[singsong]

This is so true!!!!!! If only!!!!!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> >Just for a minute, forget everything stressful and read this....
> >> >
> >> >Go back in time... Before the Internet or the Apple Mac.
> >> >
> >> >Before semi-automatics, joy riders and crack....
> >> >
> >> >Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...
> >> >
> >> >Way back........
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park.
> >> >
> >> >The corner shop.
> >> >
> >> >Hopscotch.
> >> >
> >> >Butterscotch.
> >> >
> >> >Skipping.
> >> >
> >> >Handstands.
> >> >
> >> >Football with an old can.
> >> >
> >> >Fingerbob.
> >> >
> >> >Beano, Dandy, Buster, Twinkle and Dennis the menace.
> >> >
> >> >Roly Poly.
> >> >
> >> >Hula Hoops,
> >> >
> >> >The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.
> >> >
> >> >Bazooka Joe bubble gum.
> >> >
> >> >An ice cream cone on a warm
> >>summer's night from the van that plays a >> > >> >tune - Chocolate
> or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or >> > >> >perhaps a
> screwball.
> >> >
> >> >Watching Saturday morning cartoons....short commercials, The
> >>Double >> >Deckers >> >Road Runner, >> > >> >He-Man, Zeebedee
> Tiswas or Swapshop?, and 'Why Don't You'?
> >> >
> >> >Or staying up for Doctor Who.
> >> >
> >> >When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed
> >> >like going >> >somewhere.
> >> >
> >> >Earwigs, wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings. Sticky fingers.
> >> >Cops and
> >> >Robbers,
> >> >
> >> >Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro. Climbing trees.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Walking to school,no matter what the weather.
> >> >
> >> >Running till you were out of breath and getting a stitch,
> >>laughing >> >so hard >> >that your stomach >>hurt.
> >> >
> >> >Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights. Spinning around, getting dizzy
> >> >and >> >falling down was cause for giggles.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Being tired from playing....remember that?
> >> >
> >> >The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
> >> >
> >> >Water balloons were the ultimate weapon playing cards in the
> >>spokes >> >transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
> >> >
> >> >Choppers and Grifters I'm not finished just yet.....
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice pops.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Remember when...
> >> >
> >> >There were two types of trainers - girls and boys, and Dunlop
> >>Green >> >flash >> > >> >and the only time you wore them at school
> was for P.E.
> >> >
> >> >You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents.
> >> >
> >> >It wasn't odd to have two or three
> >>"best" friends.
> >> >
> >> >You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas Eve.
> >> >
> >> >When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.
> >> >
> >> >When 25p was decent pocket money
> >> >
> >> >When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
> >> >
> >> >When nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there.
> >> >
> >> >When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to
> >>dinner >> >at >> > >> >a real restaurant with your parents.
> >> >
> >> >When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him
> >>to >> > >> >carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a
> thing of >>it.
> >> >
> >> >When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to the
> >> >fate >> > >> >that awaited a misbehaving student at home...
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of
> >> >> >drive-by >> >shootings, drugs, gangs etc.
> >> >
> >> >Parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! - And some of
> >>us >> >are >> >still afraid of them!!
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Remember when....
> >> >
> >> >Decisions were made by going " Ip Dip Dog Sh*t "
> >> >
> >> >Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
> >> >
> >> >Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in>
> >>"Monopoly".
> >> >
> >> >The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs.
> >>And
> >> >the
> >> >worst thing in your day was
> >> >
> >> >having to sit next To one. It was unbelievable that 'British
> >>Bulldog >> >123'
> >> >wasn't An Olympic event.
> >> >
> >> >Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a catapult.
> >> >
> >> >Nobody was prettier than Mum.
> >> >
> >> >Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made >>better.
> >> >
> >> >Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.
> >> >
> >> >Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
> >> >
> >> >Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.
> >> >
> >> >Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest >>
> >protectors >> > >> > >> > >> >If you can remember most or all of
> these, then you have LIVED.
> >> >
> >> >Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown up"
> >> >life...
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >DOUBLE-DARE YOU
>

[kusadasi-babe]

wow, that takes me back!!
all those times in the playground.
I wish i was still little!

[Peted1]

I remember when Pontius was just Pontius (hadn't got his pilot's wings yet),
When the soldiery on being asked to number from the right shouted "I II III IV V VI"....etc
When Hamlet was just a play, not a cigar
When Saturday night fever, just meant you were ill on Saturday night
When gay meant you were happy not Homosexual
When a byte was spelt wrongly and you really meant something to eat
When rave meant you were angry
Them were the days eh ????

[Mella]

Aw i'm just sat here pure smiling, that was such a great trip down memory lane.

Decisions were made by going "Ip Dip Dog Sh*t"

Hey, I still do that sometimes.