| Oct 18, 2006 @ 11:21 AM |
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twotall911
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Life in Black and White
(Under age 40? You probably won't understand.)
Black and White
You could hardly see for all the snow,
Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.
Pull a chair up to the TV set,
"Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet."
Depending on the channel you tuned,
You got Rob and Laura - or Ward and June.
It felt so good. It felt so right.
Life looked better in black and white.
I Love Lucy, The Real McCoys,
Dennis the Menace, the Cleaver boys,
Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train,
Superman, Jimmy and Lois Lane.
Father Knows Best, Patty Duke ,
Rin Tin Tin and Lassie too,
Donna Reed on Thursday night!
Life looked better in black and white.
I wanna go back to black and white.
Everything always turned out right.
Simple people, simple lives...
Good guys always won the fights.
Now nothing is the way it seems,
In living color on the TV screen.
Too many murders, too many fights,
I wanna go back to black and white.
In God they trusted, alone in bed they slept ,
A promise made was a promise kept.
They never cussed or broke their vows.
They'd never make the network now
But if I could, I'd rather be
In a TV town in '53.
It felt so good. It felt so right.
Life looked better in black and white.
I'd trade all the channels on the satellite,
If I could just turn back the clock tonight
To when everybody knew wrong from right.
Life was better in black and white!
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Another Goody For The Oldtimers
My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.
My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in icepack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli.
Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.
We all took gym, not PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym)
instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.
Flunking gym was not an option.. even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.
Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.
We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.
I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.
I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.
Oh yeah... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.
Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked there and then we got butt spanked again when we got home.
I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.
To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that?
We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive?
LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA, AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T- SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING
Pass this to someone (over age 40, of course), and brighten their day by helping them to remember that life's most simple pleasures are very often the best! 
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| Oct 18, 2006 @ 11:25 AM |
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TiNkErGrRrRrR
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Thanks for the read...your post brought back memories... 
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| Oct 18, 2006 @ 11:25 AM |
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Angel54214
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 Boy twotall, ya just brought back some wonderful memories!
I remember all those! We didn't even know that the "Wizard Of Oz" was partly in color until colored TV came into the picture.
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| Oct 18, 2006 @ 11:35 AM |
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LipGlossQueen9
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thank god i am a child of the 90's.
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| Oct 18, 2006 @ 11:39 AM |
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swingpup
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That was truly delightful for sure.  Turn back the hands of time!!!! The under 40's shall never know what they in fact missed out on. Unfortunately or fortunately one is unable to fence time except in our minds.
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| Oct 18, 2006 @ 11:49 AM |
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twotall911
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lipglossqueen but we had real butter and real milk and cream on top, 10 cent ice cream cones,25 cent hamburgers go out for a three day weekend on six bucks 20 gals of gas , food, to the beach.movies car load for a buck,moonshine 75 cents a gallon,no aids,no meth,crack wow
oh never had to worry where your kids were, just the excuse i just ran out of gas lol
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| Oct 18, 2006 @ 11:51 AM |
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LipGlossQueen9
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there were drugs in those days it just wasn't as publicised. the only reason why i'd want to live back then would be to experience the pop culture especially the movies because i find it so much more fascinating than today.
i like video games. and perhaps e coli wasn't around then but recently developed.
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| Oct 18, 2006 @ 11:53 AM |
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Angel54214
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And real "music" you could understand and dance to! 
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| Oct 18, 2006 @ 11:53 AM |
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TiNkErGrRrRrR
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just the excuse i just ran out of gas l
or the car broke down..my sisters excuse once... 
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| Oct 18, 2006 @ 11:58 AM |
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robodad
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And real "music" you could understand and dance to! YES!
Like...Bonbo, Bongo, Bongo, I don't want to leave the Congo and The Witch Doctor 
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| Oct 18, 2006 @ 12:02 PM |
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swingpup
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In Jr. high a few of us would take our shot guns to school and place them in our lockers. We attended a school that was in close proximity here in Cedar Rapids to a great corn field for pheasants. It saved us time to after school simply walk 300 yards to go hunting.
This was in the early 70's. Hell do that today and understandably so you would of course have PD, Swat, the Army, Navy and the Marines on your butt.
Why and when did things become so out of control??? 
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| Oct 18, 2006 @ 12:04 PM |
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donna65806
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yes I remember it well. Elvis on Ed Sullivan, but they would not show him from the waist down!
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| Oct 18, 2006 @ 12:12 PM |
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TiNkErGrRrRrR
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American Bandstand and Dick Clark 
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| Oct 18, 2006 @ 12:12 PM |
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robodad
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yes I remember it well. Elvis on Ed Sullivan, but they would not show him from the waist down! That was a really big shooooooooo that night
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| Oct 18, 2006 @ 12:14 PM |
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Angel54214
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Back when dates were dates! Oh those gawd awful rollers and pins hurt terribly. Getting ready for that evening date.
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| Oct 18, 2006 @ 12:25 PM |
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twotall911
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I think im going to cry 
glass packs on your convertible ,what no implants
maiden form what
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| Oct 18, 2006 @ 12:33 PM |
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Angel54214
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Man O' Man...I refused to wear one! Nope! Nada!! Well 'til I was about 15 anyways. They couldn't make those bras right! Too pointy...
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| Oct 18, 2006 @ 12:57 PM |
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vicryder
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Do you have any idea of how many casts and stitches a family could go through raising four boys, all within six years of age? Parents would be in jail, and kids would be deprived of these badges of juvenile honor.
Riding bicycles, climbing trees, climbing cliffs. Jumping off of cliffs into water, marginally deep enough to break your fall, or some body part was cool.
I used to carry a pocketknife and a book of matches with me everywhere. I even loaned them to teachers occasionally. Why not? They weren't firebombs or machine guns.
I heard last week about some video game championship. The announcer sounded like this was a huge accomplishment. I wonder if this kid could sharpen a knife, catch a fish, or build a campfire.
By the way, old Humphrey Bogart movies are mostly in black and white.
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| Oct 18, 2006 @ 1:00 PM |
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twotall911
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aint AMC great
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| Oct 18, 2006 @ 1:02 PM |
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Angel54214
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I grew up in neighborhood of all boys. I carried my pea shooter every where I went! Those really hurt too.
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