wear goggles. so we wouldn't go blind. we weren't all that bright back then.
That sounds like the best game ever! So much better then sword fighting with steak knives at restaurants!
that soudns like someone would definitely lose a finger. or two.
what are you talking bout? the boys did this last week. and the straw fights? simply insane.
Yeah..the spit balls must end..or maybe we need to start doing it to?
neither of us have good enough aim.
Maybe if we got a reaaaallllly big straw?
i doubt even then we could accomplish it.
Matt provides a very..ample..target area.
hahahhahahaha. i can't go anymore with this conversation.
at least you knew to wear goggles. we used to sleep on the trampoline and whoever woke up first would start jumping and then peg the last person to wake up with balls and shoes and blankets.
my friend had a 'chopper' bicycle that i wasn't allowed to ride...'too dangerous!' of course, once around the corner....
so jealous. priors are all going to bruce concert this week.
i grew up on rice. and lots of it. little white grains of goodness that go with everything and anything.. Lollapalooze in .. t minus... 7 days !!!! audioslave... incubus..queens of the stone age.
i hear they have really cool belly-dancers this year at lollapalooza
ii'm in heevcafen... heaven
i remember legos were a part of growing up. i had a bunch of the space series and the aqua series. i'd try to build anything of my own sometimes tho. but usually i just build them the way they were intended, crash them apart and then build it over again. sometimes i'd lose the instructions and i'd be so frustrated. legos got old by the time i was like 13 tho.
we have lincoln logs. i play with them all the time. i loved the big wooden blocks too. i was playing w/ them at a house and then this baby came over and knocked them down. yeah. lite-brite was also a big fave. i used to try and see how long it took to fill up the entire board with all of the pins. i tried. longest---1 hr and 9 minutes.