Golden Girls
by The Good Old Days:
The buzzing of the alarm rings and it’s 9am… You get up refreshed… A great nights rest. Head towards the kitchen for some delicious Capn’ Crunch.. trying to scoop up only the delicious berries..
....Not a care in the world.
Plop right in front of the tv to enjoy to Garfield, maybe a little Mutant Ninja Turtles… and if time allows, and it always did back then, you’d get in some Darkwing duck ! and it’d be the good episode when he fights mega duck and the liquidator and the rest of the wack pack.
Anyway days aren’t like that anymore.. now you worry about bills, health insurance, investments, etc.etc.
What does getting old offer you … there’s really only two milestones.. Marriage/the blessings*
that come along with that and Alcohol. There’s nothing else really.. just more responsibility. When you were younger you didn’t know better.. so whatever you had was great. Just playing marbles in the dirt.. covering your eyes and then uncovering and yelling peekaboo… great stuff right there.. Now everythings got to be difficult.. you go out with friends.. and there’s always drama .. Someone’s got drama.. one thing or another.. you barely ever get a chance to just have fun like the old times.. boys always thinking about girls and their anatomy* and girls thinking about guys and problems.
I mean even an older persons gum has changed…. When was the last time you had bubbilicious in all it’s flavors and blew a big bubble.. now it’s winterfresh and big red, hoping your breathe smells good. No more NOW AND LATERS or JOLLY RANCHERS it’s altoids.. whats with that ? so I wish I was younger…. Sometimes.
What were your fondest memories, memories you wish you could re-live.. ?
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I WAS PARTIALLY CENSORED , MY PREVIOUS VERSON WAS MUCH FUNNIER
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Such a great story ty! being little not really caring what you look like, if you got mud on yer jeans, it was kool cuz it meant you were having fun! And the biggest problem was if you got picked to be "it" in tag (i always hated that cuz i could never catch anyone). We had the best time without "needing" to spend money...making up games, playing "little mermaid" in the pool, making up Plays & dances, and not caring whether you looked stupid or not...cuz it only mattered that you were having fun :) Good stuff ty!
at least you got to stay little! :)
back in the day was hott stuff.. me and my reebok pumps and jordache jeans.. chillin' out.. i had the super man S curl in my hair.. i was the mack daddy of all 8 yr olds back then..i was a rebel back then.. i was a horrible child.. getting into trouble all the time.
but it was fun and worth it.. all the things i did back then make me the man i am today...
DO you all remember that game 7up .. or whatever.. you'd put your head dean and thumb up. .someone would come by and push your thumb down.. you knew that the girl or guy who pushed your thumb down was the person that liked you.. we need to get that game going.. then you'd have to guess who it was.. i'd always cheat and place my head near the end of the desk so i would see who's feet it was.. oh yea..
hahaha. i would alwayscheat at that game! i loved that game. i guess cause i would always cheat and get to be one of those 7 people that got to put your thumb down. lol. those were the days...
Yea... i remember those days.. I always loved to play manhunt, or ride my bike for HOURS, climb trees, build tree forts, hockey in Peach Tree complex, fake fights, butts up!, rumbles, kickball, fridays after school, crushes... ahhhh.. so great... i miss it!
Man, I know exaclty how you feel Mike....the good old times...
Another fond memory.. memeber when you'd go one a long trip with your parents and you're returning home.. you fall asleep in the car.. but you always wake up near the end.. but still pretend to stay alseep so that your parents have to carry you into the house... ahhh.. i loved that !
YES! i used to do the SAME Thing!!!!! ahahaha i loved that!!
another thing i loved doing was pretending to fall asleep when i was at someones house, so my parents would be like... oh we'll pick her up tomorrow, let her sleep. I did that like 50 times at the Duggan's house! aw good times :)
yea i never did that..
yeah it's more like, pretend to fall asleep so you could hear people talk about you
Yeah, that was always fun, until you didnt like what they were saying...
hahaha, we always tried this, i dont think it ever worked though. maybe once or twice. i just remember the trip home from my grandparents house, i would always fall asleep, i never wanted that trip to end
ditto, i was a lazy kid :P
i just had bubbalicious watermelon bubble gum two days ago! i LOVE that stuff, i can blow a bubble as big as the baloon in the pic! lol and i HATE winterfresh! ew!
yea to rebel against my old age i went and bought watermelon bubbilicious.. SO GOOD !
Awesome...but watermelon jolly ranchers, were so much better!
hard candy was good and all but i wasn't a big fan of it.. i enjoyed the squishy softer stuff...
same here....like starburst...gummy bears...
hard candy is STILL good! come on theres a kid in everyone of you. i know it!!
Nah...I always (and still do) go for the softer stuff...
no... im with gfs... i kinda liked the harder stuff better.. jolly rachers were the BEST!
i'm with legs, i like gummi bears, gummi worms, sour patch kids, swedish fish, skittles, and mike and ikes better
whatever i could buy was the best :)
oh yeah.. there we go.. the softer side of candy.. was so much better...yummy
You know what i missed back then.. those PUMP reeboks.. i heard there are new ones.. but.. the old ones were just classic.. pump twice for a tight fit.. pump once for a nice fit..
i always wanted those and the light up sneakers...never got either though! :(
HAHAHAHA I had pumps!!!
me too, i had the original "shaqs" they were the first sneakers i ever bought myself, i got them at marshalls, i was so happy when i found them cuz they were like 100 bucks in foot locker and my parents would never spend more than like 30 bucks on shoes
YEA YEA the LA GEAR light ups.. those rocked !
hahaha! i had a pair of those! Remember the dark tunnel in liberty science center? i had them in there, and everyone just followed me to find their way! haahahaha
i acutally went through that tunnel for the first time about 7 months ago.. it's not that hard.. you just go.. geez.. there's no need to follow anyone.
arent you a little big for that?
actually he's not, as long as youre under 5 foot... JK TY!!
die you tall skinny man !
NBL
anyway there's no height restriction on that. you can be as tall as you want and go in there.. JACOB the fiance of JES went in there ! he's like 6'7 ...
i went in there a couple months ago.. with a buncha my friends from morristown and i was behind this girl rachel.. and she turned around i guess.. and i ran into her.. and then this girls voice came over the intercom system to tell us to stop making out or something.. it was sooo odd...
was it R. KELLY ?
mike dont you mean you WERE making out in there? and NO it was not my sister.
The converse high tops were the best too!
Oh wait... one of the better memories was being the coolest patrol ever in elementary school.. I have my cool badge.. and what not. all the cool kids were patrols.. no one ever got in trouble it was great.
then you were the kids i hated and wanted to see get run over by cars
poor chum... it'll be alright. just don't shoot anyone. being a patrolled rocked. i got away with everything.. i can leave class and just sit in the hallway and do whatever .. it was such a power trip for 9 yr old
ohhhhhh i always wanted to be a patrol! One year, the teacher in charge said that i could be a patrol, and then this other girl named tina got to be, i was soooo mad cuz he just confused tinas! grr!
how many remember THE SIDE PONTYTAIL!!! That was all I used to wear...
the PIPPY long stocking look? is that what you're talking about.
pippy longstocking was the bomb!
yeeeeeea me too! my mom also used to krimp my hair! that was the KOOLEST thing to me!
LINE LEADER! remember every week they would pick a person to be line leader. i always wanted to be it. and then there was always the person at the end who closed the door and the lights.they were cool to. those were the days...
didn't anyone play marbles when they were younger.. the game where there were two holes.. you'd have to get down to one hole first and then go to the next whole where you get the license to kill and then knock other marbles out the game...! that was the best !
cartoons back then were so much better too.. now a days i just sit there dumbfounded at how stupid they are.
Cartoons back then were sooo much cooler! Thundercats! The Original Transformers, and others Id rather not mention. They were just cooler!
OK if you're reading this you're in for a surprise.. follow directions closely :
Open excel :
A default work book will open for you
On sheet 1 you want to hit F5 and type in X97:L97 hit enter and then TAB
now click on sheet 2 and hit F5 type in X97:L97 hit enter and then TAB
now hold down CTRL + SHIFT while moving your mouse over to the CHART WIZARD ICON and click it.
SURPRISE
suprise it does nothing! except a black screen for a few seconds
use your mouse to fly around.. it's suppos to be a flight simulator.. try it again
NOTHINGS HAPPENING!!!
yuea... nothing happened!!!!
YEA NOTHING HAPPEND!!
LYNCH MOB HIM! BURN HIM AT THE STAKE!
that was really dumb.. it didnt even work.. or maybe im just being dumb.. i really never use Excel
For some reason eating raisins and watching Mr. Rogers, not in that particular order, make me feel like a little kid again.
hahahaha. i always loved o mr. rogers when they would show those videos on how they made things. i remember this one about making crayons. it was the coolest.
too bad he's retired.. or died or whatever.. but.. he seemed to be ageless .. he looks the same as i remember him looking back in 1984.. but the olsen twins don't look the same from the old full house.. to the newer full houses.. they ..like... grew...
i heard mr rogers is gay (i think with the mailman). and did anybody ever get why he changed his sweater and shoes?
anyone see when eddie murphy did a skit on mr rogers in the ghetto on snl? now that was funny
and for that excel thing.. .it needs to be excel 97
Thanks for pointing it out NOW, its a bit too late, for most of us WE have 2000 or better!!
ok, if you have excel 2000, try this :
Open excel :
A default work book will open for you
On sheet 1 you want to hit F5 and type in X2000:L2000 hit enter and then TAB
now hold down CTRL + SHIFT while moving your mouse over to the CHART WIZARD ICON (or bar chart whatever icon and click it.)
SURPRISE
hm, nothing for me.
you all aren't doing it right.. because with excel 97 i get a cool flight simulator.. and with excel 2000 it's an awesome spy hunter game..
Keep telling yourself that, if that is what it takes to keep you amused...
hahah, yeah, those were so funny. here's a couple of the scripts:
Ahh, poor Mr. Robinson, he never learns.