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Date Posted: 18:17:52 09/26/02 Thu
Author: Trysha
Subject: Silly/happy thoughts

Hope everyone is enjoying the positive vibe 'round here these days. All of the previous talk of sandboxes, playing on swings and the use of the word,"ghouls" got me thinking back to when I was a (legitimate)kid.When the thing you hated most was seeing the streetlights come on and hearing your mother yell out the back door(for the fifth time) that it was time to come in from play. Seeing as we are all(physicly and chronologicly) grown up now and those days are waaaaay in the past, I ask of you to share some of those memories with the rest of us. Playground? Backyard? Off in that certain empty lot? Back woods? Team games? Adventures with little green army guys? Even(gulp) Barbies!(mine was dating my Gene Simmons doll. Still got Gene in Ma's attic somewhere)Whatever. Think on those things and I'm willing to bet 5 hershey's kisses that a smile creeps on your face as you do so. Besides, I wouldn't mind knowing from whence the mayhem of the bunch we are today came from. (may actually explain a few things, too)
Lost in thoughts of capture the flag,Trysha :)

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[> Re: Silly/happy thoughts -- Gumby - Who can't resist a straight line., 06:55:30 09/27/02 Fri

"All of the previous talk of sandboxes, playing on swings and the use of the word,"ghouls" got me thinking back to when I was a (legitimate)kid"
So what are you saying? What we're all illegitimate children now? If so how much would we each be worth on Welfare? And how does on loose their legitimacy? And why am I not taking a cheap shot at Frank? Hmmm? Hey lookie what I found!! My Star Wars action figures!! I remember when...

(eyeballs glaze over as Gumby takes a walk through a little snippet of his childhood we like to call "last week")


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[> Re: Silly/happy thoughts -- Zaina, 08:31:30 09/27/02 Fri

Trysha, where do I send those Hershey's kisses? Wow, you brought back a lot of memories...especially the Barbie doll! My Barbie doll was having a fling with my brother's GI Joe doll....uh, sorry, action figure.

We never did figure out the "ghouls" thing, but since that thread, I've been remembering all the fun stuff we did back in the day, when we were truly innocent and knew how to enjoy life!

Thanks for the memories,
--Zaina


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[> Re: Silly/happy thoughts -- MMario, 08:45:41 09/27/02 Fri

since there were 9 of us - people tended to come over to our place; Dad also rigged spotlights out in the yard - so we often had long evening games of 'kick the can' or 'sardines' in the evening (when we weren't supposed to leave the yard).

Not leaving the 'yard' wasn't a hardship - as it was defined as the three properties adjacent to each other on our corner - but leaving out the section of marsh!

Daytime activities included "skunk cabbage whacking" - which my mother hated - because it took several washings to remove the smell from our clothes!


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[> [> Re: Silly/happy thoughts -- Wench Lily, 09:17:17 09/27/02 Fri

Full-on, entire neighborhood of kids (2-3 streets worth anyway), no holds barred, all yards acceptable, commando hide 'n seek. There must have been 30-40 kids. It was nuts. And the black-out in '65 - my mom fed our entire block since we were the only ones who still had a gas stove. I think I need to go out and climb a tree. Oh yeah, it's raining. I guess if I were still 8 it wouldn't much matter.


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[> [> [> Re: Silly/happy thoughts -- MMario, 10:39:34 09/27/02 Fri

our favorite play times were when school would be let out due to hurricanes; the whole neighborhood and all our friends would gather in our yard and we would dare each other to see how high we could get in the trees with the wind and the rain...


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[> Re: Silly/happy thoughts -- Guy Todd, who was a scruffy little boy, 12:21:33 09/27/02 Fri

When we weren't playing night-time pan-neighborhood hide 'n seek (the telephone pole with the one street light was "gool") we were having dirt-bomb fights in the lots where houses were not yet finished. The earth was all lumpy red clay, which we made balls out of and fired at each other from cellar holes, half-built walls, and even (the best) unburied brand-new septic tanks. We would eventually make our way home looking like landslide survivors, usually to face a scolding or worse...


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[> [> Re: Silly/happy thoughts -- Evil DUchess, 13:19:24 09/27/02 Fri

I had the kewlest parents. During winter they would flood the basketball courts down the end of my street. After dinner when all the hockey players were inside doing homework, my sister and a few friends and I would head down and iceskate until bedtime. We had the lighted court all to ourselves.
I owe you some kisses Trysh..thanks bunches


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[> Re: Silly/happy thoughts -- Lilly, 13:39:56 09/27/02 Fri

During my younger tomboy years we used to play hide and seek in our neighborhood. It would always turn into a GI Joe/Rambo thing because the boys would always out number us and eventually in my backyard there would be an all out brawl. Girls against guys, no rules, just all out. The older girls who weren't into fighting would cheer on the fighting girls from the sidelines. I remember my mom yelling from her bedroom window pointers to the girls of how to hold a guys arm just right until it went limp. Once limp we could go mental on them.

*wispful sigh*


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[> [> Re: Silly/happy thoughts -- Theresa, 14:12:00 09/27/02 Fri

Being a child raised in the early and mid '60's, I remember Barbie dolls, jumping rope with 2 ropes double-dutch style, nimble-fingered baton twirling, metal roller skates that you tied onto your sneakers, playing Monopoly for hours till I owned ALL the hotels on the Boardwalk and my favorite--playing the game of Twister with as many of my friends as possible and trying NOT to wind up being the one on the bottom and get crushed when we all fell over!


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[> [> Re: Silly/happy thoughts -- Frank, 14:51:54 09/27/02 Fri

THAT explains why you went mental on me that time I went limp.
Frank

Like Gumby's the only one who can't resist a straight line


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[> [> [> Re: Silly/happy thoughts -- Gumby- Resisting a limp straight line?, 07:40:14 09/30/02 Mon

Methinks I've been insulted but I'm not quite sure.

Frank, What's your take on that?


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