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Wavey's Jokes Corner (May contain nuts)
Those were the days
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<blockquote data-quote="Zorba" data-source="post: 386466" data-attributes="member: 176203"><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Just for a minute, forget everything stressful and read this...............</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #0000ff">Close your eyes and go back in time...</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #0000ff"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #0000ff"></span>Before the Internet...</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Before semi-automatics, joyriders and crack....</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #0000ff">Way back........</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #0000ff"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">The corner shop.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Hopscotch.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Butterscotch.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Skipping.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Handstands.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Football with an old can.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Fingerbob.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Beano, Dandy, Buster, Twinkle and Dennis the Menace.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Roly Poly.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Hula Hoops, jumping the stream, building dams.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Bazooka Joe bubble gum.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">tune.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or perhaps</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">screwball.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #0000ff">Wait......</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #0000ff"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Watching Saturday morning cartoons, short commercials or the</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">flicks.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Children's Film Foundation, The Double Deckers, Red Hand Gang,</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Tomorrow People, Tiswas or Swapshop?, and 'Why Don't You'? - or</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">staying up for Doctor Who.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">like going somewhere.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Earwigs, wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Sticky fingers.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Playing Marbles. Ball bearings. Big 'uns and Little 'uns.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Climbing trees.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Making igloos out of snow banks.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Walking to school, no matter what the weather.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">stomach hurt.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Spinning around on roundabouts, getting dizzy and falling down was</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">cause for giggles.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Being tired from playing....remember that?</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">motorcycle.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #ff0000">Choppers and Grifters.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice pops. Vimto and Jubbly lollies</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #0000ff">Remember when...</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #0000ff"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">There were two types of trainers - girls and boys, and Dunlop Green</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Flash</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">The only time you wore them at School was for P.E.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">And they were called gym shoes or if you are older - plimsoles</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">It wasn't odd to have two or three 'best' friends.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas Eve.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">When 25p was decent pocket money</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Curly Whirlys. Space Dust. Toffo's.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Top Trumps.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">to carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">it.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to the</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">fate that awaited a misbehaving pupil at home.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs etc.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #0000ff">Remember when....</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Decisions were made by going "Ip, Dip, Dog Shit"</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">The worst thing you could catch from the opposite s_x was germs.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">And the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">It was unbelievable that 'British Bulldog 123' wasn't an Olympic </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">event.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Nobody was prettier than Mum.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Ice cream was considered a basic food group.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">protectors.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #ff0000">If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span>Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their grown life...</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 26px"><span style="color: #00ff00"></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 26px"><span style="color: #00ff00"></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zorba, post: 386466, member: 176203"] [FONT=Comic Sans MS] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][FONT=Tahoma]Just for a minute, forget everything stressful and read this............... [COLOR=#0000ff]Close your eyes and go back in time... [/COLOR]Before the Internet... Before semi-automatics, joyriders and crack.... Before SEGA or Super Nintendo... [COLOR=#0000ff]Way back........ [/COLOR] 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, jumping the stream, building dams. The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass. Bazooka Joe bubble gum. An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a tune. Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or perhaps screwball. [COLOR=#0000ff]Wait...... [/COLOR] Watching Saturday morning cartoons, short commercials or the flicks. Children's Film Foundation, The Double Deckers, Red Hand Gang, Tomorrow People, 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. Playing Marbles. Ball bearings. Big 'uns and Little 'uns. Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro. Climbing trees. Making igloos out of snow banks. Walking to school, no matter what the weather. Running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt. Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights. Spinning around on roundabouts, 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. Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle. [COLOR=#ff0000]Choppers and Grifters. [/COLOR] Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice pops. Vimto and Jubbly lollies [COLOR=#0000ff]Remember when... [/COLOR] There were two types of trainers - girls and boys, and Dunlop Green Flash The only time you wore them at School was for P.E. And they were called gym shoes or if you are older - plimsoles 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 Curly Whirlys. Space Dust. Toffo's. Top Trumps. When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. 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 pupil at home. Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs etc. [COLOR=#0000ff]Remember when....[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][FONT=Tahoma] Decisions were made by going "Ip, Dip, Dog Shit" 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 s_x 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. [COLOR=#ff0000]If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED. [/COLOR]Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their grown life... [SIZE=7][COLOR=#00ff00] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT] [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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